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They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, but this one seems a bit stranger than most. David Coburn, the openly gay spokesman of Great Britain’s U.K. Independence Party, claims that Prime Minister David Cameron is “picking a fight” with the religious community over same-sex marriage, insisting that pushing such legislation “shows a lack of toleration [...]
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In bed with the Church?
March 14th, 2012 
Deacon Duncan 
Posted in Accommodation, Bizarre, Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Politics, Society 
9 Comments »The First and Second Amendments
November 9th, 2011 Deacon Duncan Slate magazine is sponsoring a debate over the question, “Would the world be better off without religion?” That’s an interesting topic in and of itself, but I had a brief bout of Free Association Syndrome that launched me off on an intriguing tangent. I look at the question “Would the world be better off without [...]
Framing and accommodation
October 12th, 2011 Deacon Duncan FtB co-blogger The Crommunist Manifesto explains why he is not an accommodationist. I am not persuaded that any argument, no matter how friendly or accommodating, can persuade a person away from faith. Faith is not a position that is found by reason; it is one that is found through indoctrination and reliance on heuristics and [...]
Oo, wicked
September 17th, 2011 Deacon Duncan Here’s a headline that gives a bit of pause. Atheist Group to Rip Up Bible Passages on Saturday Mixed feelings, eh? I mean, I’ve got no compunctions about the Bible being a holy book or anything, but on the other hand, book ripping isn’t really all that different from book burning. But read the details. [...]
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