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The other day I was listening to yet another Christian conservative parrot the tired mantra about how liberals are trying to change the definition of marriage. My first thought was that if marriage equality changes your definition of marriage, you’ve been using a bad definition of marriage. And that got me thinking about the various [...]
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Not all definitions of marriage are equal
May 16th, 2012 
Deacon Duncan 
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Liberty, Mormonism, Police State, Politics, Society 
11 Comments »Better late than never
May 10th, 2012 Deacon Duncan So President Obama has finally come out in favor of equal civil rights for gays. About damn time, and kudos to him for having the courage to do so ahead of the election instead of waiting until it was “safe” to take a stand. He should have done so years ago, but still, credit where [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Liberty, Morality, Politics, Religion, Secularism, Society 9 Comments »Gay Marriage in the 10th century Church?
May 7th, 2012 Deacon Duncan I have to confess, I’m a bit skeptical of this story about St. Serge and St. Bacchus. But it is interesting. While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly close. Severus of Antioch in the sixth century explained that “we [...]
Kiss the Fourth Amendment good-bye
April 27th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Wow, I thought the vote was supposed to be today, but it looks like CISPA has already been rushed through the House. The measure, which some are calling the Son of SOPA, allows internet service providers to share information with the government, including the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency, about cybersecurity [...]
And in the end, who pays?
April 25th, 2012 Deacon Duncan The school board at Cranston RI racked up a $150,000 legal bill in their foolhardy attempt to defend the blatantly unconstitutional prayer banner in the Cranston High School. And now they’ve decided it’s unfair to expect them to pay the whole thing. Their solution? Split the bill with the taxpayers, 50/50. [UPDATE: A commenter informs [...]
Pentagon-sponsored identity theft
April 24th, 2012 Deacon Duncan USA Today is reporting a disturbing and blatantly illegal propaganda campaign apparently being conducted by Pentagon contractors. A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to a propaganda campaign of sorts, waged on the Internet through a series of bogus websites. Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created [...]
No God? No charity.
March 27th, 2012 Deacon Duncan The good folks at Rock Beyond Belief have been given the final word: no, absolutely positively no atheists will be allowed to feed homeless vets in connection with their secular, godless concert. This means that the evangelicals surely had to follow this law too, right? Of course not. They were permitted to raise funds (in [...]
The equal rights bill you never heard of.
March 24th, 2012 Deacon Duncan There is a major human rights bill under debate in Canada. You’ve probably never heard of it, which is a bad sign, because it’s important. It is about what happens to actual human beings. Human beings whose rights are being denied, identities being invalidated, ability to participate in our society being hopelessly compromised, ability to [...]
God’s definition of marriage
March 21st, 2012 Deacon Duncan God’s definition of marriage, according to a lot of people today, is given in Genesis 2:24: “For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” But there are a few problems with that. For one thing, the word “wife” does not [...]
I had no choice, he was packing a whole bag of Skittles
March 20th, 2012 Deacon Duncan This is old news by now, but the passing of time has only made it even more outrageous. A white vigilante named George Zimmerman has shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, and hasn’t even been arrested. Zimmerman, 28, claims he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month in self-defence during a confrontation in a gated [...]
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