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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 »The cost of discipleship
May 9th, 2012 Deacon Duncan The Christian faith isn’t just a story about how to get to heaven in the next life, it a way of walking by faith in all areas of your life. “We’re going to show you how to get wealth and use it for the building of his kingdom,” [Ephren] Taylor shouted to the congregation one [...]
Porn safer than religion
May 4th, 2012 Deacon Duncan A study by antivirus giant Symantec reports that if your anti-malware protection isn’t quite up to snuff, you’re probably safer sticking to porn sites and avoiding those that serve up Bible studies and other ideological exhortations. Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of “threats” that those featuring [...]
Analytical thinking and religious belief
April 28th, 2012 Deacon Duncan I bet we hear more about this one: a study at the University of British Columbia has found that analytical thinking actually decreases religious belief. The study, which will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Science, finds that thinking analytically increases disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious [...]
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 [...]
CISPA facing amendments
April 26th, 2012 Deacon Duncan The International Business Times is reporting some possible good news on the individual liberties front. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act [CISPA] is the greatest potential threat to Internet freedom and privacy currently before the U.S. Congress, and many critics have been warning in recent weeks that it has the potential to do even [...]
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 [...]
Pilot swerves to avoid collision with planet
April 18th, 2012 Deacon Duncan In a story that might almost have been funny if nobody had been hurt, an Air Canada pilot put his aircraft into a steep dive to avoid a collision—with the planet Venus. Sixteen passengers and crew were hurt in the January 2011 incident, when the first officer rammed the control stick forward to avoid a [...]
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