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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 [...]
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 [...]
“The real bigots are the liberals”
March 19th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Writing for Mail Online, one Simon Heffer spews: I believe that the only people who should be able to marry and have a wedding are those of different genders. Well I believe that people should only publish opinions that do not make them look like narrow-minded twits, but you don’t hear me calling for the [...]
In bed with the Church?
March 14th, 2012 Deacon Duncan 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 [...]
Posted in Accommodation, Bizarre, Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Politics, Society 9 Comments »My years in the pro-life movement
March 12th, 2012 Deacon Duncan So Doonesbury is taking on the medical rape bill this week, and there’s all the associated uproar you’d expect. Maybe now would be a good time for me to reminisce about my experiences as a pro-life advocate. This was back during my evangelical Christian days, of course. As a conservative evangelical, I was automatically pro-life, [...]
Speaking of slavery…
March 10th, 2012 Deacon Duncan If you haven’t yet stopped by Libby Anne’s blog, you should at the very least check out this post about Kirk Cameron and Doug Phillips. Phillips teaches that a woman is never to be out from under male authority no matter her age or marital condition, and that being under male authority includes complete submission [...]
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