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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 »Perverted Science
May 8th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Writing for the Finance section of Townhall.com (wait, the Finance section?), Mark Baisley has great hopes for the future of science. Galileo was a true scientist. I like Wikipedia’s description, “He displayed a peculiar ability to ignore established authorities, most notably Aristotelianism. In broader terms, his work marked another step towards the eventual separation of [...]
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 [...]
Oo, this is fun
April 15th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Now this was actually fun, you guys should try it: Go to www.kiva.org. Pick a business or family that’s looking for a small loan in a high-poverty and/or underbanked area. Make a contribution of $25 or more. What’s fun is that this is loan, not a donation, so the money comes back again. If you [...]
Anything you say can and will be used
April 9th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Via Wired comes word of a top secret government project with very disturbing implications. Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its [...]
1981 global warming predictions
April 6th, 2012 Deacon Duncan In August of 1981, James Hansen and 6 other authors wrote a paper describing the projected impact of CO2 emissions on global temperatures. And now those predictions have once again come to light. In the ongoing debate over climate change, it’s at times a good idea to check in with historial predictions made by climate [...]
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