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Can you say “religiously motivated child abuse”? via Feminist Philosophers. Your Thoughts?
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Sam Brinton On Coming Out At 10 And Going Into Aversion Therapy
February 20th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Can You Really Love Religious People If You Hate Their Religion?
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Atheists do not exactly claim to “love sinners but hate sins” (if for no other reason than that most, if not all, of us reject the category of “sin” as a meaningful or valuable way to talk about ethical failure). Also, atheists may be more realistic than to think that we really do, or feasibly [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Virtues, Virtues 
15 Comments »Why "Loving The Sinner But Hating The Sin" Is Not An Option When Dealing With Gay People
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Many a homophobic religious person has infamously claimed that when it comes to gays he “loves the sinner but hates the sin” and many a defender of the full dignity and ethical lives of gay people has judged such a compromised offer of love inadequate (if not insincere). This cannot be because it is impossible [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Sex 
Tags: Hate The Sin But Love The Sinner, Love The Sinner But Hate The Sin 15 Comments »Zach Wahls, Son Of Lesbians, Testifies To Iowa Legislature
February 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?
January 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it. The AP photo of the newspaper [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) Tags: Death Penalty, Hate Speech 1 Comment »Techniques Meant To “Cure” Homosexuality
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke James Voss describes the attempt to “cure” him of his homosexuality he experienced at Teen Challenge, “an Assemblies of God USA evangelical Christian recovery program and a network of Christian social and evangelizing work centers”: People that entered the center with psychological problems were often not allowed to take medications prescribed by doctors since there [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Religion, Religion Tags: Bi-Curious, Butters, South Park 4 Comments »How DADT Made Things Worse For Gays In The Military Than They Were
January 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke A Daily Dish reader’s first hand experience: before DADT the policy was more about conduct at least in the minds of the commanding officers, not the mere mention of the fact that one was gay or had those inclinations. I joined the Army National Guard in 1988 and was called up for a time in [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Military Tags: Don't Ask Don't Tell 1 Comment »Daily Hilarity: The Bizarre World Of The Bisexual
December 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA Tags: Anti-bisexual attitudes of gays, bisexual, Bisexuality, Mr. Sharp No Comments »Barney Frank Owns Up To The “Radical Homosexual Agenda”
December 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Congratulations to all the brave young men and women who will now be treated as honorably as they deserve by their country with the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Hopefully soon the day will come when all our gay fellow citizens will be treated with equal rights under the law and with the equal [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics Tags: Barney Frank No Comments »Anderson Cooper Gets Resignation From Anti-Gay Ranter
October 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Christian writer of truly disgusting attacks on bullied gays, AIDS-afflicted gays, and pretty much all gays was powerfully confronted by Anderson Cooper last night: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion Tags: Anderson Cooper, Arkansas, Clint McCance 4 Comments »David Hyde Pierce On His Marriage And Prop 8
October 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This is a little old and comes from before the landmark Prop 8 ruling of this summer, but it is still poignant: Your Thoughts?
Dan Savage On Gay Adoption
October 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A great case is made in less than 5 minutes: Your Thoughts?
Louis C.K. Shreds Homophobia
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Completely NSFW and completely brilliant. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Videos Tags: Louis CK, Standup Comedy 1 Comment »Unreal Discrimination?
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Reggie objects to National Coming Out Day: As a black American I’m old enough to remember what real discrimination was like(I once got bit by a police dog on a peaceful march), as we tried to be judged by our actions. How is the brutality that gays suffered at the hands of policemen in the [...]
Andrew Sullivan Making The Case For Gay Marriage Back In 1997
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In places really smart and in places also really moving: Your Thoughts?
Stephen Fry On How Oscar Wilde Helped Him Confront His Sexuality
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA Tags: Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry 1 Comment »Blag Hag Comes Out (Sort Of)
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sexual orientation can be a really fluid thing, far more than rigid classifiers allow us to categorize or conceptualize ourselves sometimes. Jennifer McCreight opens up about 10 years worth of varied romantic feelings and puzzlings and vacillates a good deal over labels. In the end, I take it she comes out more than anything as [...]
Carl Paladino: Homophobe
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Vile stuff: Transcript of the vileness: We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. I didn’t march in the gay parade this year, the Gay Pride parade this year. My opponent did. And that’s not the example we should be showing our children, [...]
Blaming The Victims Of Anti-Gay Violence
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew Sullivan quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinberger’s 1986 “Letter On The Pastoral Care Of Homosexual Persons”: The proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced [...]
Happy National Coming Out Day 2010!
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Today is National Coming Out Day, a day for gays to come out of the closet and so just as we did last year, here at Camels With Hammers we will be supporting gays and lesbians the world wide by featuring mostly content related to gay issues. People ask me often why I write so [...]
Zach Harrington
October 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yet another heart rending story of a gay teen driven to suicide by the abusively anti-gay world in which he lived. In Zach’s case, it seems to have been in response to a city council meeting on whether to make October GLBT month. The council voted 7-1 in favor of the motion, but the three [...]
Calling The Conservative Catholic’s Bluff On Gay Suffering
October 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Voris, who explicitly and unapologetically argued that our democracy should be replaced by a benevolent dictatorship in the form of a Catholic theocracy, recently made another video, advancing a familiar line of reasoning from conservative Catholic theology that homosexuals have been specially chosen by God for their suffering and that they can be a [...]
What It Really Means To Tell Gays To “Resist Their Temptation”
October 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Via Dan Savage, A Christian decodes for his brethren: When you tell a gay person to “resist” being gay, what you are really telling them—what you really mean—is for them to be celibate. What you are truly and actually saying is that you want them to condemn themselves to a life devoid of love. Be [...]
On The Incoherence Of Divine Command Theory And Why Even If God DID Make Things Good And Bad, Faith-Based Religions Would Still Be Irrelevant
September 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The claim that all value, whether moral or otherwise, requires a God is a familiar one. But what this claim either means or how it is supposed to be apparent to us is far from self-evident. The claim could mean something along the lines of a divine command theory interpretation of value according to which [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, God, God, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism 15 Comments »
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