Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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Big Gay Roy Ashburn
I like the part where being gay is worse than drunk driving. From Metafilter: It’s one thing to loathe yourself (and a sign of mental illness if it’s over something that isn’t shameful, like being gay–hell, that’s like hating yourself because you ended up “too short” or “too tall”). It’s another to loathe others like you […]
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Obama to Block Vote on Turkey's Armenian Genocide
20 countries and 42 U.S. states have adopted resolutions acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as a bona fide historical event. But: The Obama administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks. A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way […]
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Vatican Hit by Gay Sex Scandal
Awful, infurating, hypocrital: Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him. Transcripts in the possession of the Guardian suggest that numerous men may have been procured for […]
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To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, DC Archdiocese Denies Benefits to All Spouses
From Washington City Paper blogs: Once gays and lesbians are allowed to marry, the Archdiocese—which employs plenty of locals through Catholic Charities—will be required to provide health benefits to same-sex spouses, an act which it says would fly in the face of the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality. The solution? No spousal benefits for anybody. via […]
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To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Call it 'Womb Lynching'
Hitting the Tuskegee nerve: For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions. But, staff members said, they found it difficult to make inroads with black audiences. … [They] hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, to […]
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Student Detained for Arabic Flash Cards
Safer and safer: George, a physics major who’s studying Arabic, was pulled aside for secondary screening at the Philadelphia International Airport as he tried to go through security. When he emptied his pockets, the inspector saw his flash cards and he was arrested, handcuffed, locked in a cell for hours and aggressively questioned. Because of […]
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Obama Imprisons 50 Indefinitely
Best Nobel Peace Prize Ever: The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday. via Glenn Greenwald […]
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Turkey's (First?) Gay Honor Killing
The father is now on trial: Ahmet Yildiz, the gay Turkish physics student, was gunned down outside his apartment in Istanbul in whats believed to be the countrys first honor killing. The suspect? His own father, who prosecutors allege traveled over 500 miles to hunt him down. “The young physics student, Ahmet Yildiz, was one […]
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The Conservative Case For Gay Marriage
Finally got around to reading this in Newsweek. Good quotes: The second argument I often hear is that traditional marriage furthers the state’s interest in procreation—and that opening marriage to same-sex couples would dilute, diminish, and devalue this goal. But that is plainly not the case. Preventing lesbians and gays from marrying does not cause […]
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Pope Calls Gay Marriage an "Attack"
An old, single man with red shoes and a gold hat surrounded by single men in a house full of antiques: Pope Benedict XVI assailed same-sex marriages as a danger to humanity on Monday in an apparent response to Portugal’s move to legalize same-sex marriage last week. According to Agence France-Presse, the 82-year-old pope said […]