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The Fundie’s Handbook
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That’s the way I see it, and with the steamroller momentum of birtherism, teabagging, speechies, marriage protection and the like, one can’t help but just want to take the easier road of rolling with it. Even my home Province of Alberta, Canada is swinging to the right like never before, cutting GRS funding, [...]
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In early October of 2008, substitute teacher Jan Buterman was informed that he was being dropped from the teacher list and should not report to a scheduled class that day. Jan had spoken with the Deputy Superintendent at the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division No. 29 the previous June about his transition from [...]
Filed under: Alberta, Canada, Gender Politics, activism, religion, transgender | 10 Comments
Update: That was quick. Tim’s has withdrawn its sponsorship.
Original post:
Canadian donut franchise Tim Horton’s is sponsoring Marriage Day in Rhode Island. This “Marriage Day,” as it turns out, is organized by the National Organization for Marriage, and in case there was any confusion, they loudly declare “This is a great opportunity to take a stand [...]
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Before being deposed by the current minority Conservative government, the federal Liberals began work on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to be built in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As the building is underway and the Advisory Committee is being developed to oversee what is to be included, an organization called REAL Women of Canada has [...]
Filed under: Canada, activism, feminism, politics, religion | 2 Comments
Canada’s Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, Diane Ablonczy, recently saw the Marquee Tourism Events Program (an economic stimulus package designed to encourage major tourism events such as the Calgary Stampede and the Montreal International Jazz Festival) taken from her portfolio and turned over to Industry Minister, Tony Clement.
The spin from the reigning [...]
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(Permission is granted to distribute this as widely as people see fit)
To: Honourable Lindsay Blackett, MLA Calgary-Northwest, Minister of Culture
CC: Premier Ed Stelmach,
Ms. Rachel Notley
Dr. David Swann
The People of Alberta
The Alberta Teachers’ Association
The Pride Centre of Edmonton
Calgary Outlink
Mr. Blackett, please tell me how my very existence is such poison to society that we dare not [...]
Filed under: Alberta, Canada, activism, religion, transgender | 1 Comment
On the heels of delisting Health Care funding for Gender Reassignment Surgery without consultation with the medical community, the Government has taken further ridiculous steps to alienate the closeted moderates in the Province. A small concession is being made in Human Rights legislation to finally include Sexual Orientation in the list of protected classes (which [...]
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Periodically, I’ve seen the argument come up in the discussion of the fight for same-sex marriage rights in the U.S. It usually goes like this: “if we allow gay people to marry and erode the definition of marriage, the next thing we know, we’ll have to recognize polygamy.” Some of this is becoming more poignant [...]
Filed under: Canada, activism, hate, media, musings, politics, religion | 1 Comment
If the Westboro Baptist Church family (Phelpses) considers Katrina, 9/11 and soldiers’ deaths in Iraq as God’s expression of anger at homosexuality, I wonder if they’ll consider this God’s just punishment for spreading hate?
Nah. I doubt it.
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The article that this references goes back in time, and this article is no longer timely to it, I suppose. But some of the thoughts and ramifications might still be valid, and a little chilling.
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It looks particularily creepy, the AP headline subtitle: “Seminary president Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr. says gayness is probably biological and [...]
Filed under: musings, religion, transgender, writings | 4 Comments
