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    we’ve come far, but the work is not yet done

    16 April 1963

    My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

    While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas… But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your [...]



    my obama-topia

    I just heard on the radio that that DLC quisling Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s likely choice for Chief of Staff. Crap.

    While my opinion doesn’t mean squat, here’s my dream cabinet, which includes promoting FEMA back to cabinet level (and taking it out of Dept. of Homeland Security):

    Department of Agriculture: Senator Tom Harkin
    Department of Commerce: Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon
    Department of Defense: General Wesley Clark
    Department of [...]



    christian men: do you know if your wife is truly female?

    Today is Write to Marry Day, when like-minded bloggers are speaking out against Proposition 8 in California, and all of the other anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments and legislative initiatives past and present.

    While this may come as a shock to the Mormons and Catholics and Evangelicals behind Prop 8, either their god is completely ignorant of biology, or he’s the biggest practical joker of all time.

    Why?

    Because [...]



    hey, one of you m.s.m. folks in north carolina…

    Could you please ask Elizabeth Dole if, since she’s so opposed granting any rights furthering the “radical homosexual agenda,” she also would strike prescription coverage for Viagra from Medicare for old gays? Or would that cutoff Bob’s freebies from Pfizer?

    A new mailer in support of incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole claims that Hagan’s agenda, with the help of “liberal judges,” will be to advance a [...]



    why you should vote yes on i-1000

    Dan Savage says it all:

    My mother had pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung condition, and we knew enough about the disease to know that dramatic turns for the worse were a possibility… But eight weeks before she wound up in a sprawling, dung-colored hospital in sprawling, dung-colored Tucson, my mother’s doctors had given her two to five years to live.

    [I]t fell to me to walk back [...]



    on the brink of real change

    A 25-year Special Forces veteran, who allegedly was rejected from a job after they learned she was transgender, gets her day in court.

    “It’s been a bumpy road,” said Schroer after the trial, “but I’m glad I’m on it.”

    Diane Schroer stepped foot in court Tuesday in a discrimination lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on her behalf. The ACLU says Schroer was refused a [...]



    but will a spineless congress support all the troops

    if it means supporting the gay troops?

    WASHINGTON (AFP) — Four former US generals have joined a growing call for a policy that bars homosexuals from serving openly in the military to be axed, after a study showed it is out of step with the times and harming the armed forces.

    The retired officers from the Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Navy, found in a year-long [...]



    on patriotism

    I know we are 3 days past the Fourth, but since Patriotism is the cheesy plastic hurdle that gets reset in the mud of every election year, I have to get this off my chest.

    First, as an illustration of my larger point, it is typical – but nonetheless ridiculous – that so many on the right are lionizing Jesse Helms and expounding on the “appropriateness” [...]

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