religion ⁽³⁵⁾

During the whole debate and the progress of the various legal cases, conservatives argued incessantly that gay marriage would damage if not destroy straight marriage. Obviously this is not true, but unless we assume that they are all drooling morons, why would they keep saying…

A Supreme Court decision is the Law of the Land, unless Christian bigots dislike what the court says. The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, probably doesn't really give a damn who marries whom.  But he's no stranger to what works in Texas politics, and…

From today's NY Times headlines email: NATHANIEL P. HITT, a fisheries biologist, on religion's role in addressing climate change. How many ways does a biologist manage to get THIS wrong?  I am going to point to just two. Climate change is nothing but a question…

I am starting to think that it really is the bigots' last stand. Which certainly has the potential to get ugly - as well-armed as they are. Still, things do seem to be moving in the right direction. First off, Franklin Graham moved his money…

So there's this Australian couple who have let it be known that if Australia becomes a civilized place where any two people regardless of gender can get married, they will get a divorce.  That's right - if civil marriage in Oz can't conform to their religious ideas…