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  1. gsa

    What are your thoughts on Chruch's refusing to wed gays?

    How many Orthodox Jewish synagogues allow their rabbis to marry Jews and Gentiles? And of those who do not, how many have lost their tax exemption status? They should not (and will not) lose their tax exemption status for refusing to allow religious ceremonies that violate their religious...
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    Satan Comes To Detroit! Well, It's About Time!

    Detroit doesn't boot the devil out on annual basis, but does boot out the "Nain Rouge." At the annual Marche du Nain Rouge. But Nain Rouge is more like a goblin than the devil. Devil's Night is the night before Halloween. It got out of hand from the 1970s through the 1990s, but it is...
  3. gsa

    Gay

    All well and good. But we need to develop public policy based on something, preferably something that is empirically demonstrable. If we are being honest, that means secularism. All of the religious arguments are completely irrelevant once that point is acknowledged. No one who is religious...
  4. gsa

    "Conservative news anchor’s message to Obama goes viral"

    You mean, you are unwilling to acknowledge that Christianity and Islam share the same pathologies? Fair enough.
  5. gsa

    "Conservative news anchor’s message to Obama goes viral"

    So Christians do not advocate converting most of the world to Christianity?
  6. gsa

    "Conservative news anchor’s message to Obama goes viral"

    Isn't this also the goal of Christians?
  7. gsa

    "Conservative news anchor’s message to Obama goes viral"

    I do not see any coherent argument in this rant. She has family members who were veterans and some who currently serve in the military. Yeah, well, that describes the vast majority of Americans, and most of us don't turn into eccentric jingoists as a result. The one area where I am...
  8. gsa

    Planned parenthood doc haggles over price of fetal parts for sale.

    Really think about this for a second. Do you think that organs go for a hundred dollars on the black market? Hell no! And this executive in this video repeatedly says that PP is not in the donation business to turn a profit. There's a good explanation of how this video is nonsense at the...
  9. gsa

    Trump and McCain - what is a "war hero"?

    I do find it interesting that John Kerry has come to McCain's defense. Jeb Bush is supposedly upset that McCain's heroism has been questioned. But a quick look back demonstrates how astonishingly hypocritical Bush's behavior is: After the campaign Jeb Bush, then Governor of Florida, sent a...
  10. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    To be clear, the US government cannot classify an organization as an FTO simply because it has divergent ideological goals. Terrorism requires some overt criminal act. Moreover, even FTO designations are subject to judicial review.
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    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    No. Some groups were labeled foreign terrorist organizations even though their ideological interests were congruent with US government objectives. For example, the Iranian MEK opposition group was listed as an FTO (foreign terrorist organization) for over a decade, a listing that was removed...
  12. gsa

    What's the deal with the Roma?

    I remember, pretty vividly, receiving a flyer from a bus driver in my hometown when I was a teenager. It was part of a local campaign to stop the construction of a mobile home park. At the time I was becoming fairly acquainted with anti-gay ideology, and what was striking was how similar this...
  13. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    Terrorism can cover a lot of different actions, that is true. And the FBI itself identifies lone offenders, or "lone wolves" as they are sometimes called, as the primary source of domestic terrorism. Their ideological interests and motivations are very diverse. However, simply being...
  14. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    I assume US policy in Islamic countries, primarily the Middle East. Remember, attacks on military facilities may be aimed at influencing civilians. Much in the way that Roof hoped to spark a race war; his victims were not the only intended targets of his actions. We may never know with...
  15. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    But as I said, the two are not mutually exclusive. Islamic terrorists defy any typical profile. And this is nothing new: The Washington Post reported on the difficulties of profiling terrorists back in 2007. To me, your observations are more suggestive of how we might better intervene to...
  16. gsa

    CNN is ...

    With the exception of PBS, is there any major news source that doesn't cater to the 24 hour outrage cycle? So we have Fox, CNN and MSNBC. They generally report on the same kinds of things (and on each other's coverage), and they even have their own slogans designed with ideological focus (or...
  17. gsa

    HP Puts Trump Campaign in Entertainment

    I don't think that Huffington Post even attempts to conceal their bias. HuffPo, Breitbart, The Blaze, Fox News and MSNBC all now have fairly openly partisan and ideological aims. The way that news is produced and consumed has just changed.
  18. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    Terrorism is an action, one with a fairly clear definition of intent that does not exclude other causal factors. I mean, many rapists and murderers are high and mentally ill, but we don't exclude them from the definition of rape and murder solely because of their other motivations or their...
  19. gsa

    Catholic Church Denies Communion to Gay Man At Mother's Funeral

    Nope. But then, we are accustomed to hypocrisy and selective, discriminatory enforcement of "the rules" in the Catholic Church.
  20. gsa

    Terrorism In US....Here We Go Again

    I do not believe that mental illness and terrorism are mutually exclusive categories. Depressed people, even those deprived of sleep for days at a time, do not generally target two military installations. Just a few hours beforethe shooting, Abdulazeez sent a text message to a friend, which...
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