The Pro-Gay Rights Mind

Having participated in several "discussions" of news stories about California's Proposition 8 and the subsequent fallout, I...

The Great Divide

In a previous post, I picked on the left Living in an All-Inclusive Duplex . The problem with the ideals of both left and right is the ideol...

Way to Go Jerry!

Jerry Brown, California's current Attorney General (and former Governor) weighed in on the Prop 8 debate with a 111 page legal filing to...

The Oxy-Moron of the Week

There's going public and then there's going public. From News 4 Jacksonville we get this story: A divorced Jacksonville woman said h...

Signs of the Times

Christmas tree theft is on the rise in the US. Law enforcement officials across the country have noticed the increase over the past few week...

Guilt By Association

President Elect Obama chose Reverend Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California to offer the invocation at Obama...

Living in an All-Inclusive Duplex

One of my pet peeves (which is not my pet monkey named Bob) is the duplicity of ideologies. An ideology is a system of ideas or ideals that...

Americans Fail Basic Civics Test

I came across the website for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's report on civic literacy in the US. The findings of the Institute ...

Gift Vouchers for the Woman Who Has Everything

What do you give this holiday season to the woman who has everything? Not sure what you can do for that pre-teen mother-to-be? Know some hap...

UNC Professor Takes Exception to No Christmas Tree

Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington didn't like the decision at UNC-Chapel Hill to not p...

Holidays Are Against My Religion

It's that time of year again, when the crazies and the loonies run amok in their rush to celebrate their particular brand of winter holi...

The LA Times and the End of the World

Well, not the end of the world, really, but close to it when the LA Times publishes an editorial in favor of the Mormon church. Nothing new ...

Are Families Measured in Family Units?

The institutions of marriage and families are under attack. This has been going on in front of our backs for some time now. The recent votes...

What Is the Separation of Church and State?

I found this excellent article that explains the history of the interpretation of church and state. It should be required reading in any US ...

School Is Dead

The public education system is dead. As a professor, I can no longer expect students to have any basic skills. Apparently nothing is taught ...

Legal Experts Puzzled

The LA Times, that bastion of unbiased and careful reportage, ran a first page headline story "Legal experts puzzled over California ju...

Anti Mormons Again and Again

In my previous post, I noted that the "Mormons Stole Our Rights" website was linked to an anti-Mormon group, stirring up hatred fo...

Anti Mormons Enter the Gay Rights Fray

A new anti-Mormon, pro gay website has been put online, dedicated to defaming the Mormon church over its support of California's Proposi...

Gay Rights And Hate Crimes

The protests and attacks by the gay rights activists against California's Proposition 8 have stepped up to a new frenzy. Continuing unde...

Gay Rights Activists and Lawsuits Lawsuits Lawsuits

Gay rights activists, angry over the passage of Proposition 8 in California have found new friends in their attempt to overthrow the democra...

Hate On Both Sides?

This video appears on YouTube showing a news broadcast in Palm Springs. A newscaster was trying to interview a little old lady about why she...

Go Away So We Can Be Inclusive?

There's an interesting article from the San Fransisco Chronicle about the alliance that Catholics and Mormons created in favor of Propos...

Gays Want to Boycott Utah?

Proposition 8 passed in California and the opponents, including the gay rights activists, went on the warpath, against the majority vote of ...

Media Sponsored Religion Bashing In California

In my previous post, I said that intolerance is a double edged sword. The opponents to California's Proposition 8 apparently have fallen...

New Puritans and Arizona Proposition 102

Yesterday my wife sent out some emails to our friends with a link to an article that supported proposition 102. One of our friends of 15 yea...

Effects of Legalizing Same Sex Marriage

Everyone needs to see this video about the effects of "legalizing" same sex marriage in Massachusetts: http://link.brightcove.com/...

Proposition 102 and Commercial Lies

This "Vote No Again" ad campaign is completely misleading. The proposition voted on in 2006 did include a definition of marriage, ...

Arizona Proposition 102 - Do Civil Rights Stem from the Courts?

The argument that the Supreme Court was the sole benefactor of the civil rights movement is false. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 ma...

Arizona Proposition 102 and Liberal Judges

Arizona Proposition 102 doesn't take away any rights (another misleading sound bite foisted on the easily confused by the media). It pro...

Arizona Proposition 102 and Special Interests

A friend dropped by the office and we had a discussion about this particular amendment. My friend couldn't understand how this whole thi...

Vanishing Arizona Proposition 102 Signs

I dropped my my office to print some materials for a fund raiser for the Arizona Democratic Party and found that the Yes on 102 sign in the ...

Arizona Proposition 102 and the Public

One of the legal functions of state approval of marriage is to determine the legal status of the children that such a marriage can produce. ...

Arizona Proposition 102 and Religion

I note that many opposed to Prop 102 can't seem to argue against the proposition without resorting to rampant anti-religious fanaticism....

Arizona Proposition 102 A Private Matter?

Marriage and its definition are not private concerns into a private matter. Marriage is a public matter by definition, a legal contract esta...

TV Ads Against Arizona Proposition 102

I saw the recent TV commercial against Prop 102. It contained one fallacy after another in its presentation. Yes, the law is on the books in...

Arizona Republic Renames Proposition 102

It's a shame that the AZ Republic staff can identify the ballot propositions by their names, except for Proposition 102. They call it th...