Today's Cultural Warfare Update

[EDIT: I'm adding a callout on today's Family News in Focus, since it attacks the concept of private-corporation DP benefits as "wrong."]

Article on Janice Rogers Brown's judicial philosophies;

Focus on the Family article on the Soulforce protest;

Soulforce's version of the same incident;

FotF article on creationism in Kansas;

Pat Robertson: America's judges are a bigger threat than Al Qaeda;

National Review's Maggie Gallagher claims that Americans are overwhelmingly rejecting marriage rights, and is pleased;

Andrew Sullivan notes that she ignores the latest polling data and misrepresents some of the data she does use;

Focus on the Family claims complaints by Jewish cadets by fundamentalists at the Air Force Academy are an attempt to oppress Christians, quotes former cadet claiming that Christians are actively oppressed and that "The secular humanists kind of run the show, by and large";

Focus on the Family plugs another new ad campaign pushing for changes in Senate filibuster rules;

New York Catholic college to be disaffiliated from the Catholic Church for granting an honourary degree to pro-choice senator Hillary Clinton;

Montgomery County, Maryland being sued by anti-gay activists over its sex ed. curriculum;

Today's Focus on the Family Family News in Focus attacks corporate GBLT domestic partner benefits. They're "wrong," and "costly," and "put undue financial strain on their employee's pocketbooks" (note how even in the definition of "employee," queers are excluded as Not Really People);

Concerned Women for America applaud Microsoft for changing its stance on the GBLT basic civil rights bill, urges it not to support it next year;

CWA attacks filibusters as "bullying."

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Here, have another flower

Here, have another flower. Or in this case, a clump of flowers. It's by the north path:


In other news, there are NO farking squirrels playing with the toy. Stupid squirrels.

Also, walking:
Earlier in the week: all of 0.2 miles.
Wednesday: 2.1 miles.
Miles out of Hobbiton: 88.9
Miles to Rivendell: 369.1

( Quizzie )