Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Jun. 24th, 2005 11:20 amMore pharmacists are joining the "refuse to dispense" movement - and it's spreading to other drugs, too, such as painkillers;
Bush speaks to SBC - repledges support for anti-marriage amendment;
MSNBC talks about the fundamentalist-fueled "reparative therapy"/"ex-gay" push from the social right;
Ohio local effort to remove gay-community newspaper from library;
Kelo vs. New London - full texts of a terrible decision;
Focus on the Family: judicial compromise will fall apart at the next Supreme Court nomination;
Christian Coalition board member attacks new liberal Christian group as "disgusting";
FotF, AFA condemn Uniting American Families Act, which would aid gay and lesbian couples with immigration, as another attempt at "redefining marriage";
FotF attacks medical marijuana, calling San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries "fronts" for drug dealing;
FotF action item against Howard Stern's show on E! - they're not ordering new episodes, but will continue airing old ones - they want all the shows off the air;
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback holds Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights subcommittee meeting on Roe v. Wade with specific and stated attempt to push for overturning it;
Another FotF attack on a liberal Christian group; "A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf... pushing the homosexual agenda, pushing for abortion rights -- those things have nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
FotF newsbrief: House of Representatives passes flag "desecration" amendment - Senate to consider after Independence Day;
Today's Family News in Focus;
Rolling Stone on the abstinence "purity" movement amoungst the young-adult Christian right, and some of the inevitable weirdness that falls out of that - "Every encounter must be a kind of threesome: man, wife and the Lord," "masturbands," and so on.
( Excerpts and transcripts below )
Bush speaks to SBC - repledges support for anti-marriage amendment;
MSNBC talks about the fundamentalist-fueled "reparative therapy"/"ex-gay" push from the social right;
Ohio local effort to remove gay-community newspaper from library;
Kelo vs. New London - full texts of a terrible decision;
Focus on the Family: judicial compromise will fall apart at the next Supreme Court nomination;
Christian Coalition board member attacks new liberal Christian group as "disgusting";
FotF, AFA condemn Uniting American Families Act, which would aid gay and lesbian couples with immigration, as another attempt at "redefining marriage";
FotF attacks medical marijuana, calling San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries "fronts" for drug dealing;
FotF action item against Howard Stern's show on E! - they're not ordering new episodes, but will continue airing old ones - they want all the shows off the air;
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback holds Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights subcommittee meeting on Roe v. Wade with specific and stated attempt to push for overturning it;
Another FotF attack on a liberal Christian group; "A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf... pushing the homosexual agenda, pushing for abortion rights -- those things have nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
FotF newsbrief: House of Representatives passes flag "desecration" amendment - Senate to consider after Independence Day;
Today's Family News in Focus;
Rolling Stone on the abstinence "purity" movement amoungst the young-adult Christian right, and some of the inevitable weirdness that falls out of that - "Every encounter must be a kind of threesome: man, wife and the Lord," "masturbands," and so on.
( Excerpts and transcripts below )