Link to stream of Derek Bermel's Soul Garden

kathrynt found a link to a streaming new classical music jukebox which has the song I was talking about last night, and posted about it in last entry's comments. Obviously it's a different performance and not live, but still, check it.

wow

Okay, for those of you who are watching Series 27 Doctor Who airing now on the Skiffy Channel, and are aware of what happens at the end of this series?

Don't worry. Series 28 is just fine.

God damn is it fine.

You're going to love 18th century France.

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

According to a long letter posted on LJ Seattle, it appears that the Grays Harbour student vote is a little more interesting than I first thought - according to the poster's message, the vote is supposed to be only on the technical merits of the charter, and not a vote over whether you like or dislike the club or its purpose. So the senator in question - a fundamentalist now being supported by the Faith and Freedom Network and, according to the post, the local Republican party - voted not on the charter merits, but because she thinks GBLT people are evil and paedophiles and homosexuality is a sin.

Anyway, I don't have any action on this, nor do I think there really needs to be any, but it is interesting that this is continuing to pop around. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see it be tossed around by the fundamentalist media next week, if it's a slow week otherwise.

Focus on the Family news article and ACTION ITEM to support anti-marriage-rights amendments in seven states, also supports an effort to overturn Massachusetts's same-sex marriages via initiative; the article compares marriage rights to Soviet Communism under Brezhnev; ACTION ITEM is also to write in to support the Federal anti-marriage amendment;

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to join the anti-marriage-rights postcard campaign;

Focus on the Family pushes "ex-gay" group P-FOX, which is attempting to get "ex-gay" materials into school systems as the "truth about homosexuality";

FotF Newsbrief on Georgia judge still not ruling on a challenge to Georgia anti-marriage initiative;

Kansas legislature considering anti-abortion materials be introduced in schools as part of the curriculum;

I don't actually care much about this case and I think it's unfortunate that the initiative to donate the land was overturned as unconstitutional, but they're up in arms, so: Mt. Soledad Cross ordered taken down by California judge as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by the state;

American Family Association condemns Eastern University's refusal to let Repent America distribute anti-gay literature on campus while the Soulforce Equity Ride group was visiting;

AFA/Agape Press's version of the Focus on the Family story about the Navy chaplain who disobeyed orders; he claims the order was illegal; they, at least, acknowledge the Navy's assertion that he disobeyed orders and relate how.

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