Today's Cultural Warfare Update

This is a lame update, sorry. I SWEAR I will do a better one this weekend. Srsly. But right now I need to go get a new backpack, as my current backpack ripped halfway open yesterday and that just won't do.

Remember that condemnation by TVC of the Christian group "Soujourners"? Here's the Soujourner statement on the "Religious Right";

I typically prefer primary material, but in this case, I'm posting a blogger's reaction to the recent CWA comment that former NBA star Tim Hardaway's anti-gay comments are "unfortunate and inappropriate" - but only because they "foment misperceptions of widespread homosexual ‘victimhood,'" not because there's anything wrong being "repelled by disordered sexual behaviors that are both unnatural, and immoral";

Concerned Women for America's Matt Barber and the original CWA press release, full text;

One of the infuriating things about the entire "culture war" of the theocons is the whole idea that it's perfectly reasonable to talk about making queers illegal - that making people illegal is okay. Andrew Sullivan recently posted to a pretty good blogpost about how one older gay man feels about this;

Christian and union groups attacking Wal-Mart for violating child labour laws; "Would Jesus Stop at Wal-Mart";

Army chaplain attempts to register as Wiccan, which would make him the first such; then "his superiors not only denied his request but also withdrew him from Iraq and removed him from the chaplain corps, despite an unblemished service record." Chief Executive Mr. Bush, by the way, was on record as governor of Texas saying that the Wiccan faith shouldn't be allowed 'in the military.'

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