Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Here's a quick CWU for today; mostly I want it out actually for Andrew Mohlery, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president, and his comments about how GBLT people should be eliminated thorough prenatal intervention if and when that becomes possible, and - probably more importantly, in the long run - how even if there is a biological basis for sexual orientation is found that doesn't matter; fags still must be stopped. The amazing part is that a few days later, he condemns Ann Coulter's comments at CPAC, thus proving that you can say any evil thing you want and it's just fine, just as long as you don't use bad words.

Anyway, here's a bunch of other news.

Equality Florida activist arrested for handing out flyers at Largo, Florida city commission meeting;

New York Sun coverage of CPAC has a bit of the god talk in it;

Ann Coulter at CPAC with her "faggot" remarks;

elfs pointed out an article on anti-abortion-rights groups having the phone-company-cobranding thing for donations; I'm bringing it up to the top level in this CWU;

Kentucky Fairness Alliance update on the attempt to ban same-sex health benefits by companies in Kentucky; a vote to take the bill out of committee and onto the floor failed today on an 8-8 tie, which is good, but there's going to be an attempt to get a discharge position passed to revive the bill;

Seattle Times opinion chiding the Army over its refusal (so far) to allow Wiccan soldiers to have the symbol of their faith on their grave markers; this is allowed for various other religions;

First Things writer Peter Leithart condemns Senator Obama's emphasis on health care reform on the basis that in health, suffering is good for you, and "secular humanists" want that suffering to stop, so are bad; he proclaims that "Secular Humanists 'worship the human body itself'" with a focus on health care;

Andrew Sullivan commentary on the whole Ann Coulter / "Faggot" issue - not on the initial commentary, but on her defense of it the day after;

Albert Mohler, head of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, "the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world," endorses complete elimination of GBLT people via prenatal intervention if such a thing becomes possible. He's also doing something else important: laying the groundwork for 'okay, sexual orientation is innate and biologically determined - and no excuse.' He says that rather explicitly: "Christians must be very careful not to claim that science can never prove a biological basis for sexual orientation. We can and must insist that no scientific finding can change the basic sinfulness of all homosexual behavior";

Albert Mohler, just a few days after calling for the elimination of all gay people via prenatal intervention if possible, condemns Ann Coulter's "faggot" commentary, thus proving once again that you can say however evil and vile a thing you want and it's just fine with these people as long as you don't use naughty words;

Focus on the Family is against Barak Obama - he's for abortion rights, domestic partnerships (but against marriage, but they say the two are the same thing), and supports the teaching of evolutionary theory and specifically not creationism/"intelligent design";

New Jersey Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R) and Assemblywoman Allison Littell McHose (R) introduce marriage ban in New Jersey;

Focus on the Family news item/ACTION ITEM to support ban of embryonic stem-cell research in Nebraska;

Okay, so this is weird; Focus on the Family headlines, "University Students Expelled for Expressing Faith - Christianity deemed a threat to others"; once you get to the text, it's apparently a health code issue and they aren't supposed to be washing each others' feet; FotF wonk Bruce Hausknecht asks "Is this university located in Georgia or communist China?"; Google News is not helping, particularly, so I don't really know what's going on, though I did find an article saying that the Alliance Defense Fund was suing the university;

Faith and Freedom Network condemns vote in Washington State for limited domestic partnerships.

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