Today's Mini Cultural Warfare Update

I'm swamped with end-of-the-quarter/end of the year school stuff; that's why there haven't been any CWUs in a while. Here are some bits I've collected for the next major round that aren't from my usual sources.

This summer, things should get more back to normal. Sorry about the lame. My last final is Wednesday. Monday, I had to turn in a quarter-long group research project (normally 3-4 people) that I had to do myself; yesterday I had a lab practical (which sucked); tomorrow I have a major de facto final that is not technically a final exam but pretty much is and I need around 100% on it. Monday I have voice jury and Wednesday the technical final for Zoology.

Anyway, here's my nonstandard-sources CWU for today.

The founder and president of Abstinence Clearinghouse condemns - and rather goes crazy about - the new fewer-periods version of the birth control pill on Fox News; the Slog link I'm pointing to contains a clickthrough to original video. One thing interesting about this is that the current chief executive, Mr. Bush, spoke to the group's national conference in 2004;

Presidential candidate and currentformer Senator John Edwards (D-NC) quoted by an ex-aide as being "not comfortable with those people," where "those people" = t3h gayz; his campaign says he was quoted "out of context" but doesn't deny it; the Washington Blade has rather critical commentary; [Ed. Note: Oops.]

Russian nationalist crowd attacks gay rights supporters, including European Parliament members; Russian police arrest the victims, and are commended for doing so;

Reuters story on the young-earth Creationist pseudo-natural-history museum;

The C|Net story on the "Warriors for Innocence"-sparked mass journal deletion on Livejournal; most of the deleted journals have been reinstated with apologies. What's relevant about this is that if you do a little digging on the WfI founder/leader, she considers gayfolk to be exactly as bad as paedophiles;

A link to Sue of WfI's original letter to Livejournal; unfortunately, she's taken her journal friends-only, but I had previously captured key paragraphs;

A link to Sue's journal, discussing Cardinal Mahoney; the relevant parts for this LJ are where she comments on GBLT people; unfortunately, she's taken her journal friends-only, but I had previously captured key paragraphs;

Johann Hari writes about a previous PM of the UK who was apparently gay, and various condemnations for bringing it up at all;

Chief Executive Mr. Bush nominates anti-gay church activist - Dr. James Holsinger, Jr., mentioned in these Updates before - to be new Surgeon General; ABC News is kind enough to include a link to the paper, which I also provide.

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