I have a solution to one of the problems that’s been plaguing the Middle East for some time now. Just make Palestine a state. It’s the Christian thing to do. Wait, wait, hear me out. According to certain traditional Christian thought, the land that Israel now occupies is at least in part the land that [...]

Okay, let’s get this out of the way. I love taxing rich people. I believe if you’ve benefited directly from this great nation of ours and the tremendous opportunity that it provides and have as a result gotten fabulously wealthy you need to pay some of that back/forward. Somehow in this country this has come [...]

Freedom of Choice – I was looking for a part two to this series of posts and it was handed to me on a silver platter by a commenter in part one. Abortion and homosexuality are hot button issues when it comes to politics and religion. When it come to the moral/religious side on both [...]

This is a re-post from a few years back. I now plan on writing a part two (and getting back on the blgging train) so here you go: In this post (and perhaps subsequent posts as this one is getting long already) I will outline some of the reasoning behind why I’m still a Democrat [...]

Student claims nose stud is religious symbol | abc11.com. Have a look at this video.  The young lady has a sincerely held “religious” belief.  I’m not asking if you think there’s any truth inherent in her religion, but I’m curious to know a few things.  What, in your mind, constitutes a religion?  Does she have [...]

So I heard about this on NPR and now read about it at the Washington Post, the Christian Legal Society is going to battle for its right to discriminate against homosexuals and non-Christians. Apparently the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law has a policy that if you are to be an officially recognized [...]

This is a clusterf- a big mess.  Our president has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Now we could sit here and argue about whether or not it is premature (it likely is, depending on how you look at it).  We could even argue about whether or not he could do anything to deserve it ever.  [...]

I don’t usually “do” politics, but this video and essay is something I felt I needed to share. You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed [...]

Rick Warren has been asked to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration and that’s got some folks’ underwear in a collective bunch. Warren was pro-Prop 8 and some on the left see Obama’s reaching out to him as a slap in the face. Jane from Firedoglake compared inviting him to inviting the Grand Wizard of [...]

Okay, two great tastes that taste great together. Someone on twitter was torn about the election, believing that Obama would be a better President but that McCain was more in line with his morals. So I asked him, do you vote for a president or a pastor. I think that’s a good question for my [...]