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  • Muslim-Bashing and the Power of Cartoons
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shame on the European newspapers for publishing grossly disrespectful cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the founder of Islam. One of the original 12 cartoons, which were all first published in a Danish tabloid, in Sept., 2005, showed him wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse. Some of the offensive cartoons were then reprinted in other newspapers in European countries. (1) How would Christians like it, if someone showed Jesus, the "Prince of Peace," with an H-bomb in (…)

  • Dear Mr. President
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Mr. President Saturday, January 21, 2006 Dear President Bush:
    Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your campaign and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God’s Laws (…)

  • An Open Letter To The UN Secretary General
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear UN Secretary General
    I am writing to you asking you to act, according to your responsibilities, to stop the waves of insults and sarcasms about the Prophet Mohamed that are appearing in European media under the slogan of “ freedom of expression”. We all know that freedom must extend freely until it must stop where and when it offends other people. The insulting cartoon images published by the Danish newspaper Julland Posten and republished by other Swedish and recently by the France (…)

  • The King That Was A Queen
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Coretta Scott King was a wonderful soul of love and empathy who will be mourned by millions of people. She was the King who was a queen, because she understood her husband’s "dream" was much greater than achieving liberty for one narrow slice of the population.
    "For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people," Coretta Scott King said at the 25th anniversary luncheon for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. (…)

  • What Was the Matter with Ohio?: Unions and Evangelicals in the Rust Belt
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by James Straub
    It was a fittingly ironic end to an election full of grotesque twists: When George W. Bush was narrowly reelected president of the United States, it was the electoral votes of the state he had harmed most that gave him the final nudge across the finish line. Ohio went for the second election in a row to the Republican clown prince. But if the first Bush victory was tragedy, the one in 2004 was surely farce: has world history ever turned before on the artful elevation of gay (…)

  • Girls Against Boys?
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katha Pollitt
    I went to Radcliffe, the women’s wing of Harvard, at a time when the combined undergraduate student body was fixed at four male students for every female one. I don’t remember anyone worrying about the boys’ social lives, or whether they would find anyone to marry—even though nationally, too, boys were more likely to go to college and to graduate than girls. When in 1975 President Derek Bok instituted equal-access admissions, nobody said, "Great idea, more marital choice (…)

  • Will & Disgrace?
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    When a gay friend found out that NBC was canceling Will & Grace he was ecstatic. He derisively called the show "Will & Disgrace" and compared it to a minstrel show because the effeminate homosexual "Jack," played by Sean Hayes, is consistently the butt of jokes. He is right that Jack is often the punch line, but I think historically this sitcom will go down as a knockout success for the gay community.
    Will & Grace isn’t perfect, but it came along at the perfect (…)

  • The Xs and O’s of social change
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Zirin, Dave Zirin is the author of "What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States" and a columnist for Slam magazine.
    THE NEW Disney film "Glory Road" tells the story of a basketball game that put sports in the middle of the civil rights movement. But it also recalls a time when the ordinary actions of coaches could unwittingly transcend sports and make a mark on history.
    Key to the legacies of the two Hall of Fame coaches at the heart of "Glory Road" is how (…)

  • Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur. Some outlets spread spurious charges of anti-Semitism
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. In a Christmas Eve speech, the Center said, Chavez declared that "the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world."
    The Voice of America (1/5/06) covered the charge immediately. Then opinion journals on the right took up the (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias did not fire off missiles at innocent women and children
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    It is so typical of the United States media to sound the alarm as they just did in an editorial: Halt Chavez arms buildup as if the sky is falling. Meanwhile, under this Bush administration, and as reported in a previous article, they allow Russia to rebuild the arms race ... which is far more devastating to the human race.
    Easy does it, my fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear from President Hugo Chavez ... but you do from Bush. Come to think of it, so does the (…)