by Nicholas Adelman Dear Mrs. Bachmann, At the molecular level, one could say that you and I are very similar. Any general biology class will dictate that all animals are composed of cells sharing the same structure. These minute fragments of my body specialize to form organs, tissue and even blood. This same blood that courses...
read moreby Matt Foreman Imagine. To many of our opponents and even to many allies, the LGBT movement is a cohesive force for change. But despite our undeniable successes, particularly at the state and local level, we are not as cohesive as we might appear. And we are certainly not as cohesive as we could be. The reality is that we are...
read moreby James Tidmarsh As 18-year-old Matthew Shepard lie in his hospital bed, struggling to hold onto his life, a rumor began to circulate on conservative websites and elsewhere; the 1998 beating, in which Shepard was tied to a fence post in a Wyoming field and left to die, didn’t have anything to do with his sexuality at all. ...
read moreBy Pastor Dave Mallinak Two “either-or” fallacies mark the nondiscrimination debate. The first applies to the Ogden non-discrimination ordinance itself. If I do not support the ordinance, then I must favor discrimination. The second relates to my opposition to homosexuality. If I oppose homosexuality, I must either be hateful or...
read moreby Peter Ryskewecz In the past 23 years, only two U.S. Congress persons have been shot at. Both are Jewish: Gabrielle Giffords, last week in Arizona, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, the new GOP House Majority Leader. Given the acceptance of class warfare and class resentment — with all its rhetoric and innuendoes — in our popular...
read moreby Curtis Price My view, and many mainline churches views, boil down to how one understands the Bible. Fundamentalists and many evangelicals read the Bible literally as though God dropped it from the sky one day all written out in the kings English. I interpret the Bible with a “more than literal” approach which...
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