Why Is Viagra Popular and the Condom Controversial?
By Johanna SonBALI, Aug 14 (TerraViva/IPS) - Why is the popular drug Viagra so praised for its virtues, while the condom is vilified by conservative religious groups among others the world over?Both...
View ArticleLatest story: Mike Duvall's Family Values
By now on the blogosphere, Mike Duvall is becoming old news. But to re-cap for anyone who missed it, California state assemblyman Duvall is the most recent "family values" manto get caught on tape at a...
View ArticleSo I'm one of those horrible, horrible, horrible people who enjoys Oral...
I don't like doing the whole "XYZ obviously hasn't gotten laid" song and dance routine, but after viewing clips from Dr. Phil's diatribe against THE TOTAL EVILS of oral sex, I have to wonder if the...
View ArticlePRA to Rick Warren: Denounce Proposed Antigay Law in Uganda!
October 29, 2009Contact: Kapya Kaoma or Pam Chamberlain, 617-666-5300In March 2008, U.S. evangelical leader Rick Warren told Ugandans that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a...
View ArticleAll You Need
Two thousand years ago a man came to Earth who was called the "Messiah", and who sought to reconcile God and Humanity. The religious called him the "Son of God" and the "Son of Man" and also the "New...
View ArticleIf The Shoe Fits...
My would-be Facebook friend wrote to me again yesterday. I say "would-be", because were it not for the tiny detail that I am a transsexual woman romantically involved with another transsexual woman,...
View ArticlePolitics and Pretty Boys Without Shirts
So the Playgirl shots of Levi Johnston were released yesterday. I have to admit that I, like Jolie du Pre, have really been looking forward to them. ...Except, the couple pictures that have been...
View ArticleA woman among warlords
Malalai Joya is an Afghan politician who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of...
View ArticlePass The Bucket
How many people have died since the dawn of humankind? Millions? Billions? Hundreds of billions? And of those people who have passed into the great hereafter, have any of them EVER returned to this...
View ArticleThe New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
The first time I heard the name Elna Baker was on the "Matchmakers" episode of This American Life radio show. Her segment on working for FAO Schwartz is well worth listening to: The beginning makes me...
View ArticleThe Judas Church
In a shameful turn of events, the Methodist Church of South Africa has today betrayed the trust of all its non heterosexual members and supporters - and its foundational message of inclusive worship -...
View ArticleJust Keep Swimming
These days I find myself referring to the little blue fish in that adorable movie "Finding Nemo", the one that kept on saying "just keep swimming". And no matter what, no matter how bad things got in...
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