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Well, it’s about time. After hundreds of years of heteros debauching, deceiving, and divorcing, we’re only half-way to destroying “traditional” marriage. According to Fox, we finally have a lesbian strong enough to single-handedly take it down once and for all.

But I’m confused by Fox and friends. I know my embracing of Ellen DeGeneres has me racing to start my queer, polyamorous, gender-bending leather family (we have dogs and cats living together – it’s mass hysteria!).

But I don’t get why these Fox people are going to follow suit. I know they have good traditional american marriages just like Newt Gingrich, so maybe they realize just how weak their own relationships really are. Or maybe they’ve been listening to the Pope telling everyone that gay marriage will end the human race, because he’s sure that if men were allowed to we’d all go 100% gay. No more sperm for women, ever! I wonder how he got *that* idea?

I swear, these people have got to be dumber than a bagful of hammers.

Fox Contributor: Ellen DeGeneres Will Bring ‘Complete Eradication Of The Traditional Family’ | The N

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Fox News contributor Sandy Rios says that America’s embrace of Ellen DeGeneres will bring “the complete eradication of the traditional family.”

In 2002, at the height of the outcry over the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests, the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan, issued a letter to be read at Mass. In it, he offered an apology about the church’s handling of sex-abuse cases in New York and in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was previously posted.

“It is clear that today we have a much better understanding of this problem,” he wrote. “If in hindsight we also discover that mistakes may have been made as regards prompt removal of priests and assistance to victims, I am deeply sorry.”

Now, 10 years later and in retirement, Cardinal Egan has taken back his apology.

In a interview with Connecticut magazine published on the magazine’s Web site last week, a surprisingly frank Cardinal Egan said of the apology, “I never should have said that,” and added, “I don’t think we did anything wrong.”

He said many more things in the interview, some of them seemingly at odds with the facts. He repeatedly denied that any sex abuse had occurred on his watch in Bridgeport. He said that even now, the church in Connecticut had no obligation to report sexual abuse accusations to the authorities. (A law on the books since the 1970s says otherwise.) And he described the Bridgeport diocese’s handling of sex-abuse cases as “incredibly good.”

All of which has Cardinal Egan, now 79 and living in Manhattan, drawing fire from advocates who say he has reopened old wounds.

via Cardinal Egan Criticized for Retracting Apology on Sex-Abuse Crisis – NYTimes.com.

If you aren’t all out marching in the street, demanding that your diocese not only refute these remarks, but agree to follow the laws here on earth and report and help prosecute any further abuse, then you are complicit. The hypocrisy of that, and the complacency of the Catholic Church and its flock (they’re apparently called sheep for a reason)  makes one thing crystal clear to those of us not blinded by faith: if and when Jesus The Christ comes back, he’s not setting foot in any of your temples, unless it’s to help burn them down. Even the most pious among you can’t twist His words enough to make it sound like Jesus would support child abuse in the name of “the greater good” the church has supposedly done. Think he’s going to lift you up to heaven? You stood idly by while children were raped, their rapists were protected, and then moved to other areas where they could continue their crimes. Didn’t know about all that? You do now, so you’re guilty of allowing all the people involved to go free. What are you doing about it? Praying’s not enough. I haven’t read the whole bible, but it seems like God can be kind of vengeful about this sort of stuff.

So, until you empty out the coffers, melt down the golden scepters, and sell the Gucci loafers; until you find every last one of the harmed, pay for all the compensation and therapy they deserve for the rest of their horribly affected lives, and then root out, expose and prosecute all the evildoers and their accomplices – including the Pope – then and not until then can you begin to pretend to lead in the footsteps of Christ.

But, hey, that’s hard – it’s a lot easier to attack me and not take responsibility for any of that. Besides, what could a godless atheist like me know about What Jesus Would Do? Would He stand for this hypocrisy? Maybe he was just a man after all.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.

via Prop 8, California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Declared Unconstitutional. (via Huffington Post)

So, the real question here is, will it go to the big court this fall? THAT decision would have a great effect on the election, and I think we’re seeing this year that it’s a losing issue for the GOP at large.

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Getting to the point in 60 seconds flat. George, we miss your voice.

And by the way, why does WordPresss autofill Pro-life as a tag, but not Pro-choice?

If you pay attention to online reviews like I do before I buy something, you need to read this article from the New York Times explaining how the system is gamed. (And also, use your instincts: if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.)

For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews – NYTimes.com.