Christian pretends to be gay for a year, see what happens

Timothy Kurek is a young man from Nashville. He grew up in a very religious Christian fundamentalist type home. A home where gays were despised or demonized. He decided to spend a year, being gay. He didn't become gay as did a young man in England who had a stroke did. He...

Atheist teen girl suffers threats for opposing prayer banner

 I am going to post this column by Blair Scott of  American Atheists, in its' entire length, because while I should be amazed that an atheist teen who dares to stand up to theocracy in America, gets death threats, I really am not. Atheists commonly get...

The Crescent and the Cross

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" "There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I would like to claim them as my own, though they really belong to nineteenth-century historiography: first, that...

The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

          “How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?”                     –(Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Wind)....

America: Never Acquiesce

          Stubborn. Proud. Independent. Certainly fair modifiers to describe a nation like the United States of America. Why should we be anything else? We have a history of firsts. We should not let that change or be overlooked. We have a rich...

SMS banned in Jammu and Kashmir: India

Indian government is finding it tough to tackle SMS menace in Northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Security threat forced the Govt to bann the operation of SMS service effective from midnight. "The government today banned short message service (SMS) for post-paid subscribers...

Scientology Churches Mark UNESCO Day of Tolerance

MANCHESTER—Churches of Scientology around the world marked the International Day of Tolerance commemorating the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) this week...

Dr. Edhi wins top UN prize for non-violence

Dr. Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Pakistan-based philanthropist, has recently won top UN award for his contributions promoting tolerance and non-violence. "Abdul Sattar Edhi of Pakistan and a Belgian human rights defender...

Juanes or McCarthy back to Havana?

Some reactions in Miami to the Colombian singer Juanes publicized concert  in Havana,  next September, seem to revive the era of the most accentuated MacCarthysm.    As if we were in the late...

Girl Penguin Breaks up Chick Raising Male Penguin Couple

Two male penguins named Harry and Pepper have been together for six years, acting in all ways as a nesting couple. When a penguin male/female couple would not care for their egg Pepper and Harry were allowed to...

TEA Party Debate- Zero tolerance of Breach of the Public Trust

The topic of this debate revolves around tolerance and intolerance of moral, ethical, legal and political trespasses by elected officials. In this story, I may sometimes refer to these collectively as "ethos*...

Gay Teen, Sergio Garcia, Wins High School Prom Queen Title in LA

An openly gay high school senior won the title of prom queen at a Los Angeles high school. Sergio Garcia, the newly crowned senior, beat out eight girls for the title. " "Prom queen suited my personality the...

President Obama's first interview - Al-Arabiya TV

Hisham Melhem Al-Arabiya bureau chief in Washington DC office conducted this exclusive interview 26 January 2009 with president Barack Obama.It is his first interview since taking office as president.

Victims are further victimized in Nepal

Nepali police often ignore many incidents of injustice and oppression against the Dalit community stigmatized as ‘untouchables’. After King Mahendra legally banned the social practice of caste...

Cake Decoration Denied for Kid Named After Hitler

Yeesh. What a burden to place on your child. "The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little...

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