Not much daylight between that witch hunt in Malaysia and this one in the United States.
Anti-Gay Christianity Sure Looks Like Anti-Gay Islam |
| By: Laurel Ramseyer Sunday October 7, 2012 7:40 am |
FDL Movie Night: “Holy Rollers: The True Story of Christian Card Counters” |
| By: Lisa Derrick Monday March 26, 2012 5:00 pm |
Wow! Holy Rollers: The True Story of Christian Card Counters is a mindblowing documentary following a group of young Christians as they form a blackjack team and take casinos for over $3.2 million by using their math skills. Heads up: While strongly discouraged by casinos, card counting is not technically illegal.
Phony Christian “Values Voters” Event Turns Into Free Range Gay Bashing and Hypocrisy |
| By: Alvin McEwen Monday October 10, 2011 7:20 am |
Thanks to last weekend’s “Values Voters” Summit, I am learning that I am not an ordinary gay American. Apparently I am Darth Vader: evil, out to destroy the Republic, and a threat to public health.
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Gary Younge, Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? |
| By: Kathleen Barry Saturday September 3, 2011 1:59 pm |
The title, Who Are We, signals a questioning about identity and begins an exploration of its “vexed terrain.” Gary Younge, columnist for the Guardian and The Nation and the author of two previous books, lifts our understanding of identity from the taken-for-granted where it is too often treated as a fixed and done thing. Instead, Younge brings us into layers of our identities from micro to macro, from the personal to the political, revealing paradoxes both in how we know ourselves and how others (too often wrongly) ascribe identity to us.
The Meanest Town in America: Fake Prom Staged for Lesbian Student? |
| By: Lisa Derrick Tuesday April 6, 2010 5:20 pm |
Faced with having to allow a lesbian couple to attend their high school prom, a town conspires to hold two proms–one for gay and physically handicapped student, and one for everybody else.


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