In a truly astounding display of cowardice and pandering to conservative whining, the Brattleboro selectmen narrowly approved an “emergency ordinance” banning public nudity on city streets today. Vermont, and Brattleboro in particular have a long history of tolerating nudity in public. The state, along with many of its towns have absolutely no law requiring that [...]
A Guttmacher Institute study released Tuesday, December 19, 2006 shows that, More than nine out of 10 Americans have had premarital sex. These high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past and lending credit to Casey’s contention that generations of the past were [...]
Christian radical Pat Robertson provoked outrage last week when he called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The Bush administration, who seems to have close ties with Robertson has since been trying to distance itself from the TV evangelist by playing down the statement but has thus far, failed to renounce it publicly.
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I got this e-mail from Jim Dean at Democracy For America this morning, and while I usually hate to just republish content, I think this one is worth putting out there for more to see.
Not only has Robertson called for the assassination of the president of Venezuela, he has repeatedly prayed for vacancies in [...]
