Saturday, December 24, 2005

Kansas board of education subordinates evolution and science

It seems the church-going folks in Kansas want to go back to the dark ages before Darwin and evolution. I guess there's another state that I'm afraid to visit, if only because the buildings and bridges might not hold up for long. Maybe I can allow myself to fly over it in an airplane if I'm going cross country.

-- updated 12/24/05

I had this brilliant idea that people who don't believe in evolution are the same people who only take parts of the bible they agree with. Like they take the part about homosexuality being a sin seriously, but don't take working on Sunday (and stoning to death all those who do work on Sunday) as seriously. In other words, they are career hypocrites -- hypocrites to the point of not knowing they are being illogical. I understand better people who take everything in the Bible as rote truth or falseness, but to take one part and not other parts seems random, Bible-A-La-Carte. You either believe it entirely or not. [Actually, this idea is covered well in the book titled: "Crimes Against Logic".]

Most people in the US today live in a modern society which science has built. And science as a method and field of knowledge tends to stick together. Rules proven in one field affect others. The science which proves evolution is how man came into being is the same science that makes cars and computers run. It's nonsensical to take one part of science and disbelieve the other.

Monday, December 12, 2005

Is 6% the right number?

The British say 6% of the population is gay or lesbian. This is about what I've heard recently. Kinsey said 10%... See a related posting on my other blog.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Make your purchases count politically?

The gays are doing similar things to the religious conservatives in coming up with a list of companies which they feel are supportive of their cause. The Human Rights Campaign has come up with a list of companies and their scores on their support list. At some point in your holiday purchase decisions you might consider reading up on companies which are helping the cause of equality and avoid those that are unsupportive: http://www.hrc.org/buyersguide/buyersguide.htm.
Don't want to read the whole thing? Here's the companies to avoid at all costs: Circuit City, Rite Aid, Heinz, Nestle, Rubbermaid, Bayer, Maytag, Nissan, Emerson, Autozone, Exxon, AIG, Franklin Templeton.

Oh, I was wrong about Haagen Daz: it's owned by Pillsbury and General Mills and gets the highest (100) rating.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Traditional marriage was destroyed by the heteros, what more can the gays do?

What the article seems to point out is that it's women who have greatly changed the institution to one of greater equality, because they were no longer dependent on the men/had their own careers, and as a by-product changed marriage to an institution with less assumed stability.

-- update 12/25/05

Let's do a thought experiment. I would like to start a religion where heterosexual behavior is morally wrong (aside from being disgusting). In addition, it is the tradition of this religion that marriage between those of the same sex was always permitted but those of opposite sex were not. I would then proceed to take over a political party, say the democratic party. I would then become president and the party would take over congress and start passing laws preventing recognition of marriages between opposite sex couples. I think I would make the validity of these laws based on the common understanding that marriage is only between those of the same sex and of course it's only morally correct for that to be the case.

Okay, so many folks would argue this is a ridiculous example, nobody would join such a religion. But then they would probably add, but also it's unfair. It's discriminatory. It's one religion forcing their views on others.

-- update 1/8/05

Sarcasm: top 10 reasons not to have gay marriage.