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Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

…o investigate. There they find Van Gogh unappreciated in his time, and struggling with depression, but also able to see a dangerous alien creature that no one else—not even the Doctor—is able to. This obviously proves useful in eliminating the creature, but also seems to be intentionally symbolic of the artist’s stance: not only seeing the world differently, but as a result, seeing what others do not. As I watched the scene near the end of the epi…

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Tea Party “Constitutionalism” on Abortion

…d. The Scott campaign was not available for comment but they are not denying Van Zant’s claim, saying only that Scott has “not changed his pro-life position.” While Van Zant did not get an up or down vote on his bill, there was significant pro-life support in the legislature that did pass a requirement that pregnant women get ultrasounds before being allowed to have abortions. Governor Crist vetoed that bill.   The Tea-Party-supported view that th…

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Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…their congregations, the bishop of Parramatta, Vincent Long Van Nguyen, suggested that Catholics vote according to their conscience and Reverend Andrew Sempell of the St James Anglican Church warned that “slippery slope” arguments employed by the no campaign “betray the gospel of grace”. Reverend Sempell argued that same-sex marriage is “not principally a faith issue”, adding that religious groups do not have a universal position on it. “The Aust…

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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

…r 30 minutes (because of my mistake), I offer to buy him a cone from The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. He pays for his. I am not sure where the cone, or his boot, may end up as we talk. MMK is considered to be the father of the American Muslim Punk Movement. His originally self-published novel, The Taqwacores, was photocopied and spiral-bound. Sold out of car trunks, given away for free, or bought over the internet (like I did in 2003), it was a sensat…

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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

…ike “Hot for Teacher” and “Jump,” the album is punctuated with the driving guitar work of Eddie van Halen and the caterwaul vocals of David Lee Roth. Unabashedly anti-pretension, MCMLXXXIV is famed for its irreverent and cheeky album cover featuring an adorable putti with a pack of smokes.   Irreverent angel Equally storied, but very different from Van Halen, Seattle grunge rockers Nirvana likewise drew upon irreverent angelic imagery to signal a…

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Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

…by the MPs of the current parliament,” Bakchiev told the committee. His suggestion was unanimously approved by the committee… But the bill’s backers do not intent to let it die in committee: If MPs are getting second thoughts, self-styled nationalist-conservative groups are sticking to their guns. Last week, around 20 members of the Kyrgyz Choroloru and Kalys groups held a rally at what they term LGBT propaganda through the center of Bishkek. The…

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Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic      

…esearch Council hosted a panel of anti-trans speakers who illustrated the evangelical-right’s continued shift towards storytelling as a tactic against health and justice for transgender people. The panel began with Lynn Meagher, an activist associated with anti-trans Hands Across the Aisle and the parent of two trans children. Meagher described having a dream in which she held her children, fed them healthy food, and cared for them, only to wake u…

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Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

…Fallen religious leaders are major-league candidates for redemption. Ted Haggard appeared to be striving for it after his drug and sex scandals, but then he dropped out of a pastor-administrated program, apparently deciding he had been redeemed enough. Jim Bakker, who served time in prison for swindling thousands of his followers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, is these days hosting a little-watched religious television program. What abou…

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Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

…y’s] highest-level distributors have left to join other multilevel marketing groups, and I now have an internal management document detailing a five year 96% dropout rate. Thousands of Amway victims from countless nations have sent me heart-wrenching testimonials. Quite a few involve losses in excess of $10,000. Through his time selling Amway products, Scheibeler, who had developed a business that extended from North America to Europe, South Ameri…

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The Myth of the Maya Apocalypse

…learn, and unfortunately, so much has been lost over the centuries, starting with the Maya collapse, which was 600 years before the Spanish arrived. The Maya cut down their forests and overpopulated their land. Sound familiar? They messed up their environment. The collapse of the Maya was worse than the Black Death in Europe. Europe lost a third of its population. The Maya lost 90 percent. So what’s the real message of the Maya civilization? The M…

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