Seriously, what qualifies as a pro-gay space if the Jez, of all places, doesn’t? The feats of mental gymnastics you have to do to keep up with what’s sufficiently progressive and what isn’t must be positively kafkaesque!

As a conservative who voted for a marriage protection amendment, supports RFRA, and gave $5 to the Memories Pizza GoFundMe, I am genuinely astonished to learn that *Jezebel*, of all places, is homophobic. This is like watching Stalin accuse Trotsky of sabotage.

I’m surprised no one has bothered to provide evidence of violent threats yet, so here’s some: http://www.abc57.com/story/28696535…

Pro-life groups strongly favored the plaintiff, and Alito will pretty reliably rule the same way as pro-life groups; he thinks the same way they do.

I don't recall the passage in the Gospels where Jesus gave Mary Madgalene an abortion referral. I believe he said something along the lines of "Go and sin no more," actually. Of course, this is a moot point here, because we aren't dealing with "sluts," as you put it — these girls were by and large victims of rape,…

Alright, so if you have to choose between 40,000 unaccompanied children being cared for and not receiving abortion referrals, or 40,000 unaccompanied children NOT being cared for (and still not receiving abortion referrals), which do you choose?

They don't provide this one service. They provide a helluva lot of others. Specifically, these six groups combined provide food, shelter, medical care, foster placement, and other essential services to *the majority* of unaccompanied children who enter the U.S. illegally. If they are taken out of the equation,…

RFRA is written very broadly, and there <i>is</i> language in it that prohibits denial of government funding. Nevertheless, you are likely right: the government can probably get past RFRA here by asserting a compelling interest.

Okay, this reassures me. Thanks!

Perhaps this is just the IT support guy in me, but I would be really concerned about the likelihood that one of these would fail. Some desperate mom trying to do the right thing puts her newborn in, but there's some minor bug that prevents the 911 call from going off, and the kid dies.

I'm all for it. Should we exchange emails or something and try to figure out how to get the ball rolling at the legislature? (I'm not much good at Kinja — is there any kind of direct messaging support?) I'm certain the votes are there (on both sides) to make this pass, so our enemy is not ideology, but simply…

I'm Minnesotan, pro-life, and think this is a great idea. My state rep is Paymar, and my state senator is Cohen. Who are yours? If we contact a number of different legislators simultaneously, it might get some momentum going.

I don't understand why we aren't talking about Stewart's district. If I understand correctly, he lives in Red Bank, NJ. Red Bank voted 2:1 for Barack Obama both times. His state senator is a second-term liberal Republican (pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, anti-gun) who could (it would appear) be easily defeated by…

Good point. Under Wisconsin Law (948.02, for anyone who wants to check out their legislature's very nice statutes website), both the mashing and the filming are felonies — regardless of the age of the felons, or their mutual consent!

According to the contemporary LifeNews reports, Rep. Ryan was kicked out of Democrats For Life not for sponsoring birth control bills (which DFLA takes no position on), but for insisting that significant federal funding go to Planned Parenthood as part of those initiatives. Your basic pro-lifer sees funding for PP as…

Galactica was a Mormon parable.

The story is being somewhat mis-reported in the United States. She was jailed for murder, not miscarriage. She *claimed* it was only a miscarriage, but, at trial, her claim was rejected and it was concluded that the termination of pregnancy was deliberate. English-language outlets, by contrast, appear to be…

Catholic papist here. Here's the relevant bit of the Catechism:

Catholic papist here. Here's the relevant bit of the Catechism:

Why would Santorum care about urban and upper-income votes to begin with? There's not a chance in hell he could win the East Coast (or Jezebel readers) to begin with, so he'd be much better off targeting lower- and middle-income rust belters with a message of conservative-flavored economic populism. Those are the…