Based on the description in the article, I very much doubt this was an intended effect of the measure. Indeed, I’m not even convinced that the bill *has* the effect the ACLU claims it does. It will be interesting to see what the Arkansas Attorney General’s office says in response.

“I stand with The Bible and Scriptures that make some things pretty clear... For me, the whole LGBT/etc. is an insult to your parents and family lineage... if you choose that life unto death... it ends there... forever with a fiery pit of hell waiting for you in eternity. Plus, men and women are designed to be…

I don’t think this is a very good way of understanding religious belief or “faith.” I know you didn’t originate this idea, and, indeed, an awful lot of people who profess religion deploy “faith” as an excuse to avoid justifying their beliefs... but when the Catholic Church calls “faith” a virtue, it isn’t saying that…

Thanks!

So... what was the story?

I have actually seen the Psychic Serpent on bad pirate sites labeled “Order of the Phoenix.” Can’t believe anyone would actually fall for it, but there you go.

Bad movies are exactly the ones you want to remake. Great movies are already great and probably aren’t going to be better; they’re just going to make you want to watch the original again. Bad movies can be improved in a remake, and then you can make piles of money *and* add something valuable to our culture!

So you also boycotted Bioshock, then?

“That’s how we can become just like the right we demonize.” 

Nice work! I once spent two weeks locked in a room with the NSFG parsing its statistics on contraceptive use, so I got familiar with some of these statistics just by proximity— and I know what a bear it can be to comb through them. (That codebook!)

Daggertooth, I am so sorry. I wrote a very long comment in reply to your thoughtful post, and was working on the last couple paragraphs... when my browser suddenly freaked out and reloaded the page. I lost the whole thing, and I don’t have the opportunity to rewrite it tonight or tomorrow night (tomorrow’s my…

“Put your money where your mouth is.”

“And seeing as how whether or not a fertilized egg counts as “a human life” is not something that can ever be objectively agreed upon, then you’re just going to have to be a mature adult and live your life based on your beliefs and let others live their lives based on their beliefs.”

Evidence, you say? I love evidence! Let’s talk evidence!

Just looking at your comments on this very thread, I think (see what I did there?) that you might want to take a look in a mirror at some point. There’s some powerful emotions at work in your posts in and around this one, but precious little analysis or critical thinking. And when somebody suggests an idea you’re not…

What gives you the idea this is based on religion? I was anti-abortion when I didn’t believe in God, too.

Hi! This is a very fair question—although I think it’s a simpler question than many people give it credit for.

I’m all for that! Men need to be far more responsible about their sexualities than they, at present, are.

Hey there. Anti-abortion advocate here. I consider anything that destroys a human life after fertilization an abortifacient. So, copper IUDs? Ban ‘em. (Other kinds of IUD haven’t demonstrated the same fatal effects on zygotes.) I hang out with lots and lots of people who think the same, some of them with some minor…

Do you really think we wouldn’t be in the same place, impeachment-wise, if Clinton were in office instead? I sure do.