In 2008, one of the questions people in our state had to vote on was Amendment 48, which would have changed our Colorado state Constitution to define life as beginning “at the moment of conception”. Fortunately, it lost. Lost big, too – it was rejected by 73% of voters, more or less from the entire [...]
There are currently plans in place to build an Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan. there are some (deliberate, I think) misconceptions about the center. It’s not a mosque, although a mosque is a part of it. It’s not “at Ground Zero” – it’s 2 city blocks away. And it’s drawn considerable interest from people [...]
I don’t think I ever told this story before. It’s been a long time ago, but I wanted to tell it today for a good reason. I almost got married 23 years ago. To my then-girlfriend. We were going to get married in a local MCC; flowers. dress and everything. We knew it wouldn’t be [...]
I haven’t figured out a title for this one yet. I’m hoping that while I’m working on this one, it’ll come to me. By now, we’ve heard the verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the BART transit cop in Oakland, CA who shot and murdered Oscar Grant III, a black man he had arrested. [...]
The first amendment to the US Constitution says, in its entirety: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of [...]
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