Religious Left

Tom, from GayTalkRadio.org recently spoke with the author of GayUganda.BlogSpot.com on GayTalk Live , and will broadcast it this coming Saturday at Noon PT. GayTalk Live is a new segment for the new year. GayTalk Live will air on Saturdays at 3 PM ET, Noon PT (-8 GMT). GayTalk Live hopes to be an interactive event. We will have, as always, a live chat. However, GayTalk Live will also accept your phone calls. Our first show will air a exclusive impromtu interview with the author of GayUganda.BlogSpot.com . He has tirelessly been a fountain of information regarding the kill-the-gays legislation in Uganda, at his own risk. For various reasons the impromtu interview is pre-recored. Therefore, to my knowledge, the author of GayUganda will not be avilable on the show. GayTalk Live will be available by podcast after the broadcast. Subscribe to GayTalkRadio on iTunes . If you don't use iTunes you will be able to access all past episodes on the GayTalk Live showpage . www.G...

I wonder if the 20th Century will be remembered as the century of genocide. The power of ideology to move one group to think that they can somehow cleanse the population of some kind of perceived impurity motivated the Turks to kill Armenians, the Nazis to kill millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, disabled and GLBTQ folks, and the Khmer Rouge to kill millions in Cambodia. All believed they were doing their society a favor by eliminating undesirable people, thinking they could somehow construct a better society. They practiced killing with an ideological purpose whereas in the past, the killing was more indiscriminate and practical. Submit to my power or I’ll wipe you out said Genghis Khan. Send me tribute. I don’t care what you think but I do care about the wealth you’ll be generating for me. The more contemporary version isn’t economically driven but motivated by a (flawed) vision of a good society. I was reminded of this by watching the obituary of Dith Pran on the New York Time...