Religious Left

You know the “shell game”. The one where the street hustler has three shells and a little pea marble. You’re supposed to figure out which shell the marble is under. We hear so much these days about The House of Representatives and the Senate (on both federal and state level) using committee groups. Adding another layer of scrutiny and time involved to passing legislation (doing their job)! So it now takes longer (meaning it cost US more) for them to deal with a piece of legislation. The committees are made up of House and Senate members. Are we to believe while these members are in their committees we have “business as usual” in the House and Senate? If so, does this mean the committee members don’t vote on issues which are discussed while they are in committee? Or does it mean they vote without full knowledge of the issues (since they missed discussions of the topic while serving in their committees)? Perhaps if our government representatives worked a full 40-hour work, we...

Sometimes I think most of the gay-bashing, right-wing politicians in the US are self-loathing, closeted homosexuals. Craig's vilification by his fellow Republicans contrasts sharply with their treatment of his fellow Repulican Senator David Vitter of Lousiana, who admitted to paying (female) prostitutes for sex. Vitter can continue his political career after he asked for forgiveness and pledged to "give his life to Jesus." "Why do you think Americans care so much about an “issue” that ignites so little controversy in Europe? Why are we alone in the developed world in our intense distress about the fact that a minority of people are erotically attracted to members of their own their own sex rather than to the opposite sex? " "Is the power of fundamentalist religion, again unique in the developed world, the only explanation for the American fixation on gays as a threat to traditional values? Perhaps this also has something to do with traditional images of A...