Stepping on Christian memes

– It’s a dirty job – but someone needs to do it.

The LDS Church and Civil Rights – in Utah and America

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. (John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908 – 2006) Following the disingenuous statements by LDS Church officials last week – ostensibly supporting anti discrimination measures for members of the LGBT community in housing and employment – the focus has been effectively diverted and short-stopped.…

How religious imposition 1st managed to insinuate itself

The LDS Church presents LGBT’s with whole pack of Trojans

Having seen the writing on the wall – and especially having come to accept the inevitable fact of the LGBT community attaining full citizenship under the law – The LDS Church officially launched “Plan B” today. And this, by paring up their call for laws protecting the LGBT community from overt discrimination, in housing,…

A strife of interests

Following President Obama’s ambitiously upbeat State of the Union address, I was reminded, all too soon, of this Ambrose Bierce quote.

Intellectual honesty – and freedom of conscience

In a return to the basics – Basic Intimidation and Coercion – the LDS Church has dropped the hammer on a couple of known troublemakers recently. Dissidents – bent on the task of enlightening their fellow believers – and possible bring about what they had hoped could be, positive changes. Of course, once ecclesiastical…

Epistemology of Woo, for 2015

The Woo is still thicker than fleas on the back-end of a hound, possums.

A Call to Alarms

As human beings, we are rather wondrous creatures – made ridiculously contemptible by an overarching and collective need to play on, control, manipulate, and regulate, the private lives and social spheres of influence, of those around us. This collective defect in character is nowhere more pronounced, and used to gaining sway, than in those…