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Hard to believe, but… More self-identified gay voters chose the GOP in the midterm elections than in previously recorded totals, according to a CNN exit poll. Thirty-one percent of self-identified gay voters cast their ballots for Republicans on Tuesday, 4 percentage points more than in 2008, according to a similar CNN exit poll… “The gay …
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Jul
02
2009
Americans on the Edge: The Hawaiians and Identity Politics
This piece was originally written 5 June 2006, when legislation was being considered to make ethnic Hawaiians a “protected group.” The whole business of protected groups is very much still with us in American life and politics. Back in the early 1980′s, our family business had an ongoing business relationship with the People’s Republic of …
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Jun
09
2009
Creation, Evolution and Lysenko
This was actually my first blog article, posted 14 April 2005. After a hiatus, this past spring I found myself back teaching Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This is an activity I find professionally and personally satisfying, if not financially. During the hiatus, the campus had made some major technological changes. …
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Apr
22
2009
Barack Obama: Let the Show Trials Begin
This speaks for itself: (You’ll need to get about 4 1/2 minutes into the video to get to that particular question and response.) I’ve been predicting this kind of thing since before the election. I’ve also observed that, as President, Barack Obama is caught in the middle on this. As a liberal, putting these people …
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Mar
11
2009
Regulating How Churches Govern Themselves
The Connecticut legislature, for the moment at least, throws in the towel on trying to restructure Roman Catholicism: State legislators have tabled for the rest of the session a controversial bill that would have mandated changes in the corporate structure of parishes and institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church… The proposed bill raised by the …
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Oct
19
2006
Roman Catholicism and Mark Foley: Maybe It Is Better to Wait to Convert
One of our more viewed pieces is Think Before You Convert, an overview of the pros and cons of Anglicans who are thinking about “swimming the Tiber” and becoming Roman Catholics. It looks like we have yet another reason to think about it, because now we see that Rep. Mark Foley’s Maltese priest at Sacred …
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Oct
17
2006
Electing the Unelected
One of the enduring fixtures of American politics is that elections are largely decided by a relatively small group of “independent” voters in the centre. Or at least that’s where we think they are. One of the great principles that such voters will enunciate is that they “vote for the man (and when called upon …
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Oct
09
2006
Marriage in Massachusetts: We Knew It Would Be Like This
Somehow we’re getting a bad case of “deja vu all over again” in the proposal to restrict Episcopal churches to simply bless people rather than actually marry them. This, of coure, is the usual practice in Europe. We still think that the long-term objective of many gay rights activists–inside and outside of the Episcopal Church–is …
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