Month: November 2006
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Letter to the Editor: North Carolina’s Practice of Electing Judges is Flawed
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I was shocked to find a billboard outside the River Road Middle School voting station endorsing “Republican” judges. It is unsettling to think not only of all the right-wingers who took those…
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Letter to the Editor: Homosexuality in Nature
Bishop Little Joe Powell Jr. said during an NAACP forum, “God made Adam and Eve. He didn’t make Adam and Steve.” This literal interpretation of Genesis may or may not be true, but God certainly did make Roy and Silo, two male penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo who have been in a monogamous…
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Letter to the Editor: The ACLU is an Equal-Opportunity Defender
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: In just the last four years, the ACLU has filed over 20 lawsuits defending the rights of Christians to express themselves publicly. This includes the rights of students to wear T-shirts baring…