Here in British Columbia it is the last day of the school year for children. For Grade Twelves, I’d like to wich you all a happy graduation and a successful future. For the rest of the students, have a safe, fun summer and keep up the good work.
The same-sex marriage debate, in graphical form
June 24, 2009 — Rob FFrom Patrick Farley via Gin & Comment comes this handy chart summarizing the arguments about same-sex marriage (click to enlarge):
See how silly the homophobes' arguments are?
I am also reminded of this funny list of ”Ten Reasons Gay Marriage Is Wrong“.
Another brilliant example of “family values”
June 23, 2009 — Rob FEric and Sandy Mongerson, a Georgia couple with four children and married for twenty one years, are involved in a divorce case. It has been revealed that Mr. Mongerson is gay, and the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that his children cannot be disallowed from visiting him. Unsurprisingly, this has made it to OneNewsNow:
“In this case the court, in order to somehow perpetuate and further the interest of political correctness, has taken what’s in the best interest of the child and turned it on its head,” [Matt Barber, head of Liberty [sic] Counsel] contends.
Barber says there appears to be no consideration for the fact that children are very impressionable and could be harmed from exposure to a homosexual environment.
Deliberately keeping children away from their own biological parents is a pretty weird form of “family values”. It’s almost as if they think that being around gay people make you gay, the same way they think being around red-haired people makes your hair change colour.
Hat tip to Dispatches from the Culture Wars.
She’s Supergirl!
June 18, 2009 — Rob FDon’t ask why, but when I first heard the studio version of this song, I thought it was P!nk that was singing it. But actually, it’s Suzie McNeil.
Incompetent design costs money
June 9, 2009 — Rob FWhat a way to ruin my week. Yesterday, I found out that me and my parents are going to be set back $2000 dollars so I can see a dental specialist and have an impacted wisdom tooth extracted. 
Come to think of it, this is yet another demonstration that intelligent design is false. Why would an intelligent designer give some people an unnecessary third set of molars that are often impacted, leading to decay or unnecessary pain? Evolution explains these as vestigal organs, “left over” from when our diets were different and we had bigger jaws.
Conservatives want DADT repealed, too
June 8, 2009 — Rob FNot like we neeeded another reason to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Via AMERICAblog comes news that a majority (58%) of conservatives, including weekly church attenders (60%) and Republicans (58%) support repealing DADT.
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