Letterman V Palin

Our favorite Alaskan, Sarah Palin a.k.a Caribou Barbie, a.k.a. Caribou Killer, a.k.a. The Deer Slayer, is on the warpath over some jokes made on a recent episode of “Late Night with David Letterman”. Read more

Bye-Bye Mrs. Palin

Mrs. Palin, please pack your bags and take your prayin’ away the gay self back up to Alaska.  I do believe there are some wildlife that need to be shot.  Read more

A Question for Sarah Palin

You’d have to be living under the same rock as Osama Bin Ladin not to have heard the recent attacks by the McCain/Palin campaign calling Barack Obama’s economic and tax policies socialist. Read more

Ellen on Palin

Ellen DeGeneres had a message for Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her talk show Wednesday: “We should all be equal.” Read more

GOP Needs New Followers

I immediately realized that the McCain/Palin folks were having a little meeting….I sat down at the table next to the group just as they were starting their meeting. Read more

An Open Letter to McCain

Senator John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence. Read more

Conservative Buckley Backs Obama

“This campaign has changed John McCain,” Buckley wrote. “It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget ‘by the end of my first term.’ Who, really, believes that? Read more

Because We Said So

was watching the VP Debate the other night and I was very excited when Gwen Ifill brought up the subject of granting rights to same-sex couples. I was thrilled when Senator Biden gave this answer. Read more

Lovesick Billy on the Debate

I was a little surprised when the topic of gay marriage came up last night, as it’s gotten little limelight these past few weeks, given our better-discussed economic and foreign policy catastrophes, and what a relief.  Read more

Wasting Prayer on Hate

I’m not a deeply religious person, much less a theologian. But I wonder, like so many other lay persons who don’t have direct access to God the way that Dr. James Dobson and other evangelicals profess to have, does each human being on Earth receive an allocation on the number of prayers we can execute in a lifetime? Or is it an endless supply whereby some prayers can be wasted.

Praying for rain to sabotage a political event would fall into the waste category. So would “praying away the gay,” the theme of a Focus on the Family-sponsored conference promoted by the church that GOP vice-president contender Sarah Palin attends.

“You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality,” reads the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

Read the rest at stevecharing.blogspot.com.

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