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Anti-LGBT hate group AFA has been (rather unsuccessfully) urging boycotts of many fine American institutions recently, most notably Home Dep...

1. Amendment 1 is poorly written Many who are voting for Amendment 1 do not understand this poorly written amendment's implications be...

Here is the Amendment One referendum as it will appear on your ballot when you vote on May 8 (you are registered to vote on May 8 , right?)...

You will often hear, during arguments for or against same-sex marriage, that "it's not about religion." I have personally be...

The home improvement culture wars are hell. On one side, we have Home Depot, who appear to want to be on the right side of history. They ...

The Coalition to Protect All North Carolina Families held a news conference Wednesday in Raleigh to unveil its campaign aimed at defeating...

The below guest post was written by Matt Shipman, a science writer and father of three who lives in Raleigh. You can follow Matt on Twitter ...

Via Campaign For Southern Equality : Since the WE DO Campaign launched on October 3, eighteen same-sex couples have requested – and been...

A reader replied to the post  Why A Heterosexual, Married, North Carolinian Father Of Three Cares About LGBT Equality with a comment that ...

Someone created this from some of the text in last week's LGBT equality post and put it on their Tumblr site , and it has since been ma...

A reader brought The Self Evident Project to my attention. It's pretty amazing, and exactly the kind of thing that people need to see ...

When I started writing this blog, it was simply a place to collect my thoughts on the things which interest me (religion, science, politics,...

I am a heterosexual, married, father of three, who has lived in North Carolina for most of my life. There have been a few ugly North Carolin...

The progressive religious culture site (and magazine) RELEVANT has posted an article (' My Friend, The Atheist ') by C.R. Wiley, a C...

The Princeton Review surveyed over 122,000 students for their yearly college rankings. The data is sliced and diced in many ways. Of partic...