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12 years ago @ The New Civil Rights M... - Gay? Straight? Sexual ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Great post on the science! I had a post about this poll up at the new ThinkProgress LGBT this week looking at the problem of how the question was asked and how the poll itself miseducates.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/01/233561/n...

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheist Activists: Sta... · 1 reply · -1 points

No, I wrote what I meant. The gay rights movement faces the same challenges and circumstances as it did 40 years ago. We still are fighting for the same rights, we are still pandering to the same Democrats who say "Wait," and we are still fighting basic miseducation on our very identities. I'm not particularly proud of the "progress" of the gay rights movement.

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheist Activists: Sta... · 3 replies · -1 points

As an outspoken gaytheist, I often feel like the gay rights movement is now where the gay rights movement was in the early 1970s.

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Christians are Praying... · 1 reply · +2 points

I wrote an extensive post on this topic last year... http://zackfordblogs.com/2009/09/i-dont-want-you-...

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Atheism as Religion · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm pretty sure that "atheism" has already been identified in this way by the Supreme Court, in that being an atheist is protected by "freedom of religion." You could say that it's the freedom of (no) religion.

I totally agree with what you've written here vjack!

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Christian Bigotry in M... · 0 replies · -1 points

The problem you'll find is that the way the tax law is written, the tax-exempt status is only violated when churches promote candidates. Issues and ballot initiative get a free pass. I agree that these groups should not get tax-exempt status, but unfortunately these actions don't actually constitute a violation. The problem is the law.

14 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - Understanding Atheism ... · 1 reply · -1 points

I actually disagree with these definitions, but I agree that the language is confusing.

I offer that if you identify as an atheist, you live your life as if there is no God. That doesn't mean you claim to know there is no God; I would offer that people who do that are as misguided as believers. That is why I created a separate term for them: contratheists.

Agnosticism means indifference. It means allowing there to be just as good a chance that there is a God as the chance that there is not. I do not think that ambivalence describes most who identify as atheist.

I invite you to read my perspective on these identities, which includes a visual aide, on my original post: http://zackfordblogs.com/2009/06/12/reconceptuali...

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