Category Archives: Human Rights

Educate Yourself to Protect Your Body: Personal Care Products May Contain Toxins

Non-Toxic Personal Products that you can Eat

Hope They’re Wearing Flame-Proof Vestments

For the clergy to issue a statement, even a late and mild one, shows moral courage. They’ll face criticism, but that’s their job, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Preserving Marriage

Where in our great nation can couples respect their sacred vows? Omigod! It’s the blue state with all those Unitarians, and gays, and gay Unitarians!

A Lot of that Going on in Church

Banning same-sex marriage is a popular cause on the right, but it does nothing to protect anyone’s marriage. More marriages could be saved by honesty and unselfish love, and getting married for the right reasons in the first place.

It’s the Gay’s Fault

One of the biggest financial backers of California’s Proposition 8 initiative banning same-sex marriage is divorcing his wife of 43 years. It must have been all those gay beams coming at him.

Defending Donuts

Apparently the execs in Canada told the owner that his job is to sell a lot of donuts, and offending potential customers is not in the business plan.

Health Care is a Right

We are already paying for duct tape when we need a comprehensive repair. It will cost more up front but it’s necessary.

Live Free or Die

The bill includes protections for religious groups, so that they don’t have to recognize same-sex, or previously divorced, or unbelievers or annulled marriages. That’s a relief.

Phelps Teaches Tolerance

Edgy performance artist, Fred Phelps came to Rhode Island with his traveling troupe to put on the show they have been doing nationwide. The response was gratifying. Phelps’ dramatization of the ugliness of hatred and the destructive and irrational face of religious bigotry taken to its logical extreme spurred Rhode Islanders to unanimously reject prejudice and violence.

Professor Donna Hughes on ‘Happy Endings’

Donna Hughes, an expert on human trafficking and one of the speakers at the community forum that started the Rhode Island Coalition Against Human Trafficking attended a screening of ‘Happy Endings’ at AS220 this Sunday, May 24. I have differences with Dr. Hughes, and left the Coalition because I didn’t want to be a source [...]

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