Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been widely mocked in the media. Carson has typically been characterized as an anti-intellectual…
Mormon Church: Policies Targeting Same-Sex Couples, Children Spark Mass Exodus We wrote in the last recap about the Mormon Church’s new policy declaring married same-sex couples apostates and banning…
Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that the pyramids were used to store grain. Carson is wrong. But to simply point out that he’s wrong is to miss…
A Russian nonprofit group, the St. Petersburg-based Coming Out, celebrated April 17 International Day of Silence by releasing a video “Break the silence,” which ends with “silence can break us / but…
More than 100 million people have viewed a video produced by the Chinese branch of PFLAG urging parents to welcome their LGBT children home for Lunar New Year celebrations. The website Erasing 76…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed around the world this week. While America’s globetrotting anti-gay religious activist Scott Lively may blame gays for the rise of the Nazis and the…
US President Barack Obama made history this week with what are reported to have been the first appearances of the words lesbian, bisexual, and transgender in a State of the Union address. He also…
It’s ironic that a number of (mostly right wing) commentators have been invoking the ideals of freedom of speech and expression while praising an authoritarian leader who has cracked down on these…
