religious bigotry

L.A.'s Persian Jewish Community Is More Than Just The Shahs Of Sunset-- For Better And For Worse

The biggest community of Iranian Jews in the world isn't in Tehran or Isfahan, not in Paris, London, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv or Great Neck... It's in L.A., where nearly 50,000 "Persian" Jews live. (L.A., meaning Beverly Hills... and spill over.) After the Iranian Revolution, thousands of pro-Shah Jews-- many of them rich-- fled to the U.S., one of the wealthiest waves of immigrants to ever come to America. BRAVO!

There was something radical enough in the pope's remarks about Teh Gays to scare the crap out of the Church's righteous homo-haters

"This is the worst coverage of a religious story I have seen to date."-- Father Jonathan Morris, in "What Pope Francis reallysaid about gays -- and no, it's not new," on foxnews.com"I wasn't great at judging homosexuals my first year in the job, either.

The Republican Fear Of All Things Womanish

by NoahNo, this isn’t about The Republican Party’s continuing war on women, as recently exemplified in the neo-fascist states of Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina. It’s just something that recent events made me think about on this 4th of July weekend. It’s not about abortion rights per se and it’s not about the hate-filled Herculean pro-death, Republican efforts to stop uterine and breast cancer screening with sneaky late night anti-democratic state legislature maneuvers.

In Louisiana they know conscience when they see it, and LA's John Fleming thinks it's a great weapon for fighting sanity in our military planning

Right-wing pols who have no conscience in real life like to play-act having one when they pretend to be legislators.by KenWhat do you do when you look in the mirror and see staring back at you a toxic pool of sludge beyond any possibility of human worth? One solution is to become a jackbooted Christian warrior for ignorance and savagery.Take Rep. John Fleming (R-LA).