Category Archives: Family

FoxNews: Woman describes her abortion on Twitter, is astonished by backlash

By thecodepounder | Published March 1, 2010

As am I*.
There’s just no shortage in our country of people who want to tell everyone else how to live their lives, is there?

nkb

* I’ve been following her on Twitter (antitheistangie) for a year or more…

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Wilson County, Tennessee schools agree to end Bible distribution

By thecodepounder | Published January 10, 2010

Another victory for religious freedom.
So here’s the setup: one day, in Wilson County, Tennessee, the principal of Carroll-Oakland Elementary School brings all the students from the whole school into the gym, where she introduces representatives of the Gideons and explains why they are there, and then proceeds to tell the whole student body about the [...]

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Family Guy pisses off the Parents Television Council

By thecodepounder | Published December 16, 2009

So it must be one hell of a fucking-A good show. I hate to make blanket statements–I’m willing to bet that there’s something the PTC and I both agree shouldn’t be on TV–but as a general rule,  anything that pisses off the PTC is okey-dokey with me.
These people first came to my attention following the [...]

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Straight spouses and same-sex marriage

By thecodepounder | Published September 14, 2009

Here’s a rather unique perspective on the issue: Straight spouses advocate same-sex marriage:
Wah Cheong, a lifelong Republican and the soon-to-be divorced father of two teenage boys, sometimes surprises his co-workers and neighbors in a relatively conservative community outside San Francisco when he says he supports same-sex marriage.
“Here is my situation,” the 47-year-old chemical engineer tells [...]

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Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’

By thecodepounder | Published June 19, 2009

This story is all over the place this morning, but is too touching to ignore.  Annie Burris writing in The Orange County Register:
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, [...]

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Why is education always the first thing threatened by budget cuts?

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

If this isn’t a great national crisis, I don’t know what is.  It’s sadly indicative of what our culture truly values when you see stories from across the nation indicating that education is still one of the first things lawmakers want to cut when money gets tight at the state level.
Here in Tennessee, budget shortfalls [...]

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Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners rejecting new gun-carry law

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners are rejecting the state’s new “booze it and shoot it” law in droves by establishing policies for their business(es) that prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises.  Many are concerned with the obvious (well, obvious to everyone but the NRA’s lobbyists and the lawmakers who take their money, er [...]

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Tennessee House votes to override guns-in-bars veto

By thecodepounder | Published June 4, 2009

The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of the so-called “guns in bars” bill.  The Senate is expected to vote on the override this morning.
As I’ve said before, I’m a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment (indeed, the whole of the U.S. Constitution, for that matter), but at some [...]

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Bush-Gore lawyers work together to overturn California’s Prop 8

By thecodepounder | Published May 27, 2009

CBS News:
Opposing attorneys in the 2000 election fight for Florida – David Boies, who represented Al Gore, and Ted Olson, George Bush’s lawyer and later the U.S. Solicitor General – are teaming up to ask a federal court to throw out California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The two filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of two [...]

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California’s Prop 8 stands; look for Equal Protection challenge

By thecodepounder | Published May 26, 2009

Opponents of California’s biggoted Proposition 8, which bans equality for same-sex couples in the state, have lost an important battle, but may yet win the war.

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Tennessean: Veto the gun bill, Governor

By thecodepounder | Published May 15, 2009

The Tennessean:
The bill proponents will tell you, Governor, that more guns make bars and restaurants safer, but they have no data to back up these claims.
The data is solid when it comes to police reports, which can tell you what happens when people enter drinking establishments with a gun.
Governor, Tennesseans are outraged that this bill [...]

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Maine joins ranks of States recognizing equality in marriage

By thecodepounder | Published May 13, 2009

I’ve been out of town and/or out of the loop for the better part of the last two weeks, so it’s no surprise that I missed this: Maine has become the 5th state to allow same sex marriage.
Governor John Baldacci:
“In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions,” Baldacci said [...]

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