Archive for the ‘Homosexuality’ Category
 February 10th, 2012  Daniel Fincke
Towleroad has more on the video. Your Thoughts?
 February 9th, 2012  Daniel Fincke
Speaking of heterosexuals standing up for gay marriage… Walla Walla’s state representative, the widowed Maureen Walsh, articulates the most fundamental truth that opponents of gay marriage refuse to let themselves see. It’s not about the sex. It’s about the love. Though to be clear, the sex deserves full equal protection of the laws too. Make [...]
 February 9th, 2012  Daniel Fincke
Friend of Camels With Hammers George Waye has passed on to me information about a photo campaign by Heterosexuals for Same Sex Equality. Preferably by Valentine’s Day they’d like to get a bunch of heterosexual couples to pose with signs that read “Gay Marriage Doesn’t Threaten Our Marriage”. Here are the founders of the group, [...]
 Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage  Tags: "Gay Marriage Doesn't Threaten Our Marriage", Derek Forgie, George Waye, Heterosexuals for Same Sex Equality 12 Comments »
 February 8th, 2012  Daniel Fincke
This organization doesn’t think I should be the spokesperson because I’m gay. For those of you who are just tuning in for the first time, it’s true. I’m gay. I hope you were sitting down. I hate to break it to you this way. I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show [...]
 Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, TV, TV  Tags: Ellen Degeneres, Ellen DeGeneres's Reply To One Million Moms, JC Penny, One Million Moms 10 Comments »
 January 14th, 2012  Daniel Fincke
Last year President Obama announced his administration would not defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The consequences were disastrous: WASHINGTON—Reports continue to pour in from around the nation today of helpless Americans being forcibly taken from their marital unions after President Obama dropped the Defense of Marriage Act earlier this week, leaving the [...]
 Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Parody, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Satire, Satire 14 Comments »
 November 19th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
On Sunday, I wrote a dialogue debating the pros and cons of specifically exempting statements of “sincere religious or moral convictions” from being taken as bullying in an anti-bullying law for schools. I’m only seeing now that on Monday there was big news about the proposed exception that sparked this debate: Gay and Muslim groups [...]
 November 13th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Jaime: Did you see the Republicans just endorsed the right to bully in schools as long as it’s done in the name of religion. Kelly: They did not. Jaime: Yes. They did. They perversely added to anti-bullying bill the right to bully as long as such bullying was based on “sincerely held religious or moral convictions.” [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Free Speech, Free Speech, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Of Religion, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats  Tags: John Rawls, Libertarianism, Tolerance 33 Comments »
 October 13th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
I intend to lay out the case for the ethical goodness of homosexuality for homosexual people in a way that is consistent with my funadmentally naturalistic ethical theory. Many philosophers, natural scientists, social scientists, and laypeople alike are averse about trying to base ethical judgments on appeals to nature. And there are a number of [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Evolution, Evolution, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Teleology, Teleology  Tags: Ethical Naturalism, Naturalistic Fallacy, Objections to Ethical Naturalism 8 Comments »
 October 8th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
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 Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire, Videos  Tags: Being Gay Is Not A Choice, Colbert Report, Herman Cain, The View 11 Comments »
 September 28th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Gay blogger Jim Burroway believes that Lady Gaga’s advocacy for the LGBT community is genuine and passionate but worries about a backfire effect of her decision to prominently dedicate a song to one of her young fans who took his life recently: as I watch this video of her performing “Hair” and dedicating it to Jamey Rodemeyer at [...]
 Posted in Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, News Discussion, News Discussion, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Psychology  Tags: Bullying, It Gets Better, Jamey Rodemeyer, Lady Gaga, Suicide Prevention, Teen Suicides 10 Comments »
 September 23rd, 2011  Daniel Fincke
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A&feature=player_embedded Commenting on this enormously popular, moving video of an Alabama soldier coming out to his father on the day that the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” finally went into effect, Andrew Sullivan analyzed, reminisced, and celebrated: This is gay America, ladies and gentlemen: the ordinariness, the humanity, the pain, the promise. And the [...]
 Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics  Tags: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Gays In The Military 2 Comments »
 September 15th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Progressives, regardless of whether they are liberal Christians or non-believers, like to accuse fundamentalist Christians of ignoring Jesus’s supposed message of love and tolerance which is supposedly epitomized by his remarks in the Sermon on the Mount. Actually reading the Bible, Jesus does not actually always live up to the billing progressives give him as [...]
 Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Feminism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, Jesus, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sex, Women's Issues  Tags: Sermon on the Mount 12 Comments »
 September 15th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Robbie George, the conservative Princeton Professor who opposes same-sex marriage, writes of an under-reported influence in Weiner’s Queens district (NY-9): In the run up to the election, a group of Orthodox rabbis, most from Brooklyn, but including others, notably Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky and Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, two nationally prominent Orthodox Jewish authorities, published a [...]
 Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Judaism, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 1 Comment »
 September 14th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
The AP reports: Barbara Von Aspern loves her daughter, “thinks the world” of the person her daughter intends to marry and believes the pair should have the same legal rights as anyone else. It pains her, but Von Aspern is going to skip their wedding. Her daughter, Von Aspern explains, is marrying another woman. “We [...]
 Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage 8 Comments »
 September 1st, 2011  Daniel Fincke
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Faith, Faith, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Law, Law, LGBTQAA, Philosophy Of Religion, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Teleology, Teleology, Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocrats, Theocrats, Videos  Tags: Rick Santorum 5 Comments »
 July 6th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
In response to my earlier post praising a young Christian man who reached out with love to what he thought was a lesbian couple being berated by a cruel and judgmental waitress, Justin writes: Not to point out the obvious, but homosexuality is a sin, You have indeed not pointed out anything obvious. Homosexuality is [...]
 Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, Jesus, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion  Tags: Immoralism, Moral Reformation, Moral Reformers 2 Comments »
 March 14th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Grove City College, my alma mater from which I graduated with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Religion in 2000, is an Evangelical Christian college which ranks among America’s most religiously and politically conservative colleges. Princeton Review ranks Grove City among the “Best Northeastern Colleges” and among the 373 best colleges in the [...]
 Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Interviews, LGBTQAA, News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Personal, Religion, Religion, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates 6 Comments »
 February 27th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Johann Hari goes into detail about how bad it is: Here’s a few portents from the East End that we have chosen to ignore. In May 2008, a 15 year old Muslim girl tells her teacher she thinks she might be gay, and the Muslim teacher in a state-funded comprehensive tells her “there are no [...]
 February 26th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Rather than subjecting our gay friends to the cruelties of “aversion therapy” for the sake of appeasing homophobes, perhaps instead we should just cure the homophobes of their irrational fear of gays using “immersion therapy”. Your Thoughts?
 Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Parody, Satire 1 Comment »
 February 23rd, 2011  Daniel Fincke
I always tell my students as they start studying philosophy that it is crucial that they not associate their ideas too closely with themselves. They need to get used to not taking criticism of their ideas personally. I warn them that if they cannot disassociate from their ideas when they fail, they will never be [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, LGBTQAA, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Religion, Religion, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q)  Tags: Evangelicalism, Identity-Politics, Tolerance 9 Comments »
 February 20th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Can you say “religiously motivated child abuse”? via Feminist Philosophers. Your Thoughts?
 Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism  Tags: Child Abuse, Ex-Gay Ministries, Ex-Gay Movement, Gay Kids 4 Comments »
 February 15th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Atheists do not exactly claim to “love sinners but hate sins” (if for no other reason than that most, if not all, of us reject the category of “sin” as a meaningful or valuable way to talk about ethical failure). Also, atheists may be more realistic than to think that we really do, or feasibly [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Virtues, Virtues 11 Comments »
 February 14th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Many a homophobic religious person has infamously claimed that when it comes to gays he “loves the sinner but hates the sin” and many a defender of the full dignity and ethical lives of gay people has judged such a compromised offer of love inadequate (if not insincere). This cannot be because it is impossible [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Sex  Tags: Hate The Sin But Love The Sinner, Love The Sinner But Hate The Sin 13 Comments »
 February 2nd, 2011  Daniel Fincke
 Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage 1 Comment »
 January 29th, 2011  Daniel Fincke
Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it. The AP photo of the newspaper [...]
 Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q)  Tags: Death Penalty, Hate Speech 1 Comment »
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