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Freedom is Free Will

The Washington Post has an article up showing that 49% of Americans have a generally unfavorable view of Islam. And nearly 67% of Americans oppose the construction of the Islamic Center near the reconstruction site of the World Trade Center because of its proximity to the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.







20 Months of Accomplishments Deserve Your Vote. | TTP Comment

Poll numbers indicate Americans are not happy. But, you cannot learn why voters are angry just by looking at a number. You must dig deeper.

 







What Will It Take to Move Us?

No one seems to have any capacity left for disaster. There's been so much of it this year.  Nonetheless, I hope you're paying attention.

Climate change is having an impact on the world. We may not be causing climate change, but, you cannot deny that something is happening. And with life itself at stake, maybe it is better to be safe than sorry.

Yet, many of us are listening to the climate change deniers.

Perhaps foolhardy, the deniers make it easier for us to continue down our path unencumbered by change. It is easier to do the familiar than it is to embrace something different. And so far nothing has come along to make us change course.

What will it take to move us? 







Every Day is Earth Day | TTP Blog

I remember with great fondness the 20th anniversary of the Earth Day Celebration in 1990. I was 12 years old, and I was in 7th grade. I remember purchasing the requisite “Save our Rainforests” t-shirt and buying socks made from recycled tires (I still own those by the way, they are really durable!). I remember watching Earth Day specials on television where celebrities taught me energy-efficient tips; like, that it was better not to turn lights off in a room if I were only leaving for a few minutes. My favorite magazines, “YM” and “Seventeen,” offered me earth-friendly beauty tips, like natural scrubs I could make at home. I read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” a book thought to be the catalyst for the larger environmental movement in the U.S.







Ray DeForest: Out! Out! Out!

Whew, what a time we are having. All over the press I’m reading about Sean Hayes and Ricky Martin! WOW! They are gay. Can you believe it? Well, welcome boys to a world full of love and support….oh wait…that’s not what I’m reading…







The Human Status Quo Campaign

I gave up on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) some time ago.  Thankfully, every time I consider donating to them again, they give me a fat, juicy reminder as to why they don’t deserve my money.  







Ray DeForest: WOW!

 Are you part of the “Real Houseboys of Silvermoon City”, “Willy Wankers and the Chocolate Cake Factory”, or maybe you were part of the “Gordok Ogre Float”? If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, then you aren’t a part of one the most massive groups in the world… the MMORPG WoW group. Ok, ok… it’s World of Warcraft, and it’s a “massively multiplayer online role playing game”. That’s a mouthful isn’t it?







Ray DeForest: Swim Trunks and Badges

Mom and dad were part of a group of friends that formed a wondrous playground known as Hillside Swimming Club! It was a fantastic place to grow up and spend summers. It was surrounded, at the time, by acres of woods that we would explore all day.







God Is My Shepherd, I Shall Hate In His Name

Yesterday, a close acquaintance of mine said to me, "I read that thing you wrote about the gays going to the prom, and I think you're wrong. If my son went to that high school, I wouldn't want him around that kind of thing." And so the conversation began...







Gays Stay Home! Prom Is For The Straight Kids?

Students at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi will have no prom this year. The school district has decided to cancel the entire promciting that the media coverage surrounding their denial of one students request to wear a tuxedo and attend the prom with her lesbian girlfriend has become a distraction to the educational process in their district.







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