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POPSOut in Hollywood: Starring Roles are Rare “The industry is persuaded that being known as gay will undermine your credibility both as romantic lead or an action star,” said Larry Gross, director of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and author of a book on media portrayals of gays and lesbians. “They don’t test it,” he said. “We’re waiting for the Jackie Robinson moment when someone tests that assumption and discovers it’s not true.”
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POPSThe Politics of Fear From the source: First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured. The other measure was the involuntary eye blink that people have in response to something startling, such as a sudden loud noise. The scientists measured the amplitude of blinks via electrodes that detected muscle contractions under people's eyes. Subjects who had expressed a high level of support for policies "protecting the social unit" showed a much larger change in skin conductance in response to alarming photos than those who didn't support such policies. Personal addendum: I disagree with the use of the word "dictate"; it should have been "indicate"
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POPSFlorida town needs ACLU to show them why their principal is a BIGOT! And despite this, they still don't think he did anything wrong. Nothing? Punishing his students for something he has no right to? For displaying a very profound bigoted attitude towards some group of people, all because his outdated religious BS says he should? This article is being discussed here; http://www.atheistthinktank.net/thinktank/index.php?topic=4949.0 Please join us.
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POPSA win against religious bigotry! We can no longer allow people to discriminate based on their imaginary friend's rules. We are discussing this article here; http://www.atheistthinktank.net/thinktank/index.php?topic=4926.0 Join us
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POPSBlack-White Differences in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Gay Rights This article uses responses from almost seven thousand blacks and forty-three thousand whites in 31 surveys conducted since 1973 to give more definitive answers on black-white attitudinal differences and their demographic roots. Despite their greater disapproval of homosexuality, blacks' opinions on sodomy laws, gay civil liberties, and employment discrimination are quite similar to whites' opinions, and African Americans are more likely to support laws prohibiting antigay discrimination. Once religious and educational differences are controlled, blacks remain more disapproving of homosexuality but are moderately more supportive of gay civil liberties and markedly more opposed to antigay employment discrimination than are whites. Yet religion, education, gender, and age all have weaker impacts on black than on white attitudes, suggesting that black and white attitudes have different roots.
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POPSMassachusetts Gov. Does The Right Thing Gov. Deval Patrick gave the GLBT Community a present on his birthday by signing the bill repealing the 95-year-old statue that prevent out of state couples from being wed in Massachusetts. This is not only a gift to the GLBT Community but to all couples in love. This is another giant step in GLBT Rights as well as Equal Rights for All People!!!
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POPSMcCain Doesn't Have a Prayer McCain is not an evangelical Christian. Is this the end of the alliance between the Christian right and neocons? Matt Taibbi at his best.
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POPSMan attacks Congregation over Liberal Views From the article: "Knoxville's police chief says the man accused of a shooting that killed two people at a Tennessee church targeted the congregation because of its liberal social stance." Do we blame the Limbaugh, O'Reillys and Coulters of the world for inciting violence like this?
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POPSMan Killed Is A Hero In The Shotgun Attack In Tennessee Church
Police had cordoned off the church with yellow and red tape, and were taking statements and collecting video cameras from church members who were taping the performance. Owen said the FBI also was assisting in the investigation. The church's minister was on vacation in western North Carolina at the time of the shooting but returned Sunday afternoon. "We've been touched by a horrible act of violence. We are in a process of healing and we ask everyone for your prayers," the Rev. Chris Buice said in a statement outside the church. The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church is a community that meets to worship and work together for social change, according to the church's Web site. Since the 1950's, the congregation has worked for desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women's rights and gay rights, according to the Web site. The congregation also has provided sanctuary for political refugees, fed the homeless and founded a chapter of the ACLU.
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POPSWill homosexual marriage save the Repubs? Since Obama is running to the right/center, and Democreeps are kissing King George's butt and trashing the Constitution, the Rethugs could actually win! Amazing, and sick, 'Murrikan politics at it's best (worst)
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POPSPresbyterians General Assembly Pushing gay agenda Guidelines for Leaders in the Church 1 This is a statement that can be trusted: If anyone sets his heart on being a bishop, he desires something excellent. 2 A bishop must have a good reputation. He must have only one wife, be sober, use good judgment, be respectable, be hospitable, and be able to teach. 3 He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but he must be gentle. He must not be quarrelsome or love money. 4 He must manage his own family well. His children should respectfully obey him. 5 (If a man doesn't know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?) 6 He must not be a new Christian, or he might become arrogant like the devil and be condemned. 7 People who are not Christians must speak well of him, or he might become the victim of disgraceful insults that the devil sets as traps for him. 1 Tim 3:1-7 (GW)
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