Jack Diehl
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Indonesia to ban mini-skirts over “links to rape”
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Cliquea aquí para Español. News of Note: ‘You know what men are like’: Indonesia to ban mini-skirts over links to rape Indonesia’s powerful religious affairs minister believes that mini-skirts are pornographic and should be banned under the country’s tough new anti-porn laws. Minister Suryadharma Ali has been appointed to run Indonesia’s new anti-porn taskforce, announced…
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(También en Español) News of Note: The new legal theory that enables homophobic evangelising in US schools Last month, 8,000 public high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, went home with fliers informing them that no one is “born gay” and offering therapy if they experienced “unwanted same-sex attraction”. The group behind the flier, Parents…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Rock Group “Junkyard Prophet” Delivers Controversial Message at School Assembly High school students in Dunkerton, Iowa, were expecting an assembly about bullying and making good choices. What they got instead was the Christian rap/hard rock band called Junkyard Prophet delivering an anti-gay and anti-abortion rant. According to the La…
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PayPal backtracks on “obscene” e-book policy
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(También en Español) News of Note: PayPal backtracks on “obscene” e-book policy (Reuters) – PayPal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., is backtracking on its policy against processing sales of e-books containing themes of rape, bestiality or incest after protests from authors and anti-censorship activist groups. PayPal’s new policy will focus only on…
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Utah legislature passes bill requiring ‘abstinence-only’ sex education — or none at all
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(También en Español) News of Note: Utah legislature passes bill requiring ‘abstinence-only’ sex education — or none at all Utah legislature has passed a sex education bill that allows schools to decide whether they will teach students about human sexuality and in the event that they do, requires that it use “abstinence-only instruction materials.” The…
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Use Birth Control? You’re Fired!
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(También en Español) News of note: Use Birth Control? You’re Fired! You may want to sit down for this one. Arizona legislators know that whether or not her insurance covers it, a woman may get the prescription she needs to prevent an unintended pregnancy. They want to give her boss the right to control that…
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Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War
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(También en Español) News of Note: Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War “The lobbyist who helped kill California’s Proposition 19, the 2010 ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, has constructed an entire business model around keeping pot illegal. While fighting against the proposed law, lobbyist John Lovell accepted nearly $400,000 from…
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US Congress Expands New Anti-Protest Law
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(También en Español) News of Note: US Congress expands authoritarian anti-protest law A bill passed Monday in the US House of Representatives and Thursday in the Senate would expand existing anti-protest laws that make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by a lengthy prison term—to “enter or remain in” an area designated as “restricted.”…
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Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages
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(También en Español) News of Note: Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July. Rick Santorum says he’ll try to unmarry all of them if he’s elected…