FT reports that Google publicly opposes California Proposition 8.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html
I can’t wait to see the fundies all calling for a boycott and switching their gmail accounts.
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Associated Press reports that a vote on the new constitution has passed by a strong margin in the South American republic of Ecuador, despite opposition from the Roman Catholic church. While the constitution defines life as beginning from conception, it contains wording that opens up very wide chinks in Catholic traditionalism. The family is recognized [...]
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The Guardian website yesterday carried a blistering attack on Michael Reiss by Nobel prizewinner Harry Kroto, over Reiss’s recent advocacy of teaching creationism as a “cultural worldview” in British science lessons. Kroto is having none of it, and says the problem is that as a church minister Reiss was in the wrong job. “It really does not [...]
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The Guardian reports that Philip Pullman felt “glee” on hearing that his novel Northern Lights, marketed as The Golden Compass in North America, is near the top of the “most challenged” list issued by the American Library Association, behind three other books. Apparently 420 written complaints about the book’s content have been received by the [...]
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