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Posts tagged as “homosexuality”

Governor Dayton Vetoes GOP Budget, Culture War Distractions

Thesis... antithesis... synthesis... Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton shows why South Dakota could benefit from a real two-party system. The Democrat used his veto pen to reject a bad budget and a more big-government intrusion in women's medical choices passed by…

South Dakota Gay Marriage Ban Not Protecting Sanctity of Matrimony

And now for some breakfast-time abuse of statistics: Nathan Johnson mentions that fewer South Dakotans are getting married while more are getting divorced. According to the South Department of Health 2009 Vital Statistics Report, in 2006, there were 6303 marriages…

Unsupportive Community Increases Suicide Risk for Gay Youth

My friend Mr. Kurtz regularly discusses "red-state failure." He'll find another brief for his red-state failure folder in Nathan Johnson's latest blog post. Reporter Johnson reads some science and learns that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are more likely to…

South Dakota Ranks 39th for Tolerance

Loose on Religion, Uptight on Homosexuals ThePostSD.com alerts us to another reason we might have trouble convincing some young people to stick around on the prairie. The Daily Beast spent Martin Luther King Day calculating how tolerant the states of…

Who Can Boff Whom? Consider Power, Not Family

Dr. Blanchard has provoked vigorous commentary with his weekend blog post on same-sex marriage and incest. Citing William Saletan's recent Slate article on the same topic, the good professor tries to put liberals in another box, saying we can't formulate…

Senate Votes 65-31 to Let Gays Shoot Straight for America

Dr. Blanchard said it was time to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the Senate listened. Our Senator John Thune lacked the courage to vote yes, but Senator Tim Johnson did not. Various fundagelicals are showing their lack of faith…