Pastor Shel Boese takes a look at the politics of marriage in the world's best Babylon (remember that Tony Campolo line?) and comes to the conclusion that gay-marriage bans fritter around the edges of a robust "defense" of marriage: IF…
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I'm betting our august Supreme Court justices were wishing the state would get its nose out of marriage this week. The South Dakota Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the trial judge's dismissal of Douglas Rumpca's lawsuit against Glenn Brenner for stealing…
An eager reader brings to my attention an opinion column from Rapid City furniture mogul Bob Fischer. The essay starts of gently enough, reminding us that Jesus was poor (Occupy the Temple!) and that we ought to help the poor.…
The Rapid City Journal reports that, over the last decade, the number of self-identified same-sex couples increased 68% in South Dakota, from 826 in 2000 to 1390 in 2010. In Rapid City, same-sex couples raising their hands for the Census…
Don't try to fool Senator Al Franken. Christian theocracy group Focus on the Family tried that, and it didn't work. Before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family's political wing tried to persuade senators that…
New York's legalization of same-sex marriage makes clear that this land was made for you and me and that nice gay couple down the block. U-S-A! U-S-A! Please pardon my goosebumps. Those cheers make clear that the dreaded "radical homosexual…