Eisenhower Anti-Gay Executive Order Turns 60

Eisenhower Anti-Gay Executive Order Turns 60 Just a friendly little history lesson about the real-world consequences of discrimination. Eisenhower’s executive order banning LGBT people from the federal civil service happened 60 years ago this month. For the most part, the ban went away in 1975, but it wasn’t officially done away with completely until 1995 […]

Heads up

Sometime in the next week or so some of what I’ve written here, as well as some new material, will be posted on the Homeschoolers Anonymous blog. You may be asking why, when I’ve already gone on record that my homeschooling experience was largely positive, I’m contributing to a site that chronicles some of the problems […]

#CNNFail

I get a lot of my breaking news from Twitter, since I’m not really around a TV much during the day. Last summer when I was traveling around Asia, Twitter was my news link to what was happening back in the US. Twitter can be incredibly useful in some situations–I found out the Bin Laden […]

Irony

The Daily Beast has a story about homeschooled kids who have grown up and are blogging about their negative experiences. I didn’t have the kind of negative experiences that those kids had, although I’ve definitely seen the kinds of problems that the article discusses. I think most of us who have grown up in homeschool […]

One more thing

A few days ago I wrote a post on what I would like to tell straight Christians. The following is a followup expanding some of the ideas I touched on in that post, particularly more of what is behind my frustration with people trying to force “Washed and Waiting” on anyone in the Church who […]