[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Roundup: Religious Groups Begin To Divide Over the "Anti-Abortion" Vote
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Robin Marty]
…the Susan B. Anthony List … are a Republican hit group wrapping themselves in the guise of a PAC that supports "pro-life female candidates."
… the group itself admits that it would prefer male politicians in office to actual women who are anti-abortion.
…the Nation isn't the only publication to note the endangered species of the "pro-life Democrat." Christianity Today is actually remarking on the demise as well, and with what appears to be a little sadness.
…Despite an attempt to make religious voters, especially Catholic voters, a monolithic anti-abortion vote, other Catholic groups are warning of the peril of voting simply on the grounds of abortion…
A few days ago, Amie Newman posted a wonderful breakdown on the myths surrounding the Catholic voter…
[Lengthy due to blockquotes; interesting-looking links. -L]
- dw_news: Weekly Update: 29 October 2010
- …we're very close to having v-gifts available for you to purchase and send to your friends!
…the recipient will be able to choose whether or not to accept and display the vgift … You'll also be able to set your preferences to refuse all v-gifts by default… [Or] make your own v-gifts. You'll be able to send those custom v-gifts to your friends, and you'll also be able to mark them as "for site-wide use" [if you wish to]…
…if you've been looking for a new style, but browsing through the style browser isn't doing it for you, check out the unofficial prototype style browser …
…We're still pondering what we can do for our existing users who win NaNo this year. For support on this crazy journey, there's the nano_writers community. And, this year any post tagged 'nano', 'nanowrimo', 'writing: nanowrimo", "nanowrimo2010", "nanowrimo10", "nano10", or "nnwm10" will appear on the nanowrimo tag feed of the Latest Things.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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