Day: August 1, 2014

The Opportunists

| Posted on August 1, 2014 |

Reading:

Restaurant gives 15% off for saying grace

| Posted on August 1, 2014 |

A restaurant receives praise and anger for its policy of giving 15% off if your table says grace. NPR:

Ginsburg: unlike miscegenation, SCOTUS will not duck same-sex marriage

| Posted on August 1, 2014 |

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has told the AP. “I think the court will not do what they did in the old days when they continually ducked the issue of miscegenation,” Ginsburg said. “If a case is properly before the court, they will take it.” She expected the Supreme Court would take up the issue of […]

The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker

| Posted on August 1, 2014 |

Updated: Uganda court annuls anti-homosexuality law

| Posted on August 1, 2014 |

Uganda’s constitutional court has annulled the recently enacted anti-gay legislation on process grounds. A strong advocate of the legislation says the government plans to appeal to the nation’s supreme court. BBC: Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February.

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