Not that long ago, certainly no further bgack than the famous police raid on the Stonewall gay bar in NYC, Homosexuality was regarded as an offense against the morality of the greater society. It still is in some quarters.

But everyone knows or has seen someone who is gay. Some gays are obviously gay by their physical stature and manerisms, as the two guys in this story apparently were. Some lesbians also are obviously gay due to their physically masculine appearance and demeanor.

No person with any degree of insight or perspective can deny that these people were born that way. There is simply no question about that. Less obvious are the gays who can and do manage to pass as straight. But their psychological and...

There is a fatal flaw in your argument that since impeachment is off the table Obama can still be charged with falsifying documents. The flaw is that he himself didn't do the falsifying. If the documents were falsified they were done by his parents or their co-consipirators 48 years ago. Obama himself was an infant and had nothing to do with the conspiracy.

One thing these documents are, genuine or not, is old. The Hawaiian newspaper reports of Obama's birth in Hawaii in 1961 are, in fact, dated in 1961. So, however real this conspiracy may be, Obama himself is not implicated in it.

So what else would you like to base your legal challenge to his Presidency on? I think you're left with impeachment, which you have...

The State of Hawaii has on file records dating back 48 years that Obama was born there. They aren't forged. They're real. There are Hawaiian newspaper records of the birth. Even if Obama, the infant, was delivered through his monther's birth canal physically in Mumbassa, Kenya, and then quickly transported to Hawaii to establish his U.S. citizenship, even if this was done by taking advantage of the lax Hawaiian rules regarding declarations by parents of their children's place of birth, even if all that is true, the fact is that he has a legal Hawaiian birth certificate, and was issued a U.S. passport at age 12 by the U.S. State Department based on his Hawaiian birth certificate, and traveled to Indonesia as a U.S. Citizen.

It...

People believe the holocaust didn't happen. Some people believe the moon landing 40 years ago was all done with special effects on a hollywood sound stage. 18% of americans apparently believe the sun rotates around the earth instead of the other way around.

God, if he existed, would not want us to have proof that he exists because that would put an end to faith. Faith depends on not knowing for sure, and therefore having to be 'strong' in one's faith. That's why Christians, but not muslims apparently, are afraid to die. They aren't really sure what comes next. But they depend on their faith to ward off this fear anyway.

Belief in an afterlife is an unsubstantiated, and unprovable (either way) belief that simply...

She should not have ended her article on the note that we should be encouraging young people to seek greater status in the form of consumer goods (houses, good wine, dining out, expensive vacations, etc.).

We should be encouraging them to be as productive and as complete in fulfilling their potential as they can. If monetary rewards are a result of that, fine. But the first priority is to 'be all you can be', not 'as rich as you can be'.

"Obstruct and prevent." Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed with 92 votes, and most previous Supreme Court justices likewise were approved by large Senate majorities. But since that time these confirmations have devolved into purely partisan politics. The party in power votes for confirmation and the party out of power votes against confirmation, almost uniformly. In fact, if the party out of power has enough votes to support a filibuster, which this one fortunately doesn't, that has also become the name of the game.

Is it any wonder that the general public has become fed up with the internacine warfare that has replaced reasoned and reasonable debate in Congress?

Absolutely no one on the Judiciary panel, nor anyone reading or responding to this article doubts for one second that Thurgood Marshall, for just one example, applied his life experiences to his rulings on the bench.

There is not the least doubt that each and every justice applies his or her teachings and his or her experiences to his or her judicial decision making. If anyone doubts that Antonin Scalia's catholicism influences his positions on abortion rights, they are completely intellectually dishonest.

He equates abortion rights with 'women killing their babies'. If a woman took a kitchen knife to her two year old and slit his throat, then she has 'killed her baby' and should be tried for murder.

If a woman terminates an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy, she is making a medical decision for herself alone. She is not 'killing her baby'. She is ridding herself of an unwanted fetus.

The anti-abortion croud, such as shapiro, will get abolutely nowhere with the majority of the US public with this continued debasement of the language.

But how weird is it to believe as Doug Giles apparently does that a guy that looks vaguely like Charleston Heston created the entire universe and all its creatures in six days six thousand years ago and currently watches our every move (but just humans, not his other creatures) and listens to our every thought in order to decide whether we will spend eternity in paradise or be consigned forever to hell.

Call Michael Jackson nuts if you like, but there's plenty of nuts to go around.

...that a human looking being (sharing our 'image') created the entire universe and all it's creatures in six days, six thousand years ago, and currently listens to our every thought and watches our every move and judges us accordingly (but only us humans, not his other creatures) in order to reward us with eternity in paradise or consign us to eternal damnation in hell, has either lost marbles or was never in full possession of them.