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What’s REALLY behind the numbers

By nikflorida on May 9, 2010

Media Matters for America today discusses the “Behind the Numbers” blog at WaPo, and its efforts to downplay the fact that, according to the news organization’s own poll (conducted jointly with ABC), nearly one in three Tea Party supporters believe that the POTUS was born “in another country.” (Overwhelmingly, and more specifically, they actually [...] [...]

“We don't choose to be white or black, male or female, left-handed or right-handed, gay or straight. We awaken in each instance to the reality of what we are. Nothing external to our humanity activates our self-understanding. It simply is. Alcohol distorts life for the alcoholic. Homosexuality does not distort the life of the gay person. Your pastor's understanding is simply one more version of the idea that homosexuality is a sickness or addiction that needs to be cured if possible and if not possible, it needs to be suppressed. Wholeness never came to anyone who tried to suppress his or her deepest identity.”

~ John Shelby Spong

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