Daily Blend: Friday, November 12, 2010

Asia Bibi

• This is religious persecution: Christian mother-of-five Asia Bibi [pictured] sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy (that she reportedly never committed).
  (via The Agitator)

• San Francisco resident proposes a ballot measure to ban circumcision on people under 18. I do hope this passes, though source article reactions aren’t very promising.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Amazon.com apparently used to sell a Kindle book titled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct. Long-time readers of the blog will already know my thoughts regarding the sexual attraction to children (and the critical and vast difference between that and child molestation), so I refuse to issue judgment on this book (in condemnation or otherwise) until I know more about it.
  (via Uzza)

• The insanity virus: Could schizophrenia be caused by a virus? The evidence seems rather interesting.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Updated LDS handbook softens language on gay Mormons. It’s a start, I guess.
  (via @religionnews)

• Wait … forgive me for being clueless (again), but wasn’t corporal punishment by teachers supposed to be illegal? Seriously, charge those assholes with assault and/or battery already.

• Bill Donohue really needs to learn to recognize a freaking joke.

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