During a Monday segment on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” sportswriter Chris Broussard denounced Jason Collins, the first openly gay athlete in the history of professional sports, for “living in unrepentant sin.”Broussard went on to accuse Collins of not being a Christian and “walking in open rebellion to God”:Personally, I don’t believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly, like premarital sex between heterosexuals. If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, then the Bible says you know them by their fruits. It says that, you know, that’s a sin. If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, whatever it maybe, I believe that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. So I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don’t think the bible would characterize them as a Christian.Continue Reading… … Read More
5-year-old Indian girl battles for her life after kidnapping and brutal rape
A five-year-old Indian girl was battling for her life on Friday after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the latest incident of sexual violence which has triggered nationwide protests. The girl was attacked inside a locked room over a 48-hour period, police said, after being abducted as she…
House GOPer: No funding for sex-changes because “I like being a boy”
Georgia Rep. Paul Broun doesn’t want to have to pay for a sex-change operation. “I like being a boy,” he said last week.From the Huffington Post:”I don’t want to pay for a sex-change operation,” Broun told town hall attendees, presumably referring to a proposal, scrapped by the Obama administration late last month, that would have allowed gender reassignment surgeries to be covered under Medicare and Medicaid. “I’m not interested. I like being a boy.”The comments, first reported by the Barrow County News, are somewhat comparable to those made recently by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, also a Republican from Georgia, who said that he doesn’t support gay marriage because ”I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.”Broun is running for Chambliss’ seat when he retires in 2014.Continue Reading… … Read More
Child Safe After Indiana Hostage Situation
A child held hostage by a man suspected of fatally shooting a woman in broad daylight is safe and the suspect is dead, police have said. … Read More
‘To A Future Woman In Tech’: Stacey Mulcahy’s Powerful Letter To Her Niece
Flash maven Stacey Mulcahy recently wrote an open letter to her 8-year-old niece, recounting the difficulties, both subtle and overt, that many women working in technology face.
Some of Mulcahy’s sentiments are lighthearted: “I hope that you attend conferences and find yourself complaining about long lines for the bathroom.” Others are straightforward about the many challenges that come with being a woman in tech: “I hope that you will speak about your expertise. And when you do, people won’t use some form of social media to point out your body issues. The only body on display, is your body of work.”
Read the letter here.
Why Chris Christie won’t be president
I’m not a fan of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, although I respected his bipartisan stewardship during Hurricane Sandy. But I’ve defended him, on “NOW With Alex Wagner,” to offer one example, from charges that his weight disqualifies him from being president. Obesity is first and foremost a health matter, even if scolds try to make it a matter of discipline. There’s also a huge class bias in our preference for thinness today. Obviously Christie isn’t someone who can’t afford healthy food or to get the weight loss help he needs, at this point in his life anyway. But a lot of working and middle class people can probably identify with his inability to lose weight and keep it off. Certainly Bill Clinton’s struggles with his own size were part of what endeared him to common folks. It also set him up for serious heart disease in his 60s.
Uh oh, but I shouldn’t have mentioned health issues related to being overweight, because we know that sets Christie off — particularly, it seems, when an uppity lady brings it up. Everyone’s heard about the governor’s heart-warming star-turn with David Letterman, despite Letterman’s repeated and sometimes cruel jokes about his weight. Now we’re hearing about the way he chewed up former White House doctor Connie Mariano, a Republican and a fan, for warmly expressing concern about his weight, calling her a “hack” and telling her to “shut up.”
Navid Negahban, ‘Homeland’ Actor, Discusses Playing Abu Nazir
Navid Negahban, better known as Abu Nazir to fans of Showtime’s “Homeland,” spoke out on his experiences playing a sought-after terrorist on the hit television show.
Tammy Haddad, who spoke to Negahban for The Huffington Post, asked the actor if he was nervous about taking on the role and the impact it would have on his career.
“When I read the script, I felt that the script was very brave. It’s a script that’s never been done before, the way the character was so multilayered and fascinating, and the way that the character was portrayed as a man, as a human being who’s being put in these situations and he’s just reacting to the given circumstances.”
