This confirms an opinion I have long held, that fundamentalists across the religions have more in common with each other than they do with liberal members of their own religion. There are many shared values amongst fundamentalists of different religions, even though they each loudly proclaim that they are the sole purveyors of absolute Truth and all the others are in error.

The issue...

at www. borndifferent.org raises a question for doubters: “When did you decide to be straight?”

The Denver-based Gill Foundation spent $900,000 on the campaign, which includes television ads, billboards and banners over downtown streets. It began in early June and will continue through early August.

The ads are only in Colorado Springs, which, organizers say, has a reputation for be...

American society is currently involved in one of its episodic, deep-rooted turmoils,typically avoiding more substantive and urgent matters to tinker with its laws related tomarriage.

This involves a simultaneous rewriting of the dictionary.

The issue du jour is trying to figure out how to define marriage in terms ofgender, a quandary idiosyncratic to our peculiar mix of legalism and...

Who are you? Dr. Debbie Magids identifies the eight relationship personality types that sabotage finding true love:

- The Old Faithful - longs for the one she can't have and, therefore, can't move forward. The fix: let go of past loves.

- The Whirlwind Dater - constantly dates whoever she can but has difficulty finding a permanent mate. The fix: stop dating and learn to spend time...

But there's no doubt Peaches has captivated rock's edgy set. To them, she's a mix of Iggy Pop and Karen Finley, a stone-cold rocker hellbent on leaning on our buttons, disemboweling cliches, and delivering her sexuality in a way that illuminates rather than exploits.

These days, however, Peaches is out to burrow her music, and message, further into the belly of the average Joe. Next we...

Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience. Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the future of their children is a heady experience-and not one I've shared in a long time in the US.

I just spent 10 days in Venezuela, participating in a tour sponsored by the Marin Interfaith Task Force (MITF) of Mill Valley, California. There's a lo...

Technology is so advanced, we can do virtually anything on computers. Think about the science-fiction thriller "The Matrix." Keanu Reeves encounters a future in which a computer generated virtual reality is not only indistinguishable from the real world, but also has the same real-world consequences. It's common for photographers to take a face shot of our favorite celebrity and airbrush their...

In this week's ruling against same-sex marriage in New York, judges on the Court of Appeals - those voting with the majority and those voting against it - went out of their way to compare the gay marriage movement with the struggle for civil rights by black Americans.

While the majority 4-2 decision acknowledged that gays and lesbians had suffered from discrimination, it did not see the ...

Moralizing may have gone out of fashion in adult fiction a century ago, but it remains a staple of children's literature. The annual awards lists are full of inspiring stories in which a brave and sensitive young person triumphs over modern evils like political oppression, sexism and racism. Though these novels can be beautifully and even subtly written, they rarely leave readers in doubt abou...

This confirms an opinion I have long held, that fundamentalists across the religions have more in common with each other than they do with liberal members of their own religion. There are many shared values amongst fundamentalists of different religions, even though they each loudly proclaim that they are the sole purveyors of absolute Truth and all the others are in error.

The issue...