The London Guardian/Observer, May 11, 2008 (HAT TIP 3 Quarks Daily):

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

I like the presentation format of this YouTube but disagree with many of the quotes. Hemingway's "All thinking men are atheists" is demonstrably false and arrogant. My favorite is probably Amanda Bloom's "An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers."

I can understand how pro-life doctors will want to refuse to administer an abortion. I can even understand how some will refuse to supply birth control. But I cannot understand how a GYN refuses on MORAL grounds to administer a PAP smear to determine whether a woman has cancer or a meaningful risk there of in the future. Apparently, the risk of death from cancer is important to preserve as a moral bulwark against the immorality of, well, sex before marriage. I guess it's more moral, more "pro-life", to watch a woman die of cancer than to risk the appearance that her concern for her health might be interpreted as an endorsement of her presumed sex life.

It's quite important to reward boldness and courage. Donate to Equality Maryland. I recommend donating multiples of $5.01 as that donation amount is increasing the marker of netroots activists (e.g. $50.10, $25.05, etc.)

Red Maryland's Chester Peake thinks that modifying the Maryland statutes to allow same-sex marriages is equivalent to a "massacre." Go document the "atrocities."

In related news, gay pride parades are now "holocausts." And lesbian bars are "genocides." I think that a Barbra Streisand concert would have to be a "war crime."

Okay, that last one may actually be true.

Maget Thabet al-Kholidy, Yemen Times, Issue 1117, January 6, 2008:

If a man and woman are husband and wife, the Qur’an provides solutions, firstly reaffirming any logical and acceptable reasons for such punishment. These solutions are in gradual phases and not just for women, but for men also.