On this blog, I generally spend time railing against the demonstrable idiocies of the young-earth creationists, but this is in no way to say that anti-evolution sentiment is the only form of unreason that is running about. No, there are many other forms that irrationality takes, from those I've touched on in this blog (the anti-vaccine movement) to those I haven't (birthers, UFO enthusiasts). Some of these forms of irrationality are rather harmless, like the old belief that Elvis wasn't actually dead, but some ideas which are quite unreasonable are not harmless at all. The anti-vaccine movement actively endangers the health of the public, and the creationists retard science education. But one other has been bothering me for some time, a topic that was easier left alone while criticism was levied against groups like the Discovery Institute and Answers in Genesis. The topic is, as you may have guessed, gay marriage and the LGBTQ rights movement--or rather the opposition to t...
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