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		<title>Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with &#8220;rent boy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 21:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via boingboing For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America&#8217;s best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Technology and Naturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The more ingenious and accurate our instruments, the more unsusceptible and inexpert become our organs: by assembling a heap of machinery about us, we find afterwards none in ourselves.&#8217; Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Family Policy Council&#8217;s Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The picture says it all really. A Christian Florida hate group used the picture on the left to describe a couple that was allowed to adopt a family member&#8217;s child they had been fostering. FFPC says it was a &#8216;mistake&#8217;. More Here , Here and Here]]></description>
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		<title>Sex not specified</title>
		<link>http://www.theexperiment.org/?p=2445</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government has issued what is likely the first gender neutral identification card, or Recognised Details Certificate (similar to a U.S. birth certificate). Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and was labeled male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and construction of a vagina and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students protest for LGBT inclusion in school nondiscrimination policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Via Feministing) Students at John Carroll University in Ohio protested during a school basketball game over the school&#8217;s unwillingness to include sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. From a student statement on YouTube: John Carroll&#8217;s mission is to create people for others. That means support, protection, love, and understanding for all people without regard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina now requires &#8220;subversives&#8221; to register as such</title>
		<link>http://www.theexperiment.org/?p=2397</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning to overthrow the US Government? If yes, and you live in South Carolina, you must pay a five-dollar subversive registration fee. (Via BoingBoing, Via The Agitator)]]></description>
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		<title>New Open Source Web Based Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.theexperiment.org/?p=2389</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received an email inviting me to a webinar on OMEKA, a web based platform for all kinds of collections created by the Center For History &#38; New Media. This sounds pretty great and I definitely am going to read up on this, if not try to watch the webinar (and I&#8217;m sorry to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Puerto Rican Teen Decapitated, Dismembered, and Burned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[original story here &#8216;people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen&#8217;. &#8220;According to an iReport by Chrisopher Pagan: &#8220;On November 14 the body of a gay 19 year old was found a few miles away from the town in which he was residing in called Caguas. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Patriot Act in 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.theexperiment.org/?p=2373</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Banned Librarian has put together a clear concise guide to both current issues surrounding the Patriot Act, and the sections that are scheduled to sunset in December of 2009. It includes: HISTORY &#38; BACKGROUND The PATRIOT Act Itself Treatises on the Law Helpful Articles Oversight &#38; Watchdog Reports Prior Cases STAYING CURRENT Pending Bills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women&#8217;s &#8216;Butch Wing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.theexperiment.org/?p=2365</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lia Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a year a prison in Virginia segregated women they perceived as masculine or butch (those with short hair or &#8216;baggy clothes&#8217;), in order to separate them from their &#8216;girlfriends&#8217;. The Associated Press and civil rights advocates questioned the practice, with the warden stating that no such move was made, as that would be [...]]]></description>
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