Friends Of God is currently playing on HBO. It’s a documentary by Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, about American evangelican Christians and their influence in our country. It’s a remarkable piece of work. I recommend it highly:

"Refuting" Evolution

It absolutely stuns me that seemingly completely rational people will argue with all sincerity that dinosaurs lived alongside men–not 65 million years ago but a mere few thousand years ago–because of one passage of scripture that could just as easily describe an elephant.

Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, That’s All You Think About

I think evangelical’s obession with sex-related topics–abortion, pre-marital sex, gay sex–belies a fear of the subject. That might explain the Ted Haggards of the world: Virulently anti-gay while at the same time hiring a male prosititute. This is a clip of Haggard from the documentary: