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By Matthew Dicks | April 26, 2016 | Comments Off on #Biblebuffet

Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, don’t forget to stone to death any woman engaging in premarital sex. And not just your garden-variety stoning, either. You must gather all the people of the town at the doorstep of the woman’s father and kill her there.  God is…

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There are many reasons why the death penalty should be abolished. But one reason should be reason enough.

By Matthew Dicks | July 4, 2014 | Comments Off on There are many reasons why the death penalty should be abolished. But one reason should be reason enough.

Will Saletan lists six reasons why support for capital punishment is evaporating in the United States. All six are perfectly valid, and I actually agree with all of them, but really, there’s only one that matters: Innocence. Since 1973, 144 death row inmates have been exonerated of their crimes. It’s impossible to think that the…

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