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“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” –Orlando A. Battista

OMG, I’m freaking tired.

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The second annual National Go Topless Protest Day will be held this Sunday, August 23, in various American cities. It happens to be run by Raelians, members of a UFO religion founded by Rael, a former French sports-car journalist and test driver born Claude Vorilhon. (Coverage of last year’s protest in New York City, which is, as one might suspect, NSFW.) Though the current “Go Topless!” site talks more about women’s rights than Raelism, in 2004, Raelian women were marching topless not for the legalization of bare breastedness, but against “the repressive Myth of God.” Don’t remember the Raelians? This is just the most recent stunt by the publicity-hungry group that capitalizes on media-friendly controversy: in 2002, during the slow news week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, they announced the creation of the first human clone, gaining what Rael estimated at over $500 million of free media coverage. In an interview, Rael unabashedly discusses his passion for publicity.

From a press release:

The organization has decided to hold its protest events annually on the Sunday before Women’s Equality Day, which is celebrated Aug. 26. On that date in 1920, after a 72-year struggle, women earned the right to vote. In 1970, Congress declared Aug. 26 Women’s Equality Day “to remind people of women’s continuing efforts for equality.”

GoTopless.org includes not only Raelians, who believe all life on Earth was created by advanced extraterrestrial scientists called the Elohim, but women and men representing many other beliefs. GoTopless’s primary goals: nationwide legal recognition of women’s right to go bare-chested and its acceptance by the public.

“Breasts are noble parts of the anatomy,” said Raelian Priestess Nadine Gary, president of GoTopless.org. “They shouldn’t have to be hidden any more than arms or legs. ‘Free your breasts, free your mind!’ is our message to women. Men can practice respecting a freedom they take for granted and help end the puritanical idea that children shouldn’t see breasts unless a woman is nursing.”

“Concern for children can be used as an excuse to violate human rights,” said psychologist Daniel Chabot, a Raelian bishop. “But a child who sees breasts experiences no adverse effects. European children have been proving that for 40 years.”

Protest events will include marches, art displays; musical performances and speeches about top-less freedom.

“The art works won’t be censured for including nipples,” Gary said. “In fact, we’re encouraging the artists to celebrate the entire breast in all its magnificence and beauty!”

Dog Loves Grandma

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Sex as you’ve never seen it before: the first video of a couple getting it together in an MRI scanner

A police officer in the Syracuse, New York, area Tasered a 37-year-old mom repeatedly in front of her children during a routine traffic stop—and then arrested the mom, leaving the children alone in their family minivan for 40 minutes in freezing weather.

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Or, if you want a really scary vision, here’s science fiction writer John C. Wright’s view of a horrible future of moral decay because of homosexuality actually being tolerated by people.

Remember, kids: even if it’s your name, you’re not always (W)right.

UPDATE: Mike Weber notes below that the original link above no longer works. It seems that a lot of people took him to task, but what apparently shamed him into changing was someone pointing out what his recently adopted Catholic Church has to say on the matter:

“It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church’s pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law.”

– “On The Pastoral Care Of Homosexual Persons”, by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Accordingly, Wright has taken down the original post, and I feel no further need to shame him about it, preferring to believe that he’s going to try and reconcile the matter in his heart and with his God.