Today's Mighty Oak

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee – the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.



All right, let’s see what we have today.  First up, get the tissues.  This makes a great point, we’ll never know what Matthew Sheperd would look like as an adult:

Message to Christians, stop acting like you’re being persecuted:

It’s not that Christians will have to perform gay weddings or have to get gay married. It’s not that their churches will be burned down or that they will be imprisoned. They won’t lose their jobs and they won’t be followed down the street or be harassed for what they believed. They simply will not be able to impose their beliefs on others nor restrict the secular rights that are conferred onto marriages by our government. It takes a powerfully twisted mind to translate that into the feelings of persecution so intense that it brings them to tears.

An interactive graphic of biblical contradictions.

The latest trailer for the final Hunger Games movie.

An extended look at the new The Muppets show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B5d-8H588

Teens are getting better at using contraception.

Glasglow Pride originally was not going to allow drag queens to perform.  After an outcry, they reexamined the issue, and made a really good apology.

From one of my new favorite blogs, the beauty of the Winter Mausoleum:

Marvel is doing a “color your own Deadpool” contest!

And for those who thought that Ohio Governor’s Kasich quote from the Republican debate was so wonderful, not so fast.  We’re not begging for scraps.  Basic dignity and acceptance should go without saying, any decent human can do that.  We deserve the same rights as everyone else:

But let’s not confuse progress with praise until a candidate steps up to that podium and states, “Every citizen is created equal and, as President, I would make sure that everyone is treated equally.” We should not and must not cheer for anything less.

Nick Jonas gets chained up to sing “Chains”:

That’s it for now, have a great one!

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