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Gloria Steinem: Flawed, But a Hero

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Gloria Steinem spent her entire life fighting, strategizing, envisioning, compromising, and creating coalitions so that women and men everywhere would have better lives.

She wasn’t perfect–she supported the ghastly Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s, supported the poisonous idea of Repressed & Recovered Memory, and believed in the censorship of pornography.

But ultimately, she left a titanic legacy that puts her squarely in the heavens alongside Harvey Milk, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and Daniel Ellsberg. She…

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Does Sex Still Matter?

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In modern America, sexual expression can’t simply be a private act.

Whether people acknowledge it or not, America’s ongoing War On Sex means that each sexual choice we make either challenges or supports a complex political ecology. This structure involves fundamental issues like who controls our bodies; whose relationships are legitimate; which activities are considered “normal”; and the role of erotic pleasure in the lives of adults and of children.

Consider the current sexual issues now under scrutiny by the government…

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The State Of Our Sexual Freedom

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Approaching the anniversary of our country’s freedom, what’s the state of our own sexual freedom?

There are many external restrictions on our erotic expression such as the criminalization of abortion, attempts to eliminate adult pornography, and the censorship of both school and adult libraries.

But there are many internal restrictions we place on our own sexual expression–and these prevent us from using the sexual rights that we do have.

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Texas Requires Ten Commandments in “Public” Schools

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The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

In 1789, this was revolutionary. It repudiated the fundamental relationship of religion and politics that had existed for thousands of years: you had better worship the king’s god(s)—to do otherwise was treason, punishable by death.

Four states have taken a giant step backwards by requiring that school post the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom.

We already know where this leads: restrictions on our sexual decision-making.

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Megan’s Law Keeps Harming America

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Megan’s Law (1994), the Adam Walsh Act (2006), efforts to require special Sex Offender license plates, and dozens of other laws are designed to restrict the movement, residence, employment, privacy, and every other right of convicted sex offenders.

Unfortunately, data from various states fails to find any of these laws enhance childrens’ safety. The reality is that these laws make us all LESS SAFE.

But they do serve as an outlet for angry, frightened people who…

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