Amon Amarth

Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry

Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren't just devout—both have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world.

R. J. Rushdoony Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism known as Dominionism. If you want to understand Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, understanding Dominionism isn’t optional. Dominionism means that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions. Dominionism derives from a small fringe sect called Christian Reconstructionism, founded by a Calvinist theologian named R. J. Rushdoony in the 1960s. Christian Reconstructionism openly advocates replacing American law with the strictures of the Old Testament, replete with the death penalty for homosexuality and abortion. - Michelle Goldberg

Wendy Iriepa & Ignacio Estrada

A gay dissident Cuban man and a transsexual woman married Saturday in Havana in what's believed to be a first in the island nation. Ignacio Estrada, 31, and Wendy Iriepa, 37, draped themselves in a rainbow flag and rode through the streets of the capital after the ceremony. It was hailed as an advancement of gay rights, and many well-known dissidents and diplomats were in attendance. It's not technically a same-sex marriage, which is prohibited in Cuba, and authorities did not block it. Iriepa went through Cuba's first state-sanctioned sex change in 2007 and is legally a woman. The wedding was also held on Fidel Castro's 85th birthday, and the couple called it a "gift" to the aging leader. - DBeast

Ron Paul

Horse Whip

To My Daughter



Must I remind you,

that sounds of grief

are unbecoming in

a poet's household?



And that they are not

suitable in ours.



-Sappho (615 BC-550 BC)

Princess Charlotte Casiraghi

Princes Pierre Casiraghi, and Andrea Casiraghi host the 2011 Rose Ball in Monaco

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