Paul Allen's Blog – December 2008 Archive (2)

Gdansk, Poland, 7 September 2008 (By Yann Le Guernigou and Gareth Jones, Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy defied China on Saturday by meeting the Dalai Lama and said Europe shared the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's concerns over the situation in his homeland.

China called the meeting an "opportunistic, rash and short-sighted approach to handling the Tibet issue," despite Sarkozy saying he regarded Tibet as part of China and that there… Continue

The passing of proposition 8 (amendment to the California Constitution stating marriage as the union of an heterosexual couple) is just the latest in the seemingly unending list of obstacles raised by organized religion to the development of a better society for all of its members. It seems obvious by now that homosexuality is an integral part of the human experience and that it is to be expected a certain percentage of the population will be born as… Continue