Oppression, tyranny and other fun stuff

A pastor insists Christianity is hideously oppressed by gay rights advocates, though he comes up short of any examples.
•Right-to-life advocates for most of my memory either insist they’re protecting women and avoid the discussion of criminal penalties. As conservatives continue to shift rightwards, right-wingers are starting to call for murder prosecutions.
•Twitter takes on the Justice Department over the network’s right to talk about what requests for information the government has made of Twitter (right now Twitter can’t even say No, We Haven’t Been Asked).
•Unsurprisingly, now that we have a military dictatorship again, the US government is very happy.
•A stock right-wing excuse for supporting military regimes is that if we let left-wingers takeover things will be even worse. Looking at Latin American history, a couple of bloggers say no and no again.
•Giving police a back-door key to get into iPhone and Android systems will make them more vulnerable to anyone else who tries hacking them.
•A look at how long the accused have to wait for a trial in Mississippi (though parts of New York City’s courts have the same problem, though I can’t find the link for it now).
•Back in 2008, nine people died from contaminated peanut butter. Three executives were charged with knowingly shipping the tainted food and they’ve been convicted on various charges.
•There’s a voter registration drive targeting blacks in Ferguson Missouri. Conservatives consider registering black people to vote is inappropriate.