"I pledge to continue to represent you all to the best of my abilities without regard to race, creed, religious beliefs, national origin or sex.  That's the kind of Sterling Americans you all have been for me and for our community and I pledge to continue to be that kind of Sterling American for you." - Roger Delgaudio, Sterling/Loudoun, "There is ( Read more... )

So let’s recap:

1. If a hurricane hits Place A, God is sending a message to them - a message that just happens to confirm all the preexisting bigotries of the people decoding the message.

2. If the hurricane doesn’t hit Place A, it’s because they prayed it away to hit another place.

3. If the hurricane hits Place B, the fact that large numbers of ( Read more... )

Chicken or the Gays: Make a Choice About Eating Chick-fil-A:If you'd really like to support gays and lesbians in a world lousy with Chick-fil-As, how about this tactic instead: From now on, don't fucking eat at Chick-fil-A if you are a person who believes gays are equal to you and deserving of equal treatment under the law. No equivocating and no ( Read more... )

Romney Leading Mormon Takeover of America! | Dispatches from the Culture Wars:[...] on the list of groups I worry about taking over our government, the Mormon church falls somewhere between the Girl Scouts and the surviving cast members of the Apple Dumpling Gang.

Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective:For a person of faith, ID is not just an unnecessary choice; it is a harmful one. It reduces God to a kind of holy tinkerer. It locates the divine in places of ignorance and obscurity. And this gives it a defensive and fearful spirit that is out of place in Christian faith and ( Read more... )

War on Christmas? Sign This Minister Up. -:Today, Christianity is the dominant culture. So, instead of story of a olive skinned middle-eastern, unwed, pregnant mother, who was seen as little more than property, giving birth to what the world would surely see as an illegitimate child who was wrapped in what rags they could find and placed in a ( Read more... )

...and it isn't just the whole "Thanking God When We Win" (as if God really cares who wins a football game).
When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.  But you, when you pray ( Read more... )

Here he is, this supposedly "principled" person, playing the "just a theory" card for the sake of the idiots that will decide the Republican primaries.  Apparently, trust that scientists who work with this stuff on a daily basis to actually solve problems and really know what their doing, is simply illegal in the Republican Party these days.

So there's this piece of the WTC framework that "looks like a cross", and it is right now part of the government-paid memorial as part of the site, intentionally because it looks like a cross and thus has God's Blessings over the site.  An atheist group has filed suit claiming establishment.  I think they have a case, only because (just like ( Read more... )

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