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Category: 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

  • Texas Board of Education Continues to Make Your Kids Stupider

    Keep in mind that Texas is one of the main guides for textbooks published across the entire nation: The standard was about the Enlightenment and political revolutions that led to modern liberal democracy. So they removed the Enlightenment references and Thomas Jefferson, who played a key role in the two most prominent revolutions in the […]

  • Vatican Hit by Gay Sex Scandal

    Awful, infurating, hypocrital: Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him. Transcripts in the possession of the Guardian suggest that numerous men may have been procured for […]

  • To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, DC Archdiocese Denies Benefits to All Spouses

    From Washington City Paper blogs: Once gays and lesbians are allowed to marry, the Archdiocese—which employs plenty of locals through Catholic Charities—will be required to provide health benefits to same-sex spouses, an act which it says would fly in the face of the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality. The solution? No spousal benefits for anybody. via […]

  • To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Call it 'Womb Lynching'

    Hitting the Tuskegee nerve: For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions. But, staff members said, they found it difficult to make inroads with black audiences. … [They] hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, to […]

  • 2012 Preview: Republicans v Secular America

    Dan Kennedy previews the role of religion in the next presidential race: If you’re part of secular America – that is, if you’re an atheist, an agnostic, a religious liberal or even a mainstream believer who thinks religion should be kept out of politics and vice-versa – then you should be very afraid of what […]

  • Satan Gets the Job Done

    As we all know, Pat Robertson should be set of fire. Here’s a fun insight into his recent ‘Haiti made a deal with the devil = destruction’ stupidity: Say, what happened during that 1791 slave rebellion when the Haitians allegedly made a pact with the devil? “The Haitian uprising is regarded as one of history’s […]

  • Tiller Murder Case May Be Downgraded from First Degree Murder

    Tiller’s murderer may argue voluntary manslaughter: As his premeditated, first-degree murder trial begins Wednesday, no one — not even Roeder himself — disputes that he killed one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers. But what had been expected to be an open-and-shut murder trial was upended Friday when a judge decided to let Roeder […]

  • The Conservative Case For Gay Marriage

    Finally got around to reading this in Newsweek. Good quotes: The second argument I often hear is that traditional marriage furthers the state’s interest in procreation—and that opening marriage to same-sex couples would dilute, diminish, and devalue this goal. But that is plainly not the case. Preventing lesbians and gays from marrying does not cause […]

  • Pope Calls Gay Marriage an "Attack"

    An old, single man with red shoes and a gold hat surrounded by single men in a house full of antiques: Pope Benedict XVI assailed same-sex marriages as a danger to humanity on Monday in an apparent response to Portugal’s move to legalize same-sex marriage last week. According to Agence France-Presse, the 82-year-old pope said […]

  • State by State: Same-Sex Marriage vs First-Cousin Marriage

    No word yet if the first-cousins are of the same sex: statesmarriagecousin.jpg (JPEG Image, 444×600 pixels).