Category: 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
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Don McLeroy Wants Your Children to Be Stupid
Texas is the country’s largest textbook market and sets the national standards for content. A group of ultra-conservatives are revising history to be sure it meets their needs: The margins were littered with stars, exclamation points, and hundreds of yellow Post-its that were brimming with notes scrawled in a microscopic hand. With childlike glee, McLeroy […]
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Cardinal: Gays 'Will Never Go to Heaven'
I wonder if this applies to hateful demagogues? Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said that while the Church regarded homosexuality as an “insult to God”, this did not justify discrimination against gay and transsexual people. You’re just an abomination and an insult to God and damned from the start… but that doesn’t mean people should treat […]
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The Good Old Days
I really miss the days when people who were ultra-religious who had problems with other’s moral actions took the position of “they’ll get what’s coming in the end so why waste energy with some meager Earthly punishment.” I don’t remember anywhere in the Bible it says you’re supposed to force your religion down people’s throats, […]