Legislature in Texas mandated in 2007 states that starting in 2009 public schools must teach the “literature and history” of the good book. To avoid the obvious constitutional problems of separating Church and State, the law is carefully worded to cover true and rather obvious intent much like how Creationists attempt to hide religious purpose behind academic freedom.
This is just another way to slip religion into schools.
In an infamous moment at the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, captured on video by Dave Weigel, Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) chief of staff Michael Schwartz made the case against pornography. “All pornography is homosexual pornography,” said Schwartz, quoting an ex-gay friend of his, “because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.”
Conservapedia is an English-language wiki-based Web encyclopedia project written from an Americentric, conservative Christian and predominantly young earth creationist point of view. It was started in 2006 by lawyer and social studies teacher Andy Schlafly, son of conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly.[3][4] He stated that he founded the project because he felt that Wikipedia had a liberal, anti-Christian, and anti-American bias.[5]Conservapedia is one of many conservative and Christian-themed Web sites imitating the format of mainstream sites to provide a right-wing or fundamentalist Christian alternative.[3][6] The site has been the subject of criticism, both inside and outside of the United States, for bias and inaccuracies
This is the brand new ad from the Yes on 1 campaign in Maine:
And, this is a Prop 8 ad from last fall in California:
The same consultants behind Prop 8 were hired for exactly this, drive up fear about marriage equality using lies about kids and churches. It goes without saying that Maine does not force school to talk about marriage equality, in fact they don’t have to talk about marriage at all. Dirigo Blue got a comment from the Maine Department of Education Comunications Director David Connerty-Marin:
I cannot comment on Massachusetts education law or decisions made by local school districts in Massachusetts. Here in Maine, our Learning Results standards and education regulations make no reference to the teaching of marriage in any way. So a change in Maine’s laws or definition of marriage places no requirements on local districts regarding whether or how they teach about marriage. Such curriculum decisions are strictly local. Before or after passage of the gay marriage law a district could choose to teach about marriage or not, and to teach about it in any way it deemed appropriate. It simply is not governed by state education law.
But Schubert/Flint seems to be phoning it in a bit. They don’t seem to realize what a far right wacko they picked to be in their ad.
Charla Bansley is a high school teacher at a private Christian school, not an elementary public school teacher as they are implying in the ad. And the leader of the Maine Chapter of Concerned Women of America, which is a hard-right nut-job org (anti-gay, anti-abortion, pro-religion in schools, anti-porn, and anti-UN, yes they hate the United Nations). And she is a teabagger. And tried to get a student expelled for writing a pro-marriage equality letter to the editor as part of a class project.
And she thinks gays are psychotic and deviants. From a speech she gave at a Stand for Marriage Maine rally recently. Louise has much more over at the Blend.
Public display of psychosis and we have dealt with it by redefining decency down so as to explain away and make normal what a more civilized, and ordered, and healthy society would label deviant and the result has been a stunning failure.
This woman is a walking opportunity for opposition research and should be fodder for a while. Her values are not Maine values.
Fight back against this nasty. Fight back against fundie lies. Fight for love and marriage.
Give till it hurts, because if they win, there will be pain for Maine LGBT families.
“Personhood Florida,” a religious-based group, wants to constitutionally define conception as the “biological beginnings” of life. Language is still being worked out, but this would define life as beginning when the sperm meets the egg. We earlier wrote about the Virginia-based “American Life League” that is promoting this concept, but it’s important to also note the effect it will have on a women’s right to contraception.
The amendment seeks to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Also criminalized: the morning-after pill and oral contraceptives taken by women, known as the pill. “There are some (birth control) methods that kill a child,” said Pat McEwan, who is leading the Personhood Florida group.
The amendment faces extremely long odds. First, supporters must gather 676,811 signatures to make the ballot — by Feb. 1, to go before voters in 2010.
They’re pushing this in a dozen other states, but only in Colorado has it ever appeared on a ballot. It was rejected there by a 3-1 margin.
At a press conference in Tallahassee, speakers blamed abortion for the financial insolvency of Social Security and the bankruptcy of American auto manufacturers, citing the millions of terminated pregnancies since Roe. v. Wade as costing the nation citizens and customers. They also said that a fetus is a person and should be given protections of law.
“It is obvious in our ultrasounds that that little baby, even at just eight weeks old, is a person,” said Brenda MacMenamin, a Personhood Florida organizer. “Their rights our self-evident and they are inalienable. We want to give the voters of the state of Florida the right to vote on personhood.”
“If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it.”
“Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!”
“You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!”
“American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!”
“Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.”
Back in 1998 Letters from all over Texas poured into the Governor’s mansion, to try to get a stay of execution for Karla Faye Tucker. Governor Bush ignored them, and sent her to get a lethal injection anyway. What’s the lesson of character we learn from this story? George W. Bush was a Connecticut born, flip-flopper who claimed to run the state on the principles of the Bible, but forgot its teachings when it really mattered!
Karla Faye Tucker not only killed someone with a pick-ax, she also committed the sin of adultery, and even a 7th day Adventist knows that the Bible demands that she be stoned to death, to maintain the purity of the community. With Left wing extremists running Austin, it’s no wonder why Texans are calling for secession from the United States. But there could be an upside to secession, although the other 49 states couldn’t function without Texas in the union, it might be what it takes to get them in touch with God.
Author Jeremy Scahill has authored a book that blows the lid off of Blackwater and it’s atrocities against human life.
Why is this on Stop The American Taliban?
Erik Prince, Founder and Owner of Blackwater, has been quoted as saying that he went to Iraq in order to (paraphrasing): “Rid the world of Muslims to allow the Christian faith to rise” He thinks of himself as a Holy Warrior For God. Yeah, Erik Prince just might be a member of The American Taliban. Check out Jeremy’s book.
In this video Bill interviews Jeremy Scahill author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Jesus Camp is a 2006 documentary directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a pentecostal summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their “prophetic gifts” and being taught that they can “take back America for Christ.”
FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday.
Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school’s rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.
In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”
Also in the book, she calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”
In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”
Also in the book, she calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”
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“Personhood Florida,” a religious-based group, wants to constitutionally define conception as the “biological beginnings” of life. Language is still being worked out, but this would define life as beginning when the sperm meets the egg. We earlier wrote about the Virginia-based “American Life League” that is promoting this concept, but it’s important to also note the effect it will have on a women’s right to contraception.
