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- Would You Support Schools Handing Out Free Bibles? (193 comments)
- Why the Bible is Unreliable in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate: A Quick Study in Why Secularism is the Best Game in Town (99 comments)
- Everybody Draw Muhammad Day Leads to Twitter Shut Down (20 comments)
- Believe What You Will But The Candidates Religions Should Be Off Limits In This Election (65 comments)
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The Reality About Family Values......... The Democrats May Have The Edge In The Debate
Sun May 20, 2012 9:22 PM EDT
Since the early 1980s and the rise of the so-called religious right personified by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and their "Moral Majority", every presidential election, and, in fact, every lower election, has at least partially pivoted on supposed family values. If an alien were …
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Everybody Draw Muhammad Day Leads to Twitter Shut Down
Sun May 20, 2012 8:57 PM EDT
This story shows how fragile the beliefs of some religious people are. Pakistan actually shut down Twitter because of ‘Draw Muhammad Day’. Draw Muhammad Day was originally started by Molly Norris (artist) after the cartoon South Park received threats because they depi …
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RadFem 2012 : Threats Against Feminist Conference
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 10:31 PM EDT ()
Anti-female activists are already organizing against the rights of females to hold a conference for females. Besides the usual conservative MRA types, some of the anti-female forces against this conference include transgender activists and pro-prostitution pro-trafficking activ …
Desmond Hatchett: Man With 30 Kids Requests Child-Support Break
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 10:24 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A 33-year-old Knoxville, Tenn. man with 30 children appeared in court this week to ask the state for child-support help, Memphis news station WREG reported Wednesday. Desmond Hatchett has fathered 30 children -- which is believed to be the record in Knox county, according to t …
Cameron Todd Willingham Exoneration Was Written But Never Filed By Texas Judge
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 10:16 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire.
John Fiala, Ex-Priest, Guilty In Plot To Kill Abuse Accuser
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 10:06 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A Texas jury has sentenced a former Roman Catholic priest to 60 years in prison for plotting the death of a man who accused him of sexual abuse. Prosecutors had asked jurors Friday for a life sentence for 53-year-old John M. Fiala. His defense attorney argued that anything mor …
Would You Support Schools Handing Out Free Bibles?
Sat May 19, 2012 8:40 PM EDT
There is an interesting story in The Guardian newspaper called, Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove's free Bible plan, about the evolutionary biologist and popular atheist, Richard Dawkins, supporting a plan to hand out free Bibles at schools. I just wanted to ta …
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Catholic Bishops Threaten to Sue for Their Right to Hate Lady Parts | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 2:30 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
You'd think, after such a resounding "@!$%# off" from the American public, the bishops might leave women's health care alone and go back to focusing on those important things they claim to care about. But when the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Cath …
Believe What You Will But The Candidates Religions Should Be Off Limits In This Election
Fri May 18, 2012 9:10 PM EDT
Here we go again. The right wing, led by Sean Hannity and a group of republican far right multi-millionaires are ressurecting Reverend Jeremiah Wright for what they hope is going to be a campaign issue against President Obama. Of course, these reactionaries can't quite figure out …
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Objective vs. Subjective Morality
Thu May 17, 2012 8:31 PM EDT
When you boil away all of the scripture and God talk, the same-sex marriage debate (along with many others) is really about subjective vs. objective morality. In many cases, objective morality is viewed as being good, while subjective morality is seen as being flaky and arbitrary …
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