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[Coldrice]

Originally Posted by Hoek

Hopefully there's some more funny counterprotesting.

Oh, I'm sure there will be.

If they show up that is.

[Sotnos]

Originally Posted by Hoek

Hahaha.. wow.. check this out.. You know you're truly undesirable when this happens.

[RSchmitz]

Cardinal links homosexuality with pedophilia

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe...ex.html?hpt=T1

[Top Shelf]

"Thought this was interesting: Full archives of C-SPAN being uploaded."

Cool. Now we the People can watch the entire health-care debate as it unfolds, so we can see transparently what our government is doing, as was repeatedly promised.

Oh....wait. Never mind. He was just lying again. Good, 'cause the last guy didn't do enough of that.

[Top Shelf]

From the silly textbook flap in TX:

“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”

Easy. Bill of Rights, Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Send my G to the Children's Cancer Center.

BTW people too often completely ignore the second clause in that Amendment, the part about "free excercise", meaning people get to wear a cross or Star of David or fish logo or atheist logo or Islamic logo or whatever, or hold gatherings to speak about them, or put them in their workspaces in full sight of everyone, or have a foot bath or a prayer 5x per day, and if anyone doesn't like it, tough. They aren't establishing any religion for me--it's for them to freely exercise their own.If people want to adhere to some apparently preposterous belief system which may seem completely invented out of thin air by the imagination of man and dangerously irrational, that's still their right (as of today, 4/17/10 anyway). Most humans on earth are afflicted with that condition and practice it to the hilt as if their life depended on it. I don't have to pretend to understand or like it, I just have to let them have at it without crying about being "offended".

[Hoek]

What people don't realize about the separation of church and state is that the founding fathers did it as much to protect the integrity of faith as well as that of the government. It boggles me how Christianists assume that it is only THEIR brand of Christianity alone that will get the tax dollars and legal favoritism when they continue to squabble between themselves over whether Baptists, Mormons, Catholics, etc. are the "right" ones.

[the_narrow_way]

Originally Posted by Top Shelf

BTW people too often completely ignore the second clause in that Amendment, the part about "free excercise", meaning people get to wear a cross or Star of David or fish logo or atheist logo or Islamic logo or whatever, or hold gatherings to speak about them, or put them in their workspaces in full sight of everyone, or have a foot bath or a prayer 5x per day, and if anyone doesn't like it, tough.

Good post.

[RSchmitz]

It worked, unfortunately. Pretty soon bills are going to be passed on election day, because nobody is going to cross party lines. I will never forgive the Republican party for ruining the integrity of the legislation process.

[Flycoon]

Bravo, Charlie Crist. An elected official using thought process to make a decision rather than walking in lock step.

I'm almost (not really) sorry that he will probably run as in independent. He would have been the first Republican I had ever voted for in a national election. If he runs as an Indy, I'll still vote for him. Calm heads that weigh issues are in short supply.

[Hoek]

I wouldn't give him that much credit. He goes with whatever is the popular sentiment.