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ACLU Attacks Educational Freedom in the “Live Free or Die” State

phonon — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:09:02 +0000

Earlier today, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against New Hampshire’s School Choice Scholarship Act of 2012, which offers tax credits worth 85% of corporate donations to registered, non-profit scholarship organizations that fund low- and middle-income students attending non-public or home schools. The ACLU argues that since parents can use the scholarships at religious schools, the law violates two provisions of New Hampshire’s constitution: the historically anti-Catholic “Blaine Amendment” and the “compelled support” clause.

Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’

Takeshi Kovacs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:58:58 +0000

“The editor of an ethics journal that recently published an article advocating infanticide (what the authors call ‘post-birth abortion’), has responded to widespread criticism by pointing out that promoting the killing of newborns is nothing new: in fact, in the Netherlands infant euthanasia is already legal and practiced."

Criminal serving sentence with Catholic monks pleads for prison

loungedaddy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:09:56 +0000

A convicted criminal who was serving out his sentence in a monastery has escaped for the second time. He’s asked authorities to return him to prison, saying life with the with Capuchin monks is too punishing.

UFO expert could be heading to European Parliament

loungedaddy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:45:09 +0000

Rupert Matthews could become a member of European Parliament, unless his appointment is blocked by his own party.

Matthews has written over 200 books on history, ghosts, cryptozoology, UFOs, paranormal activity, guides to the UK and children’s stories. Matthews also runs an online course about the paranormal on behalf of the International Metaphysical University.

When Atheism Turns Ugly

DaveD — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:41 +0000

Fanatical atheism is no worse and no better than fanatical religion, though it may be more bitterly ironic. There is something pretty odd, dare I say hypocritical, about a bunch of people who call themselves “freethinkers” and “humanists” not only verbally abusing people of faith, but actually tearing up verses from the Bible as an act of protest, as they did on a pier in Huntington Beach, California Saturday morning. It doesn’t sound terribly humane to me, and I am quite sure that destroying texts, however much one may object to them, is the opposite of free thought.

Huckabee Wants People Forced At Gunpoint to Listen To David Barton

Deslock Darkstar — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:51:48 +0000

Mike Huckabee speaks at the "Rediscover God in America" Conference in Iowa and says that America would be better off it everyone were forced, at gunpoint, to listen to David Barton.

Agnostic Father Stripped Of Custody Of Kids

atomiccat — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:30:15 +0000

The court system has spoken, and it says, if you’re not Christian, you’re not fit to be a parent. A divorced veteran in Indiana says he lost custody of his children, with a judge’s ruling explaining, “the father did not participate in the same religious training as the mother…father was agnostic.”