Oct

14

Which Brings Me To Tonight’s Word

October 14, 2009 by Brandon | 10 Comments

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Oct

8

Not two hours from where I live, a Pennsylvania couple is being charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing their two year old son to expire from bacterial pneumonia in their Philadelphia home. The parents believe that God can heal the sick through prayer, but as the body of their dead son would suggest, it didn’t quite work out as planned.

“All it would have taken is a simple visit to a doctor for antibiotics or Tylenol, maybe, to keep this child alive,” Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said during the couple’s preliminary hearing.

And that’s what makes this so sad, that a very treatable illness took the life of this child because his parents are nutjobs.

Herbert and Catherine Schaible, who are out on bail, are the worst of the worst, in my opinion, when it comes to religious fanatics. Believe what you want. Do to yourself whatever you want to do in accordance to those beliefs. But your religious rights end there. You unfortunately have the right to brainwash your kid with whatever nonsense you want to shove in his or her brain, but when it comes to physical neglect and abuse, all bets are off.

Hopefully something good will come out of this; hopefully it will create some sort of precedent in this state that holds idiots like these two accountable for their crimes, instead of allowing them to hid behind their religion.



Oct

5

Don’t Cross The Government

October 5, 2009 by Brandon | 20 Comments

A case regarding a WWI memorial in the form of a cross on a Federal preserve will be heard by the Supreme Court. The case goes back quite a ways, and is by no means a new issue. The memorial was created by a Great War vet, Riley Bembry, in 1932, decades before the land actually was set aside by the government.

Bembry continued to care for the monument up until his death in 1984, and then in 1994, 1.6 million acres of California desert was transferred to the National Parks Service, including the land where the Mojave Cross stands.

Honestly, I have no issue with this. And most people don’t either. The cross existed before the land was transferred. But we hit a bit of a snag because a few years later, a nearby resident wanted to put up a Buddhist shrine and his request was denied.

Enter the ACLU and roughly 10 years of  legal issues surrounding this cross. More recently, to my great displeasure, it appears that President Obama is considering a land trade in order to make 1 acre of land where the cross is privately owned, thus escaping the church-state issue.

Why not just allow the other guy to put up a Buddhist shrine? If you allow others the same right, you’re no longer violating the separation of church and state, which is better than pulling this stunt. This seriously equates to a big “F You,” courtesy of the Christian majority, who would rather sneak around the laws than simply afford everyone their equal rights.

Again, this just makes me sad that the first president who actually acknowledged the non-religious would even consider such an action.



Jul

3

Back in late 2008, two students filed a suit with the ACLU against their school in Santa Rosa County, saying that religion was unlawfully being forced upon them.

The courts agreed and they won their case.

Now the Liberty Council, sort of the Bizarro World version of the ACLU that fights to “protect” specifically Christian values, is reopening the case to “bring some sanity” to the school district.

Bring some sanity? By injecting religion back into the schools? Bizarro World, indeed.

The Liberty Council says that they decided to pursue the case after being approached by members of the Christian Educators Association International, who suggest that the ruling has gone too far.

The fact alone that there is an organization called the Christian Educators Association International who are attempting to allow educators in public school systems to further, or even express their faith, in a classroom setting shows that if anything, the ruling didn’t go far enough.

The ACLU, which has two weeks to file a response to the motion, said the ruling doesn’t infringe on anyone’s rights.

“Of course we think that school officials retain certain First Amendment rights … but these rights are limited when teachers are working on behalf of the school,” said ACLU staff attorney Benjamin Stevenson. “(This ruling) prevents school officials from abusing their position as government employees to further their own religious ends.”

Stevenson said the ruling does not prohibit students from participating in school clubs such as the Christian World Order or Fellowship of Christian Athletes; it just ensures religion is not illegally endorsed or forced upon students.

via School/religion ruling challenged | ruling, religion, schools – News – Northwest Florida Daily News.

That’s right. Teachers, or rather, any state employee: Your freedom of religion is not being hindered simply because you are not allowed to discuss it while on the clock of the government. You can continue to believe whatever you want to, privately. But a public school isn’t your private venue to spew your insane beliefs to children. Furthermore, your freedom of speech is also left hanging on the coat rack when you enter a classroom.

If you don’t like this, you can go express your freedoms by finding employment at a private Christian school who will be happy to accommodate your quest to indoctrinate the young children of America with your mindless, knuckle-dragging drivel. But that isn’t going to fly when tax-payers are cutting you your check.

Case closed.



Jun

18

In Dearborn, Michigan, a group of evangelical Christians are suing because they were told they had to remained in a designated area during the festival.

Why? Because their intent was to go around the Arab festival to try to convert Muslims.

Sorry, but your rights have not been infringed upon. You were allowed to assemble peacefully and your freedom of speech wasn’t taken away. You just weren’t allowed to harass people during their celebration.

So go ahead and fight for it. Because I’ll be laughing at you if the law somehow sides with you, and you have to then allow the Phelps Clan to attend funerals. We wouldn’t want to hinder their freedom of speech, now would we?

Oh, and claiming this violates their freedom of religion? Are you serious?



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The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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