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    DC cop threatens woman with handcuffs when she refuses to take off hijab at public library

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/d-c-...e+Raw+Story%29

    But I suppose he wouldn't cuff a Catholic nun in her "hijab".

    but the hijab means she might be a terrorist

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    Catholics extremists were THE ORIGINAL TERRORIST in the w. hemisphere and dont none of you catholic suckers forget it hoes. ok?

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    Why the you catholic beans think you are catholic in the first goddam mother ing place. And god hates you very much .

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    Catholics extremists were THE ORIGINAL TERRORIST in the w. hemisphere and dont none of you catholic suckers forget it hoes. ok?

    Don't forget the Vikings.


    Not really relevant in 2016 tho.

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    Don't forget the Vikings.


    Not really relevant in 2016 tho.

    Tell me more about it

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    Who did the vikings terrorize by order of their god in the w hemisphere and with what religion?

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    Catholics extremists were THE ORIGINAL TERRORIST in the w. hemisphere and dont none of you catholic suckers forget it hoes. ok?
    .... also conducted the first War on Drugs.

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    Ted Cruz’s Terrifying Approach to ‘Religious Liberty’

    Mr. Cruz is a hard-core member of the group of Americans whose politics are driven primarily, or even entirely, by their personal religious beliefs. They think these beliefs should be the law of the land, although they always take care to act as though they are simply trying to honor the Cons ution’s mandate to protect religious freedom.

    And so Mr. Cruz created a “Religious Liberty Advisory Council” to offer suggestions of things he can do as president to protect religious freedom — in other words, to make sure that evangelical Christianity is embedded in government and the law, and that gay Americans and other godless non-believers are dealt with properly.


    As Zack Ford pointed out at ThinkProgress, the council includes only members of “the most conservative iterations of Christianity.” It is led by Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, a group that makes the Tea Party look like a gang of socialist agitators. So the results were predictable, and predictably disturbing.

    They include

    making sure that gay Americans don’t have any special protection against discrimination in the public arena or the workplace;

    repealing the mandate that employers’ health insurance plans include contraception coverage;

    allowing religious groups to go on claiming tax deductions for blatantly political activity;

    and on and on.


    Mr. Cruz is currently losing the nominating contest, so why worry about this? Because anti-Trump forces in the Republican Party actually point to Mr. Cruz sometimes as an alternative, because Mr. Cruz is going to go on being a senator, and because these ideas form the bedrock of the agenda of the right wing.


    However the nomination fight turns out, the intolerant Christian right is not planning on folding up its tent and leaving the field of battle any time soon.

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/taki...gious-liberty/



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    Public school teacher busted after forcing kids to watch Mel Gibson’s gruesome Jesus flick




    Arkansas history teacher has been suspended after students complained that he forced them to watch Mel Gibson’s graphic and violent 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ.

    In a recording taken by a student, the teacher also complained about Democrats and liberals, bemoaning “political correctness.”

    “It was weird. He shouldn’t have done it because there are a lot of students that have different religions. It just didn’t feel right,” Kristina Coffman said before adding that five students — including herself — walked out of the classroom as the film started

    “They were like this doesn’t feel right. They just didn’t want to be in there,” she said.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/publ...e+Raw+Story%29



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    at least you got the state right this time

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    at least you got the state right this time
    ... and you have nothing to say.

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    Christian homeschoolers cry discrimination after trade schools ask for proof they learned something





    HJo\\0meschoolers says it’s unfair that they must prove they’ve obtained high school-level academic skills to become a police officer or enter trade school.
    The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is challenging requirements by cosmetology and vocational schools that incoming students show a high school diploma or pass a GED exam to gain admittance.

    “A homeschool graduate is accepted into a cosmetology or vocational school — but then, like a bolt from above, the admissions office reverses course,” said William Estrada, HSLDA director of federal relations. “Officials tell the applicant that the school cannot accept homeschoolers.”

    The Christian legal advocacy group has handled numerous calls from homeschooled young adults who say they were turned away from trade schools or police departments because they had not passed a General Educational Development exam — which they say graduates of traditional high schools are not required to do.


    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/chri...e+Raw+Story%29



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    I didn't even know that those schools required a high school diploma. Certain trades you should probably be able to learn without one.

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    The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is.....
    Lemme guess how they earned their law degrees

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    Lemme guess how they earned their law degrees
    probably law school

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    probably law school
    Oh right.

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    Why did Tennessee lawmakers designate the Bible as state's official book

    Both houses of Tennessee's legislature have passed a bill designating the Bible as the official book of the Volunteer State, over objections that the bill is uncons utional.

    If Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signs SB1108, the Bible will join the mockingbird, the tulip poplar, the channel catfish, the Barrett .50 caliber rifle, and the song "My Homeland, Tennessee" as one of the Volunteer State's many official symbols.

    The bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Steve Southerland, argued that the Bible plays a special role in history – both that of Tennessee and the Holy Land.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0405/Why-did-Tennessee-lawmakers-designate-the-Bible-as-state-s-official-book-video

    these Christian Taliban.




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    Alabama GOP governor to face impeachment push in state legislature

    “We’ve never done this before. We’ve never tried to impeach a governor,” added Henry, who spoke alongside several state representatives who support impeachment.

    He drafted articles of impeachment that accuse Bentley of

    corruption,

    incompetence,

    immoral behavior, (dirty talk and feeling up a , aka private sexual behavior, are illegal in AL? )

    and neglecting his duties as governor.


    In response, Bentley issued a statement calling the effort a distraction from pending issues before the state legislature.


    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/alab...e+Raw+Story%29

    "distraction from pending issues"? That's the S.O.P. for all Repugs everywhere.



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    Repug sewer rat posing as Christian Taliban

    Hero teacher schools GOP lawmaker for trying to censor Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

    A Virginia Republican who wanted to let parents opt their children out of assigned reading called the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved “moral sewage,”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/hero...e+Raw+Story%29

    And Fox, Repugs WHINE about PC?

    ... while LYING that the Civil War was not about slavery, that slaves were happy, etc, etc.





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    From slave state TN Cons ution:

    "No preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship."

    ... and the Repugs slander Obama as lawless?

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    Fired Indiana trooper rants about preaching to pulled-over drivers: ‘I’m a soldier for Jesus Christ’

    An Indiana state trooper who was fired for proselytizing people he pulled over during traffic stops spoke out an Saturday and said he accepts his firing because he is a “soldier for Jesus Christ.”Surrounded by praying supporters, Hamilton, who was fired on Thursday, said his responsibility as a Christian superseded those of his job, ABC6 reports.

    “I always said after I got saved, I work for the state, but ultimately I’m a soldier for Jesus Christ,” Hamilton said, as supporter said “Amen” in the background. “And God has used that job for the last three years… and that was to spread the word and tell people when they’re hurting, the truth.”

    He then said that while he believes the United States is a great country, “it’s on its way down.”


    “We just came out here to street preach, and hopefully we’ll see souls saved today,” he said. “And I’ll be honored to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.”


    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/fired-indiana-trooper-rants-about-preaching-to-pulled-over-drivers-im-a-soldier-for-jesus-christ/?
    utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign =Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29


    Just as brainwashed as any Scientologist or other fringe cult.


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    Ted Cruz Knows Dildos Are Slippery Slope To Banging Your Sister

    ?Ted Cruz tried to be that dildo-yanker. When he was solicitor general in Texas, his team defended a Texas ban on the sale of dildos, how ed up is that? And worse, they didn’t care whether you got them from one of those Amway-style dildo parties or from the dildo counter at Cracker Barrel, ALL DILDOS ARE BAD:

    The filing noted, “The Texas Penal Code prohibits the advertisement and sale of dildos, artificial vaginas, and other obscene devices” but does not “forbid the private use of such devices.” The plaintiffs had argued that this case was similar to Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’ law against sodomy.

    But Cruz’s office countered that Lawrence “focused on interpersonal relationships and the privacy of the home” and that the law being challenged did not block the “private use of obscene devices.”

    Cruz’s legal team asserted that “obscene devices do not implicate any liberty interest.”

    And its brief added that “any alleged right associated with obscene devices” is not “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions.” In other words, Texans were free to use sex toys at home, but they did not have the right to buy them.

    Ted Cruz: totally OK with you fiddle-faddling your shame button with dildos, as long as they were transported across state lines. Maybe you got it from your Aunt Marge who lives in Virginia, as a Christmas present. But don’t think you can just run down to your corner Texas Dildo Emporium to buy your own, because THAT’S A SIN.


    It gets more ed up:

    The brief insisted that Texas in order to protect “public morals” had “police-power interests” in “discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors.”

    There was a “government” interest, it maintained, in “discouraging … autonomous sex.” […] In perhaps the most noticeable line of the brief, Cruz’s office declared,

    “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”

    Your G-spot is NOT in the Cons ution, lady!

    Surrender your love-stick to the Texas Rangers, unless you want to meet their night sticks!


    http://wonkette.com/600601/ted-cruz-...ng-your-sister



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    lol didnt sanders once say women fantasized about being raped

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    The colorful company Ted Cruz keeps




    For months, the Texas senator has touted support from, and shared stages with, some pretty unhinged extremists, all in the hopes of securing campaign support from the religious right and members of the Republicans’ evangelical base. See, for example, Cruz’s alliances with the likes of Mike Bickle and Scott Roeder.

    The list just got a little longer. Right Wing Watch notedyesterday that Cruz last week announced that Gordon Klingenschmitt would be part of his Colorado Leadership Team.

    “I am honored to have the support of so many courageous conservatives in Colorado,” Cruz said in a press release celebrating the formation of “his Colorado Leadership Team with the endorsement of 25 current and former elected officials and key grassroots leaders,” including Klingenschmitt.

    Some might recognize Klingenschmitt from a Daily Show segment just last week in which his ignorance and bigotry were on full display.

    Klingenschmitt’s name may be familiar to longtime readers. As we discussed back in November – shortly after he got elected to Colorado’s General Assembly for the first time – Klingenschmitt is not just another social conservative activist. Rather, the former Navy chaplain is a rather extraordinary figure in the religious right, best known for, among other things,

    claiming to have rid a woman of the “foul spirit of lesbianism” through an exorcism.

    He also wrote a book arguing, in all seriousness, that President Obama is possessed by demons. (He didn’t mean that metaphorically.)


    Last year, in a horrific crime, a pregnant woman in Colorado was attacked by a stranger with a knife and who cut her baby out of her womb. Klingenschmitt described the brutality as evidence of ”the curse of God upon America” – prompting Republican leaders in the state legislature to strip Klingenschmitt of his seat on the health committee.

    This is the guy Cruz welcomed onto his official Colorado Leadership Team.


    I suppose the question I can’t quite shake is this: is there anyone too extreme for Ted Cruz?

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

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    Ted Cruz’s campaign is fueled by a dominionist vision for America

    Cruz likes to talk about “taking back” or “reclaiming” the United States. What does he mean by this?
    Many Americans — Christian or otherwise — may find the answers to these questions disturbing.

    Cruz resonates with the evangelical culture warriors. He mixes what New York Times columnist David Brooks describes as political “brutalism” with a belief that he is engaged in a fight with the devil for the soul of the nation. It is only a matter of time before Cruz assumes the role of the Old Testament prophet Elijah and tries to cast down fire from heaven to destroy the “prophets of Baal” who oppose his campaign.

    When Cruz says he wants to “reclaim” or “restore” America, he does not only have the Obama administration in mind. This agenda takes him much deeper into the American past. Cruz wants to “restore” the United States to what he believes is its original iden y: a Christian nation.


    But before he can bring the country back to its Christian roots, Cruz needs to prove that Christian ideals were indeed important to the American founding. That is why he has David Barton on his side.


    For several decades Barton has been a GOP activist with a political mission to make the United States a Christian nation again. He runs “Keep the Promise,” a multimillion-dollar Cruz super-PAC. He’s one of Cruz’s most trusted advisers.

    Cruz wants Americans to believe the country has fallen away from its spiritual founding and he, with God’s help, is the man who can bring it back.

    Anyone who has watched Cruz on the stump knows that he often references the important role that his father, traveling evangelist Rafael Cruz, has played in his life. During a 2012 sermon at New Beginnings Church in Bedford, Texas, Rafael Cruz described his son’s political campaign as a direct fulfillment of biblical prophecy.


    The elder Cruz told the congregation that God would anoint Christian “kings” to preside over an “end-time transfer of wealth” from the wicked to the righteous. After this sermon, Larry Huch, the pastor of New Beginnings, claimed Cruz’s recent election to the U.S. Senate was a sign that he was one of these kings.


    According to his father and Huch, Ted Cruz is anointed by God to help Christians in their effort to “go to the marketplace and occupy the land ... and take dominion” over it. This “end-time transfer of wealth” will relieve Christians of all financial woes, allowing true believers to ascend to a position of political and cultural power in which they can build a Christian civilization. When this Christian nation is in place (or back in place), Jesus will return.

    Rafael Cruz and Larry Huch preach a brand of evangelical theology called Seven Mountains Dominionism. They believe Christians must take dominion over seven aspects of culture: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business and government. The name of the movement comes from Isaiah 2:2: “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains.”


    Barton’s Christian nationalism is a product of this theological approach to culture. Back in 2011, Barton said that if Christians were going to successfully “take the culture” they would need to control these seven areas. “If you can have those seven areas,” Barton told his listeners to his radio show, “you can shape and control whatever takes place in nations, continents and even the world.”


    Seven Mountains Dominionism is the spiritual fuel that motors Cruz’s campaign for president.


    Cruz wants to defund Planned Parenthood because it threatens the traditional Christian understanding of the family, one of the seven “mountains.”


    When Cruz talks about the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, he almost always discusses it in the context of persecution against Christians, such as Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis.


    He is not interested in crafting new models of American pluralism to respond to the country’s ever-growing religious diversity. Rather, religious liberty is a code word for defending the right of Christians to continue to hold cultural authority and privilege.


    Cruz’s constant complaints about the liberal media also reflect this dominionist battle. The media are controlled by the forces of evil. The media must be taken over by Christians.

    Cruz’s approach to politics is inseparable from this theology. His goal is to lead a Christian occupation of the culture and then wait for the Second Coming of Christ.


    He’s also a good politician. He knows the theological affirmations of his father, Barton or Huch might be too much for some Americans to swallow. He does not use the terms “dominionism” or “seven mountains” when he is campaigning. But it is also worth noting that he has never publicly rejected these beliefs.

    Cruz’s campaign may be less about the White House and more about the white horses that will usher in the God’s Kingdom in the New Testament book of Revelation, Chapter 19.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...b19_story.html



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