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Newt Gingrich Says Pastors Have a Duty to Fight ‘Totalitarian Secularism’

"I think you have a duty...to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth; tell the truth about those who would
impose a totalitarian secularism on us"
to save America from “pagan culture”,

“You’re at a moment in history that is as defining as anything in the Old Testament. You’re at a point where some people have to have the courage to witness for Christ, some people have to have the courage to tell the truth to their flock, some people have to have the courage to get into the public arena themselves.”

As Thomas Jefferson said in his autobiography about the preamble to his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which is a forerunner, or precursor to the First Amendment,

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting “Jesus Christ,” so that it would read “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/...iticus+USA+%29

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Employee Tossed Out of VA Medical Facility By Security for Complaining about Hallway Bible Giveaway


Jesse Gonzales called the incident a “slap in the face”‘ for himself and other veterans.

A dental assistant at a Veterans Administration medical facility in Arizona claims he was forcibly ejected from his workplace by security after he complained about evangelicals being given free rein to hand out Bibles in the hallways

According to Gonzales, as an employee he had a right to be there, while the evangelicals did not.

the group had been refused a solicitation permit by the Phoenix VA Employees Association on the grounds that they “did not act in good faith” when applying. ( they only answer to their version of God )

http://www.alternet.org/belief/employee-tossed-out-va-medical-facility-security-complaining-about-hallway-bible-giveaway

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Congressional GOP Pursues Codified Discrimination Against Range of Iden ies

The Russell Amendment follows in the tradition of measures that purport to protect religious freedom at the expense of marginalized groups, while actually codifying the imposition of religious beliefs on others.

Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) crafted broad language that covers recipients not only of every federal contract but also subcontracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and purchase orders—resulting in an amendment that could apply to many more workers than the initial 28 million estimate.

Progressive groups contend that the Russell Amendment would allow religiously affiliated hospitals and universities, for instance, to wield the same discrimination over thousands of additional employees.

The Russell Amendment follows in the tradition of measures that purport to protect religious freedom at the expense of marginalized groups, while actually codifying the imposition of religious beliefs on others and giving the courts potential justification to rule against legal challenges to discriminatory actions.

A federal court in August cited the genesis of such measures, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), in a ruling against a transgender worker fired at the behest of her employer’s religious beliefs.

“We see those effects very disproportionately impacting LGBTQ people and women but also want to point to the fact that under this provision, an employer could refuse to interview people who are Muslim or Jewish or who [otherwise] practice a faith that is different from that of the employer.”

https://rewire.news/article/2016/10/...ality+Check%29

"religious freedom" a total lie, like everything else spewed by Christians and Repugs.

codified Christian Sharia, esp attacking, demeaning women, just like Muslim Sharia

[UNT Eagles 2016]

I wish people like boutons_deux were aborted. And yes, I'm right leaning and pro-choice, so suck my ass.

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I wish people like boutons_deux were aborted. And yes, I'm right leaning and pro-choice, so suck my ass.

you don't take my -slappings very well, do you?

Why would anybody want to perform analingus on you? you a gay porn star?

[CosmicCowboy]

you don't take my -slappings very well, do you?

Why would anybody want to perform analingus on you? you a gay porn star?

Boukaki trolling to see if he is worth ass licking. Gay Porn Star??? Boukaki is in.

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Like Trash, the Chrisitan Taliban HATE a free press


Rick Wiles: Right Wing Watch ‘Will Be Brought Down’


On Tuesday, Rick Wiles of the End Times radio show “Trunews” speculated that Right Wing Watch will “go down” and urged Donald Trump to “crush the left” if he is elected president.

Wiles predicted that “the sexual group” Right Wing Watch, a program of PFAW, “will be brought down.”

I have to say this; I am having so much fun. I know our dear friends over at Right Wing Watch, the sexual group that exists for the purpose of smearing God-fearing, righteous Christian men and women who speak up for morality—that’s your purpose, you don’t have any other purpose other than to smear godly men and women—and I’m having so much fun watching Right Wing Watch as you guys get ready to go down because your daddy is Tony Podesta and the Podestas, the Podesta brothers were part of the founding, the early years of Right Wing Watch, and the money that comes from George Soros to smear Christians.

And so I am having so much fun watching the little Podesta smear operation be exposed, and hopefully the Podestas will end up in prison and Right Wing Watch will be brought down and the money will stop flowing to these socialist groups to smear Christians. But I just want the people of Right Wing Watch to know:

It’s our God, Jesus Christ, who has turned the tables on you.
God’s people are praying and fasting and the rats are being exposed and the rats are running for cover right now.

And we’re going to put rats in prison.

I said it weeks ago, when Trump wins, we have to crush the left. It has to be crushed.

He went on to describe liberal activists as “dangerous,” “wicked” and “mentally ill” people who should be put in prison, which Wiles plans to visit in order to preach to them.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/r...-brought-down/

ing Christian grifters are ing crazy

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National Security Threatened By Religious Amendment In Defense Spending Bill

Beginning late last spring, religious Republicans decided to hijack the NDAA in order to coerce President Obama to sign an NDAA bill that enacts “sweeping discrimination” specifically targeting women, LGBTQ people, and the “wrong” faith in the workplace.

When the Koch Congress returns in a few days after yet another fully paid vacation, one of the first votes will be passing the NDAA replete with a veritable copy of North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom law;” as

an amendment protecting religious tyranny by evangelicals.

President Obama has already warned Republicans he would veto the bill with theRussell Amendment attached, but they dug in their religious heels, clutched their bible closer to their bosoms, and

swore to never back down or lose their religious liberty to persecute and discriminate against other Americans.

The Russell Amendment jeopardizes all existing non-discrimination policies that currently protect over one-fifth of the United States’ workforce.

As an added affront to civil society and the soon-to-vanish concept of equal rights for all, the amendment also authorizes any so-called “religiously-affiliated” organization that receive federal grants (faith-based initiative money) and contracts to discriminate against every aspect of society that offends their religious senses; even if their religion amounts to being a personal mental bias against anyone.

The Russell Amendment sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of the workforce and is a portent of what is on the horizon for religious Republicans’ “great America” in 2017.

“the amendment for its sweeping language that

makes every contract, subcontract, grant, cooperative agreement and purchase order awarded by every federal agency eligible for a religious exemption from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

the Russell Amendment, like North Carolina’s “temporarily” uncons utional “bathroom law,”

grants full legal discriminatory authority

in direct opposition to the Civil Rights Act, Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Cons ution’s 14th Amendment to any religious or racist bigot to discriminate

if they claim their religious sensibilities are offended.

This means a single mother can be fired,

a woman who uses contraception, married or not, can be fired,

a person practicing the wrong or no religion can be fired, and of course

people of color, unmarried cohabitants, and LGBT people can be

summarily and legally terminated based on someone else’s religious grounds.

the amendment’s vague language “could be exploited as a license to discriminate against LGBT Americans by almost any federal contractor;”  not just defense contractors.

any idea of challenging the federally-legalized discrimination all the way to the new religious right’s Supreme Court will just end up

codifying for perpetuity that Cons utional equality, and who in America is en led to its provisions and protections, is the sole purview of the religious right.

And, because they co-own all three branches of government, there is nothing anyone can do to stop them. Elections can have disastrous consequences.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/...iticus+USA+%29

aka, CHRISTIAN SHARIA

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Falwell: Trump Supreme Court picks helped him surpass Bush, Romney with white evangelicals

Why?

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, said Mr. Trump made an enormous impact with the faith community in May by taking the unusual step of releasing his prospective U.S. Supreme Court nominees ahead of the election.

"He made it very clear who his Supreme Court picks would be if he was elected," Mr. Falwell told "Fox News Sunday." "I think that was a big factor."

Mr. Trump won 80 percent of the white evangelical vote, surpassing Mr. Romney, who took 78 percent in 2012, as well as Mr. Bush, who won 78 percent in 2004. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain drew 74 percent in his 2008 bid.

"He told us what Supreme Court justices he would appoint. That's about all a president can do on the abortion issue is to appoint the right justices," said Mr. Falwell, an adviser to the Trump campaign.

Mr. Falwell also cited the president-elect's call for the repeal of the so-called Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofit organizations, including churches, from supporting specific candidates for office.

The 1954 provision pushed by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson "has been used by the government to silence conservatives and pastors," Mr. Falwell said.

Mr. Trump is expected to make an immediate impact on the high court by nominating a jurist to fill the vacancy left by the Feb. 13 death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/falw...e+Raw+Story%29

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South Carolina Bill Could Block Porn on All New Computers

It would cost buyers $20 to remove the blocking software.

http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-rela...-new-computers

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Bill Could Make it Harder for Poor, Abused Spouses to Get a Divorce in Texas

Texas State Rep. Matt Krause says he isn't trying to deter divorce.

He is, however, filing bills to make divorce more expensive, more time-consuming, and much more complicated to get in Texas.

The Fort Worth Republican has filed two bills for the looming 2017 Texas Legislature:

One that more than doubles the amount of time a couple must wait to finalize a divorce, and

another to repeal a person's right to divorce for non-criminal reasons.

Krause said he filled these bills in hopes of giving children a better future — and preserving the sanc y of marriage.

But taking away Texans' freedom to divorce without cause may

actually worsen a child's wellbeing, lock abused spouses into violent relationships, and essentially make divorce a privilege of the wealthy.

"Marriage has been devalued over the past decades," Krause said. "It's time to admit we made a mistake."

Krause believes "no fault" divorces — ones that are simply rooted in a couple's unresolvable differences — are the culprit.

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/a...vorce-in-texas

"Born in Tyler in Smith County in East Texas, Krause is the son of a Baptist pastor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Krause

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Creationist Ken Ham Cannot Believe The Washington Post Would Lie About Dinosaurs




the Washington Post ran a dinky little article about Creationist Ken Ham and his “Ark Encounter” park — you know, the one that got $18 million in tax breaks to build a full-on replica of Noah’s Ark, so geniuses can go there and see how the whole Great Flood thing in the Bible was for real and totally not a myth or anything. And that dinky little article got FACT CHECKED by Ken Ham, who — in this instance and this instance only — was actually the one who was right. Granted, it was about his own opinion on the subject, but still. A first is a first.

You see, the article’s headline was “Now there’s a theory that dinosaurs were wiped out in Noah’s flood.”
A theory which, oddly, was never even discussed in the article itself, which primarily focused on the Ark Encounter itself and some of the other weird things that young earth creationists believe.





Ken Ham believes that Noah took the dinosaurs on the Ark with him, and that they went extinct after that

He also believes that getting them on said ark was not actually that big a deal to begin with, because all of them weren’t that big anyway, and for those that were super big, he just brought baby or teenager dinosaurs.

Their extinction, he claims, was not Noah’s fault for being forgetful, but rather Eve’s fault for eating an apple and thus bringing death and extinction upon the world.

http://wonkette.com/609997/creationi...bout-dinosaurs

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Christian fundamentalist schools put kids ‘at risk’ with exorcisms and marriage grooming

LGBT students were being taught that sexuality was unnatural and girls were being told that they had to obey men.

Other students reported other forms of “serious mistreatment,” including “corporal punishment, exorcisms being performed on children and schoolgirls being ‘groomed’ for marriage to much older men.”

The ACE program actually comes from one in the United States. While the Department of Education publishes a state-by-state breakdown of the rules outlined for private schools, each state is responsible for regulating the schools in their district and determining if there is abuse. This summer, it took an expose from The Boston Globe to spark an investigation into 67 New England private schools.

Many of these religious schools have a strict interpretation of Christianity and require students to teach themselves using only the textbook.

Students in some schools were put into desks facing the wall that prevented them from seeing any other students near them. It’s to inspire discipline. They look like a desk in a voting booth.

This kind of education comes from the religious belief that people have to learn themselves in order to achieve salvation. So, kids must teach themselves to learn and be closer to God.

Like many homeschool textbooks, the ACE program taught creationism instead of evolution as fact and called sexuality an “unnatural” act and “another of man’s corruptions of God’s plan.” Manuels for teachers from the 1990s instruct educators how to administer corporal punishment to students, citing The Bible as a justification for why it is an acceptable form of punishment.

Other students report observing an actual exorcism during a school assembly because teachers explained students needed to
In an earlier report, one former student explained what it was like to be “groomed” by the school to marry an older man.

“You were told from a young age that your role is to support a man and God will lead you to him,” she told The Independent. The role of women in these religious groups is quite clear. You’re told God has chosen a husband for you and God will lead this man to you. But in reality, pastors and church leaders guide men to you. In my view, it’s grooming.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/chri...e+Raw+Story%29

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, so I can them up"

Matthew 19:14

[Chucho]

Teaching them bull transgenderism, which has zero scientific backing beyond being a mental disease, is any better? Only to hardcore biased ignorance/Boots.

You're a terrible bigot.

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"Teaching them bull transgenderism"

who's doing that, ?

[Chucho]

Washington state teaches bull transgenderism to kindergarten kids. Absolutely disgusting and abhorrent. Kids can't make ANY life-altering decisions til adulthood, yet you and your disgusting Left wing nutjobs think it well to confuse the out of these poor kids with lies and indoctrination? Makes sense as the Left is nothing but a bunch of ideologue control freaks trying to rip apart any shred of privacy and control people down to their very thoughts. Disgusting.

And you're a bigot. Not Mexican and I have longer longer ancestry in this country than all but the 5-7% that descend from the original colonists/settlers. But don't let that halt your bigotry.

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suckered, conned, ignorant as , chucho (you don't like political incorrectness? stick up your ass)

http://www.snopes.com/washington-sta...indergartners/

[DMC]

Welcome to Baboon's repository museum.

[Chucho]

suckered, conned, ignorant as , chucho (you don't like political incorrectness? stick up your ass)

http://www.snopes.com/washington-sta...indergartners/

You can argue the semantics of how things are worded all you want if it makes you feel like you won. Gender iden y, social and family dynamics that can affect gender iden y and the redefinition of gender being taught is the fundamentals of transgenderism. Yes, districts have the final words on if it's in their curriculums, but to do an impression of Snopes:

I never said anything specific to the issues your little link addresses. I state they are teaching the fundamentals of transgenderism and it is abhorrent. It is abhorrent considering human behaviors and psychology should be learned naturally. State funded government en ies should not influence the most impressionable minds with redefined terms above basic elementary common core. It's ideology being taught and it's mental conditioning. The government is impeding on natural, organic social learning and that isn't the defined role of the government per the United States Cons ution.


And no, I'm not an ultra sensitive pussy Lib. I'm just saying for an unabashed, no-sphincter-having mo Leftist, you sure are a surly little bigot. But then I remember, you are an unabashed, no-sphincter-having mo Leftist and contradicting the tenants of morality you hold over others is just in your nature. You sociopathic loner, you.

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Bou s' life story:

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you little es really can't handle my slapping, can you, ladies?

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ken ham

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Here's the Christian Taliban tail wagging the Repug dog

Repugs' idea of "governing"

Texas and Virginia join other states competing for the most anti-trans legislation

https://thinkprogress.org/2017-anti-...faa#.5xze12k60

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The Radical Education Of Betsy DeVos




DeVos, by contrast, is a professional lobbyist. She may be qualified, but when it comes to the battlefields of public education, she is plainly inexperienced.

The family belonged to the Reformed Church in America, which has its roots in a kind of Protestantism known as Calvinism, the predominant faith of the Dutch who settled western Michigan.

in 1975 she enrolled in Calvin College, ... bids its students to act as “Christ’s agents of renewal in the world.” The college is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church and takes its religious mission seriously: Faculty members, for example, are required to send their own children to a Christian secondary school.

The DeVoses have four children, whom they raised in Ada, a wealthy suburb of Grand Rapids, where the annual median household income today is almost $122,000, more than double Michigan’s average of about $49,000. The town, the seventh wealthiest in Michigan, has unsurprisingly good public schools, but the DeVos children apparently did not attend them. Two daughters were at least partly home-schooled,

In 2013, she told Philanthropy magazine that her desire to improve education began with a visit to the Potter’s House Christian School in Grand Rapids, a private religious academy. “At the time, we had children who were school-age themselves. Well, that touched home. and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents—parents from low-income families in particular.

If we could choose the right school for our kids, it only seemed fair that they could do the same for theirs.”

The DeVoses began their prolonged assault on Michigan’s public education system in earnest in 1990,

DeVos scored another victory last summer, when she and her husband spent $1.45 million to stymie a legislative effort to provide more oversight to Michigan’s charter schools.

“If I wanted to start a school next year, all I’d need to do is get the money, draw up a plan and meet a few perfunctory requirements,”

“I’d then be allowed to operate that school, at a profit if I liked, without, practically speaking, any accountability for results. As long as I met the minimal state code and inspection requirements, I could run an awful school, no better than the public alternatives, almost indefinitely.”

It’s unclear how closely DeVos looked at the achievements of the charter schools that sprouted in Michigan because of her efforts. Did she know that many of them were failing? And if she knew, why did she do nothing?

Kids may suffer from a lack of choice, but they can also suffer from an excess of compe ion. Reporting on the state of charter schools in Detroit last summer, education reporter Kate Zernike of The New York Times described a system that was as at least as chaotic and unproductive as what it supplanted.

“While the idea was to foster academic compe ion,

the unchecked growth of charters has created a glut of schools competing for some of the nation’s poorest students,” Zernike wrote,

“enticing them to enroll with cash bonuses, laptops, raffle tickets for iPads and bicycles.

Leaders of charter and traditional schools alike say they are being cannibalized, fighting so hard over students and the limited public dollars that follow them that no one thrives.”

Douglas Harris, a professor of economics at Tulane University, considers himself a proponent of sensible reform, yet the kind of reform enacted by DeVos in Michigan, he has concluded, is a disaster.

It’s hardly a surprise that the system, which has almost no oversight, has failed. Schools there can do poorly and still continue to enroll students.”

“The DeVos nomination,” Harris wrote, “is a triumph of ideology over evidence.”

Much of the fault for the panoply of bad choices in Detroit can be placed on for-profit charters,

Whereas about 10 percent of charters nationwide are for-profit, about

80 percent of charters in Michigan mix profit-making with teaching.

"The fundamental problem with for-profit school management is that we don't have sufficient transparency for proper contract enforcement because the immediate consumer is a child,” Abrams tells me. “He or she is not sufficiently informed to know if a class is being properly taught.

“There is room for cutting corners in the name of profits,” Abrams says. “You don’t have that in public school."

for example, to a recording, obtained by Politico, in which

DeVos talks about “advancing God’s kingdom” through public education. That only stokes fears that DeVos is a Christian soldier disguised as a public servant.

“it’s a long-standing goal of the religious right to dismantle public education” and that religious conservatives like DeVos “don’t see public schools as religiously neutral.”

If an education is not Christian, then it is anti-Christian. This is a view, she suggests, DeVos shares with Mike Pence, the religiously conservative vice president-elect,


An Existential Threat

Teachers unions and their liberal allies are alarmed by the DeVos pick. Most charters and parochials aren’t unionized, meaning that school choice enervates public sector unions, another favorite Republican goal. “She is an existential threat to public education,”

The vast gap between the vaunted Massachusetts "education miracle" and the state of Detroit's schools suggests, at least to skeptics, that Romney's confidence in DeVos may be grievously misplaced.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/radical-...n-betsy-devos/

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Kids may suffer from a lack of choice, but they can also suffer from an excess of compe ion. Reporting on the state of charter schools in Detroit last summer, education reporter Kate Zernike of The New York Times described a system that was as at least as chaotic and unproductive as what it supplanted.

“While the idea was to foster academic compe ion,

the unchecked growth of charters has created a glut of schools competing for some of the nation’s poorest students,” Zernike wrote,

“enticing them to enroll with cash bonuses, laptops, raffle tickets for iPads and bicycles.

Leaders of charter and traditional schools alike say they are being cannibalized, fighting so hard over students and the limited public dollars that follow them that no one thrives.”

LOL - funny how boutons would rather they be stuck in the public school with no options/choice. At least, this way, they might end up with a laptop, iPad, money - who knows what the kids will accomplish with those. Schools fighting over and competing for students is a GOOD thing.