More prayer. Their one-page legislative program is reproduced below. This post is short because there’s nothing else to report from their side of the aisle. For a sampling of Republican lawmakers’ anguished tweets following the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre go here. Finally, to those wh[...]
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Possessed by demons
Greg Locke (see rap sheet here), pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Juliet, Tennessee, claims, “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation.” He says “if you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church. You can get out. You get out, you demon ̷[...]
GOP candidate wants Dr. Fauci shot
John R. Bennett, an Oklahoma pastor (photo, left; bio here), told a cheering crowd of Republicans that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be shot. Bennett previously has said Hillary Clinton should be shot, and has called Oklahoma state agencies “terrorists” simply for pointing out that budget cut[...]
Treating LGBQT people like humans isn’t a “political issue”
“A gay Ohio substitute teacher was fired last week after handing out Pride bracelets to high school students, the latest example of LGBTQ discussion in schools sparking controversy amid heated debates in school boards and states around the country,” CNN reported on Friday, April 1, 2022 [...]
Hubble finds a very old star
It’s the most distant star astronomers have ever seen, “a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos,” about 900 million years after the Big Bang, Huffington Post says (read story here), adding, “But this luminous blue star[...]
Judge allows lawsuit against gay marriage license refuser
Kim Davis (photo, left) thinks her personal beliefs supersede the law and displace other people’s legal rights. She’s lost that argument at the ballot box and in the courts (see, e.g., previous story here), and just lost again. A judge has ruled two gay couples can sue her for refusing t[...]
Here’s GOP candidate’s “proof” evolution isn’t real
“At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not?” No. Science never said “man came from apes.” But that’s what GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker told a congregation on Sunday, March 13, 2022 (story here), adding for good measure, “If that is true” (it i[...]
What’s with Putin’s long tables?
This is new; he hasn’t held meetings this way before (photo, left). The media’s typical explanation is that so-and-so hasn’t been tested for Covid-19, or something like that (see, e.g., story here). However, there are other possibilities. It’s well known that Putin is paranoi[...]
December 21st, 2021 - 6:51 pm § in Religion
Utah’s richest person quits Mormon church and donates to LGBQT group
Jeff Green, a Microsoft alumnus and billionaire data entrepreneur (photo; not to be confused with flashy Florida billionaire Jeff Greene, they’re different people), has quit the Mormon church, which he accuses in a scathing resignation letter of “doing harm in the world.” Green has[...]
How to make school prayer legal
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (photo below), a Republican, is pushing a bill that “would require public school districts to provide a daily moment of silence for ‘voluntary prayer, reflection, meditation, or other quiet, respectful activity,'” the tabloid Daily Mail reported on Mon[...]