April 30, 2008
New Church/State Controversy in Michigan
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I've got an article at the Michigan Messenger about a new potential church/state lawsuit in Michigan....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:40 AM • 13 Comments
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Principal Outs Gay Student Couple
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Here's one of the more outrageous stories you'll hear today. A high school principal in Memphis heard that two students were a gay couple and she posted their names where everyone could see it: In September of 2007, the principal...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 55 Comments
Fox News: Fair, Balanced, Ignorant
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This is an amusing bit of video from the Fox News morning show, where they don't seem to know the difference between Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass. Video below the fold....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 17 Comments
Praying to End Crime
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While the folks in San Francisco are praying for lower gas prices, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama just held a "sackcloth and ashes" prayer meeting to try and solve crime and other problems facing the city. More than 1,000 people...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 14 Comments
Derbyshire on Expelled
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John Derbyshire, the National Review writer who can be so absurd on other subjects but tends to be dead on when it comes to evolution and creationism, has a post at NRO about Expelled. He argues that the many deceptions...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 10 Comments
Must GSA Clubs Admit Anti-Gay Students?
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Here's a fascinating case. A high school in Washington refused to allow a GSA club to get official school recognition because the charter of the group, which had to be submitted to the school during the application process, required that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 16 Comments
April 29, 2008
Michigan's "Academic Freedom" Bill
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The Discovery Institute has announced that Michigan state Rep. John Moolenaar (they misspelled his name) has submitted an "academic freedom" bill similar to the ones being debated in Florida, Oklahoma and other states. Interestingly enough, the bill isn't even on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 PM • 8 Comments
Listen to an Interview with Me
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The good chaps at Reasonable Doubts have posted an interview they did with me after my speech about the religious right's demonization of the ACLU last month. It was a fun interview. We just kept talking so long that we...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 5 Comments
Keyes Loses Constitution Party Nomination
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Okay, I'm laughing. Alan Keyes can't even win the vote to become the presidential nominee from the Constitution Party. They voted Chuck Baldwin to be the nominee instead. In fact, Keyes couldn't even top his previous best of 29% in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 14 Comments
Pray for Lower Gas Prices
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The San Francisco newspaper reports: Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer. Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 34 Comments
The Pretense of Science
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Just like creationists who cover their religious views with a thin veneer of science, the same thing goes on in fields like psychology and especially in areas like ex-gay therapy. Warren Throckmorton is Professor of Psychology and Director of the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 49 Comments
More Barber Lies on Day of Silence
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The full-scale freakout going on by the anti-gay bigots over the Day of Silence is quite interesting to watch. They're reading off the same dishonest talking points over and over again. Matt Barber, on a Concerned Women for America radio...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 26 Comments
April 28, 2008
Media Covers Jeremy Hall Case
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Jeremy Hall is the Army specialist who has filed suit against the Pentagon claiming that a superior officer violated his rights by threatening him with retaliation for forming a group of atheists in his unit (with permission from the chaplain,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 29 Comments
The Irrepressible Absurdity of Ken Hutcherson
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Longtime Dispatches reader Skemono reports on uber-bigot Ken Hutcherson's protest against the Day of Silence at his daughter's school in the Seattle area. As usual, Hutcherson is terminally clueless in his perception of the event: Hutcherson, who had called for...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 37 Comments
7th Circuit Upholds Anti-Gay T-Shirt
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In a ruling I've been waiting for, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a student's right to wear a mildly anti-gay t-shirt in response to the Day of Silence protest (see full ruling here). This is absolutely the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 27 Comments
Court Strikes Down Gideon Bible Distribution
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In yet another court loss for the Tangipahoa Parish school district in Louisiana, a Federal judge has ruled that the schools there cannot allow the Gideons to distribute Bibles to 5th grade students (see full ruling here). The ruling was...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 18 Comments
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