Showing posts with label separation of church and state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label separation of church and state. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Michele Bachmann thinks that establishing a hate crime hotline is a violation of the separation of church and state. Wait, what?

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Courtesy of Right Wing Watch :   Former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann was a guest on Jan Markell’s “Understanding The Times” ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Organization trains Christian teachers to sneak their religion into public schools.

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Courtesy of the Washington Post :   Finn Laursen believes millions of American children are no longer learning right from wrong, in pa...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Apparently the "War on Christmas" is kind of real in Nebraska, and the Atheists just won.

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Courtesy of Raw Story :   In Lincoln, amid the supposed “ war on Christmas ” bemoaned each year by the political right, it appears the a...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Here's a sight that puts a smile on my face this morning. Worker remove Ten Commandments monument from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds.

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Courtesy of the AP :   A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that has sparked controversy since its installation on the Oklahoma Ca...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Presidential candidate, and neurosurgeon, Ben Carson does not know if the Bible has authority over the Constitution.

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If you're convoluted response to this question is that you have to know which passage of the bible is addressing which specific portio...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

500 Alabama Christians protest the removal of a "Christian flag" from the local police department.

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Courtesy of Christian Post : Over 500 Christians rallied in support of religious freedom in Alabama on Saturday after a Christian flag t...
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Thursday, July 09, 2015

Rather than comply with a court ruling that finds a Ten Commandments monument in violation of the state's constitution Oklahoma lawmakers want to change that part of their constitution.

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Courtesy of Tulsa World :   Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday said the Ten Commandments monument will stay at the Capitol despite a court ruli...
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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Oklahoma Supreme Court orders the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the state capitol.

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Courtesy of News OK :   The Ten Commandments monument must be removed from the grounds of the state Capitol, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ...
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Sometimes Ronald Reagan got it just right.

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Source And yet there are numerous religious conservatives today who simply cannot accept this simple truth. Sometimes I think certain ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Teacher files lawsuit in response to the promotion of Christian beliefs in the public school where he is employed. Here's the kicker, the teacher is NOT an Atheist.

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Courtesy of the Denver Post :   A Colorado teacher is suing his school district claiming the district's only high school "opera...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Oklahoma lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to do away with an Advanced Placement History course because they fear it teaches the wrong facts.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   An Oklahoma legislative committee overwhelmingly voted to ban Advanced Placement U.S. History class, pers...
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Sunday, February 08, 2015

Sarah Palin uses debunked story about middle school boy being denied right to read his Bible in order to complain about Atheists, being sued, and of course to pimp her book.

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Palin starts off telling the story of poor Loyal Grandstaff, a middle school student who complained that while he was quietly reading his...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

For those on Fox News trying to convince us that the idea of separation of church and state is a recent invention, yeah not so much.

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As you can see there is no date on the comic to tell us when it was printed, however a quick Google search of the cartoonist Watson Heston...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Ohio Republican Governor forcing public schools to partner with faith based organizations in order to qualify for tax dollars set aside for mentoring program.

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Courtesy of Cleveland.com :   Gov. John Kasich's $10 million plan to bring mentors into Ohio's schools for students now has a su...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Class...class...class...SHUT UP! Thank you. Now listen as Rick Santorum educates you on the fact that the separation of church and state is a communist idea, not an American one.

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Courtesy of Right Wing Watch :   In a conference call with members of right-wing pastor E.W. Jackson’s STAND America that was posted on...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Very accurate depiction of how this works in America.

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Just one of the reasons that I support Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers' bill to remove the tax exempt status from churches. I...
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Saturday, October 04, 2014

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia does not think the that the separation of church and state means the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion. Did I mention that he is on the Supreme Court?

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So here are a few things that Justice Scalia said to the audience of the Colorado Christian University on Wednesday courtesy of the Washin...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Pennsylvania teenager might get two years for face raping a statue of Jesus.

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Courtesy of Mother Jones :   Teenagers are prone to dumb, tasteless pranks, but one 14-year-old is facing prison time for his latest stu...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Federal judge rules that controversial Ten Commandments monument in New Mexico must go.

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Courtesy of HuffPo : A federal judge on Thursday ruled that a New Mexico city must remove a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments...
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

On this date in 1948 the Supreme Court officially banned religious instruction in public schools. Somebody might want to remind the Republicans of that.

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Vashti McCollum and her son James. Courtesy of the Freedom from Religion Foundation :   On this date in 1948, the landmark U.S. Supre...
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