“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond | Election 2008 | ReligionDispatches
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Steve Lopez, "Wielding religion as a weapon against gay marriage," Los Angeles Times (Oct. 21, 2008)
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops: statement condemning workplace raids as immigration enforcement tactic (Sept. 10, 2008)
The head of the immigration subcommittee of the US Catholic Bishops conference criticizes the increasing use of large-scale armed workplace raids by the ICE as a tool for immigration enforcement. He doesn't say this explicitly, but due primarily to demographic and economic factors, Catholic churches have often borne the brunt of the massive humanitarian relief costs that arise in the wake of these raids, particularly in caring for abandoned children and other dependent family members (many of whom, not that it should matter, are actually U.S. citizens).
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t r u t h o u t | RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"
There is some real doubt as to whose votes will actually get to count in the November 2008 federal elections. It's worth reading the whole interview.
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Tony Perry, "Symbolism of the cross widens with judge's ruling in Mt. Soledad case," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 13, 2008)
From the page: "Two years ago, the contentious cross atop the San Diego mountain was deemed part of a war memorial. A recent judicial opinion supports that, saying crosses have significance beyond religion." The judge who ruled in favor of leaving the cross as is commented that "the cross may evoke no particular religious impression at all" -- a bizarre claim in my view.
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Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
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Church set up as a haven for smokers - Telegraph
A group in Holland, responding to the Dutch ban on indoor smoking, has established a "church" whose primary sacrament is smoking.
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Transgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says)
Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child to term. Others, however, are skeptical of his claims.
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Quaker teacher fired for inserting "nonviolently" into Calif. loyalty oath [7]
Call me naive, but I didn't even think loyalty oaths still existed in 2008. Does anyone really believe that they do any good? This story sounds like some kind of liberal hoax, but apparently it really happened.
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Quaker teacher fired for inserting "nonviolently" into Calif. loyalty oath
Call me naive, but I didn't even think loyalty oaths still existed in 2008. Does anyone really believe that they do any good? This story sounds like some kind of liberal hoax, but apparently it really happened.
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Last statement of Henry Porter, executed for murder July 9, 1985
An interesting final statement from a convicted cop killer. Food for thought.
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WSJ Law Blog word of the day: "Pelf"
Check this out!
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U.S. public schools' problem: too much hugging?
A few days ago, a 13-year-old middle school girl was punished with detention for hugging several friends. A few Google searches later, I find that bans on hugging (along with other restrictive policies about physical contact between students or on public
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More on the crime of feeding the Orlando, Fla. homeless
Also see this clip: http://snipr.com/1scg6
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Frank Rich: Americans need to wake up & pay attention
Rich argues that the longer the misguided Bush policies remain in effect -- the disastrous Iraq "surge," torturing detainees, retrograde legal and fiscal measures -- the more morally culpable the U.S. public becomes.
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Sullivan on the Bush administration and torture (TImes Online)
Pretty much all the arguments -- even the terminology -- used by the Bush administration defending its torture policies were pioneered by the Gestapo and prosecuted by the US as war crimes in 1948.
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Students for Concealed Carry on Campus - ConcealedCampus.com
An advocacy organization fighting for the rights of students to carry concealed firearms on college campuses. There are various state initiatives to ban concealed weapons from campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting.
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