Via The Maddow Blog.

Indiana’s Republican-controlled Senate yesterday passed a bill that would allow for the teaching of creationism in schools. The bill’s sponsor, Republican State Senator Dennis Kruse, tells the Indianapolis Star that he knows the Supreme Court ruled that unconstitutional back in 1987, but so what? “This is a different Supreme Court,” he tells the paper. “This Supreme Court could rule differently.”

It is against the constitution and the supreme court has ruled that it is unconstitutional – well… Fuck that!  My religion is true and I want everyone to know it!

The Senate minority leader managed to amend the bill so that it mandates teaching theories from several religions, including Scientology, if a school district chooses to add creationism to the curriculum. That might make religion-as-science less attractive for school districts around the state. It’s the same kind of strategy that used by the Democratic minority in the Indiana House this week, when they managed to get drug-testing for lawmakers included in a bill to drug-test welfare recipients.

Maybe Dennis needs a drug test.

Senator Kruse is also pushing a bill to allow schools to open the day with the Lord’s Prayer. As with his creationism bill, he’s slipping religion into the classroom under the flag of choice, but that choice only goes so far. The school district gets to decide whether to “require” that creationism be taught. In an interview with the Christian Post, Kruse described the bill’s origins:

“Pastors and members of my Sunday School class encouraged me to introduce the bill this year,” said Indiana State Senator Dennis Kruse, author of SB 89, to CP.

“I have thought about introducing it over the last decade and decided not to do so until this year.”

Republicans won control of the state legislature in the 2010 elections, and this year they’re moving ahead in a hurry. Indiana, your time is now.

He made a law because his pastor wanted it.  This is why religion cannot play a role in our government.

The stupid – it burns!

This via the john DePetro Show.

Just a few days ago,Jessica Ahlquist won her lawsuit against her school.  They had a prayer up on the wall and the court just ruled that it was a violation of the US constitution.

Now, Rhode Island State Representative Peter G. Plumbo decided to use his position of power to attack a 16-year-old girl.  He called Jessica Ahlquist and “evil little thing”.  Clearly this is a small man with a small mind and should not hold a position within our government.

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Here is Jessica’s Tweet on the topic.

If you would like to contact Mr. Palumbo you can use this e-mail…

rep-palumbo@rilin.state.ri.us

or send a letter here…

67 Kearney Street
Cranston, RI 02920

or give him a call…
(401)785-2882

via CNN.

Now that several of the other GOP nutters have fallen from grace we now have the 6th (or is it the 7th) new star for the christian right!  They are worried that a mormon would not be christian enough.  Their new come from behind (sorry – could not stop myself) star is Rick Santorum.  I found this little write up on CNN…

(CNN) — There are two Rick Santorums: The first one I might not agree with, but the second one truly scares me.

Plainly put, Rick Santorum wants to convert our current legal system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with religious law, not unlike what the Taliban want to do in Afghanistan.

Santorum is not hiding this. The only reason you may not be aware of it is because up until his recent surge in the polls, the media were ignoring him. However, “Santorum Two” was out there telling anyone who would listen.

He told a crowd at a November campaign stop in Iowa in no uncertain terms, “our civil laws have to comport with a higher law: God’s law.”

On Thanksgiving Day at an Iowa candidates’ forum, he reiterated: “We have civil laws, but our civil laws have to comport with the higher law.”

Some of you might be asking: How far will “Santorum Two” take this? It’s not like he’s going to base public policy decisions on Bible passages, right?

Well, here’s what Santorum had to say just last week when asked about his opposition to gay marriage: “We have Judeo-Christian values that are based on biblical truth. … And those truths don’t change just because people’s attitudes may change.”

Santorum could not be more unambiguous: His policy decisions will be based on “biblical truths,” and as he noted, these “truths” will not change regardless of whether public opinion has evolved since the time the Bible was written thousands of years ago.

Imagine if either of the two Muslim members of Congress declared their support for a proposed American law based on verses from the Quran. The outcry would be deafening, especially from people like Santorum.

One of the great ironies is that Santorum has been a leader in sounding alarm bells that Muslims want to impose Islamic law — called Sharia law — upon non-Muslims in America. While Santorum fails to offer even a scintilla of credible evidence to support this claim, he continually warns about the “creeping” influence of Muslim law.

Santorum’s fundamental problem with Sharia law is that it’s “not just a religious code. It is also a governmental code. It happens to be both religious in nature and origin, but it is a civil code.”

Consequently, under the Sharia system, the civil laws of the land must comport with God’s law. Now, where did I hear about someone wanting to impose only laws that agree with God’s law in America?

So, what type of nation might the United States be under Rick Santorum’s Sharia law?

1. Rape victims would be forced to give birth to the rapist’s child.

2. Gay marriages would be annulled.

3. Santorum would ban all federal funding for birth control and would not oppose any state that wanted to pass laws making birth control illegal.

4. No porn! I’m not kidding. Santorum signed “The Marriage Vow” pledge (PDF) authored by the Family Leader organization, under which he swears to oppose pornography.

Post by Sarah Moglia

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Via “The New Civil Rights Movement” and The Des Moines Register

Rick Santorum, 2nd place finisher of the Iowa caucus and big fan of Dan Savage, apparently knows more than Harvard doctors and evolutionary biologists. In two separate occasions in Iowa, Santorum mentioned that his opinions superseded that of actual scientific evidence.

On December 9th, Santorum

said he is concerned that schools will be forced to teach that all forms of sexual activity are normal, healthy and good behavior. He said that would be “counter to the belief structure of many people who have students attending those schools” and they would have little grounds to object.

Discussing controversial classroom subjects such as evolution and global warming, Santorum said he has suggested that “science should get out of politics” and he is opposed to teaching that provides a “politically correct perspective.” (source)

So, despite the fact that homosexuality is actually healthy and completely natural,  climate change is real, and evolution is not even questioned by any real scientists in the field, Rick Santorum still thinks they don’t belong in the classroom. Should we also start teaching phrenology to students?

While we’re on the subject of just making shit up, Santorum said on December 6th:

“The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health insurance. There’s — I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance,”

“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to,” he said. “And it’s not the fault of the government for not providing some sort of universal benefit. (source)

Of course, that’s patently false, but who needs facts these days? Actually, Santorum can’t even keep his own ‘facts’ straight anymore. After being criticized for saying he “didn’t want to make black people’s lives better,” he claimed he never said that. He said “blah people.” Because, you know, that’s a thing.

“In fact, I’m pretty confident I didn’t say black. What I think — I started to say a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — mumbled it and sort of changed my thought.” (source)

Right. Blah people. Makes perfect sense.

Of course, if he did just say “blah,” that just means he actually said, “I don’t want to make people’s lives better.” And trust me, Rick, we already knew you wouldn’t.

I’ve been surrounded by a little too much Santorum today. I think I need to go take a shower.

(If you’d like more sass, please check out my twitter!)

via The Huffington Post.

Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don’t watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that “people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government”.

It appears that watching fox news actually makes your MORE ignorant!  Just in case you do watch FOX news the regime in Egypt was brought down.

Tell Us how long you watched before you were compelled to stop this inane babble.

via Conservapedia.

This is from the article on circular reasoning.

• Atheists use circular logic to “disprove” the existence of God. That is, they presuppose that God does not exist and then argue that all proofs for the existence of God must be flawed because He does not exist. Christians can use presuppositional apologetics to break the circle of the atheists’ circular reasoning.
• Muslims also use circular logic to defend the Qur’an. They argue that the Qur’an is true because it is the Word of Allah, that it is the Word of Allah because it says so, and that we can rely on it because it is true. This is completely different from why the Bible is true.
• Evolutionists will claim that a fossil is millions of years old because that is the date given by radiometric dating; then state that it is reliable because they “know” that the fossil is millions of years old due to the strata in which it was found; additionally because the radiometric dating methods agree with each other, and date correctly materials which were historically dated by humans.

I did NOT ad the emphasis to the word “Completely”.