Everybody's pretty jazzed that Huckabee took this bullet, I'll bet. pic.twitter.com/7RezoVLgrj — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 23, 2015 Mandatory serious, constructive links: At Patheos’ Love, Joy, Feminism blog, Libby Anne — who grew up in a “large evangelical homeschool family highly involved in the Christian Right” — discusses “What You Need to Know about the …
Religion
Not Teaching Something is NOT Teaching
This is interesting: California’s sex-education law prohibits school districts from indoctrinating students on the need to remain celibate before marriage or teaching them that abstinence is the only safe way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a judge has ruled. The decision by Fresno County Superior Court Judge Donald Black applies only to the …
Less God, More Pasta
Interesting Pew Poll: Changing U.S. Religious LandscapeThe Christian share of the U.S. population is declining, while the number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any organized religion is growing, according to an extensive new survey by the Pew Research Center. Moreover, these changes are taking place across the religious landscape, affecting all regions …
Pope Francis on the Death Merchants
Hippie Pope tells it exactly like it is: Pope Francis said Monday that “many powerful people don’t want peace because they live off war.” The Argentine pontiff made the hard-hitting comment in response to a question from one of the 7,000 children taking part in an audience held with the Peace Factory organisation. “This is …
That Other Kentucky Horse Race
Republicans here in the Bluegrass State will be heading to the polls in two weeks to decide which GOP nutbar will get a crack at destroying the state’s wildly successful Kynect insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion. So far, the polls have Louisville businessman Hal Heiner in the lead for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, ahead of …
Groan
two fascists attempt to assassinate other fascists in Texas: http://t.co/eHKfVCSyG3 — Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) May 4, 2015
If I Had a Hammer
I’d hammer in the morning, I’d hammer in the evening, nailing myself to a cross all over this land: “We will not obey.” That’s the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage. “We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not …