By now most of you have heard about the seemingly neverending saga involving atheist science blogger PZ Meyers and a communion wafer. Apparently some kid failed to eat the wafer as instructed, causing Catholic extremists to go apeshit (including the now-obligatory death threats). To underline the point, Meyers announced long in advance that he would …
Religion
Religous Freedom in the Military
Some interesting reading about the Christianisation of the U.S. Military. Army Spc. Jeremy Hall is in the U.S. Army. He is an atheist. He needed a bodyguard to protect him because of that. In March, Hall filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, among others. In …
ILUVGOD
This sort of silliness just makes no sense to me: Unless a federal court intervenes, South Carolina drivers may soon be able to profess their Christian faith with a state-issued license plate. The state plans to issue plates featuring a Christian cross and the words “I Believe,” but a group advocating the separation of church …
Expanding Faith-Based Initiatives
When President Bush announced his faith-based initiatives program, I was completely against it. Now, Barack Obama wants to expand on it: The presumed Democratic presidential nominee said he would make it easier for churches and small community groups to win grants and would spend $500 million to help schools and churches run summer reading programs. …
More Elitism
Apparently abstinence-only has turned out to be a miserable failure, but the administration wants to keep funding it anyway: Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday. The Bush administration, however, voiced …
School Safety
By way of introduction, Wayne Dolcefino is Houston’s scoop investigative journalist, sort of our city’s version of Carl Monday. He does also expose city corruption frequently, something for which I think he does deserve credit. In this particular expose, he confronts the founder of Parkway Christian School, which boasts “a program based on Christian character, …
Paging Nelson Muntz
In retrospect it amazes me just how improbable the modern Republican coalition really was. Cooked up in the mix of interest groups who voted Republican from Reagan through Bush 2 are business cons who absolutely depend on illegal immigration and nativists who will never rest until they end it, you have fiercely anti-Catholic evangelicals and …