This American Prospect piece on homeschoolers uses the phrase “Generation Joshua”. Here’s a description of what that means from the Homeschoolers Anonymous project: To my subculture, Generation Joshua means two things. First, it is a Christian youth organization founded in 2003 by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), created to train children to be …
Religious Nuts 2
Obamacare just won’t die, but US Bishops’ ethical failings keep going like zombies.
It’s like a Walking Dead zombie wearing a motorcycle helmet or a well constructed law, or something. From Reuters: U.S. justices decline to hear another Obamacare challenge The court rejected a petition filed by Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, which had raised various objections to the law, including to the key provision that …
Kansas Supreme Court Performs a Late Term Abortion on Phil Kline’s Legal Career
You all remember panty-sniffing Phil Kline, the abortion fanatic who also happened to be the Kansas Attorney General? Not his best week: The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended former Attorney General Phillip Kline (R), who investigated abortion doctor George Tiller, from the practice of law in the state. The court cited “clear and …
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Jesus Loves the Little Children
Disgusting: The highest court in Nebraska has decided that a 16-year-old in foster care must carry her unintended pregnancy to term because she hasn’t proven that she’s “sufficiently mature and well informed” enough to choose to have an abortion. The teen sought to bypass the state’s parental consent law because her foster parents are very …
SATSQ- Gay Rights Edition
No. Gay rights legislation is not trampling on freedom of religion.
Saturday Evening Open Thread: “Jihad vs. the Shopping Mall”
Purely for entertainment purposes, NSFWCorps’ The Ward Nerd (John Dolan) … There’s an idea in the progressive Twitter-sphere at the moment that jihadis are just a figment of scared Fox-News victims’ imagination. Well, that’s a reasonable point if you live in North Carolina or any of the other six states that have officially banned Sharia …
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‘Cause the Bible Tells Me So
Tom posted about the church in Texas that had a measles outbreak. Here’s a little update: […] According to several reports, however, at least some congregants of Eagle Mountain were opting out of vaccinations — because church leader and televangelist Kenneth Copeland exhorted his followers to eschew them. In one 2010 webcast, Copeland describes immunizations …