LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY wyldraven)

Snopes weighs in on AFA Action Alert against Hate Crimes Bill

Bottom line: Snopes has declared its premise as false.

Claim: A bill before Congress would make it a "hate crime" for pastors and churches to speak against homosexuality.

Status: False.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY rechan)

From Talk to Action:

On July 29, 1994 Paul Hill, who sought to set a good example for Christian theocratic revolutionaries, assasinated abortion provider Dr. John Britton and James Barrett one of his escorts, and seriously wounding another, June Barrett, outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida.

George L. Wilson of Children Need Heroes and Drew Heiss of Street Preach are planning to honor Paul Hill in a series of events called "Paul Hill Days" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 26th - 29th -- "to honor him as God's man and our hero."

Why Milwaukee? Why not? There are people here who recognize Paul Hill as a hero, and we would love to welcome others from around the country who share our belief. Hopefully, in the future, others will host events in their cities.

Planned events include:

Activities at our two remaining killing centers

Literature distribution

Ministry at the Federal Courthouse

Reenactment of 7-29-1994

Paul Hill March

Ministry at other public forums

It should be noted that George L. Wilson, the proprietor of Children Needs Heroes, recognizes two other heroes he believes America's children should learn about: Shelly Shannon, who was convicted of the attempted assasination of Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, among other serious crimes, including a series of arsons; and of course, James Kopp, who was convicted in the sniper assasination of Dr. Barnett Slepian in Amherst, New York. Kopp is also the chief suspect in several other shootings.

Hat tip to Digby.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY shawnsmalley)

I'm sure many of you have seen this article, but nobody had yet posted it, so I felt compared to share it:

Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side

One interresting quote:
In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.

"It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY amyheartssiroc)

Christians speak out against the child abuse promoted by Dobson and his ilk.

Apologies if this has been posted before.