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( Faced with rising public acceptance of same-sex relationships, three U.S. Christian denominations are taking strong measures this week to condemn homosexual acts as sinful. )

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"Here is a link to the blog 'Once Upon a Time...' regarding the above subjects."

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by Joshua Holland at 7:04 AM on November 14, 2006

From the Lippard Blog, via Pharyngula:

A history teacher at the local public high school [in Kearny, New Jersey] may have bitten off more than he cares to chew this fall. Self-described conservative Baptist David Paszkiewicz used his history class to proselytize biblical fundamentalism over the course of several days at the beginning of this school year.

Among his remarks in open class were statements that a being must have created the universe, that the Christian Bible is the word of God, and that dinosaurs were aboard Noah's ark. If you do not accept Jesus, he flatly proclaimed to his class, "you belong in hell." Referring to a Muslim student who had been mentioned by name, he lamented what he saw as her inevitable fate should she not convert. In an attempt to promote biblical creationism, he also dismissed evolution and the Big Bang as non-scientific, arguing by contrast that the Bible is supported by what he calls confirmed biblical prophecies.

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Original link.


Matthew LaClair is a bright and courageous young man, and this is hardly the first example of those qualities he has shown. It's difficult to stand up for your rights--and the rights of those who may not appreciate what you are doing--when you're still a minor. The fact that he has done so, in both this case and the Pledge one mentioned, should be cause for hope. Unfortunately, as the article demonstrates, there are still a great many members of the Religious Right who think they have a mandate to insert their religious beliefs into every arena of public discourse, even when it is clearly not warranted.

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I picked this little tidbit from warrenelliscomto show how nice Christian folk can be to their neighbors. Yeah that whole nice being a good Christian thing is really showing over in the UK right now. ( Yes I'm being very snarky here).

Hopefully they never get invited back and I think the staff and customers at the Magic Box should have pressed charges of assault and harrassment, if those Christians are so hard pressed to harrass the local pagan maybe they should have gone to jail and seen what harrassment is all about. I think a few days in jail and being treated as second-class would show them the proper humility that Jesus always talks about. 

The original link is here

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Toys for Tots has decided to accept a toymaker's gift of 4,000 bible-quoting Jesus dolls after all.

According to the article, Toys for Tots has accepted the 4,000 talking Jesus dolls from Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Co., but offered no comment as to why the changed their mind.

Now... it seems to me that the reasons that Toys for Tots couldn't hand these dolls out have been made abundantly clear. Does anyone else suspect some high level meddling?