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Georgia’s taxpayers subsidize anti-gay bigotry
“There’s nothing secret about who we are and what we stand for.” These are the unapologetic words of Shiloh Hills Christian School administrator John Ward, according to a story in today’s Kennesaw Patch, Kennesaw School That Bans Gays Receives State … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Georgia, homosexuality, humanism, politics
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Georgia State Senator Barry Loudermilk peddling David Barton’s nonsense
Ignorance is one thing. While potentially bad, it’s easily curable. Willful ignorance is quite another. What does it mean to be willfully ignorant? It means that one is closed to anything factual that might contradict one’s own notion of reality. … Continue reading
Sandy Hook Truthers Are Real
As a brief follow up to my earlier vent regarding the Sandy Hook Massacre conspiracy theory bullshit and how these freaks have now turned on Sandy Hook resident Gene Rosen for playing a part in the rescue, I have since … Continue reading
What the hell is wrong with people – Sandy Hook a government conspiracy?
Apparently some gun nuts out there believe that the Sandy Hook massacre is a government sponsored cover up to drum up public opinion for gun control. So these morons have decided to harass some of the bystanders who actually stepped … Continue reading
Pastor Louie Giglio’s Homophobic Past Catches Up
He’s a hip looking guy, Pastor Louie Giglio. Ironically an Anderson Cooper doppelganger: shock white hair, fashion forward wardrobe, but with an important distinction from the openly gay CNN anchor. Reverend Giglio preached homophobia. And it caught up with him … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, homophobia, homosexuality, politics, religion
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The Ten Commandments as a “Historical Document” on Display in Georgia’s Capitol
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution recently reported that a copy of a religious document, the first Ten Commandments as presented in the Christian Bible and the Jewish Torah, specifically Exodus Chapter 20, has been placed on display in the State … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Commandments, Christianity, education, First Amendment, Georgia, GOP, politics, religion
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The Challenge of the Second Amendment
A week ago, some nutcase in Colorado decided to take an arsenal in to a crowded theater and shoot a bunch of innocent people. It’s a horrible tragedy and now that the collective national shock has subsided, the good ol’ … Continue reading
North Carolina moves to outlaw disagreeable climate science
In a move that would make The Onion proud, North Carolina lawmakers have decided to tackle global warming threats to their coast in one of the most asinine ways one can imagine. When faced with potentially frightening scientifically derived sea-level rise predictions, they are simply outlawing … Continue reading
Posted in logic, News, politics, Science
Tagged anti-intellectualism, global warming, North Carolina, politics, science, scientific method
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Ridiculist: Mississippi lawmaker Andy Gipson
This week’s ridiculist award goes to Mississippi state representative Andy Gipson who at least had the Christian decency to quote the Bible on homosexuality when he went to his Facebook page to rant about President Obama’s “evolution” on the matter. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-intellectualism, Christianity, homophobia, Mississippi, politics, ridiculist
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Debating Global Warming on Facebook
Sometime toward the end of last year, I managed to get in to a long, drawn out debate on my private Facebook page with a couple of my friends who happen to be global warming deniers and I let me … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-intellectualism, global warming, logic, logical fallacies, politics, science, scientific method
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