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| Swamper |
The world is ed.
Perhaps if the parents learned to raise their children properly they wouldn't turn out to be such disturbers... lets all blame MTV!
It's funny how a tit on TV can cause such a stir but for many of them their sugar-coated CNN existance is a lame security blanket masking the real perils they face. Americans are losing many of the freedoms that founded their society and its all being done under the guise of national security. right.
As an aside, I was reading this yesterday - some people need to lighten up. |
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| DaveSZ |
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Tennessee County Wants To Ban Gays
Posted: March 17, 2004 5:04 p.m. ET
(Nashville, Tennessee) Rhea County, about 30 miles north of Chattanooga, want the state to give it the power to arrest gays for "crimes against nature".
In a unanimous vote the county commissioners passed a motion asking its state representatives to introduce legislation to allow it to lay the charges. For Commissioner J-C Fugate, the issue is simple. He wants to keep "homosexuals out of here.''
Rhea County is famous as the scene of the "Scopes Monkey Trial". In 1925, high school teacher John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution and fined $100. The conviction was later overturned.
There was little discussion about Fugate's motion before the 8-to-0 vote in favor of the measure. Three audience members who spoke before Fugate's motion advocated prayer in schools and denounced drinking alcohol and county zoning.
When the motion passed some people in the audience applauded.
Fugate said all the "fuss over homosexual marriage" had made him and others in the community angry
Fugate also proposed a motion that would direct County Attorney Gary Fritts to find the best way to enact a local law banning gays from living in Rhea County. Commissioners asked Fritts to bring a resolution requesting the ban to next month's commission meeting for another vote.
It is doubtful either measure would stand up in court. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws and ruled there is a constitutionally protected right to adults' private sexual conduct.
Matt Nevels, president of the Chattanooga chapter of Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said he knows of of a number of gays and their parents who live in Rhea County.
"That is the most farfetched idea put forth by any kind of public official," Nevels said. "I'm outraged."
Rhea County holds an annual festival commemorating the Scopes Trial. The school system teaches Creativism as a viable alternative to evolution. In 2002, a federal judge ruled unconstitutional the Rhea County school board's Bible Education Ministry, a class taught in the public schools by students from a Christian college.
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LOL the creationists are at it again. |
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| butterfly |
this sickens me.
i dont really give a damn what happens to mcdonalds because i am bothered by how many chain stores are taking over the world, but the power trip of the ultra conservatives literally makes me sick. it makes me feel like a ing minority in this country. it pisses me off that everything has to be blessed by christianity before it can have a place in this ing country. i think i hate this more than might be reasonable and i dont know why but i cant wait for america to get over this ultra conservatism phase. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
i cant wait for america to get over this ultra conservatism phase. |
Well, don't hold your breath. |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Well, don't hold your breath. |
*sigh* |
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| DaveSZ |
You know, the more I read everyday, the more I can't believe how ed up America has become in the last few years.
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
this sickens me.
i dont really give a damn what happens to mcdonalds because i am bothered by how many chain stores are taking over the world, but the power trip of the ultra conservatives literally makes me sick. it makes me feel like a ing minority in this country. it pisses me off that everything has to be blessed by christianity before it can have a place in this ing country. i think i hate this more than might be reasonable and i dont know why but i cant wait for america to get over this ultra conservatism phase. |
In reality, the Fundie agenda isn't even true conservatism. Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern conservative movement (that has since been hijacked and perverted into a despicable shadow of its former self) has decried the Fundies taking over the Republican Party.
I've made it my goal to declare a war on terror here at home by educating everyone I know about how the Fundies are trying to establish a theocracy in America through the political and court systems, and destroy all of our freedoms.
Why should we let 15% of the US population control the rest of us?
That’s ridiculous, and we shouldn’t stand for it.
Thoughts by Barry Goldwater:
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
You know, the more I read everyday, the more I can't believe how ed up America has become in the last few years.
In reality, the Fundie agenda isn't even true conservatism. Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern conservative movement (that has since been hijacked and perverted into a despicable shadow of its former self) has decried the Fundies taking over the Republican Party.
I've made it my goal to declare a war on terror here at home by educating everyone I know about how the Fundies are trying to establish a theocracy in America through the political and court systems, and destroy all of our freedoms.
Why should we let 15% of the US population control the rest of us?
That’s ridiculous, and we shouldn’t stand for it.
Thoughts by Barry Goldwater:
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html |
is it really only 15%? |
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| daffodil |
| wooohoo!! YAY FOR THE AFA :D i love these people, they keep me entertained all the time! for some reason there is nothing funnier than the irrationality and extremism created by blind devotion to religion. of course, it has some scary implications when these people gain power, but for now i'll just laugh and hope kerry gets elected. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
LOL the creationists are at it again. |
Yea that idea got shot down in all of 15 minutes:
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Tennessee County Reverses Ban on Gays
BILL POOVEY
Associated Press
DAYTON, Tenn. - Commissioners in rural, conservative Rhea County never intended to create the "wildfire" of reaction that resulted from banning gay people, the county attorney said after the board reversed its 2-day-old decision.
The original vote was meant to show support for the state's ban on same-sex marriages, county Attorney Gary Fritts said Thursday.
"They wanted to send a message to our (state) representative and senator that Rhea County supports the ban on same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage is what it was all about," Fritts said. "There has just been so much misunderstanding about this. It was to stop people from coming here and getting married and living in Rhea County."
The board voted 8-0 Thursday to rescind its Tuesday action. The commissioners declined to comment as deputies escorted them to and from the meeting, where they overturned the earlier vote and quickly adjourned.
Fritts said he advised the commissioners that they could not ban homosexuals or make them subject to criminal charges. The U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down laws on homosexual sodomy as a violation of adults' privacy.
Commissioner J.C. Fugate, whose initiated the Tuesday motion, also made the motion to rescind it Thursday. In a discussion about gays and same-sex marriage at the earlier meeting, Fugate had asked the county attorney to find a way to "keep them out of here."
Twelve-year-old Caitlin Kinney and others in a noisy crowd at the courthouse Thursday night were disappointed at the reversal.
The seventh-grader said she doesn't want homosexuals in the community. "It's not a Christian thing," said Kinney, identifying herself as a Baptist.
"I've never seen nothing like this," Fritts said at the historic courthouse where a jury 79 years ago convicted John Scopes for teaching evolution.
During the Thursday meeting, social worker Esther Jackson, 24, held a sign saying, "Breed Love, Not Hate."
"I'm just making a statement that I don't think it's right," Jackson said of the Tuesday vote. "It's just ignorance, is all."
The county about 35 miles north of Chattanooga annually commemorates the 1925 trial at which Scopes, a high school teacher, was convicted of teaching evolution. The verdict was reversed on a technicality, and the trial became the subject of the play and movie "Inherit the Wind."
In 2002, a federal judge struck down the teaching of a Bible class in Rhea County's public schools.
Fritts said he doesn't believe the issue will come up again with the commissioners.
"I think they got all the publicity they need about it," he said.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld...ews/8221140.htm |
Do your part for america ... corrupt a dirty dirty catholic school girl. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
is it really only 15%? |
Not really. About 76% of the country define themself as christian ... 3.7% are of non-christian religion. How many of that 76% are true fundies is anybody's guess since people can always vary in their religious intensity.
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/key_findings.htm |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
this sickens me. |
bothered :p |
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