Theoligarchy Watch, Faith-Based Dept, Sun. May 15
the bible is not for the sole use of the extremist religious right...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) were having one of their many colloquies about judicial nominations when Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a Bible and a copy of the Constitution in hand, suddenly intervened. [...] Byrd . . . invoked the Book of Esther from the Bible to warn Frist that, like Haman, he and the Republicans could end up being hanged on their own gallows if they pursue the nuclear option. "Don't 'Hamanize' the Senate of the United States."
more fears of the coming inquisition...
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[L]iberal theologians said they feared the enforcement of a requirement, urged by Pope John Paul II and approved in 1999 by the American bishops but never fully put into practice, that professors of Catholic theology at Catholic universities obtain a certificate of doctrinal purity from the local bishop.
along the front range of the rockies, on the slopes of the rampart range, amid the ponderosa pines...
Capt. MeLinda Morton, said she had disagreed with her boss, the academy's chief chaplain, Col. Michael Whittington, after a critical report by a team from the Yale Divinity School was released to the news media in April. The report, dated July 2004 and which she helped write, found that some academy chaplains were insensitive to the religious diversity of the cadets.
Captain Morton said her boss asked her to denounce the report and defend the academy, but she told him she agreed with it. She said that about two weeks later, on May 4, she received an e-mail message from Colonel Whittington dismissing her from her position as his administrative assistant, or "executive officer." "That is pretty plainly, in my mind, retribution," Captain Morton said.
and when will religious litmus tests start coming into force for the rest of us...? and possible for "some" of us sooner than for others...
It's a virulent animosity toward gay people that really unites the leaders of the anti-"activist" judiciary crusade. . . . [I]t uses gay people as cannon fodder on the way to its greater goal of taking down a branch of government that is crucial to the constitutional checks and balances. [...] Roy S. Moore, best known for his activism in displaying the Ten Commandments [deems] homosexuality "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature" and suggested that the state had the power to prohibit homosexual "conduct" with penalties including "confinement and even execution."
this is precisely the kind of rhetoric that makes me wonder just how long things can progress in this vein without some sort of violence breaking out...
and then, under the hateful rhetoric, there's the unbelievable hypocrisy...
[T]he most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose . . . long, successful political career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to lure them with gifts and favors.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) were having one of their many colloquies about judicial nominations when Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a Bible and a copy of the Constitution in hand, suddenly intervened. [...] Byrd . . . invoked the Book of Esther from the Bible to warn Frist that, like Haman, he and the Republicans could end up being hanged on their own gallows if they pursue the nuclear option. "Don't 'Hamanize' the Senate of the United States."
more fears of the coming inquisition...
(more)
[L]iberal theologians said they feared the enforcement of a requirement, urged by Pope John Paul II and approved in 1999 by the American bishops but never fully put into practice, that professors of Catholic theology at Catholic universities obtain a certificate of doctrinal purity from the local bishop.
along the front range of the rockies, on the slopes of the rampart range, amid the ponderosa pines...
Capt. MeLinda Morton, said she had disagreed with her boss, the academy's chief chaplain, Col. Michael Whittington, after a critical report by a team from the Yale Divinity School was released to the news media in April. The report, dated July 2004 and which she helped write, found that some academy chaplains were insensitive to the religious diversity of the cadets.
Captain Morton said her boss asked her to denounce the report and defend the academy, but she told him she agreed with it. She said that about two weeks later, on May 4, she received an e-mail message from Colonel Whittington dismissing her from her position as his administrative assistant, or "executive officer." "That is pretty plainly, in my mind, retribution," Captain Morton said.
and when will religious litmus tests start coming into force for the rest of us...? and possible for "some" of us sooner than for others...
It's a virulent animosity toward gay people that really unites the leaders of the anti-"activist" judiciary crusade. . . . [I]t uses gay people as cannon fodder on the way to its greater goal of taking down a branch of government that is crucial to the constitutional checks and balances. [...] Roy S. Moore, best known for his activism in displaying the Ten Commandments [deems] homosexuality "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature" and suggested that the state had the power to prohibit homosexual "conduct" with penalties including "confinement and even execution."
this is precisely the kind of rhetoric that makes me wonder just how long things can progress in this vein without some sort of violence breaking out...
and then, under the hateful rhetoric, there's the unbelievable hypocrisy...
[T]he most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose . . . long, successful political career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to lure them with gifts and favors.
once again, my hat is off to frank rich of the nyt whose penetrating insight and willingness to speak truth is such a rare commodity in the msm these days... Submit To Propeller
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5/15/2005
