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Conservatives Want America to be a “Christian Nation” – Here’s What That Would Actually Look Like

By Stacy Reed

Let’s compare Rick Perry’s version of “Christian values” to what the Bible really dictates. From the page: All these ideas, so clearly advocated in the Bible, are utterly contrary to what this nation stands for. The idea of divine-right kingship is what our founders successfully rebelled against in bringing forth this country. America is a democracy where the people chooseContinue readingConservatives Want America to be a “Christian Nation” – Here’s What That Would Actually Look Like

The Statue of Liberty is a “Demonic Idol”

By Stacy Reed

via Daily Kos To paraphrase: John Benefiel claims that America is under a curse from God because we possess monuments to pagan idols. He also wants his followers to believe that Americans needs to renounce and destroy those demonic idols, one being the Statue of Liberty because it represents a “false goddess.” Transcript: “Libertas” is also called the “Freedom Goddess,”Continue readingThe Statue of Liberty is a “Demonic Idol”

“In Good We Trust,” Says New Humanist Billboard

By Stacy Reed

http://americanhumanist.org/news/details/2010-04-in-good-we-trust-says-new-humanist-billboard From the page: “This billboard nicely sums up two of the main messages of the American Humanist Association,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the AHA. “First, that you don’t have to believe in God to be good–in fact, humanists and other nontheists see being good as one of the most important of responsibilities in our one and onlyContinue reading“In Good We Trust,” Says New Humanist Billboard

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

By Stacy Reed

The dumbing down of America, folks. From the page: AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting RepublicanContinue readingTexas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

Why

By Stacy Reed

http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/why.htm From the page: “It is necessary to have specific language in the Constitution affirming the principle of equal rights on the basis of sex because for more than two centuries, women have had to fight long and hard political battles to win rights that men (at first certain white men, eventually all men) possessed automatically because they were male.”

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