“This is an absolutely foundational, non-negotiable, bed-rock American principle: there is a Creator – with a capital ‘C’ (you could look it up) – and he and he alone is the source of the very rights the military exists to protect and defend. An individual who does not understand and believe this has no right to serve in the U.S. …
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Air Force Rejects Airman For Refusing To Swear “So Help Me God” At Reenlistment
Via the Air Force Times: An atheist airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada has until November to change his mind and swear a reenlistment oath to God, the Air Force said. The unnamed airman was denied reenlistment Aug. 25 for refusing to take an oath that concludes with the phrase “so help me God,” the American Humanist Association …
Read More »Evil Mother To SCOTUS: My Dead Son’s Husband Shouldn’t Get His Estate
Acting on behalf of a local woman, the Alabama-based Foundation For Moral Law has filed an amicus brief which urges the Supreme Court to overturn the Tenth Circuit’s strike down of Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage. According to the brief, the woman does not want her late son’s husband to be able to inherit her son’s estate. Foundation for Moral …
Read More »Today Is Internet Slowdown Day
Via USA Today: Several tech companies including Netflix and Digg are participating in a digital protest supporting net neutrality. The protest is part of Internet Slowdown Day, targeting cable companies that supporters of the movement say want to slow down the Web. Now, this won’t mean sites will intentionally slow their services to make this point. Instead, visitors to sites …
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Phil Robertson: God Gives Out STDs
Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson appeared on Tony Perkins’ radio show yesterday to declare that people get STDs because God is angry about their immoral conduct. (Via Good As You)
Read More »SCOTUSblog: Supremes Could Announce Marriage Case As Soon As Today
Lyle Denniston wrote yesterday at SCOTUSblog: With lawyers moving very rapidly, the number of appeals to the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage rose on Tuesday to seven, as state officials in Indiana and Wisconsin separately challenged a federal appeals court ruling against their bans, and lawyers for the couples planned to file immediate replies. The new cases landed at the …
Read More »Tony Perkins Vs Penn State
Responding to complaints from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Penn State has reportedly removed Gideon bibles from its campus lodging. Tony Perkins is ever so pissed. Via press release: In a wild misrepresentation of the Old Testament, FFRF claims the Bible calls for “killing nonbelievers, apostates, gays, ‘stubborn sons,’ and women who are not virgins on their wedding nights.” According …
Read More »Liberty University Fires Bob McDonnell
Even Liberty University has its limits. Ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has lost his teaching gig at Liberty University. The Christian college announced on Friday they had ditched the disgraced politician after he was convicted on multiple federal corruption charges. Liberty President Jerry Falwell had called the former governor “a longtime friend of the university” in April, when McDonnell was appointed …
Read More »United Nations Celebrates First Anniversary Of Pro-LGBT Campaign
Via press release: Today, Free & Equal, the United Nations Human Rights Office’s global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, releases “UN Free & Equal: One Billion Rising” a video highlighting the campaign’s impact to date. “In the past year, more than a billion people around the world have been exposed to Free & Equal’s …
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