religion and politics

In Governor Perry's never ending search for a creationist to head the Texas Public Education system, he has turned to Gail Lowe, who never was a teacher or school administrator, but a newspaper journalist. Oddly, she is actually less controversial than the favoured candidate, Linky. Linky.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98VP85G1&show_article=1 I'm personally a little torn on this one. I think burqas/niqabs/etc. are ridiculous - literally, worthy of ridicule. It's absurd to tell women to cover themselves up so that they don't "shame themselves" or incite a man's lust...

Source Seems like it'll be an interesting book, I'll be ordering myself a copy. Thoughts? ETA: Ok I had to add one more quote. What?! :covereyes

"Obama administration 'anti religious,' Gingrich says" At first I thought, aww that's nice of Gingrich to say that :rolleyes:. But then the article goes on to say: This is confusing. If you don't want the government to dominate everything, and I don't, why would you want the government...

Quite a while back, before the election, I came across a series of Youtube (I THINK!) videos of then-Senator Obama talking about various things inside a church. At one point during his talk, he mentioned something along the line that religious people have a duty to consider the ideas and...

http://gawker.com/5143116/is-joe-bidens-senate-replacement-an-atheist Is Joe Biden's replacement an Athiest? Politically meaningless...he was appointed to be a place holder till Beau Biden retruns from Iraq to run for the job, but sort of an interesting story...

Atheist adverts declaring that "there's probably no God" have been placed on 800 buses around Britain after an unprecedented fundraising campaign. I like how the campaign's "modest target" of 5500 GBP was met within minutes! ETA: Mods, feel free to move this to R & P if you so desire.

This video lays out Obama's views of the importance of secularism in America. It's a great video and showcases Obama's gift for speaking and his common sense view of the founding fathers vision. odsDYodanxQ A longer video can be found here.

So I went to an Obama rally recently and here are my comments: I was disappointed with the amount of god involved. The rally started with a prayer and all the introductory speakers made faith a main point of their speeches. Obama wasn't too bad, he only threw a token nod in that direction. I...

Just a question... With the way God and Faith keeps getting bandied about in the elections in the States--especially the Presidential election(s), do you think it would be possible for an avowed atheist to be elected President? Would they even stand a chance? Could an atheist be elected, even...

As an atheist in the south I often hear the claim that america was founded as a christian nation. I usually like to respond by point out the things that the founding fathers said and other facts that show otherwise. I have noticed that I have a deficit as most of the sites I am aware of that...

Is anyone else not surprised by this? http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0S_-WZ32SLwqlSl84qr8MxA1SbQD9416KHO0

I saw this on digg and thought some people would get a mild chuckle out of this one. UwjlUMoLVvA It seems that McCain has a solid lock on the crazy white lady vote.

Maybe he just isn't a very religious person? Hell, his wife probably dragged him to Rev. Wright's church on Christmas and Easter!

Okay, my folks are Canadian, so it doesn't really impact on the upcoming election; but the discussion around this revelation rather shocked me. It started when I said something negative about Palin, and my mother looked at me rather shocked. "Everyone I know only has positive things to say...

I am watching the news right now and am really angry about a court ruling about the registrar who refused to perform civil partnerships as it was against her religion and claimed she was discriminated against (her claim was upheld). This is ridiculous. She was being asked to perform a legal...

McCain: "Number One Issue... Will This Person Carry On In the Judeo-Christian Prin." Just to balance the Obama love on this forum with some McCain. 9izhjnaLa3M So apparently the Constitution founded the US as a Christian nation without ever referring to Christianity...

I thought this was a joke, but no, it's real. This flyer is actually real. Obama gives a terrific speech on the seperation of church and state a few months ago, and then this 'President Conversion' crap appears. Dawkins was on Fox Radio a while back saying he cannot believe Obama actually...

This was an interesting article. If true, it's some of the best news out of Iraq I've seen since this whole war started. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/world/middleeast/04youth.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis. This book was not written for me. It was written for American Christians, and since I am neither an American nor a Christian, I found it a little difficult at times to slog through. However, the...

This was a great speech... It's 40 minutes long, but if you've wanted to hear a no nonsense speech about those with and those without faith in this country, this is it: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid353515028?bctid=416343938 Please, lets do everything we can to get this man...

Just about all the JREF Forum "natives" I can think of are strong advocates of separation between church and state. It's an important subject which affects many Americans, with the potential to affect many more. Of course I invite discussion here of other candidates and their own stance on this...

Maybe its wishful thinking, but ole Mitt's victory in MI led me to wonder, would it be a good thing or a bad thing to have a Mormon in the oval office from the standpoint of non-believers. On the pro side, I think it offers an opportunity to show just how ridiculous some of the beliefs of...

There is a resolution up before congress which, to my mind is a blatant and egregious attempt to deny and rewrite part of our (USA) history. A couple of lines which I have trouble with: full text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:5:./temp/~c110j6RlkA:: There are 75 "whereas"...

It's always nice to know that with so many pressing issues facing the American Congress that they can find time to support the majority and denounce the hatred and bigotry they face here and around the globe. Here's the text of H.Res. 847, just so you know how important Christianity and Xmas...

So I decided to look up Romney's speech on faith, supposedly intended to smooth the feathers of Evangelicals that don't appreciate a candidate who doesn't believe their particular brand of nonsense. Link to transcript here. Anyway, I couldn't help but notice that he seemed to be attempting to...

Bill Maher discussing politics and religion: IcUumWzue4 7xqNbZKIQUs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120400966.html And yet, shouldn't we all be concerened by a potential president who is able to ignore the overwhelming evidence and scientific principals behind modern biology and evolution? Haven't we had too many years of...

http://www.slate.com/id/2178568/ Interesting...he asks some good questions that others don't dare to ask out of fear of being politically incorrect.

Source :yahoo Though, as this is the Democrats we're talking about, this may not be too surprizing. But it is still good to hear. Now if we could only convince Ron Paul that there is a separation of Church and State...