At my "Pontifications" blog, I offer friendly and heartfelt--I mean, Hartsfeld--advice to CFI's bloggers on how to respect the accomplishments of science without resorting to a sermon. I do this by resorting to a sermon as I praise the NASA Mars landing. Hey, I tried.
And I just made a couple of corrections to the "Pontification" essay: The FFRF litigation victories I cited have actually been successful threats of litigation. Cease and desist, iow. To maintain the facade of protecting freedom of worship from govt. intrusion--and no one cares more about freedom of worship than those who consider worship dangerous and idiotic-- the group goes after mayors, etc. Our modern reading of the "establishment" clause (a phrase taken from our one-sentence First Amendment) virtually begs such behavior, since it defines religion as a threat to democracy; this leaves the practicing of faith wide open to attacks in the name of preserving Jefferson's vision. After all, freedom of worship is a guarantee from the state--what better target than the state itself?
The Sikh temple shootings are scary and heartbreaking--such gentle people of faith, targeted because they wear turbans. And it appears that someone's trying to start an Internet rumor that the shooter, a white supremacist, voted for Obama. Rovester, get a life.
Lee
4 comments:
"heartfelt--I mean, Hartsfeld" - heh-heh.
Cheers, sir!
Aging Child
My Hartsfeld cheers to you, too!
"And it appears that someone's trying to start an Internet rumor that the shooter, a white supremacist, voted for Obama. Rovester, get a life."
Your only problem is that REAL "news organizations", namely ABC and CNN, have jumped to exactly the OPPOSITE conclusion and have immediately called the shooter a "right-winger".
Those aren't anonymous bloggers, they are sending that speculation out to. They are sending that out to millions more people than any blog will.
Get a life, you say?
Yes, those were my words. So, Anon., you're here to verify my suspicions, or...?
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