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Understanding both sides of the problem
I hate it when this happens! I hate it when something happens and I can’t figure out a wrong or right. There is the ‘On one hand’ and then the ‘On the other hand’ that I keep doing.
Maybe I should tell you the story first, and then we can discuss what everyone thinks the answer should be:
The Albuquerque company, Elane Photography, is co-owned by Elaine Huguenin and her husband Jon…..
In 2006 a woman named Vanessa Willock asked them to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that she and another woman wanted to hold in Taos, N.M. State law does not recognize homosexual unions.
Elaine Hugenin declined because her and her husband’s Christian beliefs conflicted with the message communicated by the ceremony, the ADF said. Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission, accusing Elane Photography of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The commission held a one-day trial and issued an order in April 2008 finding that the company engaged in discrimination prohibited under state law……
The Black Panthers that got away
Let me take you to the past and remember election day 2008:
The Department of Justice filed a civil suit against the New Black Panthers Party and the two men that intimidated the voters on January 7, 2009. Just a couple weeks before the Bush Administration left office. In April the court entered a default judgment against them because they failed to answer to the lawsuit but this all changed in May:
Sources told The Bulletin that there is internal dissension in the Department of Justice (DOJ) about a voter intimidation case from last year’s presidential election. Obama appointees did not want to proceed with the case, while the career prosecutors did. The incident occurred in Philadelphia and involved the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPPSD).
I would like to make a note that the above quote is from the Philadelphia’s newspaper ‘The Bulletin’. The article was a direct link that I found on the New Black Panthers Website.
Thou Shalt Not Teach Religion…unless its Islam
There is a slight problem going on in Alexandria townships in New Jersey with their middle schools curriculum:
At a curriculum forum in the Middle School library last night, about 30 parents shared their opinions of the text and of teacher Brian McGrath’s assignments on the topic….
Controversy over the text and an assignment requiring students to create a mini-Quran drew about two dozen teachers, administrators and school board
members as well as the parents….
Several parents said the information about Islam was too nuanced for sixth-graders to understand and that the book read like a religious text. “Why are so many pages dedicated to Islam?” asked one parent. “The book goes above and beyond what a sixth-grader should be doing at this point.”….
So, long story short – the school says that they must indoctrinate teach the kids about different cultures and how they affect the American way of life. I mean, it is a social studies class, right? After much searching I found out that the book in question is part of the “History Alive” programs. Those who know me will not be shocked to learn that I dug up some info on this program.
South Park + Facebook + Redhead = Slippery Slope
I’m constantly talking about the slippery slope and how easy it is to go for a ride down that slide. I’m also constantly talking about things that seem like “innocent” TV shows that can result in problems.
Well, here ya go:
A 12-year-old boy was kicked and beaten by as many as 14 classmates, allegedly because a group on Facebook encouraged students to beat up redheads, authorities said.
The boy was kicked and hit in two separate incidents around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas,
said Lt. Richard Erickson of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.
“He was accosted by seventh and then eighth-graders,” Erickson said. “He was kicked and hit with fists in various areas of the body.”
Detectives believe the beatings were spurred by Facebook messages telling students that Nov. 20 was “Kick a Ginger Day.”
The messages were allegedly inspired by a 2005 episode of the animated TV show “South Park” which focused on prejudice against “gingers,” a label given to people with red hair, fair skin, and freckles…
Is banning something Progressive?
France is considered by many to be a progressive country. However, is this progressive or discrimination?
President Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Monday at the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa, insisting the full-body religious gown is a sign of the "debasement" of women and that it won’t be welcome in France.
The French leader expressed support for a recent call by dozens of legislators to create a parliamentary commission to study a small but
growing trend of wearing the full-body garment in France…….
"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," Sarkozy said to extended applause in a speech at the Chateau of Versailles southwest of Paris.
"The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement—I want to say it solemnly," he said. "It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic." …..
France enacted a law in 2004 banning the Islamic headscarf and other conspicuous religious symbols from public schools, sparking fierce debate at home and abroad. France has Western Europe’s largest Muslim population, an estimated 5 million people.
How bad is hatred in America?
I was sent an article from World Net Daily yesterday morning. I would usually do the research to see what kind of spin was used and try to find the ‘other side’ of the story. However, there is just so much more to this story than meets the eye and there are too many ‘other’ sides to research.
I first began to think about this topic during the primaries last year. I was all psyched about voting for Mitt Romney that my heart fell when he backed out before Indiana had a chance to vote. One aspect of Mitt’s life that the everyone must be included and tolerance screaming media focused on continuously was his religion. Mitt happens to be a Mormon. So the same people who scream that religion and government must be separate are the very people who kept bringing up someone’s religion in order to make them out to be a bad person.
Well, now it’s time for the other side to do the same thing.
Barack Obama is conducting his own affirmative action program to get mo
re Muslims in the White House.
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