Is it any wonder why the AFA was placed on the SPLC’s hate list? – A.B

Religious Right Just Can’t Resist Exploiting Aurora Theater Tragedy...

by Clay F. Naff, Huffington Post, July 22, 2012, re-posted by ABratt

"On the American Family Association's radio program AFA Today, the hosts wasted no time lining up a far-right Evangelical minister, Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries, to tell the audience that among the dead in the theater only those who were true Christians have gone to heaven. The rest, he suggested, are already consigned to hell."

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"Republicans call democrats, liberals, and progressives communists and socialist but have no problem supporting legislation that continues to deregulate industries that fill our stores up with products manufactured in socialist and communist countries, that give tax breaks for industries to ship our jobs to socialist and communist countries and being from Alabama give tax breaks and many other perks to corporations from socialist countries such as Kia and Hyundai.

If anyone is a socialist or communist it is the republican party and the 1%."

Amen to that!!

"From Chimps Came Man, From Man Came God"–AB

HP, May 28,2012

"We may be on the cusp of some very real disasters that have nothing to do with whether the elephant survives, or a cheetah survives, but if we survive."– Richard Leakey

"NEW YORK -- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself."

"Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that ‘even the skeptics can accept it."’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/richard-leakey-evolution-debate_n_1548766.html

"G a y s  being able to marry countrywide will NOT in any way destroy the sanctity of marriage.  Enough heterosexuals have done that already with the high divorce rate.  I know many  g a y  couples whose relationships have lasted much longer than most heterosexual marriage do these days.   Let  g a y s  marry.  They just might be an inspiration to heterosexuals strengthening their own marriages." -- Pro-marriage equality commentor 

"I don't understand all this hue and cry and support for traditional marriage. The country has probably the highest divorce rate, domestic violence, child endangerment, homicides, restraining orders, children put at the mercy of violent parents in troubled marriages and the list goes on. Infants, toddlers and children just disappear from their bedrooms without a trace!

It is not a rosy picture if someone look[s] deep in to it. " -- Comment From The Web

American Family Association’s, Bryan Fischer, says: "I am not anti-Mormon, I am anti-Mormonism"

Re-posted from RWW, 5-14-12

"Bryan Fischer has a long history of criticizing Mormonism, saying that it is not protected by the First Amendment and warning that electing a ‘spiritually-compromised candidate’ like Mitt Romney will weaken the nation and ‘threatens its spiritual health.’"

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"Koch Brothers Exposed"-- [A Must Read For Every Concerned American]

"Corrupt corporate forces are trying to buy our democracy, with disastrous consequences," says former Senator Russ Feingold. "

Katrina Van Heuvel, The Nation, 4-29-12

"With an unflinching investigative look at the Koch brothers’ money and power, Brave New Films has once again created a film full of rollicking and rigorous facts that informs and challenges corporate media with the truth. The latest in a series of tough and sharp social justice films—check out Rethink Afghanistan, WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price and Sick for Profit—http://www.kochbrothersexposed.com/ Koch Brothers Exposed should be a wake-up call for people across the political spectrum to take action to halt the selling off of our democracy."

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My Favorite Comments From The Web by ABratt:

I often comment about equal rights for gays/lesbians, and in doing so, dispute the claims that some make that religion and the Bible justify their prejudice against homosexuality. In that Bible, God gave us ten rules to live by -- ten things not to do. He did not mention homosexuality. But, things he did prohibit are done all around us every day without anyone raising a complaint or trying to revoke the rights of those "sinners." Similarly, in the thousands of teachings attributed to Jesus Christ, he never mentioned homosexuality and certainly did not indicate that it was a problem. Often, that fact provokes angry responses from people saying that "just because Jesus didn't say it doesn't mean he didn't think it." Huh? Often, people send me the quotes from Leviticus and I Corinthians to justify their belief ("this means I have to condemn every homosexual"). But, those sections also prohibit eating shellfish, eating pork, wearing multiple fabrics, getting drunk -- but, the people who oppose our rights no longer consider any of them to be sinful anymore. Apparently, they met at a Red Lobster and exempted everyone but us . I believe that many of the people with whom I have exchanges realize that the religious justification is invalid. But, they still want to hang onto the prejudice that has been drilled into them that they refuse to acknowledge it and take another look at the issue. Gosh, I think Jesus would want them to do so.

"Here's your own uterus; now keep your hands off mine," she said.

DALLAS — Inside Kimberlyn Crowe's Oak Cliff home, knitting has always been quiet therapy. Suddenly, it's become a way to make some noise.

"Words don't do any good because it's all been said," she declared. So she let the yarn became her words and her hobby become her voice.

"The statement is: 'Get your hands off my uterus!'" Crowe said with a laugh.

She began knitting uteruses last week. On Sunday, she joined a group of North Texas knitters inside a Garland home.

They knitted, crocheted, and sewed dozens of uteruses. They will send them to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other select lawmakers in Austin and Washington who, they believe, have cast votes cutting funding to women's health care and limiting access to birth control.

Crowe is keen to send lawmakers a message. "Here's your own uterus; now keep your hands off mine," she said.

At Sunday's knitting party, there was hearty laughter and plenty of philosophical debate. They want the same from the lawmakers.

"You know what? When somebody laughs, they open up," Crowe said. "And when you open up, you can begin a dialog, and you can find your common ground."

The Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas says the knitters have a right to voice their opinion; they just disagree with their position.

"Everyone has a right to peacefully speak their mind," said Becky Visosky, a spokeswoman for the group. "But we're looking at a religious liberty issue here. Religious institutions that are providing social services to people — regardless of their faith — should not be forced to subsidize something against their belief system."

The uterus-knitting project is happening nationwide. Crowe says some politicians who have voted in ways they support will receive uteruses, too, with a note saying "Thanks."

The hand-made uteruses will be hand-delivered to Gov. Perry's office during a march in Austin in late April.

"You know, one could hope the heavens will open, light will shine down, and they'll get it," said Crowe with a smile. "I hope what they'll hear is there's a lot more of us than they might have thought of to start with."

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Thanks, Ladies. I glory in your spunk...

"Republican attempts to demonize the Affordable Care Act are nothing more than scare tactics to distract from the fact that President Obama's landmark health care reform law is saving lives and saving money here in the Granite State. Those are the facts." – P. Hodes

by Paul Hodes, HP, 3-30-12, Re-posted by AlBratt 3-30-12

"When President Obama took office, America's health care system was in crisis. Our health care was in the exclusive grip of insurance companies whose power over us was unbounded. Today, thanks to President Obama's Affordable Care Act, that is changing. But opponents of reform are still trying to frame the debate as one about our "freedom" when it's really about our right to secure, affordable health care."

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