35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate - In honor of our presidents and our nation’s founding, here are 35 quotes from the Founding Fathers that prove they did NOT found a ‘Christian’ nation.
Painting of the Founding Fathers by Junius Brutus Steams, 1856. The separation of church and state is one of the cornerstones of America’s foundation. Conservative Christian fundamentalists have sought to crush this cornerstone in the hopes of establishing Christianity as the state religion, an action that would threaten the rest of the foundation that makes up the Constitution.
These conservatives contend that the Founding Fathers dreamed of making America a Christian state at the expense of those who practice other religions or none at all. So here are 35 quotes from the Founding Fathers. 1. 2. 4. [UPDATED] SiriusXM Broadcasts ClearChannel Support for Trans Murder. LGBT-Inclusive Policies Lead To Healthier Workplaces And (Possibly) Better Bottom Lines. Today’s entry in the annals of things that should be obvious, but aren’t: Treating employees with respect, regardless of sexual orientation, has a positive impact on a business’s workplace environment and bottom line.
The news comes from a Williams Institute report that looked at 36 research studies focusing on the impact of LGBT-supportive workplaces on business bottom lines and LGBT workers. Here are some of the highlights. As a general rule, non-discrimination policies lead to (surprise!) Less discrimination. These same policies make it easier for employees to be open about their sexual identities. It’s not easy to link supportive workplaces and nondiscrimination policies to larger organizational outcomes; there just isn’t much research available. Supreme Court gay-marriage rulings: Anything but simple. WASHINGTON — If the range of possible Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage this month requires a scorecard, the potential confusion arising from those decisions may demand a manual.
It's not as simple as whether gays and lesbians can marry or not, and whether they become eligible for federal benefits. The two decisions are likely to create new questions for couples in civil unions and those who move between states, as well as for employers. As a result, what's already a complex situation for many gay and lesbian couples could get more complicated, at least initially, says John Culhane, a law professor at Widener University's Delaware campus and co-author of Same-Sex Legal Kit for Dummies.
"Obviously, we're going to have to come up with a second edition pretty quickly," Culhane says. "Whatever the court does, some things are going to change. " Ann Coulter: Win Latino Vote By Rejecting Immigration Reform. The key to winning the Latino vote is rejecting immigration reform, conservative pundit Ann Coulter said Tuesday.
Coulter offered her bad advice during an appearance on Fox News personality Sean Hannity’s radio show, where she continued to rail against the possibility of a bipartisan immigration reform bill passing the U.S. Congress. Support for Legalizing Marijuana Reaches New High. PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed.
U.S. public support for legalizing marijuana was fixed in the 25% range from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but acceptance jumped to 31% in 2000 and has continued to grow throughout this decade. "The highest level of support for decriminalizing the use of marijuana today is seen with self-described liberals, among whom 78% are in favor. " Public opinion is virtually the same on a question that relates to a public policy debate brewing in California -- whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed as a way of raising revenue for state governments.
Just over 4 in 10 Americans (42%) say they would favor this in their own state; 56% are opposed.
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Headquarters: Burbank, Calif. Global Employees: 166,000 U.S. Employees: 109,094 Last Year’s DiversityInc Top 50 Ranking: DiversityInc’s 25 Noteworthy Companies. Arianna Huffington: Millennials Come of Age as America's Most Stressed Generation. First came the "Baby Boomers," then came "Generation X.
" The branding of the subsequent generation, the one that came of age during the 2000s, was less definitive, ping-ponging between "Generation Y" and "The Millennials. " I'd like to add a third name: "Generation Stress. " According to Stress in America, a study commissioned by the American Psychological Association, Millennials are the most stressed demographic. And from what we heard out of Washington last week, the conditions creating that stress aren't going away anytime soon. But there's still cause for hope. The study asked participants to rank their stress level on a scale of 1 ("little or no stress") to 10 ("a great deal of stress"). The findings were consistent across almost every question. These levels of stress are taking their toll. In fact, it's reasonable to assume that higher levels of stress put the Millennials at higher risk for all sorts of destructive downstream consequences of stress.
The Great Florida Experiment.