US Congress Wants Religious Experts to Weigh in on Three-Parent IVF. Roy Moore's twisted history: Islam and Buddhism don't have First Amendment protection, chief justice says (commentary and live chat) Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore talks to the crowd after being sworn into office Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala.
(Julie Bennett / jbennett@al.com) Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore spoke from the pulpit, and make no mistake, it was a sermon. "Let's get real," he said. "Let's learn our history. Let's stop playing games. " Moore spoke to the Pastors-for-Life in Mississippi in January, but video from that speech only began to make its way around the Internet in the last week. "Everybody, to include the United States Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one little word in the first amendment called 'religion,'" he said.
Moore insisted that freedom of religion applies only the God of the Bible, and therefore the protections of the establishment clause do not extend to other religions, such as Islam and Buddhism. "They don't want to do that, because that acknowledges the creator God," he said. OK, Judge. "Buddha didn't create us. Religious Exemption from Healthcare Law Overwhelmingly Passes the House… and That’s Bad. Www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Is-News-Corp-Failing-Science.pdf. Mitt Romney on Obama Voters. David Letterman - President Barack Obama. Romney, Business Allies Finish With Strong Argument: Vote With Us, Or You're Fired. WASHINGTON -- The Mitt Romney campaign and its business allies are driving home a final message unlike one we've seen in past presidential campaigns: Vote Romney, or you're fired.
The pressure on workers in swing states to toe the GOP line hasn't been restricted to any particular industry. Laid-Off Georgia Pacific Workers Told to Vote For GOP Rep Who Wouldn’t Fight Plant Closure. Thursday, Nov 1, 2012, 12:45 pm BY Mike Elk David H.
Koch (R) and Richard Fink (L) are both executives at Koch Industries, which is telling Duluth Georgia Pacific employees to support the very politicians who are taking away their jobs. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty) At the beginning of October, Glenn Jackson got an unusual packet in the mail from Georgia Pacific, the company that had employed him in its thin wood-manufacturing plant in Duluth, Minn., for 21 years. If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored cronies, put unprecedented regulatory burdens on businesses, prevent or delay important new construction projects, and excessively hinder free trade, then many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills.
“It reminded me of a bully of the playground: you vote our way or you go,” says Jackson. Cravaack wrote: Congressman draws fire for calling evolution, Big Bang ‘lies from the pit of hell’ By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Washington (CNN) – A U.S. congressman is attracting attention and criticism for an online video that shows him blasting evolution and the Big Bang theory as “lies from the pit of hell” in a recent speech at a church event in his home state of Georgia.
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell,” U.S Rep. Paul Broun said in an address last month at a banquet organized by Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.” Broun, a medical doctor by training, serves on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Speaking at Liberty Baptist Church’s Sportsman’s Banquet on September 27, he said that “a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.” Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter. Facebook. Yes, Todd Akin, victims of 'legitimate rape' get pregnant - here's scientific proof. SLR-bill.