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Posted by admin on October 16, 2009 under Internet, Opinion, Religion | 
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Posted by admin on December 23, 2008 under Internet, Religion, Sex, news | 2 Comments to Read
So the news of the day is, the Pope now a bigger dick to gays then Rick Warren. Rick Warren has removed the anti-gay language from his website. (Source) Meanwhile Pope Benedict XVI has upped his anti-gay rhetoric.
Warren’s been in the news a lot subsequent to being chosen to give the invocation at the Obama inauguration. Author of The Purpose Driven Life, Warren was attacked by the left for his anti-gay comments equating gays with pedophiles. But now he may be softening his position, taking the anti-gay language off his Saddleback mega-church’s website.
Now Benedict XVI is making headlines equating homosexuality with the destruction of the human race. (Source) The Pope argued that saving humanity from gays and transsexuals was just as important as saving the rainforest for animals. (Source)
Really your holiness? Gays are a bigger threat to the planet than the destruction of the rainforest?
What do you think readers?
Posted by admin on December 18, 2008 under Internet, Opinion, Religion, news | Read the First Comment
The Associated Press is reporting that an Atlanta judge briefly jailed a Muslim woman named Lisa Valentine for contempt of court, for refusing to remove her head scarf at the security checkpoint. Mrs. Valentine was apparently at the court accompanying her nephew who was facing a traffic violation hearing.
According to Mrs. Valentine’s husband, Omar Hall, she was stopped by security guards at the metal detector for refusing to remove her head scarf and barred from entering. She then apparently turned to leave the courthouse, and swore at the security officers. Officers arrested her on the spot and took her before the judge where she was held in contempt. She was quickly released following pressure brought by the Council on American-Islamic Relations with Federal officials, citing a violation of her religious freedoms.
Naturally Muslim groups are calling her jailing “outrageous” (source), but is it? Is it really outrageous to expect courtroom security officers to enforce these rules for everyone’s safety?
Here’s an image of a Muslim woman in a Burqa. Can you really say you’d be fine with letting her pass through a security check point dressed like this?
So what’s the answer? Putting a Muslim woman at all security checkpoints so they can go and privately be screened by a member of their own faith? Definitely not. Not only would this be outrageously expensive, it smacks of preferential treatment and in my opinion violates the separation of church and state. How could the government hire Muslim women to take this security position without violating discrimination laws? It could not.
Maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal. So some Muslim women want to enter the court wearing the head scarf or Hijab. What about Catholic Nuns, do they have to remove their head gear? What about Sikhs, do they take off their turbans? My answer to that is an emphatic yes, and yes.
Religious tolerance is one thing, but it should always take a back seat to the welfare of the citizenry. For example, when Christian Fundamentalists refuse medical treatment to their critically ill children, they have been charged with child abuse. Or when other Christian Fundamentalists have beaten their children, in some cases to death, while “exorcising them of demons” they’ve been rightly charged with assault and murder. (Reference)
Mrs. Valentine said, she “just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights,” but what about the rights of everyone else in the court room to a modicum of security, surely that supercedes any argument of religious tolerance.