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I say if the muslims will allow us to build a Temple or Church in an Islamic country then and only then should we allow them to build in ours.I say if the muslims will allow us to build a Temple or Church in an Islamic country... more
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Well if it says it in books it much be true.
In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant
Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus
18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a US man,
and posted on the Internet. Funny stuff.
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I
have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that
knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend
the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that
Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination ... End of
debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other
elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and
female, provided they are from neighboring nations. A friend of mine
claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you
clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in
Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair
price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her
period of Menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how
do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a
pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors.
They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus
35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated
to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an
abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than
homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there
'degrees' of abomination?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I
have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading
glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room
here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair
around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.
19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes
me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two
different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments
made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also
tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go
to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them?
Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family
affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy
considerable expertise in such matters, so I'm confident you can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your adoring fan.
James M. Kauffman, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus,
Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
University of Virginia PS (It would be a damn shame if we couldn't own a
Canadian)Well if it says it in books it much be true.
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The Politics of Scapegoating Latinos and Other Racialized Minorities
By Ron Schmidt (August 2, 2010) from NiLP: guest commentary:
The pundits' mantra for the 2010 mid-term elections is that American voters are angry as hell and they're intent on taking out their anger on those in power - and for most writers this means the Democrats who control the White House and Congress. Since they are perceived as a core part of the Democratic Party's coalition, this party-in-power-about-to-take-its-lumps presumably includes the country's racialized minorities, especially Blacks and Latinos.
Catching this current, Gregory Rodriguez in his August 2, 2010 Los Angeles Times column predicts that "white racial anxiety, not immigration, will be the most significant and potentially dangerous socio-demographic trend of the coming decade." He, therefore, advises President Obama to seize his "Nixon moment" and offer up Affirmative Action to slake the dragon's thirst for blood. Rodriguez thinks that this sacrifice is necessary "to avoid a destructive white backlash."
On the same day, the lead front-page Los Angeles Times article described the aftermath of the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision as a rush by business (led by the Chamber of Commerce) and conservative political activists (led by Karl Rove's "American Crossroads") to mount the most expensive mid-term campaign in U.S. history to return power to those who will do their bidding more consistently and faithfully. Also on the same day, Paul Krugman's New York Times column decried the trending of the country's top leaders toward "normalizing" double-digit unemployment rates as a "structural" necessity of the new U.S. economy.
Are these three stories related? I think so.
This recession is different; it is not like previous recessions that led to relatively quick recoveries and we are likely to face long-term unemployment at levels not previously seen. Meanwhile, the recession has led state and local governments drowning in red ink to decimate their public sectors, including large-scale cuts in public workforces and benefits, with dire consequences for the public. Neither Congressional leaders nor the White House even discuss the possibility of raising the level of fiscal support to the public sector necessary to halt the blood-letting. Instead, national leaders wring their hands about the growing deficit and seriously entertain the possibility of restructuring the social security system toward greater privatization.
In this context, there are good reasons for all Americans to be feeling high levels of individual anxiety, and it is not surprising that the anxiety is translated into political anger. Our jobs are increasingly insecure, and the destruction of private-sector pensions and benefits has led not to a fight for their recovery but instead to a concerted attack on public sector pensions and benefits. In this environment, it is not surprising that the public is casting about for someone to blame. And in a country with our history of racial bigotry, violence, and oppression, Latino immigrants and the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action programs make ready-made targets for politicians (such as Senator James Webb, among Democrats) and other political opportunists seeking scapegoats on whose backs to improve their positions.
The campaign to target immigrants and racialized minorities should not be understood as a result of Barack Obama's becoming the country's first "non-White" president. This campaign should be understood as part of a large-scale effort by corporations and conservatives to further destroy the country's public sector, aiming to throw all Americans into the loving arms of "the market" without public sector supports. Latinos and Blacks have been among the groups hardest-hit by the recession, and the further destruction of the public sector means that those in the least advantaged positions in American society will find it harder than ever before to climb a "ladder" to success that is missing more than a few of its previous rungs.
Rather than tossing a small chunk of "meat" such as Affirmative Action to the dragon (and can anyone truly believe that this would slake its thirst for blood?), President Obama should be encouraged to step up his campaign (already begun) to show the American people how the corporations, a conservative-dominated Supreme Court and the right-wing mind-fogging machines of the media are undermining public understanding of our true situation. And the rest of us should use our considerable verbal and intellectual skills to help the public better understand from whence their anxiety comes. A concerted campaign to improve public understanding of the anxiety-producing, insecurity-magnifying consequences of an unfettered market would yield better results for everyone than the jettisoning of Affirmative Action.
Ron Schmidt, Sr., is professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States(Temple University Press, 2000), lead co-author of Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century (University of Michigan Press, 2010), and author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. He may be reached at rschmidt@csulb.edu.The Politics of Scapegoating Latinos and Other Racialized Minorities
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(CNN) -- In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
"We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times," Pastor Terry Jones told CNN's Rick Sanchez earlier this week.
More in the article...(CNN) -- In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a... more
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Dusk fell around Salvadoran immigrant Abelino Mazaniego as he sat on a bench on a promenade in an upscale New York suburb after finishing up his restaurant shift. As night encroached, so did a group of teenagers, including one with a cell phone videocamera at the ready.
Then, authorities say, they beat him unconscious, with the camera rolling.
Days later, the 47-year-old father of four was dead — but not before the video had been circulated among teenagers in Summit, N.J., authorities say. And not before a nurse in the emergency room where he was taken the night of July 17 was accused of pilfering several hundred dollars from his wallet.
The attacks on Mazaniego's body and dignity resulted in days of escalating court actions that culminated Tuesday in murder charges against three young men, ages 17, 18 and 19. A fourth teenager believed to have videotaped the attack hasn't been charged, but authorities weren't divulging details on the teen's involvement or potential culpability.
Mazaniego was "quite a jolly gentleman," Colin Crasto, manager and chef at Dabbawalla Indian restaurant, where the victim had worked for three years as a cook's assistant, told WNBC-TV of New York. The videotaping makes the crime "more horrific," he said.
Khayri Williams-Clark, 18, and an unidentified 17-year-old, both of Summit, were arrested Wednesday on manslaughter charges. Williams-Clark pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday.
Now they're charged with murder, along with Nigel Dumas, 19, of Morristown. A spokesman for the public defender's office, which is representing Williams-Clark and the 17-year-old, declined to comment Tuesday and said they hadn't yet received an application to represent Dumas.
The 17-year-old is being held in the Union County juvenile detention center, while Williams-Clark is being held at the Union County jail on $100,000 bail, prosecutors said. Bail for Dumas, at the same jail, has been set at $250,000.
Authorities wouldn't say how many teens were in the group or whether there would be more charges. They also weren't discussing theories on the motive for the beating — whether it was Mazaniego's background, a thrill killing or some other reason.
But it apparently wasn't an attempt to get the $640 in cash that Mazaniego was carrying.
Police found the victim after the beating and took him to the hospital, where, officials say, nurse Stephan Randolph, 39, of Flemington, took the money out of the unconscious victim's wallet.
Family members noticed the missing money and told authorities, who charged Randolph with third-degree theft Monday, six days after Mazaniego died.
Randolph could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press this week; a phone listed in his name rang unanswered.Dusk fell around Salvadoran immigrant Abelino Mazaniego as he sat on a bench on a... more
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"Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers More.. him to a white lawyer.
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.""Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She... more
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Last month, Louis Farrakhan, the “National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam,” sent a three-page letter to the leaders of 16 major Jewish organizations demanding reparations for alleged crimes Jews have perpetrated against African Americans.
Along with the letter, Farrakhan sent two books, “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” and “Jews Selling Blacks: Slave Trade by American Jews,” written by unidentified members of the Nation of Islam’s Historical Research Team. Elijah Muhammad’s National Representative claims that the books contain evidence of Jewish crimes against the black community.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/16/louis-farrakhan-sends-letter-asking-jews-for-reparations/#ixzz0u2utNnoGLast month, Louis Farrakhan, the “National Representative of the Honorable... more
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Good As You's ever-resourceful Jeremy Hooper has shown that the families depicted on the sides of NOM's Hate Bus don't actually exist, they're just actors ripped out of generic stock photos. We know NOM is having a hard time getting people to show up for the Hate Tour, but seriously, they couldn't find ONE real homo-hating family to pose for their bus?Good As You's ever-resourceful Jeremy Hooper has shown that the families depicted... more
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By David Brauer | Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:31 pm
http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2010/06/22/19134/lavender_outs_lutheran_pastor_--_by_crashing_confidential_support_group
Pastor Tom Brock isn’t the first clergyman to be outed as gay after condemning gay behavior. But Brock may be the first outed by a reporter who faked his way into a confidential 12-step program.
In a cover story published Friday that’s rocketing through the national gay press, Minneapolis-based Lavender magazine exposed the Minneapolis-based pastor’s struggles and desires as recounted to a support group for gay men “struggling with chastity.”
Lavender reporter John Townsend wrote that he was referred to the program, which met at a St. Anthony church, via a Catholic priest, James Livingston. Livingston, North Memorial Hospital’s chaplain, says Townsend — a veteran Lavender writer who has also freelanced for the Star Tribune — did not identify himself as a reporter.
“He looked me in the eye, we had a conversation about the importance of confidentiality, and we shook on it,” Livingston recalls.
Reporter sent to program 'undercover'
Lavender Media president and CEO Stephen Rocheford confirms Townsend was sent into the program “undercover.”
Brock — who appears six days a week on Christian radio station KKMS-AM — is a major “get” for the gay publication. Last year, Brock notoriously linked a tornado that struck the Minneapolis Convention Center and a nearby church to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)’s decision to accept homosexual relationships and ordain gay ministers in monogamous relationships. As the gay-oriented website Queerty put it, “Lutheran Pastor Tom Brock Blamed ELCA's Tornado on Homosexuality. Which, Uh, He Suffers From.”
But not everyone in the gay community thinks the ends justified Lavender’s means.
A blogger for the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association called the publication’s ethics “suspect.” Karl Reichert, a local publicist and former journalist, fears a far more widespread chilling effect on fellow gays who go to 12-step programs for chemical and other dependencies.
“In Minneapolis-St. Paul, we’re the land of 10,000 treatment programs; people go to these programs and trust they are truly anonymous,” Reichert says. “As someone who’s participated in a support group, it’s not fair to anyone in the group.”
Ironically, Rocheford is a recovering alcoholic of 27 years who attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings weekly. I asked the Lavender publisher: would he have printed Brock’s statements had the pastor confessed to sexuality struggles at Rocheford’s A.A. meeting? Presumably, the publisher’s fellow alcoholics would look dimly on anyone violating the sanctity of anonymity for any reason.
After a long pause, Rocheford says, “I’d have to think about it.”
The publisher’s get-out-hypocrisy-free card? That the gay-chastity program, sponsored by Courage, a Catholic organization, “doesn’t come anywhere near” to classic 12-step programs. “They’re mimicking on 12-step programs,” he declares.
Programs such as Courage’s are hugely controversial; gays and allies assert they only deepen shame over natural tendencies, prolonging and amplifying psychological distress, sometimes to the point of suicide. For his part, Livingston says the programs are voluntary and “there for guys who believe in [the church’s] values and want support holding onto those values.”
As to Lavender's chilling effect on anyone seeking confidential help from peers, Rocheford says folks like Reichert have “nothing to fear.”
'There's one exception'
He declares, “I personally, and Lavender Magazine as a matter of policy, do not believe in outing anyone. People are allowed to be crazy and dysfunctional in their lives. There’s one exception: a public figure who says one thing and does another. This is not the first homosexual minister who denounces homosexuality in public and engages in it in private.”
Reichert isn’t buying it. “My feeling is, it’s one thing if someone was placed under arrest or it occurred in a public setting. Gay Pride Week’s coming up, and it’s important to be out and honest — and with integrity. I don’t like to see hypocrisy in a public figure, but it matters how you get that information. Being in a support group is very personal. There has to be some arena for people to get support, to get help, and deal with issues.”
Brock has not made himself available for comment. However, Pastor Tom Parrish, Brock’s supervisor at Hope Lutheran Church, says Brock has been placed on leave during an investigation, expected to last about two weeks.
Parrish acknowledges that Hope Lutheran has pulled down all of Brock’s videos “as a part of our policy” during the investigation.
(Rochefort says this is yet another example of Brock having something to hide; the publisher says he downloaded the pastor's oeuvre, and may publish them on Lavender’s website, as Queerty has already done that with the tornado video.)
Parrish does not dispute Brock’s struggles with homosexuality. He says that while Brock has not been public with his struggles in the three years they have worked together, “Tom has been very open about his own personal struggles” with church confidants such as himself.
Still, he adds, “For the congregation, the actual personal struggle is probably new.”
Parrish says Brock is not a hypocrite for condemning homosexual behavior while loathing it in himself. “He always held out the hope of redemption and change, but our church teaches you to struggle with it and the lord still loves you. You have to keep from giving in to it.”
As for Lavender Magazine, Parrish says, “There are no ethics for them. They certainly violate everything I was ever taught about 12-step programs. To take on a public figure publicly, we expect that — Tom and I have gone through that before. But they’re killing a process” — the 12-step method — “that has worked for 100 years. I think it’s criminal, and I can’t rationalize it in my mind.”
Father Livingston, who referred Townsend to the program, says Lavender’s decision, “wasn’t so much an ethical decision as a hate crime. They didn’t like [Brock’s] values and belief system and went after him personally.”
He adds, “I think anybody who has enjoyed a confidential conversation with friends over an important life issue would feel ashamed. Men in the group are stunned. I just feel very violated and betrayed.”
Rocheford, who says the Brock story has already received “tens of thousands of hits,” says he isn't losing any sleep. “I live my life by what Voltaire said: ‘I don’t want everybody to like me, for I would think less of me if I did.' "By David Brauer | Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:31 pm... more
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Go go gadget leadership! It looks like Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is at it again, spreading his hateful rhetoric. There's not much of a story to this, but it seems to be a continuation of mounting evidence that points to just how inane many of our politicians are when it comes to basic facts of life and bigotry.Go go gadget leadership! It looks like Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is at it again, spreading his... more
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Jarryd shows off his special skills in this job interview.
Written and Directed by Sam Sero
Starring Jarryd Meyer as Himself and Corey Blake as the Boss
Produced by Poopdog Entertainment
Cinematography by Michael Land
Location Manager: Andrea Freeman
Edited by Jarryd Meyer
http://www.youtube.com/bonerbuddiesJarryd shows off his special skills in this job interview.
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Arizona's immigration strategy: Make life tough - latimes.com
Reporting from Phoenix and Tucson
For years Arizona's government has tried to deter unlawful immigration with a consistent approach -- make life for illegal immigrants so uncomfortable and uncertain that they will leave, or never come in the first place.
So this week, when the House of Representatives passed what's viewed as the toughest state law against illegal immigration in the nation, it was the continuation of a pattern that has been widely popular in the state.
"When you make life difficult," said state Sen. Russell Pearce, author of the current bill and earlier hard-line measures, "most will leave on their own."
There is evidence that is true. The number of illegal immigrants in Arizona dropped 18% between 2008 and 2009, the largest decrease in the nation, according to federal estimates.
"People are not going out to restaurants. They're afraid to do things with their families," said Sergio Gaxiola, 57, of Nogales. "The pressure has been building."
In 2007, the state passed first-in-the-nation penalties for employers who don't ensure their workers are in the country legally. The law led many illegal workers to conclude that they could never find steady jobs in Arizona.
Last year, the state made it a crime for state workers to give illegal immigrants unauthorized benefits, which scared many from applying for government assistance they are allowed.
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAiw.jpgArizona's immigration strategy: Make life tough - latimes.com
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MOUNT DORA — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere."
"I'm not turning anybody away — that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,6040296,full.story
i don't think he likes the Health Care law......MOUNT DORA — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad... more
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http://current.com/items/92030838_mayor-wants-jesus-prayers-and-christian-community-lancaster-california-l-a-county-updates.htm
Lancaster Mayor Says Sorry for "Christian Community'' Comment
Lancaster is no longer in the Christianity-only business.
By OLSEN EBRIGHT
Updated 12:45 PM PST, Wed, Feb 10, 2010
City of Lancaster (Los Angeles County, California)
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris has apologized for trying to grow a Christian community.
During his State of the City speech on Jan. 27, the mayor said, "We are growing a Christian community, and don't let anybody shy away from that."
That comment, supporting a ballot measure to authorize Christian-specific prayer at city council meetings, quickly attracted criticism and federal action. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal civil rights complaint on Friday.
On Monday, the mayor held a news conference with various religious leaders to apologize, the Antelope Valley Press reported:
"I sincerely apologize to anyone who felt excluded," the mayor said.
"Our communities are robust and vibrant when we do everything we can to facilitate all churches and all faiths and ensure they have a vibrant role in the community
"When we have diversity we have friction," Parris said. The question, he said, is "how to have a robust community without making anyone feel excluded."
Representatives from the Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Jewish communities attended Monday's event. CAIR executive director, Hussam Ayloush, said he welcomes the mayor's apology.
Parris said he still has a lot of congregations to visit over the next year, the Antelope Valley Press reported.
"For us to have a vibrant and healthy community requires vibrant and healthy synagogues, mosques, churches and temples," Parris said.For original news leading up to today's apology:... more
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Imagine getting arrested for just striking up a conversation about religion in public.
...constitutional attorney John Eastman says that "to require a permit to even speak about your religious faith to anybody in the mall starts looking like it's unreasonable and might well be unconstitutional."
Eastman, a professor at California's Chapman University School of Law, says because Snatchko was seemingly engaged in a private conversation and not a public address, his speech would not have violated mall rules were it not for its content.
"There’s a decent argument that if the mall is not consistently applying this to all kinds of speech but is targeting religious speech or political speech then it is a content-based restriction ... and a content-based restriction like that would be unconstitutional," he told FoxNews.com.
McReynolds calls the incident a "national issue," especially because Westfield owns malls all over the country, but he says California is the best place to tackle it.
"Out here in California, because of the way our state constitution words its own free-speech clause, it’s been extended beyond the realm of just government property to large public venues like shopping malls."
Eastman warns that even if Snatchko wins his case, people outside of the state of California could find themselves in the same predicament.
"In other states, unless they’ve take the step in interpreting their own constitution that California took ... those malls are going to be treated as private property where they’ll have more control over the people who enter onto their property and a greater ability to set rules like these."
McReynolds said the ban is a "don’t talk to strangers" rule for adults. "We think that’s beyond the pale of what the constitution allows and what free speech allows in this country and certainly in the state of California."
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Mayor and city council member alienate Muslims in Lancaster
Updated 1:38 PM PST, Sat, Jan 30, 2010
The mayor of Lancaster has urged its residents to approve specifically-Christian prayers at public meetings, in an effort to "grow" the sixth-largest city in Los Angeles County into a "Christian community," it was reported today.
Lancaster residents were urged by Mayor R. Rex Parris in a state of the city speech to support a city ballot measure that would authorize daily prayers at city council meetings.
In his speech, Parris said "we are growing a Christian community, and don't let anybody shy away from that," according to the Antelope Valley Press.
In a later interview with the Daily News, Parris expressed surprise that some religious leaders object to prayers to Jesus at city meetings, and blamed opposition on activists who "want a fight," the newspaper reported. "They want their 15 minutes of fame."
Kamal Al-Khatob, head of the Islamic Institute of the Antelope Valley, told the Daily News that the mayor's belief that Lancaster is a Christian community alienates Muslims. "This is not what America is all about. America is for everybody."
One week ago, Lancaster city council member Sherry Marquez wrote on her Facebook page that the beheading murder of an Islamic woman by her husband in New York shows that vicious murders are what Muslims embrace.
"This is what the Muslim religion is all about -- the beheadings, honor killings are just the beginning of what is about to come to the USA," she reportedly wrote on the Web Jan. 23. "We are told this is a small minority of Muslim's (sic) in America, but it is truly what they are all about."
Activists were quoted as equating that murder with the tenets of Islam is as wrong as saying all Christians are murderers because an extremist was convicted of murdering an abortion doctor.
The Lancaster mayor is running for re-election, and supporting placement of the prayer ordinance on the April ballot, the newspaper reported. The city council has already placed a large "In God We Trust" motto across the wall in the city council chambers, part of a national movement by evangelists to bring religion into civic affairs.Mayor and city council member alienate Muslims in Lancaster
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Kara King, the assistant managing editor of the University of Notre Dame’s Observer newspaper, resigned Monday after publishing an antigay cartoon in the newspaper last week, WSBT TV reports. The cartoon strip has been canceled as well.
King resigned in a letter published in the paper Monday. In the letter, she wrote, “A miscommunication between another editor and myself led to the comic running without me first reading and approving the material. Regardless, no excuse can justify the comic even being considered for publication, and the duty to censor it fell to me. I failed to do so, and am solely responsible for providing a forum for this message of hate.”
The offending antigay editorial cartoon called a baseball bat the “quickest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable.”Kara King, the assistant managing editor of the University of Notre Dame’s... more
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