Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God’s Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles

Gov. Perry: Economic Crisis Is Part of God’s Plan To Return Us To Biblical Principles: "For the past week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has been roundly criticized by religious and LGBT groups alike for inviting other governors to join him at an anti-gay prayer event hosted by stridently bigoted American Family Association. Not only has Perry courted the radical wing of the religious right for years,  he has a history of bucking responsibility for tough problems by invoking God. For instance, while Texas was facing a historic drought and rash of wildfires, Gov. Perry extolled Texans to “pray for rain,” as he tried to cut funding for the agency battling the wildfires."


Please remember that the American Family Association, along with the Family Research Council, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are all listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups for their strong anti-LGBT positions.

McConnell and Cuccinelli advance discrimination in child adoptions

Groups urge more time to comment on adoption regulations: "The social services board voted in April to remove a proposed ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation." They also removed gender, age, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, disability and family status.The only basis in the current law is race, color or national origin. McConnell said he thinks the current law works well. Of course it works very well for Catholics, but atheists and homosexuals are intentionally left out of society in Virginia.

The state government under the GOP Silly Party just doesn't work for its citizens. It only works for the ones it believes are good. Those are the Southern Baptists and Opus Dei Catholics, i.e., the radical conservative ones who discriminate against women, gays and lesbians, Moslems, Atheists, progressives, and non-married couples.

McConnell and Cuccinelli's main method of advancing their anti-Virginian policies is through the State Board of Social Services where we find members who attended Regents University (Pat Roberts U), and a Southern Baptist minister. This is the nonpartial group who dictates who may and who may not adopt children in Virginia.

Please notice that Virginia doesn't discriminate in the assessing or collecting taxes. Sexual orientation, religion or lack thereof, gender, age or political beliefs suddenly couldn't matter less to McConnell and Cuccinelli.

Tornadoes in South caused by Fawell turning over in his grade after Obama's birth certificate proves he is son of God

‘Birthers’ conflicted after Obama’s birth certificate proves he is son of God NewsBiscuit

Republican conspiracy theorists have reported bewilderment today after their persistent claims for documentary evidence of the President’s place of birth were answered by a birth certificate confirming that Barack Obama was born neither in Hawaii or Kenya, but in a stable in Bethlehem.

Defunding Planned Parenthood: Religious Punishment For Fornication.

Do Red State Republicans Want More Divorces, STDs and Abortions? Their Policies Suggest "Yes" AlterNet

AlterNet / By Amanda Marcotte

At the state level, the GOP's attacks on reproductive rights may widen the already huge gulf between red and blue states in health, family stability, and education.

May 5, 2011 | Republicans lost the first battle in their newly invigorated war on contraception and other health services for sexually active people, such as STD testing and treatment, when the Democrats called their bluff in the federal budget standoff. Planned Parenthood avoided the ax, but that doesn’t mean that Republicans are prepared to give up on doing everything in their power to separate women, especially low-income women, from access to contraception services. In lieu of cutting family planning subsidies on the federal level, Republicans have devised a plan to cut them on the state level, where they face fewer meddling pro-choice Democrats.

The strategy remains the same: Say the word “abortion” a lot, and use it to cut funding for contraception and other reproductive health services that aren’t abortion. Indiana kicked off the state-by-state strategy by banning Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funding, using the usual abortion excuse, though none of the funding goes to abortion. Despite knowing that anti-discrimination laws would mean that this bill would end all family planning subsidies to the state, Gov. Mitch Daniels signed it anyway. Even though Republicans pretend to be cutting family planning spending more in sorrow than in joy, they still produce results for a right wing fringe that opposes not just abortion, but contraception, STD treatment, and preventing cervical cancer, all in the service of a religious belief that these are holy punishments for fornication.

Republicans in other red states see the benefit to the strategy, which allows them to cater to the far right while pretending to be more moderate. Invoking the demonized Planned Parenthood gives cover for an endless array of punishments for women who have sex and don't have much money. Texas is using Indiana's strategy to cut off all forms of reproductive health care, as are Kansas and a growing list of other red states. An enterprising Oklahoma legislator realized the strategy could be used to shut down WIC distribution in his state, adding “watching your babies starve” to the list of punishments Republicans view as appropriate for women who have sex without having the foresight to be financially comfortable first.

If Republicans in red states succeed in using the abortion bait-and-switch to cut off all reproductive health care, expect dramatic growth in the already-alarming divide between red states and blue states in measures such as health outcomes, family stability, and education. Red states top blue states consistently in divorce rates, STD transmission rates, and teen birth rates. Red states are overrepresented in high school drop out rates. A sudden disappearance of affordable reproductive health care will dramatically worsen this situation.

Why? In some areas, the reasons are obvious. STD transmission rates depend highly both on the availability of condoms, and cutting off the supply of affordable condoms will affect that availability rate. But it’s more than just latex that prevents STD transmission. STD transmission rates also fall when people discover their STDs and receive treatment before they have sex with a new partner, and cutting off affordable testing and treatment will mean far more people will put off testing and pass infections unawares.

Subsidized family planning has an outsized impact on teenage pregnancy rates, as well. Teenagers don’t tend to have access to much money, and they often can’t -- or won’t -- go through their parents to get contraception. Planned Parenthood is a cheap and parent-proof route to safer sex for sexually active teens. The GOP's dreams that teenagers en masse will stop screwing and start teaching Sunday school are unlikely to pan out, so expect states that cut off family planning funds to see a surge in teen births.

Lack of contraception access produces far-reaching negative results as well. As Naomi Cahn and June Carbone have demonstrated, one reason red states have higher divorce rates is that they have more people marrying without foresight because of unplanned pregnancy. Fewer condoms means more unplanned pregnancies, more shotgun weddings, and eventually more divorces.

States that adopt this plan to cut off family planning may as well kiss away hopes of improvements in their educational outcomes, as well. Cuts in family planning hit educational outcomes now and in the future. Girls who give birth in high school graduate at little over half the rate of girls who don’t, so an increase in the teenage pregnancy rate means an increase in the drop-out rate. But this is about more than the mothers; more unplanned pregnancies means more strain on overcrowded schools and more kids entering the system with unstable family lives, which increase the odds of dropping out. Obama wants schools to be racing to the top, but many red states are opting to race to the bottom.

In the greatest irony of all, the higher your unplanned pregnancy rate, the higher your abortion rate. Despite all the wailing about the evils of abortion, Republicans are doing more to increase the abortion rate than you could do by putting an abortion provider charging $5 a pop on every street corner.

If that doesn’t fill your daily irony quotient, consider that Republicans deem themselves fiscal conservatives, but this war on women will end up costing their states way more than they’re currently spending on social programs. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that the government saves $4 for every dollar spent on family planning in the first year alone, because of the costs of child-bearing and infant care for low-income women. For states facing budget crises, this dramatic explosion in costs will make it that much harder to stay out of the red.

Republicans probably haven’t thought about this plan much beyond patting themselves on the back for being clever enough to give something to the anti-contraception fringe without unduly alarming moderates. Still, they should consider the effects of amplifying the differences in red and blue states. Red states already have a reputation for high poverty, teenage pregnancy, STD, and divorce rates. If they continue down this path, the contrast between red and blue states will start to resemble that of undeveloped and industrial nations

Far Religious Right are Anti-Union, Anti-Freedom, but Pro-Atheist Now

Pat Robertson and the incredibly extreme far right religious are anything but religious. But when I read that they were joining forces with the Ayn Rand Libertarian Atheists called the Tea Party, well I just could not believe it. Wasn't the most hated group after the ACLU, the Atheists? Now the Ayn Rand Libertarian Koch brothers and their Americans for Prosperity are employing Ralph Reed to fix them up with a date with the Evangelistas.

But then I read further on and discovered Pat Robertson Sides With African Leader Who Won't Leave Office: Media Matters for America. Ties to such great men as Charles Taylor and Laurent Gbagbo because they bring with them the ability to make great wealth through diamond mines in their countries.

Then I had that moment of sudden understanding and slapped myself up side the head. Remember that the Catholic and Protestant Evangelistas Movement in America has absolutely nothing to do with belief in Gods, or anything to do with an afterlife. This movement is only concerned with this life and accumulation of great wealth. It is a Calvinist pro-worshipping of the Golden Calf. So it is very easy to see so-called Christain Evangelistas sidling up to rich Atheists like the Koch brothers.

The Tea Partiers as run by Americans for Prosperity are Ayn Rand Libertarian Atheists who couldn't care less whether the Evangelistas claim some false faith to advance their cause. Just so long as they bring along their millions of voters to support their faith that limited or no government is next to godlyness. You have to keep reminding yourself that the Christians throughout history have been consistent, if nothing else. Consistent in making this shit up as they go along. The Christains are about to become Anarchists with faith in Libertarian Atheists who worship great wealth. Pray for them.

Conservative Catholic Majority on US Supreme Court Uphold Right of Catholic Schools to Receive Tax Subsidies

The Roman Catholic Church in the United States is no longer capable of sustaining its religion on its own. The people are obviously not there any longer to support this religion in the US. So if the people won't support their religion, then the religion will just have to go its long time friend, the government and ask it to once again subsidize their activities. Our illustrious conservative Catholic majority on the US Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to uphold Arizona's efforts to provide tax payer funds to prop up failing parochial schools.

Justice Kagan speculated on whether there was any difference between this case, and say, a state that elected to purchase crucifixes for anyone that wanted to have one. Kagan asserted in her dissent that a state could overcome a court challenge by making the subsidy a tax exemption. She suggested: 'The state “could authorize that person to claim a tax credit equal to the price she paid.” For example, if that person's state tax bill was $400 but she'd purchased a 10-inch, walnut crucifix for $40, she would owe the state only $360.'

I can't wait for Virginia to try Justice Kagan's idea of a $500 tax credit to "reward Jews.... for their religious devotion." Like that would ever happen.

What both of these articles conclude is that with Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization vs. Winn, the wall between religion and government has been breached. After over 200 years of a government required to allow the people to maintain control of their religious organizations, those religious organizations in order to overcome the apathy by the people towards their religious institutions, now allows religious organizations to lobby the government in order to continue their very existence. In other words, the government is the last resource to prop up religion in America because obviously the people have turned their back on their religious organizations.

Americans United: Religious Right Groups And Your Tax Dollars

Read Religious Right Groups And Your Tax Dollars: It’s A Bad Marriage « The Wall of Separation

It is past time to get our president to stop funding anti-science religion, anti-LGBT religion, anti-human rights religion, anti-women religion with this damn so called Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. One of the worse parts is the total lack of accountability of the funding given over to these completely crooked and unethical organizations. It is the greatest threat to our secular nation. My tax dollars are being misused to lobby against Same Sex Marriage for stark crazy bigoted religious reasons. Shame! SH