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Posted by Constitution]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:31:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
Natural State would-be players are but pansy poofters compared to The Lone Star State’s manly men.

Like the ruggedly individual down-home County Commissioner of Athens, Texas, ironically named for the ancient Greek city known for depicting pederasts on pottery, who replied when challenged on his courthouse lawn Nativity scene by emulating the words of his Lord and Savior, the Holy Babe, “We’ll remove it when hell freezes over.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/12/texa…

Posted by Norma Bates]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:26:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:12:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:27:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by CGB]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:50:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
I don't want to see a Trojan condom sign every 20 feet nor do I think Trojan should advertize in our schools and court houses. It's like all those years that black people had to watch lily white TV until Bill Cosby came along. Share the world people! Add your goofy religion to the other 5000 known brands of organized religion, but quit hogging! Jesus doesn't get to be Number One just because you go to a Christan church. You'd be screaming bloody murder if there were Buddhist displays in your kid's school or down at your court house.

It's either all or nothing and our founding fathered decided NOTHING was the way to go. There's 8 churches per block in Fort Baptist....go handle all the snakes you want there. These idiots act like there's no where to practice their religion......and the truth is we're lousy with buildings of worship. Can't put a Jesus statue on the Moon either! Now...Merry Christmas to you, go be nice to someone and say all the prayers you want at bedtime...my damn Dish box replacement will be here tomorrow and I'll be a happier camper.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:41:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Rowdy]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:21:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:10:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
The United States news media will soon be reporting aliens, unwanted alien pregnancies and Elvis sightings as Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes succeed in making tabloid journalism mainstream . . . at least in the USA.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:50:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:23:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:20:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:01:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:15:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:13:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
Eukayote - maybe you didn't read the story carefully. This happened in one of your good-old-fashioned, redneck-school board-run, idiot-managed school district, with a superintendent who wouldn't know the constitution or insubordination if he was slapped in the face with either.

Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:12:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by WABCO]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:01:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
LET THE "ATHEIST" KNOW THAT YOU HAVE RIGHTS ALSO AND YOUR RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED.


Posted by POPPIE]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:58:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/…
Posted by ozarknature]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
This controversy in Paragould is not about promoting a private "cause" on public property. It's about promoting a religion on public property. That's a violation of the first part of the First Amendment, known as the Establishment Clause. Here's the text:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The Occupy Wall Street movement has nothing to do with religion. It's about the second part of the First Amendment. It's about petitioning the Government for redress of grievances, peaceable assembly, and freedom of speech.
Posted by ozarknature]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:36:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by jddoc]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:22:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
And yes, the America of yore is no more, no matter how hard the conservatives wish it weren't so. They have plenty of money to throw around trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse its decision in Engel v. Vitale (1962) that banned prayer in public schools. The Alliance Defense Fund is active in nearly every far-right and fundamentalist cause. They were one of the leading groups helping defend the Boy Scouts over their ban on gay scoutmasters.
Posted by ozarknature]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:57:46 -0600 Arkansas Times

Jerry Halsell with the Trumpet for Heritage Ministry said the nativity scene could be on display without violating any laws. Halsell, when learning of the controversy surrounding the nativity scene, volunteered to assist Williams. He provided the Daily Press with several memos from the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) stating that a nativity scene displayed in a public school does not violate the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. According to the ADF web site, the ADF is America’s largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding and litigation.


Posted by ozarknature]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:46:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
The problem is public facilities being used by private people to further their own cause.

Sort of like Occupy Little Rock camping in a public lot.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:06:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
"I been doing it 20 years, what is the fuss about now?"

Up till now none ever complained. Sure some kids felt abused but they kept it to themselves.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:04:28 -0600 Arkansas Times