http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/29/freethinkers-enlist-legal-services-over-public-school-field-trip-to-agape-church Comments On: Freethinkers enlist legal services over public school field trip to Agape Church by Lindsey Millar en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Just for the record, what Tim Griffin (R-Rove) did in Florida during the 2004 Presidential election was not technically voter fraud. He engaged in voter caging, which is a criminal federal offense designed to deny valid voters their right to vote by getting them removed from the voter registration rolls, which I would characterize as being "voter suppression." Griffin's activities in FL denied hundreds of actively deployed military members of their right to vote. There is no way somebody who has engaged in that type of criminal conduct should be elected to the US Congress, but there he is, and there he'll stay with the help of people like State Sen. Bryan King and the rest of the Teapubliban Party. As a state, we deserve better, but so long as people vote for the R candidate without checking out their background, that is the type of sorry assed people we'll have in public office!
Posted by RYD]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:17:12 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by oldandintheway]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:16:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
Yeah, I do. And this was the President. But sure, let's all go down to Agape and hear about Jesus and Christmas. That's just fine.
Posted by beerforbreakfast]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:02:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
I suspect if the freethinkers suggest the school do just that, the 'Christian' field trip will get dropped like a hot potato.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:43:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ArkansasGirl]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:20:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jennifer Coates Johnson]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:30:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:27:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by arkansas panic fan]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:23:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
And, of course, what ever happened to the Nut Cracker? I must have set thru that 5 times as a kid. I hated it. But, at least I was out of school.

Whoever pulled this knows better. They need to be disciplined.
Posted by FullThrottle]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:17:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by monkeeink]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:06:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by monkeeink]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:53:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
Yes, Vanessa, it is. Slowly . . . but surely . . . the way of Zeus and Thor and slaves . . . of Mithra and the rest that preceded it, as more and more people educate themselves by Googling the factual (and bloody) origins, histories and fabrications of their man-made "traditions" and "faiths."

Cathedrals in Europe are increasingly empty, save for the elderly and flocks of tourists eager to view artistic and architectural magnificence.

Only in lands where old-time religions are violently enforced do they hang on. Only in die-hard reactionary, frightened and conformist regions like the American South will they fight to maintain their former power till the last breath.

The GOP is well aware of all this. Here is Republican consultant Mike Murphy on the realities facing their brand of politics going forward.

"We repel younger voters, who are much more secular than their parents, with our opposition to same-sex marriage and our scolding tone on social issues. And we have lost much of our once solid connection to the middle class on kitchen-table economic issues."

"A choice between two definitions of conservatism.

"One offers steadfast opposition to emerging social trends like multiculturalism and secularization. The alternative is a more secular and modernizing conservatism that eschews most social issues to focus on creating a wide-open opportunity society that promises greater economic freedom and the reform of government institutions like schools that are vital to upward social mobility.

"The battle lines are already drawn . . . the electoral arithmetic is obvious."

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/28/can-t…

Even dying old dinosaur bigot and fear-mongerer Pat Robertson finally acknowledges that Earth is older than 6,000 years.

Tithe while you still can. The Huckabees, et al., still need you.

It won't be pretty but humanity (like so many already), for its own good is moving on.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:50:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
If it wasn't so BLATANTLY Christian, maybe they could just have a nice field trip instead.
Posted by Aarron Dixon]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:27:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:57:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
Don't want your kid to be exposed? Join with other parents and develop an alternative.

This is not 'voluntary' bible classes and a captive audience.

Solstice anyone?


Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:53:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ArkansasGirl]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:39:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:29:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Gordon Duffy]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:09:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by arkansas panic fan]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:55:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by beerforbreakfast]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:34:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by beerforbreakfast]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:17:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by CenArkObserver]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:17:36 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by louie]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:00:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ArkansasGirl]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:43:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
Yeah, and also through the fact that the entire play is about Christmas, which is inherently Christian, even without bible verses.
Posted by Little Rocker]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:44:17 -0600 Arkansas Times