http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/10/east-poinsett-schools-end-pre-game-prayer-after-protest Comments On: East Poinsett schools end pre-game prayer after protest by Max Brantley 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) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 06:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by bugeyedlittlefreak]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:00:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
No matter.

It's just inconceivable how Christianity keeps getting laughed down the street with Great Thinkers like your Mike Huckabee extolling Great Historians like David Barton, and Men of God like Scott Lively reminding us that, well, gay wedding songs caused Noah's Flood.

Or something.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/live…

I mean, what's not to respect?
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:16:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Just call him Giglio. Don't besmirch the grand name of Louie.
Posted by louie]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:54:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Kent Torch]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:24:29 -0600 Arkansas Times >even the dope smokers who see the face of Jesus on their rolling papers.

Never had any weed that good but, who am I to say.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:28:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
Prayers & praying never helped me...in fact looking at my personal history, if I prayed for you, you were a goner. On the other hand if you want to pray for me....get after it. If I was Allah I'd rid the world of organized religion since it would instantly diminish most of the wars going on around the globe and I'd finally get a peek at some shapely Nazarene legs and it would free up some prime real estate and plump up the tax rolls.

But mostly it's the sledgehammer dominance of the GM of religious brands that bothers me. I spent 17 years attending Christian Christmas programs at my kid's public schools while all sorts of non-Christian students and parents sat there with puzzled looks on their faces. Where were the thingamajigs of their particular brand of religion? Where was one of their classmates up on stage wearing Allah clothings and handing out goats or whatever they do to celebrate a holiday? I promise, one holiday religious program of another non-Christian faith performed at a Fort Baptist school would start WWIII. Unfair! Unfair!

Us at the DBI compound are all about the FAIR & EQUAL treatment of all the people on earth. If there is a sin on this planet it's parents teaching the doctrine of We Can-They Can't. We can practice our religion in tax payer facilities, they can't. We can define the meaning of human sexuality, they can't. We can choose to not pay taxes, they can't. We can tell women what they can do with their bodies....women can't have that control....and on and on and on. So wrong. So 14th century! So against everything America is supposed to be.

Praying is like talking about stiffer gun laws.....nothing ever happens...so pray your ass off, but not in a public venue supported by taxpayers who are of every religion-are of no religion UNLESS room is made for everyone....even the dope smokers who see the face of Jesus on their rolling papers.

So start yer event 30 minutes early so people can pray or swap AK47s or sun themselves in the nude before young athletes hammer their brains for life slamming into each other on the sporting field. But don't leave anyone out of the festivities...unless this is a private event held on private property......in that case bring out your white hooded robes and have a ball. Public means for all. Private means whatever you can get away with.....know the difference.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:20:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.mambaonline.com/article.asp?art…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:58:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
Still, I'm having great success here at CES crowdfunding Amronology.

We've tested slogans and this one topped the responses:

"No Cross to Bear, or Magic Underwear!"

Yours in Me,

Amron Setab
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:54:07 -0600 Arkansas Times a secretive evangelical Christian network called The Fellowship,
also known as The Family…”

In case anyone has forgotten, “The Family” indoctrinates leaders to believe that they’re held to a different standard than the little people. Leaders do not have to follow the law or religious tenets because God is working through them & therefore they can do wrong.

Perhaps, in our official prayer making capacity, we should decide whether to worship as taught by either the "Apostle of the Lawgiver" or "The keepers of the divine Bomb”.


“Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.”
Planet of the Apes
Posted by Zatharus]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:41:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Smart move.

Can't wait for his supporting role in upcoming film debut with J Lo and Ben Affleck.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:31:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
"and when ye pray, use a loudspeaker, so that you will be heard by men..."

In contrast, I do appreciate a good long moment of silence at public gatherings.
Posted by dave23]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:14:19 -0600 Arkansas Times It happened before, circa 1931-1934, see Ark Church Wars, Labor Riots, Socialist uprisings across the fruited plains. Uranus square Pluto thing.

Huck's a'feelin it but the boy can' wrap his fattened hand around it, so transpersonal is the aspect, so narrow is his grasp.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:10:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
That should do it.
Posted by Silverback66]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:02:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
"The House Republican majority is built in large part on domination of southern states. But the pull to the right that region exerts on the party works against the GOP on the national level, where it must appeal to a broader cross section of voters if it wants to seriously entertain the idea of winning back the presidency."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/r…

Of course, y'all do have some lovely scenery.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:32:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by 70%er]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:16:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Former Arkansas Governor" and Pudgy Potentate of Pork Mike Huckabee (also former Baptist minister / current anti-gay bigot, so there's the tie-in to this prayer thread) does The Natural State proud by ranting on brat-like to stay in the news cycle, save his show and stretch his semi-lucrative contract.

(Semi- because he's nowhere NEAR the same league as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.)

The Faubus of his generation, guaranteeing Arkansas ANOTHER sixty years of derogatory jokes nationwide.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/m…

Maybe Huckabee, Dustin McDaniel and Andi Davis can pool concepts and come up with a Reality pitch that Trifecta will be interested in for fifteen more minutes.

"Schmucks Run Amok" or something Jew-inclusive for Hank Cohen.

(Who, if you call him at Trifecta, tell him Norma sent you and DON'T remind him that Huckabee's "faith" says he's going to Hell with the homos).

So grown up, these people.

Let us pray . . . .
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:15:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Remember, these are the same studious bunch that determined that “real” polls were biased against them & that Mitt would win in a landslide. The same unrepentant group that now says that the presidential election was stolen. This is the same crowd that collectively couldn’t solve an arithmetic equation to save their souls (anthropomorphic climate change anyone?).


“To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.”
Al Franken
Posted by Zatharus]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:12:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
Lord ‘a Mighty. Let us pray the anger isn’t enough to set off something akin to the “Church Wars” that occurred in Jonesboro in the early 1930s. The “wars” included attacks on the mayor and the police chief, public gunfights, and the calling of the National Guard to restore order.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/ency…
Posted by Durango]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:53:49 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why is it okay to have prayers at Presidential Inaugurations? Why okay to hold the National Prayer Breakfast every February?

But not okay to pray before high school games.

Certainly, faith-based rituals at the highest levels of government are equally controversial and out of place. (Ask your Talks-To-Snakes Mark Pryor and The Family).

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/polit…

Seems hypocritical, at best, when something's okay for the three branches of national government in Washington but not okay for high school jocks, cheerleaders and their friends / families.

Crazy.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:52:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TX-Travler]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:49:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:33:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
Gays are going to hell.

Gays are sinners.

Gays can be cured through Christianity.

Homosexuality is a malfunction.

http://americablog.com/2013/01/louie-gigli…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:57:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'd hate to think that my girls could be as ignorant as these kids I see walking out of Bryant High School with diplomas.
Posted by ProCarry]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:57:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
Oh, sure: they're "non-denominational." But they're still a federal endorsement of religion over non-religion.

His staff made the enormously insulting (and un-American) faux pas of inviting Christian same-sex hater Rick Warren to give the benediction at President Obama's first inauguration, to well-deserved widespread controversy.

This time around? His staff has invited ANOTHER same-sex hater, Louie Giglio, to do the same. With the same predictable results.

Why? Why with a President who has come out forcefully for Constitutional same-sex equality?

To "appease" whom? Evangelical gay-hating voters who've never supported Obama in any case, and who never will?

To make what kind of statement, exactly?

These things are no more "accidental" than Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction."

President Obama's staff HAS to know what they're doing and he HAS to sign off.

So why?

There is already a movement afoot to officially declare the offensively anti-gay Catholic Church a Hate Group, which it is. The movement will go nowhere . . . yet.

But that day is coming.

Religious "freedom" in America does not include the "freedom" to incite through hate speech (the equivalent of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre), no matter how destructive the Pope's broadcast bigotry from within the Vatican.

So what's the administration's point by inviting Giglio?

http://americablog.com/2013/01/louie-gigli…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:52:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think most EPC parents who went to Detroit for a relative's high school graduation would be most uncomfortable as the Adhan rang out over the loudspeakers and everyone (well the men anyway) were asked to pray to Allah.

(I've noticed that PAs pre-football game prayers seem to be more directed toward god than Jesus - perhaps to make them more inclusive?)

Seriously, though, couldn't these public schools get away with asking the crowd for 15 seconds of silence after the SSB and figure that all but the most dense could figure out it was for silent (rather than publc) prayer?
Posted by mudturtle]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:47:55 -0600 Arkansas Times