values

I'll admit it: this was posted, for no other reason, than to get people talking. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/08/religious_right_22.html?tr=y&auid=2906984

I am wondering if one of the significant outcomes of the Foley fiasco is if religiously motivated (from the Christian "right" evangelical point of view) Republican voters will finally figure out that they've been played for fools by the Republican party. The central theme of the Republican...

Penn and Teller : BS! season 3 will be coming to the UK soon and one of the episodes is about " so-called " traditional values. I was just wondering what the americans here generally think of these " so-called " tradtional values "? and if you can help it, please don't post any spoilers for...

Click for column in Tuesday's USA Today to read how Michael Medved thinks that Hollywood is slumping because of liberal values. This op-ed column is astoundingly stupid, even by Medvedian standards. I will pick out a few choice points... That's it! If you supported Kerry, then people won't go...

We've all heard fundies say that family values have disappeared in the world (and especially America), but where do they get their family value gauge? The Bible of course! Seems they've never really read the Bible beyond the "safe passages" given them in Bible study, otherwise they might see...

Five members of each party serve on the House ethics panel and under the current system, a tie vote would launch an ethics probe. Under the new rule, a tie or failure to make a decision within 45 days would mean no action would be taken. A partnership of watchdog groups calling itself the...

October: http://www.grassleyworks.com/grassley/wrapper.jsp?PID=4090-69&CID=4090-100604A Fast forward Oct 30: http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/3976822/detail.html Hypocritical scumbags deserve tax breaks, too.

EU officials implore new immigrants to learn 'European values' - Friday, November 19, 2004 This is just the beginning. Bans on religious symbols, requirements to learn the language, requirements to learn 'European' values. Justice and interior ministers discussing what to do about the ethnic...

Interesting column. Several good columns on Lew Rockwell today - about the war, about the new Attorney's General. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer90.html

As a Jew living in America, nothing sends shivers down my spine quite like hearing about Judeo-Christian values. By some accident of history, Jews, who are a small minority here, are a somewhat protected class in the public sphere of the body politic. In any case, I know that the Christian...

I often hear that Western civilisation is, at heart, a christian civilisation. Generally, this is meant to say that our morals and values are "christian" in origin and nature. I'd like to dispute that, at least for one key value. It seems to me that one of the fundamental tenets (perhaps...

The Supreme Court has struck down Texas's sodamy law (read more here). It is the traditional American value that sodomy (read: homosexuality) is morally wrong. However, value is based on Judeo-Christian teachings and one of the virtues of the American government that there is seperation of...

Interesting... http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1053181802243450.xml