Reading the Rocky Mountain News letters to the editor, I came across this little gem:

Intent of degrading the utility of English
Larry Breeden
… I also find it sardonically amusing that he is helping spread the knowledge of English to other parts of the world while here, in the largest concentration of English-speaking people in the world, [...]

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Defining marriage as “one man and one woman” may seem an appropriate boundary for society to define. But in the process, defining marriage serves to re-define family, or at least re-defining the legal protections available to a family.

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Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.

Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest [...]

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When I argue about the evils of religion and the encroachment of baseless, religious dogmatism upon the public sphere of government activity, I will frequently hear the retort that I’m being an alarmist or overreacting. Of course, all that is necessary is to wait a little bit and the religious nuts will do that Voo-Doo [...]

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With the recent hue and cry about the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, one would be inclined to believe that the foundations of American society are about to crumble, bringing the entirety of this nation with it. However unlikely this may be, it hasn’t stopped social conservatives from invoking every sort [...]

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A few days ago, I asked a very simple question:

Q. Where in our Constitution does it acknowledge or state that the U.S. relies upon the Judeo-Christian God, Christianity, or Christian morality?
A. It doesn’t. Period. God is not mentioned once. Religion appears exactly twice, once in Article VI where the “no religious test” prohibition is articulated, [...]

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May 5, 1925. A warrant is issued for the arrest of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, for teaching evolution—in violation of state law—to a high school biology class in Dayton, TN.
The result: God goes and trial and fails to appear to defend “His” creation. In lieu of God, William Jennings Bryan shows up [...]

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Food for thought . . .
Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Showgirls is working up a biopic of Jesus that makes the claim that Jesus was born of the rape of the “Virgin” Mary by a Roman soldier.

In his upcoming biography of Jesus, “Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven will make the shocking claim [...]

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What kind of thinking is “dangerous”?
According to Rep. Monique Davis, a Chicago Democrat in the IL state legislature, atheism is dangerous thinking:

Davis: I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it’s really a tragedy — it’s [...]

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Oh, this is just lovely.

Lawmaker says unmarried teen parents are ’sluts’
A Colorado Springs lawmaker referred Wednesday to unmarried, pregnant teenagers and the fathers as “sluts,” who should be made to feel ashamed for their lack of morals.
Rep. Larry Liston’s remarks were made during a discussion of Colorado’s high teen pregnancy rate with health care professionals [...]

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