I guess this is the new thing now in Alabama: Shelby: Moore Bill Will Pass Senate.

PRATTVILLE – Alabama’s senior U.S. senator predicted Friday that the Senate will approve a bill backed by Roy Moore to restrict federal courts from reviewing cases involving the acknowledgment of God.

Some highlights (sorry for the length):

“These tortured legal decisions distort our Constitution, our nation’s history and its tradition in an effort to secularize our system of government and divest morality from our rule of law,” Shelby said. “Over the years, we have seen a disturbing and growing trend in our federal courts to deny the rights of our states and our citizens to acknowledge God openly and freely.” [...]

“What these bills would actually do is restore our Constitution to its fundamental basis of God. It would restore the right of people and children to pray at school before their lunches, restore the right of public officials to acknowledge God,” Moore said.

“It would give back to us our religious heritage. It would stop courts from defining those terms which God alone has defined, such as marriage,” Moore said. “We’ve got an opening in this country. We’ve got the attention of the people to what the courts have been doing. They have been usurping the role of the legislative branch, and it’s got to stop.” [...]

“The courts have assaulted both the state governments and the people, and our representatives are standing up to say to the courts, `Stop this assault; end this abuse.’”

Yes, stop the ASSAULT. End the ABUSE. Xians have been assaulted and abused for SO long. Ugh.15000 direct-pornporn directorio deof directory porn freedirectv channels pornporn dirtiest sitesblack porn girl dirtyd porn dirty theatresluts porn dirty dirty Map

Continuing with the theme from two weeks ago, and with the child abuse theme of some of this week’s posts, we turn to Genesis 19, and the story of what happens after God torches everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah except for Lot and his family. (Even though we now think of the folks in those places as “sodomites”, it’s not so clear that’s consistently claimed. A rant for another time.)

So, after God’s “righteous man” Lot and his family fled Sodom and Gomorrah (and God turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt for taking a little glance back at her home town as it was being destroyed by His wrath), Lot and his daughters go and and hide out in a cave. In Genesis 19:30-36, we then get another of God’s Penthouse Forum entries:

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

“Ooh, I couldn’t help myself! Those those little lolita tarts got me drunk and seduced me! I mean, what do they think, parading around in their tight little shirts with their bellies showing? You know what I mean, don’t you, men? I mean, righteous is righteous, but sometime, if a man’s daughter is a tart, it’s just not his fault if he gets drunk, loses control, and fucks her. Right?” There’s yer family values right there.

I doubt this’ll go anywhere, but it’s still worth noting in terms of xians not understanding simple aspects of the law: Christian Coalition Applauds Federal Judicial Reform

Today at the Legends Conference Center, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby and U.S. Congressman Robert Aderholt from Alabama’s 4th Congressional district announced the introduction of legislation limiting the authority of the federal judiciary. This brief but powerful legislation outlines the jurisdictional limits of the federal judiciary on cases involving the acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty and government, the interpretation of the Constitution and clarifies the definition for impeachment of federal judges.

Yes, little xians, save us all from the big bad courts…

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One other way to snare little boys when the usual ways won’t work: Claim to have some revelations and be a complete nutjob. Yeah, that’ll bring them to your door. Doomsday Cult Investigation

His name is Juan Pablo Delgado and he says the Virgin Mary speaks to him. He claims he can see her while no one else can. Juan Pablo explains his visions, “She comes in human form. It’s important to remember in heaven she is in body and soul. She’s not transparent, she’s not a ghost. She can be seen. I’ve been able to touch her just like I can touch anyone else.”

Delgado leads what is described as a doomsday cult in Costa Rica. He has predicted the end of the world and that he will become Pope. His spiritual advisor is former San Antonio priest Father Alfredo Prado. Prado is accused of molesting young boys more than 30 years ago at St. Timothy’s on the Westside. Now similar concerns are arising about the cult leader.

Yep, folks, it’s not just for catholics anymore. Really disturbing how the Mormon rules actually work: Silent Lambs Conference to Confront Child Abuse

First, he said, elders must investigate any allegation of abuse, even though these church officials are not trained in such matters.

Second, children have to present two eyewitnesses before their testimony can be believed in church, said Bowen, who is from Calvert City, Ky. [...]

”This effectively silences a child,” he said. Also, children and their parents are not allowed to warn other people about abusers, he said.

You’d think they’d see that the rules themselves are totally stupid — but hey, I’m not a Mormon (or a pedophile), so I guess I’m missing something.

Slate has a pleasantly snide review (”Paradise Lite“) of a slightly snide book (Heaven: A Guide to the Undiscovered Country, by Peter Stanford) as well as some other recent books on the concept of heaven. Slate says “heaven is not just an embarrassment to human reason; sometimes it is just plain embarrassing, a wish-fulfillment fantasy that has more to do with appetite than faith. Stanford’s book, though light on analysis, is full of examples of the strange and frothy heavens invented by ordinary believers over the centuries.” But even better is the passage of commentary on Anthony DeStefano’s A Travel Guide to Heaven:

Belief, it can easily seem, is just the quarter you put into the divine slot machine in order to win the jackpot of the afterlife. And certainly the greed for heaven is still alive and well. That much is clear from A Travel Guide to Heaven, a new Christian inspirational book. The author, Anthony DeStefano, takes his travel-guide conceit literally, declaring that paradise is “Disney World, Hawaii, Paris, Rome and New York all rolled up into one”�the “ultimate playground, created purely for our enjoyment.” The disingenuousness of DeStefano’s fantasy has to be read to be believed: He looks forward to a heaven where you are your earthly self, but thinner, younger, and prettier, and where you will do nothing but race from one game, hobby, or exotic sight to the next, “having fun” for eternity.

Not completely atheist in the end, but a fun little read for the infidels.

Apparently the January 2004 issue of the Harvard Law Review includes a Book Note (written by an anonymous student) called “Not Your Daddy’s Fundamentalism.” See it here: Not Your Daddy’s Fundamentalism

Here is a critique of the situation provided by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: It Just Takes One. They point out that the Idiotic Design folks have already jumped on this and are hoping that it will help them with getting ID taught in schools.