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Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey

…[A] poll released yesterday found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools. The poll found that 42 percent of respondents held strict creationist views, agreeing that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.” In contrast, 48 percent said they believed that humans had evolved over time. But of those, 18 percent said that evolution was “guided by a supreme being,” and 26 percent said that evolution occurred through natural selection. In all, 64 percent said they were open to the idea of teaching creationism in addition to evolution, while 38 percent favored replacing evolution with creationism.

It seems the creationists were right about something: the wedge strategy will actually work if people already want to believe in creationism.

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The Revealer has a nice, to the point critique of Newsweek’s recent cover piece on the “surge of spirituality in Amerkkka”, “In Search of the Spiritual“. As The Revealer puts it in “Spiritual, But Not Newsworthy“…

Newsweek’s “Spirituality” theme issue would barely merit mention as anything other than a crass attempt to peddle holy holy (a la the not one but two times Jesus has appeared on the magazine’s cover the last year, each time to herald breaking news of, uh, a 2,000-year-old religion) were it not for its passive-aggressive attempt to contain belief, religion, the divine, and the spiritual in a box built by Protestants…

Read the rest yourself; then, if you want, read Newsweek’s piece of crap.

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Church: God Punishing GIs Over Gays

SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. [...] The Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist in Kansas, contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays. The church, which is not affiliated with a larger denomination, is made up mostly of Phelps’ children, grandchildren and in-laws. [...] The church members carried signs and shouted things such as “God hates fags” and “God hates you.”

Just gotta love Rev. Freddie.

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I just had to bubble this up. Someone actually called the restaurant in Jersey that had the Jew comment.

Listen here.

I have been laughing for the last fifteen minutes.

I think I need to call this restaurant and make a reservation. When they ask me my name, I’m gonna say “Jew Couple.”

Outrageous. From the New York Post… A rag I never read, but it was one of the few places I could find that had the whole story:

TABLE FOR ‘JEW’

By LEELA de KRETSER
New York Post

August 17, 2005 — Two diners on a date at a fancy Jersey Shore restaurant were furious when they saw the check — which listed their table as that of the “Jew Couple.”

Brooklynite Elliot Stein says he was shocked that a waitress at the Parkhill’s Waterfront Grill in Allenhurst printed the slur instead of a table number on his $36.75 bill.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the 23-year-old shoe buyer told The Post, the offensive phrase then turned up on his credit-card statement two weeks later.

“My grandfather went through all that in old-school Europe,” an angry Stein said yesterday. “But that happened more than 50 years ago. You don’t expect it to happen in 2005, especially when a lot of their money comes from our community.”

Stein, who has a vacation house in nearby Deal, N.J., said he was a regular at the waterfront establishment.

Relaxing at happy hour on a Friday night, July 8, he and his girlfriend of two years, Jennifer Cassin, had just finished their sushi and drinks.

When the check arrived, a startled Cassin picked it up and handed it to her boyfriend, saying, “What the hell is this?”

Along with the list of their orders was the printed phrase: “Jew Couple.”

Stein said he took the offensive bill and showed it to Jewish friends seated nearby who said they could not believe it.

When the group started questioning the manager, Stein said she simply told them there was nothing derogatory about the statement.

Stein said he was then asked to leave for making a fuss.

The restaurant’s general manager, Malia Wells, yesterday told The Post that the offending phrase was a matter of “poor judgment on the part of a bartender.”

The server, shown as Karina on Stein’s bill, has since “moved on,” Wells said. She would not say whether Karina was fired.

“We are a family restaurant, and we welcome everybody,” she said, adding that the words “Jew Couple” were never intended to be derogatory.

“We use it as a form of identity,” she said. She would not elaborate on what the restaurant does when there is more than one couple assumed to be Jewish at the restaurant.

Etzion Neuer, director of the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League, said the case was outrageous.

“The idea that a restaurant or any establishment is labeling customers by race and then printing it on their bill is unbelievable,” Neuer said.

“It doesn’t even say Jew-ish,” he pointed out. “It’s indefensible.”