"You can't be a democrat and go to heaven"

[ScreamingEagle]

The evangelical heretics in Texas do not want their children exposed to critical thinking techniques because faith issues are reduced to untenable propositions.

I gather the state two-year institutions are all committed to critical thinking, thus repairing much of the limitations of public high school as well as home schooling in that state.

i laugh when you Dims talk about "critical thinking" in the public schools....

 

[occupied]

NO....i'm PISSED that the SECULARIST ACLU is trying to stuff PORN into the faces of schoolchildren....

They are not so you are pissed about nothing. The ACLU project you are so pissed about has nothing to do with porn and everything to do with schools blocking certain political content from view.

“The materials that the ACLU wants children exposed to is sexually explicit enough that just mentioning them in an e-mail to adult district officials triggers an ‘offensive content’ filter,” said ADF Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. “The ACLU cannot mask its attempts to turn school computers into porn portals for children with a supposed concern for censorship. Parents expect schools to be places where their children learn--not places where they access pornography.”

ADF responds to additional ACLU demands that schoolchildren be exposed to porn - Alliance Defending Freedom

"they are not".....is that all you got to say....? ....another liberal in denial....

i've provided you with a link for proof......where's yours....?

Your bullshit link does not even speak of what originally got the ACLU involved or why they continue to be involved. I went to the ACLU website to get their side of the story and it seems that porn was not mentioned at all, they found that many school systems had blocked LGBT political content from their networks but not even that would have been enough to get their attention, it seems that schools were blocking the sites that were pro LGBT in most cases and and anti LGBT on others. In other words they were only allowing one side of a political issue to be accessible to students. Here's your link but I suppose even talking about gays is porn to you.

ACLU "Don't Filter Me" Initiative Finds Schools In Four More States Unconstitutionally Censoring LGBT Websites | American Civil Liberties Union

 

[JakeStarkey]

One, I am a Republican.

Two, you are not a conservative.

Three, you, like most illiterates, have no idea at all as to what is critical thinking.

Four, evangelical fanatics in Texas lost several of their secure seats on the State Board of Education, being reduced to a small minority.

Five, when Texas is threatened with going democratic in 2020, the evangelical heresy that has corrupted Texas' politics and enshrined a heretic like Governor Perry in office will pass on, as the Republican Party reaches out to women and Hispanics.

The evangelical heretics in Texas do not want their children exposed to critical thinking techniques because faith issues are reduced to untenable propositions.

I gather the state two-year institutions are all committed to critical thinking, thus repairing much of the limitations of public high school as well as home schooling in that state.

i laugh when you Dims talk about "critical thinking" in the public schools....

 

[Immanuel]

Even if a democrat does not actively practice evil themselves, they approve of the evil practiced by others. Which was the whole point of the Story of Lot. If there is a heaven, democrats certainly won't go there no matter how good a life they lead themselves.

If that were true, Republicans would be in the same lot.

We should all thank God that being in one party or the other is neither a qualification for nor an exclusion from our entrance through the "Pearly Gates".

Immie

 

[RosieS]

Because we yet in a lather about Persians who kidnap our embassy personnel, shoot their own people dead in the street for protesting against the theocracy, and are in pursuit of nukes of their own.

Bad enuff that is that there: the closer danger is the establishment of Sharia Christianity here.

Regards from Rosie

Sharia Christianity? What in the fuck is that?

Read the Republican Party platform. Bunch of Christian Sharia in there.

Regards from Rosie

 

[Si modo]

Because we yet in a lather about Persians who kidnap our embassy personnel, shoot their own people dead in the street for protesting against the theocracy, and are in pursuit of nukes of their own.

Bad enuff that is that there: the closer danger is the establishment of Sharia Christianity here.

Regards from Rosie

Sharia Christianity? What in the fuck is that?

Read the Republican Party platform. Bunch of Christian Sharia in there.

Regards from Rosie

Just like Gunny is married to a Russian and had a baby with her?

 

[RosieS]

it's even being actively pushed in the schools by the secularist ACLU....

Is that supposed to be some kind thing that would convince me of your position? Porn is blocked from every school network in the country and you have the option to block it from your home network, no one wants to make kids look at porn but some schools go a lot further and block things that make no sense such as political sites that might teach them to think for themselves.

i am pointing out to you that SECULARISTS are imposing their 'morality' just as much....if not more.....than Christians.....

Obama and the Dems are assaulting our religious freedom everywhere in America...

No, Obama is not. Being the Chief Executive, he is barred from advocating one religion over another. You bitch that he denies you religious freedom and ALSO bitch that he leaves God out of a holiday address. If y'all HAD worthwhile minds to make up.......

As for the Dems and Dem policies? Don't like it? Win elections then, losers.

Regards from Rosie

 

[ScreamingEagle]

They are not so you are pissed about nothing. The ACLU project you are so pissed about has nothing to do with porn and everything to do with schools blocking certain political content from view.

“The materials that the ACLU wants children exposed to is sexually explicit enough that just mentioning them in an e-mail to adult district officials triggers an ‘offensive content’ filter,” said ADF Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. “The ACLU cannot mask its attempts to turn school computers into porn portals for children with a supposed concern for censorship. Parents expect schools to be places where their children learn--not places where they access pornography.”

ADF responds to additional ACLU demands that schoolchildren be exposed to porn - Alliance Defending Freedom

"they are not".....is that all you got to say....? ....another liberal in denial....

i've provided you with a link for proof......where's yours....?

Your bullshit link does not even speak of what originally got the ACLU involved or why they continue to be involved. I went to the ACLU website to get their side of the story and it seems that porn was not mentioned at all, they found that many school systems had blocked LGBT political content from their networks but not even that would have been enough to get their attention, it seems that schools were blocking the sites that were pro LGBT in most cases and and anti LGBT on others. In other words they were only allowing one side of a political issue to be accessible to students. Here's your link but I suppose even talking about gays is porn to you.

ACLU "Don't Filter Me" Initiative Finds Schools In Four More States Unconstitutionally Censoring LGBT Websites | American Civil Liberties Union

it's not a bullshit link and your link just confirmed it's true....of course the ACLU isn't going to put anything negative about it on its website....

homosexual activity is frowned upon by most Christian churches in America...that doesn't just magically change because some political groups deem it acceptable....so teaching Christian children about it as an acceptable lifestyle in the public schools is stepping on religious rights.....

 

[RosieS]

Sharia Christianity? What in the fuck is that?

Read the Republican Party platform. Bunch of Christian Sharia in there.

Regards from Rosie

Just like Gunny is married to a Russian and had a baby with her?

Yes Quasi modo. Just like that.

Regards from Rosie

 

[Si modo]

Read the Republican Party platform. Bunch of Christian Sharia in there.

Regards from Rosie

Just like Gunny is married to a Russian and had a baby with her?

Yes Quasi modo. Just like that.

Regards from Rosie

I seem to be getting under your skin.......

Cool.

 

[Steelplate]

The evangelical heretics in Texas do not want their children exposed to critical thinking techniques because faith issues are reduced to untenable propositions.

I gather the state two-year institutions are all committed to critical thinking, thus repairing much of the limitations of public high school as well as home schooling in that state.

I agree Jake....which if you don't mind, I'd like to talk about those two words for a second....Critical Thinking....

The thing about critical thinking is that you have to use it across the board. Yes, there are always some biases, but you have to try to work through that.... for instance, I am pro-labor....I believe that a well paid workforce is obviously good for those individuals, but is also good for the economy(more people with disposable income), good for the country(less demand on government resources) and in the long run, is good for business. Therefore, I have no problem with organized labor that helps to give otherwise relatively powerless employees a better position to bargain from. Obviously, I am biased on the subject.

That doesn't mean that I don't see that unions CAN be oppressive to businesses....I grew up in the 70's and saw how organized labor screwed businesses during the OPEC oil embargo...they wouldn't back down and it hurt industry....bad. I've also seen in other situations too, but mostly in isolated incidents...nothing like it was back then though.

I very much believe that both business and labor need to be flexible and honest with one another. If a company is truly struggling? Open up the books and show them to labor in an honest manner. Don't lie and plead poverty when things are fine just to be greedy. Likewise, when a company is truly struggling...labor has an obligation to make sacrifices to help that company out until things pick up again.

THAT'S what "critical thinking" is. To be able to analyze both sides of an issue with a critical eye...even if you are biased.

Unfortunately, mostly due to right wing media, Critical thinking has become a buzzword for linear thinking....IE....

government makes mistakes sometimes.....so therefore, government sucks!

Unions sometimes aren't willing to make concessions in tough times, and they sometime protect bad workers.....so therefore, Unions Suck!

There are some people who leech off of government who could work, but are just too lazy....so therefore....Welfare is for lazy leeches!

Sorry for ranting on the subject, but I think the definition of "critical thinking" is one of my biggest pet peeves over the past decade. It's not Critical thinking when you only use it on the "other" guys.

 

[JakeStarkey]

All sides of a legitimate issue need to be represented, every yours, Yelling Chicken.

Why are you undermining our constitutional freedoms of free speech and political association?

Here, Do some study: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

"they are not".....is that all you got to say....? ....another liberal in denial....

i've provided you with a link for proof......where's yours....?

Your bullshit link does not even speak of what originally got the ACLU involved or why they continue to be involved. I went to the ACLU website to get their side of the story and it seems that porn was not mentioned at all, they found that many school systems had blocked LGBT political content from their networks but not even that would have been enough to get their attention, it seems that schools were blocking the sites that were pro LGBT in most cases and and anti LGBT on others. In other words they were only allowing one side of a political issue to be accessible to students. Here's your link but I suppose even talking about gays is porn to you.

ACLU "Don't Filter Me" Initiative Finds Schools In Four More States Unconstitutionally Censoring LGBT Websites | American Civil Liberties Union

it's not a bullshit link and your link just confirmed it's true....of course the ACLU isn't going to put anything negative about it on its website....

homosexual activity is frowned upon by most Christian churches in America...that doesn't just magically change because some political groups deem it acceptable....so teaching Christian children about it as an acceptable lifestyle in the public schools is stepping on religious rights.....

 

[Lakhota]

And not all Catholics are pedophiles.

 

[Steelplate]

the "wall of SEPARATION" never existed.....Thomas Jefferson was very religious in public life....

Don't know much about Jefferson, do you? There were three things he was most proud of in his life....laying the framework for the DOI, Founding the University of Virginia, and accomplishing the concept of SEPARATION of church and state in Virginia....which was adopted into our US Constitution.

As far as Dems getting into heaven or not? Guess we'll see....The whole reason I AM a Democrat is because of my Christian beliefs....
I don't believe that greed is "good". I don't believe that our corporate structure is made up of good, honest people who are just trying to earn a living....I believe that they are, by and large people that would run over a person in a wheelchair if it would make them richer, let alone paying their labor a wage that is capable of raising a family in this day and age.

They are the epitome of greed and avarice....you guys can sit there and tell me how much they give to charity(conveniently tax deductable, of course) and tell me how good of Christians they are....but if they are Multi-billionaires, the top of their employee food chain are millionaires and multi-millionaires, and their Mainstream employees can't make it without government assistance.....they aren't doing right by those people or by God's standards.

I believe that society is measured by how it treats it's weakest members. I believe that all people sin, and those sins are between the individual and God. I believe that when those sins don't hurt society at large....they should remain between the sinner and God. I believe that God loves us all....and it's OUR insecurities, our limited intellect and knowledge, and the fact that we can't look into other people's hearts(like God can) that makes us prone to judging one another, hating one another, and demonizing one another.

Yes, I know....I just did that in my previous paragraphs when talking about the Conglomerate.....like I said...we all sin.....but I didn't say they were going to hell, did I?

So, you want a government based on your Christian beliefs?

Hmmmmmm.

Wow....where did you read THAT into my post?

 

[RosieS]

"they are not".....is that all you got to say....? ....another liberal in denial....

i've provided you with a link for proof......where's yours....?

Your bullshit link does not even speak of what originally got the ACLU involved or why they continue to be involved. I went to the ACLU website to get their side of the story and it seems that porn was not mentioned at all, they found that many school systems had blocked LGBT political content from their networks but not even that would have been enough to get their attention, it seems that schools were blocking the sites that were pro LGBT in most cases and and anti LGBT on others. In other words they were only allowing one side of a political issue to be accessible to students. Here's your link but I suppose even talking about gays is porn to you.

ACLU "Don't Filter Me" Initiative Finds Schools In Four More States Unconstitutionally Censoring LGBT Websites | American Civil Liberties Union

it's not a bullshit link and your link just confirmed it's true....of course the ACLU isn't going to put anything negative about it on its website....

homosexual activity is frowned upon by most Christian churches in America...that doesn't just magically change because some political groups deem it acceptable....so teaching Christian children about it as an acceptable lifestyle in the public schools is stepping on religious rights.....

No it is not. Not celebrating holidays and birthdays and being against blood transfusions are what Jehovah's Witnesses do. So all public school children need to be taught these things are wrong? NO!

You don't like the public school curriculum? Send your kids to private school or homeschool them. Means smaller class sizes for non-fundie kids.

Regards from Rosie

 

[occupied]

"they are not".....is that all you got to say....? ....another liberal in denial....

i've provided you with a link for proof......where's yours....?

Your bullshit link does not even speak of what originally got the ACLU involved or why they continue to be involved. I went to the ACLU website to get their side of the story and it seems that porn was not mentioned at all, they found that many school systems had blocked LGBT political content from their networks but not even that would have been enough to get their attention, it seems that schools were blocking the sites that were pro LGBT in most cases and and anti LGBT on others. In other words they were only allowing one side of a political issue to be accessible to students. Here's your link but I suppose even talking about gays is porn to you.

ACLU "Don't Filter Me" Initiative Finds Schools In Four More States Unconstitutionally Censoring LGBT Websites | American Civil Liberties Union

it's not a bullshit link and your link just confirmed it's true....of course the ACLU isn't going to put anything negative about it on its website....

homosexual activity is frowned upon by most Christian churches in America...that doesn't just magically change because some political groups deem it acceptable....so teaching Christian children about it as an acceptable lifestyle in the public schools is stepping on religious rights.....

Typical, they were not pushing porn on kids but something much more dangerous to the likes of people like you, tolerance. Keep your kids home in a box and only let them watch Pat Robertson if you want to keep them in the dark about political issues but don't push that shit on the rest of us because you are so afraid that liberals might turn them gay or some shit. And finally I don't give a damn what christian churches frown on, they frown on everything that might bring someone joy and is not under their control.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Is that supposed to be some kind thing that would convince me of your position? Porn is blocked from every school network in the country and you have the option to block it from your home network, no one wants to make kids look at porn but some schools go a lot further and block things that make no sense such as political sites that might teach them to think for themselves.

i am pointing out to you that SECULARISTS are imposing their 'morality' just as much....if not more.....than Christians.....

Obama and the Dems are assaulting our religious freedom everywhere in America...

No, Obama is not. Being the Chief Executive, he is barred from advocating one religion over another. You bitch that he denies you religious freedom and ALSO bitch that he leaves God out of a holiday address. If y'all HAD worthwhile minds to make up.......

As for the Dems and Dem policies? Don't like it? Win elections then, losers.

Regards from Rosie

BO advocates abortion.....and he also advocates that the Catholic Church advocate it....

you bet i bitch about his position....he's anti-religion and pro-STATE.....commie that he is....

the losers voted him in again.....but BO doesn't have carte blanche this time around....

 

[ScreamingEagle]

And not all Catholics are pedophiles.

but almost all of them are homosexuals....

 

[Lakhota]

And not all Catholics are pedophiles.

but almost all of them are homosexuals....

That's interesting. I didn't know that...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

you are ASSUMING that a religious person would establish theocracy.....

You just questioned what's wrong with a person's religion being entwined with their politics and now you're questioning the certainty that said people wouldn't entwine their religion with their politics. You need to pick a side here lol.

Theocracies, by and large, come to existence based on a strong bond between politics and religion....so yeah, a religious person who values their religion so much that they can't help but couple it with their political view is extremely likely to start a theocracy. It may be an assumption in this thread, but how many times can you honestly say it hasn't been done?

so if they are such a terrible threat.....why aren't we banning Muslims here in the U.S......everybody knows that Sharia is anti-Constitutional in many ways.....

Because banning Islam would be un-Constitutional in every way.

so if they are such a terrible threat.....why aren't we banning Muslims here in the U.S......everybody knows that Sharia is anti-Constitutional in many ways.....

Why aren't we banning orthodox Jews for the same reason? Westborough Baptist Church types? Or any extremist religious doctrine? It's called freedom of religion, it's in the constitution, look it up.

well there ya go.........so WHY the fuck do liberals get all in a lather about Christians.....?

They don’t, they oppose all Establishment Clause violations, regardless the faith.