A Christian Jordanian woman named Vivian Salameh is suing her former employer, the Dubai Islamic Bank, for arbitrary dismissal after she was fired a week ago for refusing to comply with her company’s dress code, which required her to wear a headscarf that would cover all her hair except for her hairline.
Islam, ladies and gentlemen.
(CNN) — Christian groups in the Philippines planned to protest Lady Gaga’s performances there Monday and Tuesday, just after Muslim protests have cast doubt whether she will be allowed to perform in Indonesia. (via Lady Gaga’s Manila concerts face protests - CNN.com)
Once again, religion stands in direct opposition to young people having a good time ever.
Pat Robertson perfectly sums up the last 2,000 years of Christianity’s attitude toward culture, art, diversity, history, education, science: Break it! Destroy it!
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I laughed at the schizophrenic woman’s rant. I didn’t know she was schizophrenic because her rant wasn’t too far off the GOP talking points. Here are a few reasons.
1) (Above vid) Rep. John Shimkus: God decides when the “earth will end” therefore, there is no global warming
2)
McCain supporter in a town hall meeting addresses the candidate sharing her view that Obama is a secret “Arab,” to which McCain counters, “No, he’s a descent family man.” So many levels…
3) Two years on Glenn Beck’s web hub hasn’t taken this gem down: Obama’s Transvestite Nanny Remembers ‘Chubby’ Barry Soetoro.
(You know Barry Soetoro, right? It’s Obama’s real name. He had to change it because of his gay love affair with blahlblahblah…)
4) Respected Christian right broadcaster, Bryan Fischer says that gays are literally Nazis.
5) Finally, please tell me how anything that woman said is anymore delusional than this Falwell/Robertson broadcast two days after 9/11:
9/11 HAPPENED BECAUZ GAYZ, LEZBEANZ, FELINEISTS, ABOSHUNISTS, THE AsheLU!
BEAVERTON, Ore. - A church pastor is suing a mother and daughter for $500,000 because they gave the church bad reviews online.
The family being sued left the church a few years ago and Julie Anne Smith says she and her family were shunned and couldn’t understand why. So she went online and wrote Google and DEX reviews of the church and then started a blog.
“I thought, I’m just going to post a review,” Smith said. “We do it with restaurants and hotels and whatnot, and I thought, why not do it with this church?”
Never did she think Beaverton Grace Bible Church and Pastor Charles O’Neal would slap her with the lawsuit.
“I’m a stay-at-home mom. I teach my kids at home, and this is just not the amount of money that normal moms have.”
When the family left the church, Smith says friends were told to end all contact with her.
“If I went to Costco or any place in town, if I ran into somebody, they would turn their heads and walk the other way,” she said. “All we did was asked questions. We just raised concerns. There’s no sin in that.”
Dissatisfied, she went online to write reviews. Other church members counteracted them with church praise. So Smith started a blog called “Beaverton Grace Bible Church Survivors.”
But the pastor claims in the lawsuit he filed that her words, “creepy,” “cult,” “control tactics,” and “spiritual abuse,” are defamation.
“What somebody does in the church is one thing, but when you get out into society we have the right to free speech, and it may not be what people want to hear, but we absolutely have that right,” Smith said.
The lawsuit didn’t just target Smith. Her daughter and three other commenters are also being sued.
“He can say what he wants in the church and say, don’t talk about this or don’t talk about that, or don’t talk to this person, but when you’re out in the civil world, you don’t do that anymore,” Smith said. “And he’s not my pastor anymore. He does not have that right to keep people from talking.”
The Smiths filed a special free speech motion to dismiss the lawsuit. It goes before a judge later this month.
KATU News called the church, went there, went to the pastor’s home and spoke to his wife. KATU News also called the pastor’s attorney. All of them declined to give their side of the story.
The Girl Scouts are facing an official inquiry by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive
Looks like the Catholic church is on a role picking on little girls today.
(via How a US soldier finally got his Pastafarian dogtags - Boing Boing)
Justin Griffith, an atheist in the US military, tells the story of how he ended up with ATHEIST/FSM on his dogtags. It all started when he enlisted as an atheist, only to have his recruiter record his religion as “Baptist.” Even switching recruiters didn’t end up with the error corrected. At boot camp, recruits were only allowed one “holy book” from their stated religion, so he brought The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which became the most-loved book in camp, much-borrowed and re-read by the other recruits. Even his drill sergeant liked it. Kinda.
The wife of a North Carolina state senator reportedly told poll workers during early voting Monday that an amendment sponsored by her husband was intended partially to protect the Caucasian race.
Jodie Brunstetter is the wife of state Sen. Peter Brunstetter (R), a supporter of Amendment 1, which would change North Carolina’s Constitution to permit only heterosexual marriage.
According to the alternative Yes! Weekly, writer and campaigner Chad Nance spoke to a pollworker who told him that Jodie Brunstetter said, “The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce.”
lol, what? Oh, Christian Conservatives, why is everything you do so hilariously stupid?
Horse God: About as reasonable a belief as Jesus.
