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This has been circulating around. It appears to be the product of some Christofacist group hoping to discourage the sale of Girl Scout cookies.

Well, because of this, I will certainly be buying more Girl Scout cookies than usual this year and I would encourage you to do the same. Let’s make this their best  year ever.

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[T]he use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

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It’s perfectly all right with me. Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

What an amazing woman and one of the best entertainers of the last century!

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…a militant Christofacist. They lurk in America too.

Such groups are among the fastest-growing extremist organizations in the country, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported in February. Right wing anti-government groups grew by 60% in 2010 over the previous year, the center reported, attributing much of the growth to militia groups.

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I’ve never been a fan of non-traditional or tacky made-up names for which celebrities seem to have a fondness. I figure if you have to stick a human being with a label to wear the rest of his or her life, you should tread lightly.

New Zealand’s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is cracking the whip on names like Lucifer, Messiah, General, Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice, King, Knight, Mr., 89, 4real, C, D, I and T. Yes, these are names that parents in New Zealand have actually given to their kids.

International Business Times reports,

The agency banned names involving asterisks, commas, periods and other punctuation marks.

The new regulations may be a response to the attention the country received in 2008 for allowing names such as Benson and Hedges for a set of twins, as well as Violence and Number 16 Bus Shelter.

The remote island nation is not the first to institute strict laws for naming.  In Sweden, name choices are subject to a naming law. So far, the committee has had the duty of rejecting such names as Superman, Metallica and Elvis as well the name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced Albin, of course).

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Gary Bauer, a predictable right-wing Christofacist, is an easy target, but, what the hell, here we go. This mousey little man — one-time perennial presidential candidate who couldn’t utter a single sentence without mentioning the mythologized Ronald Reagan, a la Giuliani and 9/11 — heads American Values, which is really just a self-promo website.

On Monday, ol’Gary wrote a piece for Human Events taking on libertarian Republicans who support marriage equality. He argues that gay marriage is a threat to liberties and provides these examples,

Recently, Frank Turek, an employee for computer networking firm Cisco Systems, was fired for authoring a book titled “Correct, not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone.”  Turek had a stellar work record and never talked about his religious or political views on the job.

But after a homosexual manager at Cisco Googled Turek’s name, learned about his views and complained to a human resources professional at Cisco, Turek was immediately fired.

Also recently, Canadian sportscaster Damian Goddard was fired for declaring his opposition to gay marriage.  Rogers Communications fired Goddard after he tweeted his support for Todd Reynolds, a hockey agent, who had earlier voiced his opposition to the activism of Sean Avery, a New York Rangers player who was part of the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign in the lead-up to the same-sex marriage vote in the New York State Legislature.

“I completely and wholeheartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage,” the sportscaster wrote.

Goddard says he will file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against his former employer.  In a news release, Goddard said he was discriminated against for standing up for his Catholic beliefs.  Goddard’s lawyer says that his fundamental right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion were violated when he was fired.

The problem with these examples is that they have absolutely nothing to do with gay marriage, at least not directly. The culture has changed and is continuing to change. As the culture confronts the reality that there are a lot of gays and lesbians all over the place, in our families, workplaces, schools, and in public life, the culture’s approach changes and the old irrational prejudices, once acceptable, become offensive. Bigoted idiocy supported by superstitious religiosity is hardly better. I must plainly say, such evidence renders the prejudicial notion even less valid. Legal same-sex marriage is a consequence of this cultural shift. The firings Bauer mentions are a result of the greater cultural shift and not of marriage equality per se. Bauer draws a false causal link.

Secondly, it is very much in line with the libertarian principles of freedom of association and rights to property that Cisco and Rogers Communications can fire Turek and Goddard. Libertarians wouldn’t deny the right of someone to start a business and hire employees who share his or her values. Conversely, libertarian principles would allow Bauer to also start a business and just hire Christian freaks who share his superstition. Either Bauer has no understanding of libertarian principles or was just thoughtfully lazy.

The Christofacists are freaking out. The greater culture is leaving them behind and they must cope with either embracing the cultural shift or bunkering up.

For fun…

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