November 26, 2006
Just more proof that many universities/colleges are not about diverse ideas but pushing certain agendas…
November 22, 2006-
The University made the decision to ban the program, entitled ‘PURE‘, after some students objected to literature promoting the course, which apparently included stories from people who had been “cured” of homosexuality, the Scotsman reported Sunday.
The course promotes marriage as the best setting for a sexual relationship, encouraging students to abstain from sexual activity until they are ready to get married. Officials said the course promotional material broke the “equality” and “diversity” rules of the University.
According to a university spokeswoman the course was “contradictory to our equality and diversity values” and not appropriate to run on university or Students Association premises....
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112210.html
November 24, 2006-
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112406.html
Attorneys Ready to Combat Groups Who Oppose Public Christmas Displays
Nov 24, 2006- Nearly 1,000 attorneys around the country are prepared to combat attempts to censor Christmas. For the fourth year, the legal group, the Alliance Defense Fund, has launched its Christmas Project.
Attorney Heather Gebelin Hacker, says, in the past, groups like the ACLU have improperly tried to get rid of public Christmas displays. Hacker says there is a court ruling that directly refers to such displays:
Hacker: It’s kind of facetiously been called the three reindeer rule, which is, basically, the courts will look at whether or not there are a sufficient number of secular objects, along with any religious objects in the display, as to make it not primarily religious.
Officials with the ACLU did not want to comment for this story. The Alliance Defense Fund says surveys show nearly 90 percent of Americans think it’s OK to wish someone Merry Christmas, and nearly 90 percent believe nativity scenes should be allowed on public property.
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=6626
Muslim barber who taught kids jihad flees
Judge allowed him to keep passport when released prior to sentencing
November 25, 2006 A Muslim who allegedly used his Seattle barber shop to teach children "how to shoot and fight the Americans" has fled to Somalia to avoid prison after he was convicted on federal counterfeiting and weapons charges…
…Shumpert was able to leave the country because a judge allowed him to keep his passport when he was released from custody prior to sentencing. A condition of Shumpert's release was that he surrender the passport prior to his sentencing, which was scheduled for Tuesday.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53101
Snopes snookered by 10 Commandments hoax
November 24, 2006- The California pastor whose research revealed a strategy by the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate references to the Ten Commandments in its own artwork now is asking Internet watchdogs Snopes.com and TruthOrFiction.com to fix their mistakes on the issue.
Todd DuBord's work was profiled by WND in an article about the Supreme Court and a second story about the
There also was a follow-up showing how one state Supreme Court was following suit, and in a photograph of its team of justices, blurred part of the photograph because it would have shown the Ten Commandments on the wall behind them.
DuBord, whose work resulted in his formal requests to those national treasures that they correct the information being distributed, now is asking the two accuracy-focused websites to correct similar mistakes in their materials.
"Millions of people go to snopes.com and truthorfiction.com to get the straight scoop on Internet and other legends," DuBord, pastor of
"However, in the case of describing the depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments on the Supreme Court, they are perpetuating their own forms of cultural and revisionist myth."
"While much in your articles about the Ten Commandment depictions on or in the U.S. Supreme Court Building is correct, I respectfully need to point out a couple of errors in your investigations, and trust you will make the appropriate changes," he wrote to the sites.
The Snopes article is: "Religious symbols and references abound in
DuBord notes that Snopes references "two representations of Moses" on the building, but there actually are four – on the South Wall Frieze in the court, on the East Pediment, on the Exterior Portrait Medallions and on the frieze in the Great Hall.
Regarding the Eastern Pediment representation, Snopes says, "And although many viewers might assume Moses is holding a copy of the Ten Commandments in this depiction, the two tablets in his arms are actually blank."
TruthOrFiction concludes similarly: "the two tablets in his arms are actually blank."
"Your comments infer that, by holding two tablets that are blank, they are plausibly not the Ten Commandments. Is there another alternative to the identity of these 'blank' tablets? Are there any other tablets he carried down from
"In the South Wall Frieze in the Courtroom, Moses is clearly holding a tablet, with the last five commandments written in Hebrew. Should we merely assume the inside frieze tablet represents five of the Ten Commandments and the outside Eastern pediment tablets do not represent the Ten Commandments in whole because they are blank? Again, what else would Moses be holding? The Ten Amendments?"
DuBord said the sentence reveals a bias, and the larger question is "why the unnecessary conclusion to neuter the identity of the tablets that are so clearly the Ten Commandments?"
He also pointed out the references to the oak doors, which display tablets carrying Roman numerals I-V and VI-X.
Those "can represent something other than the Ten Commandments," according to Snopes, and are "symbolic representations," according to TruthOrFiction.
The Supreme Court's own documentation from the 1970s show those to be the Ten Commandments, although that language "evolved" over the next 20 years to become "symbolic representations," DuBord noted.
…The Bill of Rights didn't arrive on tablets, and the Library of Congress shows those images to be consistent with those depicting the Ten Commandments during the period the building was constructed, he said.
"Why not accept the most obvious meaning of these tablets on the U.S. Supreme Court?" he asked.
He also says the representation in the courtroom itself is not the "amendments" as many report, but actually the Ten Commandments, because the artist himself said so in describing another almost identical depiction at The Oscar Solomon Memorial, also in
"Most important here, will the 'fact sites' of Snopes.com and TruthOrFiction.com perpetuate their 'urban legend' or state what is the truth about the architecture of the highest court in the land?" DuBord asked.
"I hope, indeed I pray, you make the above correction or at least present the wider body of evidence against the neutering of the Ten Commandments on the U.S. Supreme Court building," he said.
WND requests to both Snopes.com and TruthOrFiction.com about the corrections suggested were not answered.
His entire research compilation is available online http://www.lacconline.org/supremecourt.asp .
For referenced photos and links see: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53079
Democrat activist faced 81 years in jail on charges involving kids as young as 6 now gets 10 months
November 25, 2006- Andrew Douglas Reed, 53, a Democrat community leader… has been given a slap on the hand after pleading guilty to extensive child pornography offenses involving children as young as six.
...Court records in the
… instead of the 967 months in jail – nearly 81 years – for which he was liable, Judge Robert Lewis, another Democrat, gave him, in a plea bargain with the office of District Attorney Ron Moore, who was elected as a Democrat, a 10-12 month sentence.
And even that seemed regrettable, according to a number of letters of recommendation offered by other Democrat leaders of the community to the court on his behalf.
"It has been my pleasure to share Andy's commitment to ensuring that compassion and democracy are at work across our community," wrote Beth Lazer, a Democrat who shared Unitarian Universalist church theologies with Reed and serves as the head of the local public access television, URTV….
…The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation had worked on a sting for more than a year to stop his operations, authorities said.
Reed, who also worked as a columnist for the Asheville Citizen Times, often wrote in support of the "gay" agenda in the region…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53070
Impeachment record of intel-chairman candidate exposed
November 25, 2006 A Washington watchdog group is trying to make sure Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings does not rise to the chairmanship of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence without the public knowing the full record surrounding his 1989 impeachment as a federal judge…
The non-profit CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
The House transcript shows Rep. John Conyers of
Conyers said that while some suggested the House's decision might be affected by racism, "I do not believe that to be the case… A black public official must be held to the same standard as every other public official… A lower standard would be patronizing. A higher standard would be racist. Just as race should never disqualify a person from office, race should never insulate a person from the consequences of wrongful conduct."
…Incoming speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi of
Pelosi, who has vowed to have the most ethical House leadership ever, already has faced embarrassment with her endorsement of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., for the party's No. 2 post. Murtha, who was implicated in the Abscam scandal in the early 1970s as an unindicted co-conspirator, eventually lost to Rep. Steny Hoyer of
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53097
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