The thread wonders why, oh why, it is still here as opposed to raptured among the heavenly hosts. Mayans, you're now on the clock. Consider yourselves warned.
- In case you missed it yesterday, Newt Gingrich affirmed his support two days ago for requiring young Americans to take a test before they were allowed to vote. This philosophy of challenging the rights of young people to vote is nothing new for the GOP, as I wrote earlier this spring; it's just that I don't remember them ever being this explicit about their desire for disenfranchisement.
- In keeping with this theme, conservative interests in the city of Chico, CA have put a measure on the ballot to move the city's Council elections from November to June, even though it would it would likely cost additional money to do so. Why? Because a substantial portion of the usual November election is the students at the local university, and they're less likely to vote in June. If you can't beat them, stop them from voting. It's the Republican way.
- The standard expectation one would have of law school is that it should teach you how to follow the law. This is likely true everywhere...except at Liberty University:
Students at Liberty Law School tell RD that in the required Foundations of Law class in the fall of 2008, taught by Miller?s attorneys Mat Staver and Rena Lindevaldsen, they were repeatedly instructed that when faced with a conflict between ?God?s law? and ?man?s law,? they should resolve that conflict through ?civil disobedience.? One student said, ?the idea was when you are confronted with a particular situation, for instance, if you have a court order against you that is in violation of what you see as God?s law, essentially... civil disobedience was the answer.?
This student and two others, who all requested anonymity for fear of reprisal by Staver (who is also the law school?s dean), recounted the classroom discussion of civil disobedience, as well as efforts to draw comparisons between choosing ?God?s law? over ?man?s law? to the American revolution and Martin Luther King Jr.?s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. According to one student, in the Foundations course both Staver and Lindevaldsen ?espoused the opinion that in situations where God?s law is in direct contradiction to man?s law, we have an obligation to disobey it.?
So, seems like these people are brazenly attempting to supplant United States law with God's law. But...wait a minute.
Gaffney's argument boils down to this: Devout Muslims want to live under Sharia, the religious legal code that governs in Saudi Arabia and other traditional Islamic societies. But Sharia, which treats women as unequal, is incompatible with U.S. law. So organized Islam, Gaffney charges, is conspiring to supplant American law with Muslim law ? and that, he says, is sedition.
"What is going on in Murfreesboro ? fits into the profile of the stealth jihad that is being waged by the Muslim Brotherhood," he told me. "It's a mega-mosque that's clearly disproportionate to the community that it's intended to serve. It has the purpose of demonstrating a kind of triumphalist agenda."
The irony...it burns.
- The story of a deflated rapture believer. It's funny, but tragic all at the same time.
- Yes, people were actually considering euthanizing their pets in advance of the impending rapture yesterday.
- The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce put together a repulsive ad campaign to support the passage of a bill that would overturn anti-discrimination ordinances passed in more progressive areas of the state. Some of the Chamber's member corporations aren't the happiest with the move, and DailyKos' own Clarknt67 is helping put pressure on the corporations who support the LGBT community to get them to support a veto of the bill. Just goes to show you how much conservatives actually value local control.
- In California, Governor Jerry Brown has declared today the second annual Harvey Milk Day, in honor of slain San Francisco Supervisor and LGBT advocate Harvey Milk.
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