ATHEISTS: KENTUCKY APPEAL OF HOMELAND SECURITY CASE IS WASTE OF MONEY,
DEFENDS FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION
“We’re ready to take this to the Supreme Court” says attorney Edwin Kagin

An Atheist civil rights group today criticized the Kentucky Attorney
General’s office for appealing a case challenging laws that it says
allowed the Commonwealth to establish religion.

Statutes passed after the September 11, 2001 faith-based attacks ordered
the state Office of Homeland Security office to display a plaque citing
dependence on God as an essential tool in fighting terrorism, and to
incorporate that theme in its training materials. American Atheists and
10 other plaintiffs filed suit; two weeks ago, a Circuit Court Judge
rejected a state request to dismiss the case, and ruled in favor of the
Atheists.

On Friday, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office announced that it
would appeal.

Edwin Kagin, National Legal Director for American Atheists, accused
state officials of wasting money. “We’re in an economic crisis, and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky continues to squander taxpayer revenue to
defend a bad and unconstitutional practice.”

Mr. Kagin challenged a claim by one state attorney that the plaque was
“about God, not religion.”

“If this isn’t a violation of state-church separation, what is?”

Really? This is important to you, Kentucky? You need to spend tax dollars to preach religion, because preaching God ISN’T preaching religion? Really?

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President Obama will use his power of office to speak to America’s children, and at the end, he will pull the old “God card”. “God bless you, and God Bless America” will be his closing remarks.

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This is wrong. He is praying at the kids, to the kids and for the kids. He is doing it as a President, not as a citizen, and he is legitimizing religion and minimizing secular children. He will relegate secular children to second-class, in front of their peers, with this one sentence. Frankly, I think it’s far more of a legal issue than ‘so help me God’ at his inauguration, because he is using his position to shove his beliefs down our kids’ throats.

Furthermore, he will legitimize his OTHER comments -it doesn’t matter what they are – by implying that God is on his side. Way too bushian.

I wouldn’t stand quietly when Bush pulled this crap, and I won’t with Obama. This is unnecessary, unwelcome, and un-American. We can’t stop him, but we can make our feelings known.

Sci-fi has always been a haven for skeptics. The only difference is that now, we’re actively farming this huge market for atheist support.

I’m heading down to Dragon*Con for the long weekend, where an estimated 45,000 people will descend on Atlanta for enough sci-fi to last until the next Comic*con in February. American Atheists will be joined by other major and regional atheist groups in an effort to raise awareness of the need for atheist activism in the sci-fi fandom world.

If you’re at Dragon*con, please be sure to wear atheist garb and attend our talks! If you’re not, use this space as an excuse to talk about your favorite form of entertainment.

See you in Atlanta!

Readers of the humorous Christian website shipoffools.com were asked to submit their ‘favourite’ worst verses to compile the list, in a light-hearted project called Chapter & Worse.

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First of all, these are the BEST passages, not the worst. More importantly, there are sooo many more than these!

Like Jeremiah 10, which specifies that Christmas trees are for heathens and not for Christmas.
Or Exodus 20:13, when god tells Moses that gays need to die, and its their own fault.

What’s your favorite (or should I say “favourite”)?

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