Ian MacLeod

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  Ian signed the petition | over 1 year ago

  Tell Congress: No Woman Should Die During Childbirth
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  Ian commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Texas Fundamentalists Set Their Sights on Social Studies Standards

  Keys are sticking: that was "grandchildren"
  
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  Ian commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Texas Fundamentalists Set Their Sights on Social Studies Standards

  Mickey, you HAVE your Jesus Christ, as much as anyone does (though I really people wouldn't just append "Christ" to the name as though it's a surname).  I DON'T WANT HIM!  Not unless he knocks on my door and comes in for coffee.  I don't want my children being brainwashed with tax money in schools, either.  They can be exposed through friends, they can go to church and Sunday schools an learn what they have to teach, and they can ask preachers, priests, me and their Grandmother and others for information, plus they can read.  The values my son and daughter-in-law teach them regarding moral behavior are those I taught my son; beyond that reasonable and necessary societal behavior and those personal  commitments, they can make their own choices. A religious rule, when secular law is religious law, is ALWAYS a dictatorship of men.  Find any example you want.  That's part of the reason for the saparation of church and state.  Christianity was NEVER "kicked out of schools". It was never there to begin with.  Any child who wishes may pray at any time.  The schools, however, shall NOT require prayer or teach it.  Or do you invite other religions in for equal time?  No - teach the structure and other info of religions, how they affect history, etc., but quit pissing and moaning about how exclusion of Christianity in the schools as a monopoly on Truth is an attack on it and it's followers; it's a crock, a deliberately manufactured, and false,  divisive element that keeps people who might otherwise resist our would-be overlords instead apart.
  
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  Ian commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Texas Fundamentalists Set Their Sights on Social Studies Standards

  You need to read the Constitution and the Declaration.  Most of the Founders were Deists, not Christians.  Jefferson wrote once that he felt that most  people neede "a religion"; he did not specify Christianity.  They deliberately included the eparation Clause to prevent exactly what people like are doing: insisting that this was founded as a CHristian nation, that it should have Christian laws, and on and on.  Jesus' instructions are always ignored or twisted. His kingdom, I have on as good an authority as anyone else, is NOT of this world. The "Christians" who are worshipping their "Warrior Jesus" and trying to get Christianity legislated and forced on school kids are so far from Christianity, they're into another thing entirely. 
  
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  Ian commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Texas Fundamentalists Set Their Sights on Social Studies Standards

  "I knew in high school that Bush was a bad choice, but what did the rest of America do?  They elected him."
  
  WHEN are people going to get this straight?? In 2,000 it was handed to him by the Supreme Court; in '04 it was stolen, period.  I wish people would get it straight.
  
  I'm another Texan who lives elsewhere - Oregon. Texas WAS a nice place until ideologues convinced a bunch of people that their religion was being attacked by their being forbidden to enact it into law. Nowadays, Texas is still a nice place, but it's full of Texans like that.  We used to respect the rights of others, as well as DEMAND that others respect ours. Now too many demand respect and offer none.  It ain't home any more.
  
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