Politics
Time For the GOP to Split From God?
With the sound defeats suffered in this year’s elections, the Republican Party is taking a long look in the mirror. They need to regroup if they want any chance at having some say in the direction of this country. Here’s where they went wrong: Republicans hatched a plan that would win over more than half [...]
Atheists Need Not Apply for Presidency
Not that you needed to be told this, but atheists are not going to win an election for president anytime soon. Shocking, right? Mark Oppenheimer said in Slate that atheists are the least likely of any group to win the presidency, falling behind such political favorites as Muslims, Hindus and homosexuals. The order Oppenheimer placed [...]
Mormons and Prop 8 – Crossing a Tax Exempt Line?
Proposition 8 in California was perhaps the most talked about ballot measure in all of the 2008 election. The prop overturned the legality of gay marriage in California, making it once again illegal for same-sex couples to be wed. I am not an activist, and this topic is not my highest priority (sorry gays), but [...]
Religion and Politics Report Card For the 2008 Election
Religion and politics butted heads several times in the 2008 election season, impacting the presidential vote, Senate races and of course ballot measures. So what was the final score of the religion in politics season? Electing Representatives Secularism Defeated Religion Starting at the presidential level, the only religious issue was that many non-religious folks, and [...]
Arkansas Adoption Act Show How Far America Has Not Come
The fine people of Arkansas approved a measure that prevents any cohabiting sexual couple from adopting children or becoming foster parents. The bill was made to stop the “gay agenda”, but really the bill was passed to stop the advancement of American families. The backers of the bill cited study after study that shows that [...]
Why I Voted For John McCain
I’ll admit, I fell into the category of undecided for far too long in this election. In most years, I would agree with the idea that if you didn’t know who you were voting for a month before the election, then you likely weren’t informed enough to be casting a quality vote. This election changed [...]
We’ve Seen Our Last Great President
We may all disagree on who the last great President of the United States was, but I can say now that whoever it was, was the last great president we’ll ever have. The presidential process has made it nearly impossible for the right person to win the presidency, and even harder for them to have [...]
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