It has been quite a while since I checked on Conservapedia, the preferred online reference for knuckle-draggers who can still thumb their way to a web site. I am here to report that at the possible peril of the methinks-the-site-doth-protest-too-much obsession with homosexuality, Conservapedia has recently taken to condemning modern physics : It says: “The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.” In a footnote, this comment is followed up by: “Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold.” The finer points of the theory of relativity elude me, but I feel confident in saying it doesn’t depend on drawing more readers than the Bible, nor on drawing readers away from the Bible and toward New York Times bestsellers
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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today in Perry v. Schwarzenegger entered an order ( full text ) granting a stay during the appeal process of the district court’s order that enjoined enforcement of California’s Proposition 8.
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9th Circuit Stays Order Striking Down Proposition 8; Seeks Briefing On Standing
There is no mosque being built on the site of Ground Zero. It’s a simple fact, but one that news consumers can be forgiven for missing as they scan the headlines of a growing–and increasingly heated national debate over the construction of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.
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News outlets split in describing mosque
Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama Is “Our First Anti-American President” Gawker … not Hinduism , is the most common religion in Japan, and there is already a Mosque inside the Pentagon and a Shinto temple next to Pearl Harbor. ..
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Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama Is "Our First Anti-American President" – Gawker
When I have time, I browse the Newseum’s front-page images from major newspapers across the nation. It’s interesting to see how different papers play various stories, and from time to time, I run across stories that make perfect GetReligion fodder
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The couple that pastors together
President Obama, after saying that building a mosque at Ground Zero fit our “commitment to religious freedom,” backtracked, saying he wasn’t commenting on the ‘wisdom’ of building it so close to ‘hallowed ground.’ A Fox News poll showed that while 61 percent of Americans believe that Cordoba House has a constitutional right to build near Ground Zero, 64 percent believe it is not appropriate to do so. Does Obama’s hedging show a lack of…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Religious freedom vs. wisdom
NEW DELHI: Acting on Punjab government’s recommendation, the Centre has finally deleted names of 23 former Khalistani militants — all foreign nationals — from the Centre’s list of blacklisted Sikh radicals as they are “not involved in any serious criminals cases and anti-India activities”.
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Centre removes 23 ex-Khalistani militants’ names from blacklist
Anyone who has lived in Texas knows that there are times when it seems that there are more Baptists inside the Lone Star state then there are people. When it comes to politics, separation of Baptists and state remains a vital issue.
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Got news? Baptist cuts in Texas
Joining the growing number of news agencies that are looking to capitalize on the mobile device market, Rupert Murdochs News Corp.
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News Corp. to Offer Exclusive Newspaper for Tablets and Cell Phones
This weekend, President Obama gave a First Amendment defense of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. The next day he made a point of noting that he wasn’t addressing the “wisdom” of building a mosque at the site
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Are 70% of Americans anti-Islam?