From the story:

Imagine that you are a religious minority sending your child to public school, only to find out that the school has implemented a “voluntary” program of religious instruction that reaffirms the doctrines and creeds of the largely Christian community. Like most people, you don’t want to make waves by challenging the views of the majority, so you allow your child to participate in this program, hoping that it will emphasize education, not indoctrination. Your child soon comes home with artwork and other materials, however, that indicate that the program is little more than a Christian Sunday school, having nothing to do with objective education and everything to do with instilling Christian beliefs.

stfuconservatives:

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Tennessee is considering making it a felony to follow some versions of the Islamic code known as Shariah, the most severe measure yet put forth by a national movement whose members believe extremist Muslims want Shariah to supersede the Constitution.

The bill would face steep constitutional hurdles if enacted.

Nevertheless, it represents the boldest legislative attempt yet to limit how Muslims worship. Backers of bill include conservatives with ties to opponents of a planned Islamic center two blocks from New York City’s World Trade Center site and efforts to expand a mosque 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Nashville.

Muslim groups fear the measure would outlaw central tenets of Islam, such as praying five times a day toward Mecca, abstaining from alcohol and fasting for Ramadan.

Submitted by anothertheletter: “Click the link to read more. Tennessee’s new GOP government is just (and I’m sorry in advance if anyone is offended by my use of this term, but I have extreme difficulty finding a word that describes them better than this) batshit crazy. It’s absolutely unconstitutional. And the cruel irony in this is that the people who support this bill are the same people who hold the Constitution up as some holy document that shall never be changed (unless it benefits them, of course).

“Please reblog this to spread the word. This bill cannot pass.”

Do I have to post the Thomas Jefferson quote twice in one day? KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF REPUBLICANS.

(Source: stfuconservatives)

ketsuekiran:

hatefulatheist:

The abortion debate in this country has gotten to absolutely ridiculous and disgusting levels. I am honestly ashamed of the fact that in Ohio they are trying to push through the heartbeat bill and even having a fetus testify in court. It is enraging. It is almost entirely religiously motivated, yet I’m told as an Atheist I should just live and let live…fucking hypocrisy.

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“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

- Thomas Jefferson, from his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.

From the site:

I’m a bit furious about a mandatory survey that I just took. The survey, Soldier Fitness Tracker (SFT), measures individual soldier’s competency in four areas: Emotional, Social, Family, and Spiritual. As a foxhole atheist, I was a little annoyed at first, but I’ve learned that I’ve really got to pick my battles on some issues. This quickly turned into one of those issues. According to the SFT, I’m unfit to serve in the U.S. Army because I’m a non-believer.

“Good morning Mikey, you f*** Jew. Let me be the first to call you a f*** Jew today.”

Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein shares his hate mail with both friends and strangers the way elderly people show off photos of their grandkids. He has plenty of it to share. For the past four years, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been doing battle with a Christian subculture that, he believes, is trying to Christianize the U.S. armed forces with the help of a complicit Pentagon brass. He calls it the “fundamentalist Christian parachurch-military-corporate-proselytizing complex,” a mouthful by which he means holy warriors in contempt of the constitutional barrier between church and state.

“The scary thing about all this,” Weinstein says, “is it’s going on not with the blind eye of the Pentagon but with its full and totally enthusiastic support. And those who are not directly involved are passive about it. As the Talmud says, ‘silence is consent.’”

(via foreignpolicy.com)