Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Lucas
Today during my social studies class, we had a debate over the Supreme Court case, Wade vs. Boy Scouts of America. In the case, a man that had been in boy scouts for 12 years, earning the coveted rank of Eagle Scout, began to tell people that he was gay. because of this he [...]
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Filed under: Boy Scouts, Featured Stories, LGBT Rights, Lucas, Moral Issues, Religion, Young Adult Issues, freedom of speech, gay rights, kids, teens
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
On Blogging for Choice day, the 35th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion, I wrote a post for my other blog about anti-abortion eighth graders at a Catholic school. That post was read on the air and discussed on the Head On Radio Network, and you can hear the whole discussion [...]
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Filed under: Abortion, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Women's Rights, schools, sex education, teen pregnancy, teens
Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Would someone please tell me why the story about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution and start a theocracy here is NOT in regular newspapers? I am not allowed to use AlterNet or TPM or the blogs as sources for weekly “current events in politics” assignments. And if it isn’t even news for a high [...]
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Filed under: Constitution, Election 2008, Featured Stories, First Amendment, FrecklesCassie, Freedom of the Press, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Republicans, freedom of speech, news, schools
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Daisy, in the post below, seems surprised at how religiously biased and anti-scientific sex education has become. I live in Texas and I am still in HS, so it doesn’t surprise me at all. “Say no until you are married” is about half of what they tell us in school. But —– neither school nor [...]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Medical News, Religion, Video, schools, sex education
Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
photo from ABC News
General Peter Pace is the chairman of the joint chiefs, making him the most elevated military office in the United States. He is not our priest-in-chief or our parent-in-chief, but he seems to think he is, and that his “upbringing” and his beliefs make him qualified to tell the rest [...]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, First Amendment, FrecklesCassie, Government, LGBT Rights, Moral Issues, Opinion, Pentagon, Politics, Religion, U.S. Military, War on Iraq, equality
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Do they REALLY think I am going to want to believe in their God and their bible if they jam creationism down my throat instead of real science?
But what about the teenagers who don’t know anything about real science? What happens to them when they get to college?
Trouble In Texas: School Board Chairman Seeks [...]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Young Adult Issues, creationism, evolution
Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
When I get lazy, or busy with exams, I don’t think, write and then post. Instead I just pick the best of the day’s political cartoons and post those. Here ya go!
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Filed under: Congress, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Government, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Secondary Featured Stories
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Daisy Bond
From Radical Torah, I just learned about this neat petition of Jews against the Iraq War. The petition will be sent to Congress during Shavuot to show that the Jewish community in the US is united against this unjust disaster of a war. I just signed it, and thought I’d encourage any other liberal Jews [...]
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Filed under: Daisy Bond, Religion, Secondary Featured Stories, War on Iraq
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Aryeh
Picture taken by George Frey for the New York Times
Vice President Dick Cheney was invited to speak at the largely Conservative, and Mormon, Brigham Young University to lead its commencement ceremony, which was held today at the school in Utah.
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Filed under: Aryeh, Corruption, Featured Stories, Politics, Religion, War on Iraq
Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Aryeh
One of the reasons that the supporters of bush have the views that they do is religion. They say that it is God’s will that they wage war on terrorist groups and the Middle East in general. But now many non-partisan religious leaders are turning around and refusing to let conservatives hide behind God? Now [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Politics, Religion, Secondary Featured Stories, War on Iraq