Yet Another Hillbilly Decalogue Lawsuit
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Kip
What is it about Kentucky and the Ten Commandments?
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On Religious Bigots' New-Found (Faux) Libertarianism
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Kip
If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.
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"Eternal Vigilance" Post of the Day
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Kip
"Whereas" a theocrat in Congress has introduced some outrageous "Whereas" clauses…
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Should There Be "Federal Civil Unions"?
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Kip
David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch seem to think so.
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In Honor of President's Day: On Washington's Religion
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Kip
Most of the Framers were Deists, not "Christians" in the modern sense.
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Kip Clip — Christmas Edition
Posted on December 25th, 2008 by Kip
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 Before there was bigotry, there was — bigotry. And before there was blogging, there was — blogging: We shall have to wait and see to what extent Rick Warren proves to be [...]
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Questions — Special Theocracy Edition
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Kip
–Which local theocracy tried to ban fortune tellers and soothsayers, until a federal judge declared the ban unconstitutional on free speech and vagueness grounds? –Which other local theocracy, meanwhile, is being sued for unconstitutionally pressuring a billboard company to remove an advertisement by an atheist group? –Moving on to statewide theocracies: Which U.S. state quietly [...]
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Bible-Thumpers Harass Sikh Trying to Make Donation
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Kip
From "God's Love, We Deliver" to "God's House, Buzz Off" — When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban. "She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That [...]
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Corky Scalia's Inadvertent Libertarianism
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Kip
Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: "You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?" Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place. As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts [...]
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On Calls to Revoke LDS' Tax-Exempt Status
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Kip
Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post: Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of [...]
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