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The ACLU, in yet another blatant display of hypocrisy, wants to reverse a law they once used to support homosexual groups, because the law is now benefiting a Christian group. A proposed Christian group in Kent, Washington excludes homosexuals from joining (as if they would want to join a group that believes homosexuality is a sin) and the ACLU, who fought for the rights of homosexuals to have an exclusive club, is suddenly switching sides. Homosexuals can have a group that excludes heterosexuals, but homosexuals can’t be excluded.

But, excluding homosexuals isn’t the only problem according to the ACLU. The whole idea of a Christian group is “offensive” say ACLU lawyers. Why is it that the ACLU would consider criticizing Islam worthy of a law suit, yet they have no problem with calling an entire religion offensive in and of itself?

I’m so tired of the constant barrage of attacks on Christianity from a tax funded hate group. Their sole purpose on this planet seems to be tearing down America, and silencing, censoring, and banning Christianity. They’ve succeeded in changing our culture, our schools, and our laws with the help of an out of control judiciary. I would say we should all write our Senators, but the Republicans can’t seem to figure out how to be a majority yet. They’re like the nice kid in school who constantly gets beat up by the bully even though the bully is half his size.

The ACLU’s support of a legal precedent used to gain recognition of a student homosexual group has reversed now that the ruling is being used to back the rights of a Christian club on campus, claims a public-interest law firm.

The Associated Student Body at Kentridge High School in Kent, Wash., has rejected the Truth Bible Club because it required all members to adhere to a code of Christian conduct and voting members to sign a statement of faith. Also, the name of the club was deemed “offensive” and “proselytizes.”

The case is governed by the Equal Access Act, a federal statute that requires schools to treat student clubs equally, notes the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending the Truth Bible Club.

In Prince v. Jacoby, ADF argues, the Ninth Circuit held that denying official sponsorship of a club violates the Equal Access Act.

ADF points out that in 2003, shortly after Prince v. Jacoby was decided, the ACLU sent an information letter to school officials in Washington state explaining the case “makes it clear that student clubs promoting tolerance for gay students are entitled to the same resources as other clubs.”

But now, the ACLU has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Truth case that takes the opposite position.

The ACLU now wants to strike down the Prince case if it will be used to allow a Bible club on campus, the ADF’s Tim Chandler told WorldNetDaily.

“This goes to show how far the ACLU will manipulate the legal system to further their radical agenda,” said Chandler, a litigation specialist who is working on the case. . . . . . . . .

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Children in Minnesota are wearing shirts and buttons to school that say “I love my vagina” and “I support your vagina”, and the ACLU is defending their right to do so. School policy prohibits such attire, and in past cases that’s been enough for the ACLU to file lawsuits AGAINST the free speech of students.

If students were wearing shirts that read “I love Jesus”, the ACLU would be the first to file suit and deem the student’s speech offensive and a violation of the separation of Christianity and state. The ACLU will support anything as long as it’s sufficiently immoral, furthers the cause of destroying our education system, and especially if it is offensive to Christians. And they’ll do it using tax payer dollars. Get your children out of public schools before they’re turned into crude, God hating, anti-American, sex obsessed morons.

High school students here are being admonished for wearing buttons inspired by the sometimes raunchy off-Broadway hit “The Vagina Monologues” and have been threatened with expulsion if they wear risque T-shirts inspired by the show.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is offering to help students fight any consequences in what’s become a battle between free speech and school conduct policies.

The trouble started last month when student Carrie Rethlefsen saw Eve Ensler’s play about female sexuality and sexual violence against women, which led the teen and fellow student Emily Nixon, 17, to start wearing “I (heart) My Vagina” buttons.

Despite the threats of serious punishment, Rethlefsen has continued to wear her button to raise awareness about women’s issues. As a show of support, more than 100 students have ordered T-shirts bearing “I (heart) My Vagina” for girls and “I Support Your Vagina” for boys.

“We can’t really find out what is inappropriate about it,” Rethlefsen, 18, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. “I don’t think banning things like that is appropriate.”

Principal Nancy Wondrasch said some in school find the buttons offensive.

“We support free speech,” she said. “But when it does infringe on other people’s rights and our school policies, then we need to take a look at that.”. . . . . . .

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I was perusing the website of our local paper this evening, and saw a photo that just didn’t set right. The photograph featured a cute 10-year-old girl dressed like singer Elton John (his typical 70′s attire). According to the caption, she was doing an impression of him for a “Rainbow Idol” sketch as part of her school’s “Gay Pride and Family Diversity Assembly”. This assembly is part of Gay Pride/Respect Promotion Month in the San Francisco Unified School District. I was disturbed, not by the flashback of Elton John in his “Crocodile Rock” era ensemble (although that was disconcerting), but by the fact that elementary school students are being taught “gay pride.” I did a search for the news article that would no doubt speak of the controversy surrounding this event, but found none. I really did try to find one. Seriously! Unable to find one, I went to the website of the SFUSD. It took me quite a while, but I finally found mention of Gay Pride/Respect Promotion Month on their printable school calendar. It states:

Gay Pride/Respect Promotion Month. This month’s School Health Program campaign celebrates the contribution of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) community. District approved bulletin board materials and curriculum that recognize the civil rights movement and historical achievements of the GLBTQ community are made available to all schools. April also includes the National Day of Silence, which is an additional activity to create a safe school by raising awareness of the discrimination GLBTQ people face and how they are often silenced due to the fear of discrimination. Schools should promote the District’s Anti-Slur and Anti-Discrimination policies.

I was struck by how the group of initials representing “sexual identity” has grown in such a short period of time. They went from “gay and lesbian” which didn’t warrant an acronym, to GLB (gay, lesbian, bisexual), to GLBT (adding “transgender” to the mix), and now find we’ve added a ‘Q’ for “questioning.” Questioning?! I’m questioning a lot of things. For instance, why are schools teaching gay pride to fifth graders who should be focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, and some relevant history? Why is it so hard to allow student-led prayers at school sporting events (without school sanction), yet so easy to indoctrinate young children into believing that the alphabet soup of perverse “gender identities” deserves dignity and approval? And just how long will the acronym of perversion get in the next five years? Boy, I sure wish-…. My faux pas… “Boy” is too exclusive. BGTUQLOBPOC*, I sure wish I knew.

* Boy, Girl, Transgender, Unknown, Questioning, Little Of Both, Perversion Of Choice

Kofi Annan may have jumped the gun when he said he’d been exonerated by Volker’s report on the Oil for Food scandal. Mr. Annan isn’t out of the woods yet. If there is any justice in this world, he’ll be held accountable for presiding over one of the biggest scandals in history.

The Bush administration said on Thursday U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had been too hasty to claim he had been exonerated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal and would not rule out he might eventually resign.

“That report did not exonerate him,” said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Lagon, referring to the findings of an inquiry into the U.N. oil-for-food program led by Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman.

On the possibility Annan might one day resign, Lagon said, “His future is not certain.”

But he added: “It’s his decision. He’ll be deciding. We’re not calling for his resignation.”

The Bush administration has been careful not to call for the resignation of Annan since the oil-for-food probe began last year.

The U.S. official, the deputy head of the State Department office for international organizations, which includes the United Nations, made the remarks in an interview with Reuters and in a briefing with a small group of reporters during a visit to U.N. headquarters.

The Volcker panel’s latest report, issued on March 29, concluded that Annan did not influence the award of a U.N. contract to a firm that employed his son but it faulted him for conducting a superficial probe of the controversy. . . . . . . .

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Remember a while back when a journalist witnessed one of our Marines shooting an unarmed Iraqi because he thought the wounded terrorist was about to blow himself up. Of course, the Marine was protecting his fellow marines and had good reason to believe the man was rigged with a bomb. That’s become a common terrorist tactic in Iraq. But, the media demonized that Marine and demanded that he be punished for violating the Geneva Conventions.

Now we have a case of terrorists shooting down a helicopter full of civilians and then shooting the unarmed, wounded pilot in cold blood while shouting “Carry out Alah’s verdict!”.

You will hear no cry of outrage from the left. The media will not demand that justice be served or speak out against the inhumane, barbaric actions of the “insurgents” in Iraq. In fact, at Democratic Underground, the DUmmies actually celebrated the deaths of these innocent contractors. To a DUmmie, anyone working in Iraq, especially if they are making any money, is automatically evil and deserves to be gunned down. They have no conscience, no morals, and lack the intelligence to be ashamed of their depravity.

A video clip posted on the Internet shows that a crew member on the helicopter that was shot down north of Baghdad Thursday apparently survived — only to be shot to death by insurgents.

The clip, apparently shot and put online by the Islamic Army in Iraq, tracks the helicopter as it turns into a fireball and careens toward the ground. Gunmen are seen running toward the crash site.

The group claimed responsibility for shooting down the Russian-built Mi-8 transport helicopter, on which all 11 men on board — six American and two Fijian passengers, and three Bulgarian crew members — were killed.

The man shown being shot to death in the video was the Bulgarian pilot, the company that owned the helicopter said Friday. The slain pilot was identified as Lyubomir Kostov, said Mihail Mihailov, manager of the Heli Air company.

“The man shot on the video is definitely Lyubomir Kostov, the pilot of the chopper,” Mihailov told The Associated Press in Sofia, Bulgaria, after seeing the video on the Internet.

Kostov was the company’s main pilot, Mihailov said.

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While some of the more loony liberals are accusing America of great atrocities in Iraq, it’s the Muslim terrorists who are blowing up their mosques and killing innocent Iraqis. I occasionally cruise a few of the liberal blogs just to see what kind of tinfoil hattery they’re ranting about now. A common rant is that the Iraqis want the horrible Americans “out of THEIR country”. Why? So terrorists can blow them to kingdom come and install a new Saddam Hussein? And don’t think these terrorists would suddenly stop spontaneously combusting if we abandoned the Iraqis. They live to explode and they’ll be here next if we don’t deal with them now.

A car bomb exploded during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 20, police said. A militant group claimed responsibility for shooting down a Russian-made helicopter carrying 11 civilians, including six Americans, and released a video purportedly showing insurgents shooting the crash’s lone survivor.

The blast happened during midday prayers at Al-Subeih mosque, in the capital’s eastern New Baghdad neighborhood, said police Col. Ahmed Aboud. Witnesses said a car parked outside the building since the morning exploded.

One section of the mosque collapsed, and frantic worshippers in blood-spattered clothes searched through the rubble for loved ones, as wailing women beat their chest in grief. Body parts littered the ground. One man clutched a child’s foot, shaking and weeping.

“I was inside the mosque when the explosion happened, and I saw many dead and injured,” said another worshipper, grocery store owner Abdelallah Faraj. “This is a cowardly and savage act that aims to create conflict among Iraqis.” . . . .

Where are all the compassionate liberals who love to screech and wail when they feel the Geneva Convention and International law have been violated?

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When you negotiate and make concessions to terrorists, this is what you get. You get a new “third intifada” and a 300% increase in terrorist attacks. Notice how the media ignores this rise in terrorism against Israel in order to maintain the warped view that Israel is to blame and the poor Palestinians just need more land. Sharon is a fool if he thinks bringing the border/front line closer to the heart of Israel is a smart move. Muslim terrorists only sign treaties and make peace agreements if they think it will eventually give them the advantage. Sharon is playing right into their hands.

An internal Israeli defense report obtained by Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin shows Palestinian violence and terrorist attacks up 300 percent in the last 10 days.

The report is a concentrated collection of intelligence submitted by the Israeli Defense Forces, the Internal Security Service, Shabak and Israel’s national police. It highlights the disturbing increase in the number of terrorist incidents and – even more alarming – information on Palestinian plans to resume open hostilities in what would be the “third intifada,” or major uprising.

Parts of the report, obtained by the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WND’s founder, show major developments in the West Bank where Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is trying half-heartedly to impose law and order. Those responsible for the report pointed to the fact certain areas handed over to the Palestinians since the beginning of the cease-fire two months ago are now hubs of criminal and terrorist activity, including weapons’ smuggling and distribution.

The main location for such activity is the city of Jericho near the Dead Sea, west of the Jordan River, some 30 kilometers east of Jerusalem and 20 kilometers from the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah. . . . . . . . . .

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The Dems must be disappointed. Abu Graib was a case of a few bad soldiers making the entire army look bad. However, I doubt this will stop Liberals from blaming Bush for the abuse at Abu Graib. Facts don’t mean that much to a Democrat.

The Army has cleared four top officers — including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq — of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and will not be punished, officials said Friday.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking officer to face official allegations of leadership failures in Iraq, but he has not been accused of criminal violations.

After assessing the allegations against Sanchez and taking sworn statements from 37 people involved in Iraq, the Army’s inspector general, Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Green, concluded that the allegations were unsubstantiated, said the officials who were familiar with the details of Green’s probe. . . . . .

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