Louisiana Marches Steadily Back to the 15th Century:
:: Posted 7 May 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::

A few days ago, the Louisiana legislature rejected Senate Bill 26 which sought to repeal the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act which allows for creationism to be taught as valid science in schools. Two previous attempts at repeal in 2011 and 2012 also failed…
As a high school student in 2011, Zack Kopplin started the repeal campaign with the support of 78 Nobel laureate scientists…
Indoctrinating kids with creationism disguised as legitimate science is the kind of blatant distortion of truth, dressed up as fact that was a hallmark of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. That’s why it makes me so f***ing angry…
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Ted Cruz and the New Crusaders:
:: Posted 5 May 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::

Ted Cruz, the 42 year old Texas Senator and a likely 2016 GOP candidate for president, recently addressed the Republican Party’s Silver Elephant Dinner in South Carolina. According to Politico, “He brought the crowd to its feet by denouncing the administration for cracking down on proselytizing in the armed forces.”…
It beggars belief that Americans just don’t get why they are so despised in the middle-east, but someone like Senator Ted Cruz goes a long way to illustrating why…
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Just How Rich is the Church?
:: Posted 26 April 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::

If anyone ever wondered just how rich churches are in this age of rising disbelief… Check this out. The financial books at New York’s Trinity Church have been revealed in court documents arising from a bitter parish legal dispute over, you guessed it, money. This Episcopal church … holds property valued at a whopping $2 billion…
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More on Same-Sex Marriage and the Church:
:: Posted 10 April 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::

It seems that my last post has generated a bit of heat on Facebook with comments suggesting that in 1967, when the bulk of churches stood against interracial marriage, they were simply reflecting a society with similar attitudes. The argument follows that the churches are doing the same now…
Jeffrey John, the Anglican dean of St Albans in the UK, recently accused the church of pursuing a “morally contemptible” policy on same-sex marriage…
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The Last Civil Right?
Same Sex Marriage:
:: Posted 08 April 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::

It seems that the last great Civil Rights issue is in the balance and once again, just like they did with interracial marriage in 1967, the churches stand on the side of prejudice (with a very few exceptions like the 1 million strong, United Church of Christ).

So while great strides have been made in recent decades to recognize the civil rights of the LGBT communities, there still exists one glaring inequality that defines them and their life partnerships as inferior and somehow frivolous: Marriage inequality…
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Higgs bosun Particle Confirmed:

:: Posted 14 March 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::
On this birthday of the greatest scientist of the 20th Century, Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955), it’s amazing to watch as the mechanics behind the Universe are slowly revealed. CERN Physicists working at the $US10 billion Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, believe they have confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson particle…
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Richard Dawkins in The Simpsons

:: Posted 12 Mar 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::
A recent photo of Richard Dawkins stirring up some of his speciality:
Catholic Saint stew. Bon Appetit!!!
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Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” Bill
:: Posted 07 Mar 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::
In Uganda, it’s already illegal to be gay. But some government officials — with support from American evangelicals — want to take government-sanctioned homophobia a step further…
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Choose your Religion

:: Posted 07 Mar 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::
The only thing I’d gripe about this chart is that Buddhists don’t need…
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012 HBO) – A film about child sexual abuse that everyone should see.
:: Posted 07 Mar 2013, by Zak de Courcy ::
Just got through watching the award-winning HBO documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, looking at sexual abuse of children. The film examines the abuse of power in the Catholic Church system via the story of four men who fought to expose the priest, Father Lawrence Murphy who abused them during the mid 1960s…
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