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Tom Cruise on Scientology and Scientologists
“You’re either helping and contributing everything you can… or you’re not.”
I’d agree with him at least in principle on that. Yeah, Tom, either you’re part of the problem, or you’re part of the solution. In this case, I’d say he’s part of the problem. Vote, anyone?
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In an article in the Christian Science Monitor, Mitt Romney responds to a question about whether he would appoint a Muslim to his Cabinet:
I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters, given his position that “jihadism” is the principal foreign policy threat facing America today. He answered, “…based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration…
The point I make in enumerating these efforts to contribute to US national interests is that Americans of the Islamic faith – even when they have no formal role in government – are committed to helping our nation defend its interests. And we have done so. Why, then, should we be excluded from holding positions that carry the highest levels of responsibility?
I really think that the author of the article is kind of missing the two most important points here. First, there is no way in hell that Romney is going to hire anybody for any sort of a high-level post—and probably not a lower level one, either—who is not Christian, except for the possibility that he can get away with a token Mormon or two.
Remember, on the one hand he’s pandering to right wingnut crackpot religious litmus-testers, who don’t feel that anybody but narrow-definition Christians are qualified to be in office. But he’s also trying to please the public at large, which is largely generic Christian in orientation, and also feels that while broad-definition Christians are acceptable, there should be no religious minorities in elected office.
So he’s decided to limit his Cabinet and other major appointees to Christians, and he’s using demographics as an excuse. Was there ever really any question?
We’ve all read about them. They’re in your face, making fools of themselves at military funerals while turning people against everything they purport to stand for.
Finally somebody’s decided to sue them. Good luck on that, you’re going to need it. These people are fanatically resilient.
OK, now let’s fix up a photo of a young cult member.
Yup. Those who fail to remember the past are sure as heck doomed to repeat it, even those who have not set out to be historical revisionists.
SAN ANTONIO — A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out porn in exchange for bibles.
“We consider the bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. Walker is part of a student group that calls itself the Atheist Agenda.Club members this week posted fliers promoting what they call the “Smut for Smut” campaign then set up a table in the student union to collect religious materials and pass out adult magazines such as Black Label and Playboy.The group is not officially sanctioned by the university and has raised the ire of several religious organizations on campus.“In my opinion, there are no atheists. There are fools,” Pastor Rick Hawkins of UTSA’s Family Praise Center said. “So, that would be foolish propaganda. I don’t know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for pornography.”
Hawkins obviously didn’t stop by the Atheist Agenda table, where several students had dropped off copies of the good book and walked away with skin mags.
Athiest Agenda isn’t the first student group to explore the idea of introducing porn to former bible toters. Members say they got the idea from students in Austin who ran a similar pro-porn drive.
Walker added that members thought it sounded like a creative way to exercise their freedom of speech.
Ok, so the story’s not breaking news. It’s more than a year old. But even aside from that, I had to think about what an interesting concept it would be. How can I use this as a marketing tool? Three free minutes when you turn in a bible?
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