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• Want to See the Mugshots of Those Lawbreaking Amish Buggy Drivers?

  September 16, 2011 at 10:50pm

  In reply to colonel510.

  Their arrest was not necessary, the fact that the issue has dragged on for however many years is beside the point. The reality is that as long as there is some type of reflective device that allows the buggies to be seen appropriately is enough to cover safety issues. At this point this is not about a safety issue, it is a governmental power play.

  Not to mention the way the article is written up is about as disrespectful as possible. Let’s look at the goofy Amish folks, isn‘t that as freaking funny as anything you’ve ever seen? Disgusting.

• Want to See the Mugshots of Those Lawbreaking Amish Buggy Drivers?

  September 16, 2011 at 10:45pm

  My great grandmothers people were originally Mennonite, eventually the moved into the Evangelical United Brethren church, which is an offshoot of the Mennonite church through the United Brethren in Christ. My religious heritage and beliefs are in large part from this. This story makes me absolutely ill to my stomach. And furious, a fury that is deep and abiding. When will we take back our country from those who claim to be liberals but are anything but?

• New Book Disputes Claim That Thomas Jefferson Fathered Child of Slave

  September 2, 2011 at 4:56am

  In reply to pwatkins.

  Of course JZX, anyone who has anything to say about history should definitely be a trained historian like say Eric Foner, because his nickname Eric the Red means nothing.

  Or perhaps we should just trust the near Communist like Charles Beard.

  I mean really, who would believe that credentialed historians could have an agenda?

• London Olympic Ambassador Arrested For Rioting — After Parents Turn Her In!

  August 12, 2011 at 4:05pm

  In reply to MyTurnNow.

  I say your an idiot and a liberal.

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 3:01am

  In reply to tom.

  The same has occurred within the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutherans, the United Methodist, the Presbyterians and…… well I could just keep going on.

  There has been a systematic overtaking of American institutions since about the 1920′s, accelerated in the late 1950s and through the 1960s and 70s. The churches, unfortunately, have not been immune.

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 2:56am

  In reply to REPUB1.

  Funny, I thought the first Christians were Jews, and I’m pretty sure the Assyrians and the Armenians show up before the Catholic Church, but maybe all those ancient churches in Cappadocia Turkey were part of the Roman Catholic church and I just didn’t realize it.

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 2:12am

  In reply to Judeo_Christian.

  Historically it was the Catholic church that attempted to keep the Bible from the unread, uneducated peasants. And I do believe the Bible was translated into Greek first, not Latin. The first organized churches were not Roman, they were Assyrians. The first person we know historically that attempted to get the Bible to everyday people occurred in England through John Wycliffe, who 44 years after his death, on order of the Pope, was dug up, his bones crushed and then scattered in the river. It didn‘t help that Wycliffe believed that the church and it’s teachers shouldn’t be wealthy. Next, it was Scottish Presbyterians who literally died for the crime of carrying a Bible from house to house in order to do Bible study without a Priest. In America these peoples descendents are the Scots-Irish of Appalachia.
  I don’t discount all that Catholic church has done for Christianity, but to arrogantly state that the very Bible Christians use is because of the Catholic church is a statement too broad to not invite dispute. Stating this discounts all that the Greek or eastern Orthodox did, not to mention old Christian faiths like Coptic Christians, or the newer Protestants. Martin Luther would not have been necessary if the Medieval church had not been so corrupt.

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 1:50am

  In reply to holy ghostbuster.

  by the way I am not Catholic either.

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 1:49am

  In reply to holy ghostbuster.

  Stop pushing our version of morality on everyone else? Tell me what cultures and societies throughout history have valued other versions of morality that are substantially different? There have been various cults that have, but overall human society has not. The fact is that folks like you simply wish to have no morality. Funny you cite transubstantiation as your reason for rejecting the Catholic church, but not pedophile priests whose tastes ran not to young girls but to young boys. But what the heck, you wouldn’t want to judge anyone, right? After all that’s how Christians behave, at least ones who haven’t been co-opted, or ones who are more concerned with appearances than what is right. But then folks like that aren’t really Christians, they just call themselves Christians. And just think what the world would have been like without those dirty Christians. Why we could still be burying a child in the foundations of our homes for good luck! Maybe even being entertained on live TV reality programming with sacrificial deaths and beating hearts being ripped from the sacrifice. If only those Catholic Spaniards hadn’t been so racist!

• Judge Halts Illinois From Cutting Funding To Catholic Charities Over Gay Parent Stance

  July 15, 2011 at 1:31am

  In reply to jim.

  The whole idea is to not allow anyone to hold any type of morals. If there can be no discrimination, then anything anyone wants to do is then allowable. Gay “rights” is not the same as civil rights. To believe otherwise simply makes you a member of a cult. If one wishes to live and believe the way our forefathers did we are automatically racist, bigoted people. Want to marry half dozen women? How about various combinations of family members? Whats so wrong with marrying off your daughter at 12? Its all relative. There is a reason that Jesus points out repeatedly it is not the law that will save you.