That doesn’t seem to deter him, though:
Abortion doctor admits that what he is about to do is infanticide
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Dick Cheney has a heart transplant and the compassionate left tweets "get well soon"
In its own inimitable way. You will notice that no tweet is missing the familiar vulgarity that unfailingly peppers the sentences of sub-literate yahoos no matter what the topic under discussion.
Dick Cheney. Why won’t they let this motherfucker die? nyti.ms/GNHYoE
— Croockdfunckinzebra© (@CrkdFnknZbra) March 25, 2012
I can’t believe that slimy coward Dick Cheney actually got a new heart put in him. That’s what we need is that fuck getting another 10 years
— Mr. Ent Banara (@SchwillyMaze) March 25, 2012
RT @Mr_Senor_Pete: Why in the contumacious fuck are we wasting a perfectly good heart on dick cheney?
— Raven Watcher (@Crow_feathers) March 25, 2012
FUCKIN SHOCKER. Die already…RT @cnnbrk: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has undergone heart transplant surgery, his office says
— N. John Saedian (@NeemaSaedian) March 24, 2012
Dick Cheney got a heart transplant?? They should have let that fucker die #realtalk
— Ian H (@CrossFitNewb) March 24, 2012
RT @DaddyFiles: I hope Dick Cheney’s new heart is gay.
— Ericstl6 (@Ericstl6) March 24, 2012
RT @indigocat: When I first saw the news about Dick Cheney’s heart transplant,I thought it was The Onion; we know the fucker doesn’t nee …
— Layla Anwar (@laylaanwar) March 24, 2012
RT @LauraShezBar: 18 people die a day waiting for an organ transplant. 1 that dies today will die because a heart was given to Dick Fuck …
— theshex (@theshex) March 24, 2012
@cinnamaldehyde meanwhile, someone’s cherished, beloved grandma dies because they gave the heart to Dick Cheney. Fuck this world sometimes
— K (@KayPeaTweets) March 24, 2012
RT @gothlaw: Why the fuck are you going to give a 70 year old, rageaholic, lush a fucking heart? Fuck you, dick cheney. Piss off and die …
— Jimmy The Fool (@jimmythefool) March 24, 2012
RT @lobster_dog: Who donated their heart to fuckin Dick Cheney and why and also fuck you whoever you are.
— Manitou (@NoGodsNoMasters) March 24, 2012
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Richard Dawkins to Reason Rally: 'Show contempt' for faith
Because, after all, there is little that is more reasoned and logical than contempt….. hang on a minute, contempt is a feeling.
From here:
About 20,000 atheists gathered within shouting distance of the Washington Monument on Saturday for a Reason Rally hell-bent on damning religion and mocking beliefs — and believers, too.
[….]
Dawkins didn’t appear until five hours into the event, but few seemed discouraged by the near-constant rain or drizzle. They whistled and cheered for his familiar lines such as:
I don’t despise religious people. I despise what they stand for …
Evolution is not just true, it’s beautiful …Then Dawkins got to the part where he calls on the crowd not only to challenge religious people but to “ridicule and show contempt” for their doctrines and sacraments, including the Eucharist, which Catholics believe becomes the body of Christ during Mass.
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The Anglican Covenant is dead
From here:
The Church of England cannot sign up to a plan aimed at preventing the global Anglican Church from splitting up after half its dioceses voted against it.
The Archbishop of Canterbury backed the Anglican Covenant in a bid to ensure divisive issues – such as gay bishops – did not cause the Communion to split.
The Lincoln diocese has become the 22nd of 44 CofE dioceses to reject the plan.
The covenant had already been rejected by conservative global Church leaders, whom it was intended to placate.
Conservatives rejected the covenant because it didn’t have the teeth to prevent provinces like TEC and the ACoC from doing what they enjoy most: going deeper – into heresy. What conservatives wanted was a covenant that would work.
Liberals like the manic No Anglican Covenant crowd will no doubt rejoice at their apparent victory, blissfully unaware that when God punishes people, he often gives them what they want with the inevitable result that they become the authors of their own demise.
The seat of Anglican Christianity has shifted to Africa where it is flourishing and growing; in contrast, the vitality of Western Anglicanism is shrivelling in proportion to its obsession with homo-eroticism.
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Wife Beating for Dummies
A book written by a “towering figure of Islamic revival and reawakening” for married Muslim men. It seems that the book has been selling like hotcakes in Toronto and has sold out at Islamic Gifts and Souvenirs. Get your copy now from ebay (free shipping) before it’s snapped up by other wife-beating enthusiasts.
I wouldn’t normally want to advertise a book like this, but it is clear that Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi is a moderate Muslim, since he advises husbands to “refrain from beating [their wives] excessively” and only with a “hand or stick” rather than a metal pipe. And only following a little ear yanking foreplay.
From here:
TORONTO – A local bookstore has “sold out” of a controversial marriage guide that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives.
The 160-page book, published by Idara Impex in New Delhi, India, is written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who’s described in the book’s foreword as a “prolific writer on almost every topic of Islamic learning.”
The store’s manager, who didn’t give his name, said the book had been sold out for some time, and the store’s owner, whom the manager identified as Shamim Ahmad, refused to comment for the story.
It wasn’t clear whether the shop has ordered more copies of the book, but it’s available at online Islamic bookstores and even through eBay.
In the book’s opening pages, it is written that “it might be necessary to restrain her with strength or even to threaten her.”
Later, its author advises that “the husband should treat the wife with kindness and love, even if she tends to be stupid and slow sometimes.”
Page 45 contains the rights of the husband, which include his wife’s inability to leave “his house without his permission,” and that his wife must “fulfil his desires” and “not allow herself to be untidy … but should beautify herself for him … ”
In terms of physical punishment, the book advises that a husband may scold her, “beat by hand or stick,” withhold money from her or “pull (her) by the ears,” but should “refrain from beating her excessively.”
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Rev. Dr. Marilyn McCord Adams doesn’t like the Anglican Covenant
From here:
The Rev. Dr. Marilyn McCord Adams, a U.S. philosophy professor and author, has become the most recent patron of the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.
McCord Adams, a member or the U.S. Episcopal church, is currently distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and served as regius professor of divinity at Oxford University from 2004 to 2009. She also served as a member of the Church of England’s General Synod at the time the covenant was being developed and was known for correcting misinformation among Britons about the Episcopal church. Her latest book was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.
“Prof. McCord Adams’s experience in both the Episcopal church and the Church of England gives her a much broader understanding of the workings of the Anglican Communion,” said the coalition’s Episcopal church convenor, Dr. Lionel Deimel, in a press release. “Coming on the heels of the decisive [anti-Covenant] synod votes in [the dioceses of] Derby and Gloucester, this is an exciting time for the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.”
McCord Adams herself minced no words in the press release when speaking of the covenant. “The proposed Anglican Covenant was conceived in moral indignation and pursued with disciplinary intent,” she said. “Its global gate-keeping mechanisms would put a damper on the Gospel agenda, which conscientious Anglicans should find intolerable.
The Covenant is based on an alien ecclesiology, which thoughtful Anglicans have every reason to reject.”
What is the real reason she doesn’t like the Covenant?
It has more to do with putting “a damper on” the ACoC and TEC’s excursion into glorifying aberrant sexuality than “putting a damper on the Gospel agenda.” Watch this:
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Facebook doesn't have "Other" on its gender categories
This upsets some people.
From here:
Dear Mr Zuckerberg,
My name is Sunil Babu Pant. I am the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization.
[…..]
In Nepal, we have been working with the government to improve this identity-based access to documentation and civic participation. The Government of Nepal is working to implement a third gender option, labeled “other,” on all official forms and registers.
I encourage you to do the same…..
What Sunil Babu Pant seems to be missing is that her (his? other?) LGBTI gender alphabet soup is also missing the “other” option. After all, perhaps there is some hitherto undiscovered mangled gender classification not covered by LGBTI.
Adding an “O” for Other would give us LITGOB; that has a euphonious ring to it.
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Ontario judge declares “your God is wrong” to pro-life supporter
It is good to see judges taking an interest in theology. It’s a pity that this particular specimen seems to think that God is Canadian and is bound by Canadian law – or lack of it, really, since there is no Canadian law that limits abortion.
From here:
TORONTO, Ontario, March 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ontario Court of Justice judge erupted in a lengthy, angry tirade against pro-life activist Mary Wagner – and ejected a spectator from the public gallery – in a downtown Toronto courtroom Wednesday. The judge then sent Wagner to jail for an additional 92 days, added to 88 days already served prior to trial, after finding her guilty of mischief and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders.
The charges related to Wagner’s November 8 arrest at the site of the Bloor West Village “Women’s Clinic.” Wagner has been arrested on several occasions for peacefully entering abortion facilities in Toronto, where she presents women in the waiting room with a rose and offers them pro-life counseling.
The remarkable scene played itself out after Crown attorney Derek Ishak and defense counsel Russell Browne made a joint submission to Mr. Justice S. Ford Clements for time served plus a three-year probationary term. But Clements emphatically rejected the submission.
“She can sit in jail, if that’s the only way to protect people,” he fulminated, calling Wagner “cowardly” for “abusing other human beings” and not having the courage to make her views known through other channels. “This is an extraordinary waste of resources. Get a grip!”
“You don’t get it, do you? What’s the rule of law? You’re required to abide by it … You’ve lost the right as a citizen to be anywhere near an abortion clinic or to speak to an employee,” he said.
“You’re wrong and your God’s wrong,” he continued. “You have complete contempt … There is a right to (abortion) in this country … You don’t have a right to cause (abortion-seeking women) extra pain and grief the way you do.”
“[Abortion] is legal,” he continued, “that’s all you have to understand … You start causing people emotional pain and harm, you think that’s okay?”
He then asked Wagner whether she would stay away from abortion sites for three years as required by the proposed terms of probation.
“I will not,” Wagner replied firmly.
“Then you’re going to jail,” said Clements.
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Clements was unmoved. “You have, in some measure, displayed utter contempt for the courts and the rights of others,” he said. “You appear to be governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country.”
“Your determination to break the law is a potential threat to the well-being of society and plants the seeds of lawlessness, perhaps even anarchy … You are unable to accord some civility and respect to others. Your view in law is wrong.”
Judge Clements was correct on two points: Mary Wagner is “governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country” – admittedly, not an overly high hurdle; and Wagner has shown the courts the respect they deserve: “utter contempt”.
Other than that, the views and behaviour of the judge appear to be those of a demented imbecile.
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Another heartfelt response to Rowan Williams’ retirement
From here:
Good riddance to Dr Williams.
So the Archbishop of Canterbury, has finally announced his resignation. I believe the operative word is “Hallelujah”. I have long felt that the incumbent of this illustrious office has been what we nowadays call a “waste of space”. An airy-fairy academic out of touch with the feelings of common folk and a spouter of politically correct twaddle, a man of zero leadership qualities at a time when we require strong direction from the head of this country’s official religious establishment. Under Dr Rowan Williams’ watch the British have been in danger of utterly devaluing their ancient Judaeo-Christian tradition, which would have been tragic for both the religious and secular alike.
Poor Rowan Williams: he tried to please everyone – or, perhaps more accurately, tried to upset no-one, and, in doing so, earned almost universal opprobrium. Those who said kind things about his efforts, did so because they are his friends and even they struggled to find something good to say about Dr. Williams’ ten year quest to find unity through incoherent indaba babbling.
From a Canadian perspective, not only did he not protest at the deposing of one of the world’s most respected evangelical theologians, Dr. J. I. Packer, but his refusal to grant even a sliver of recognition to ACNA and ANiC effectively scuttled any attempt by ANiC parishioners to hang on to their buildings. The legal argument that crushed ANiC’s chances went along these lines:
- Anglican church buildings are held in trust for Anglicans to use as places of worship.
- The Anglican Church of Canada has strayed from being Anglican as defined by the Solemn Declaration of 1893.
- ANiC members hold to the Anglicanism of the Solemn Declaration and, therefore, are the true Anglicans for which the buildings are intended.
Counter argument:
- Anglican theology is not static.
- The Anglican Church of Canada is the only recognised Anglican organisation in Canada – recognised by Lambeth and the Archbishop of Canterbury, that is.
- The Anglican Church of Canada must, therefore, define what is “Anglican”.
- The Anglican Church of Canada gets the buildings because the buildings are for the use of Anglicans.
Admittedly, those of us in ANiC, including the lawyers – especially the lawyers, perhaps – who thought it might have gone otherwise exhibited a superficially charming other-world naïvety, but, ultimately, it was Rowan Williams who delivered the coup de grâce to any possibility of success.
Good riddance.
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Question: Where does a Catholic convert to Islam find work?
Answer: in an Anglican University; Huron University College in London, Ontario in this case.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson is a convert to Islam from Catholicism; she is head of the Islamic Society of North America, an organisation that was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood with suspected ties to Wahhabism and the financing of Hamas terrorists.
Dr. Mattson works hard to present a face of moderate Islam to North America – she even has a dog. How well would she fit into an Islamist state such as Iran or Saudi Arabia, one wonders? Probably not as well as into an Anglican University College.
From here:
On July 1, Dr. Ingrid Mattson will join Huron University College in London, Ont., as the inaugural London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic studies at its faculty of theology.
The first woman and the first convert to Islam to lead the Islamic Society of North America, Dr. Mattson was formerly director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn. She served as advisor to the administration of two U.S. presidents: George Bush and then Barack Obama.
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Although Huron University College is an Anglican university, it welcomes members of all faiths, noted Dr. Mattson, adding that Muslim students have found the church-based school “a very hospitable place to learn.” Being in the midst of an active practicing faith community is “something that they pretty much feel comfortable with,” she confirmed.
