Comments on Mainstream Baptist: Regarding Viewpoint Discrimination (Corrected)

Freedom is not free. It requires constant vigil a...

2008-05-28T16:07:00.000-05:00

Freedom is not free. It requires constant vigil against those who would control our minds. Right now we have false prophets in our state legislature. It involves HB 2211 which is known as the Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Act. I applaud Dr. Bruce Prescott for speaking out in the Mainstream Baptist against Oklahoma HB 2211.
http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2008/02/regarding-viewpoint-discrimination.html

In 2005, A Pennsylvania judge struck down a similar attempt by the Dover School Board to force teaching Intelligent Design as science.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/20/intelligent.design/index.html

There are racial implications in these efforts. In the 19th Century, Louis Agassiz used creation doctrine to argue that all races were created simultaneously (Polygenesis) and that "separate but equal" was God's plan. His arguments were cited in the
U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson in 1890 which upheld segregation. Eventually, segregation was overturned the Supreme Court in 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education).

I grew up the son of a baptist preacher, and am no...

2008-03-10T08:18:00.000-05:00

I grew up the son of a baptist preacher, and am now a devout agnostic, and as such don't really read many religeous blogs, I've found that the majority of the "religeous" of our country are too busy going about pushing their ideals on someone to realize that the pushee has as much right to his or her ideals as the pusher. This article, on the other hand, spoke of fairness, fairness to all, including those of a different point of view. Very refreshing, thank you sir.

Are people like Tad Jones, ever going to realize t...

2008-02-28T18:47:00.000-06:00

Are people like Tad Jones, ever going to realize that bills like this are exactly what the 1st Amendment means when it says congress shall make NO LAW concerning the establishment of religion? I do not blame the non-believing people of Oklahoma or Texas or any other state who are fed up with well-meaning Christians who keep trying to circumvent the constitution and continually wasting tax-payer funds with this kind of nonsense.

Here's a link to an article in the Dallas Morning ...

2008-02-28T14:09:00.000-06:00

Here's a link to an article in the Dallas Morning News about the effect of this law on Texas:

Watch The Lawsuits Come Pouring In.