Friday's Cultural Warfare Update

This includes a few items from Saturday and Sunday too, so tomorrow's will probably be light. But given that things on the Supreme Court nominee front are expected to get moving this week, it might not be that light. Buckle in, folks.

Muslim Council of Britain unconditionally condemns London bombings;

TSA watch-list - a reminder of how indiscriminate and outside of due process it is;

Catholic Church changes position on evolutionary theory, continues slide towards fundamentalism, along with Andrew Sullivan's commentary on why;

Focus on the Family attacks attempt to open more embryonic stem cell lines for research, includes action item;

Republican NEA leaders to work against vouchers from within the Republican party; FotF calls this "bullying" and launches a broad attack against the NEA, "an organization that supports abortion, promotes homosexuality and attacks Christian groups";

"Partial birth" abortion ban struck down for having no exception for the health or life of the mother;

FotF: Reid expects "mainstream conservative" nominee, will filibuster any radical;

Fundamentalist groups demand Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. remove himself from the confirmation debate - includes action item to demand his removal;

FotF action item against California marriage-rights bill;

FotF attacks California Gov. Schwarzenegger, claims San Diego gay pride parade is "being supported by two convicted pedophiles" - earlier versions of the story had "run by," WorldNetDaily says they're volunteers; I'm wondering what the real story is;

Fundamentalist attacks on evolutionary theory are working - Harris poll shows overwhelming support for teaching Creationism in schools, as well as a general decline in both the understanding of and support for evolutionary theory amoungst the public;

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney vetos GBLT-youth suicide prevention programme - Concerned Women for America praises act, says all such programmes should be zeroed out as "promoting homosexuality";

Concerned Women for America supporting Southern Baptist Conference resolution to investigate public schools;

Catholic Church in Canada refusing communion to pro-marriage MPs, pro-choice MPs;

"Both sides" afraid of "stealth" nominee with little or no paper trail or writings behind them.

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i got nothin'

Saturday was all moving spazzkat's stuff, today was loose-endsy and lame but I did walk down to the market and got some produce. I feel listless and blah. But I don't want two political posts in a row, so here's this.

Friday's token: 0.1
Sunday's miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 262.75
Miles to Rivendell: 194.55

And today's flower picture:



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