Aug
15
Alabama judge forces prayer in the courtroom.
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In another example of a person in power overreaching their influnce, Ashley McKathan forced a group of people to pray in the courtroom. Pehaps after the hearing he can be off the bench where he obviously has no business being.
ANDALUSIA, Alabama (AP) — An Alabama judge who once wore the Ten Commandments embroidered on his robe has been accused of violating judicial ethics for ordering a group in his courtroom to hold hands and pray.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission against Covington County Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan of Andalusia, said Olivia Turner, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama. The complaint said McKathan violated ethics rules and the U.S. Constitution by ordering the group to pray.
Four years ago, McKathan donned the Ten Commandments robe, he said, to publicly acknowledge his belief that the law is based on more than just words written in law books.
The ACLU complaint said McKathan dropped to his knees and prayed aloud during a court hearing in February. He told the 100 people in the courtroom that he was not afraid to call on the name of Jesus Christ, witnesses said, and ordered all to join hands and pray, according to the complaint filed soon after the hearing.
The hearing was for a case in which the pastor and several deacons of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Monroeville, Alabama, sued the church’s former secretary to gain possession of financial records.
In response to the complaint, McKathan told the Mobile Press-Register for a story Thursday: “Whatever comes of all that, I’ll continue to have peace.” Quoting Romans in the King James version of the Bible, the judge added: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.”
McKathan did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press Thursday.
The complaint was filed on behalf of several Monroeville residents, including some church members.
Aug
7
DUP Assemblyman looney trying to push creationism.
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Mervyn Storey, who chairs the Stormont education committee, said his “ideal” would be the removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum altogether.
“This is not about removing anything from the classroom, although that would probably be the ideal for me, but this is about us having equality of access to other views as to how the world came into existence and that I think is a very, very important issue for many parents in Northern Ireland.”
Aug
6
Whackjob religious “teacher” cheered in meeting
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MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — Supporters of a middle school science teacher facing firing for burning crosses into students’ arms were in the majority at a central Ohio school board meeting.
They gave John Freshwater a standing ovation when he rose to speak Monday night during the two-hour Mount Vernon school board meeting. He attended the meeting to say he has never branded or burned anyone.
Cheering this prick? Seriously what’s wrong with people?
The school board has scheduled an Aug. 26 hearing to consider whether Freshwater will beterminated.
I certainly hope they make the right decision, and based on the following excerpts this article from the Mt. Vernon, Ohio news website it sounds like this nutbag should be removed from the classroom immediately.
The allegations assert that during the 2007-08 school year Freshwater violated the United States Constitution as well as the policy of the Mount Vernon School district, and has not been disciplined for those violations. According to the complaint, previous to April 2008 Freshwater displayed the Ten Commandments, religious posters and Bible passages within his classroom and kept several Bibles in his classroom which were not for his personal use. He also allegedly taught students in his eighth-grade science class his own religious beliefs, including the meaning of Easter and Good Friday.
The suit further states that Freshwater taught intelligent design as early as 2003 and told students that information in the textbooks is wrong or not proven according to the Bible. He also allegedly uses code words in his classroom to inform his students when he disagrees with the classroom teachings based on his own religious beliefs.
In December 2007, the complaint continues, Freshwater burned an easily identifiable cross into the arm of at least two eighth-grade students with an electric device manufactured by Electro-Technic Products Inc. The complaint states, “Mr. Freshwater knew that the electric device, model BD-10A, could cause harm if placed in contact with human skin. As the eighth-grade science teacher it is Mr. Freshwater’s duty to understand and follow the manufacturer’s advice regarding the proper use of science equipment.”
Jul
24
You don’t say.. How come God’s messengers never tell anyone to attend a monster truck rally?
Durban brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter, who made a brief court appearance on Wednesday charged with the murder of their parents, had been part of a religious sect and had been influenced by Nicolette’s boyfriend and co-accused, Mathew Naidoo, who had claimed he was “God’s messenger”, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
Hardus, who is 20 and a second-year IT student at Varsity College, his sister Nicolette, 26, a waitress, and Naidoo, 21, of Phoenix, were arrested soon after police were summoned to the Lotters’ Thames Drive, Westville, home on Saturday night.
Jul
14
A mentally disturbed woman in Arizona is facing murder charges after police say she broke into an elderly neighbor’s apartment Sunday evening and fatally stabbed an 83-year-old woman — less than an hour after she had been released from a psychiatric care facility.
Scottsdale police say they had taken the women to a hospital for observation the previous week.
The motive described by the murder suspect to investigators, according to a probable cause statement: “God told her to do it.”
What’s scary is this woman is only different from other believers in one way, she actually follwed through with what god told her. She’s not much different than GW in that respect.
Stumble It!