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Religions > Atheism |
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"Budikka666" |
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17 May 2005 06:17:58 PM |
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Government Funded Religious Chastity Ring |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4553721.stm
reports that "The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit
against the US government over its funding of a nationwide sexual
abstinence programme. The ACLU says the Silver Ring Thing programme
violates the principle that the state budget cannot be used to promote
religion."
On the other hand, if 88% of those who make an abstinence pledge break
it, it's really not doing any good, is it? And if 75% of avoided
pregnancies comes from condoms rather than abstinence, it isn;t doing
any good, is it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4020025.stm
Except, of course, that it gives George Bush a golden opportunity to
channel yet more government dollars into the sticky hands of his
religious cronies.
Budikka
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Government Funded Religious Chastity Ring |
18 May 2005 12:04:29 AM |
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In article <1116371878.164368.121010@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4553721.stm
reports that "The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit
against the US government over its funding of a nationwide sexual
abstinence programme. The ACLU says the Silver Ring Thing programme
violates the principle that the state budget cannot be used to promote
religion."
On the other hand, if 88% of those who make an abstinence pledge break
it, it's really not doing any good, is it? And if 75% of avoided
pregnancies comes from condoms rather than abstinence, it isn;t doing
any good, is it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4020025.stm
Except, of course, that it gives George Bush a golden opportunity to
channel yet more government dollars into the sticky hands of his
religious cronies.
And win his party some more fundy votes in the next election.
Budikka
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: Government Funded Religious Chastity Ring |
17 May 2005 11:07:31 PM |
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TV's Budikka666 wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4553721.stm
reports that "The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit
against the US government over its funding of a nationwide sexual
abstinence programme. The ACLU says the Silver Ring Thing programme
violates the principle that the state budget cannot be used to promote
religion."
On the other hand, if 88% of those who make an abstinence pledge break
it, it's really not doing any good, is it? And if 75% of avoided
pregnancies comes from condoms rather than abstinence, it isn;t doing
any good, is it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4020025.stm
Except, of course, that it gives George Bush a golden opportunity to
channel yet more government dollars into the sticky hands of his
religious cronies.
And a golden opportunity to shove his mythology down the throats of the
entire country.
--
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
- Maynard James Keenan
The belief in the Christian god... is an appalling nightmare. I reject
the notion that the whole universe was created by this kind of evil
creature who would create such a thing. - Anthony Flew, March 22, 2005
aa #2133
ap #19
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