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Levi’s jeans ad called ‘raunchy’
‘Paul the Pincher’ jumps out of fly

Those old-fashioned button-fly jeans made by Levi Strauss Co. are being promoted in a new, sexually suggestive ad campaign called “Unbutton Your Beast.”

“Your worst guess on what the ‘beast’ is supposed to represent would likely be correct,” wrote Marian Ward today on the website for Concerned Women for America, the nation’s largest women’s public policy organization.

“I had trouble wrapping my brain around the research and development meeting where this idea was pitched – and why no one said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding!’” she wrote.

On the BrandWeek website, Elena Malykhina and Steve Miller called it, “bold, risqué and quirky” and said it already is raising eyebrows.

You don’t have to guess what the “beast is!”

http://www.unbuttonyourbeast.com/

It’s obscene and no one here will object to it!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77225

Top insurer forces employees to study Buddhist teachings
Managers’ retreat requires chanting ‘om’ in dark room

A former Prudential Insurance manager is preparing legal action against the company, claiming she was fired after blowing the whistle on mandatory Eastern religious exercises that included chanting the Hindu mantra “om” in darkened rooms.

Prudential Insurance Co.’s southern California real estate division also required managers to read a Buddhist book, charges the Christian ex-employee, whose name has been withheld pending formal action.

The former manager’s lawyer, Richard Ackerman of Ackerman Cowles & Associates, has written a letter to Prudential demanding the company stop requiring participation in the religous practices and warning he has been retained to pursue claims of religious discrimination, “hostile environment” and harassment against his client that led to her termination.

Ackerman told Prudential California Realty, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, it must stop the “discriminatory practice of segregating Christians from other employees and forcing employees to adopt and practice Buddhist theology as an implied or express condition of their ... employment.”

Ackerman told WND his client was instructed to go to a managers’ seminar and was given a book, “Buddha: 9 to 5,” to study beforehand.

The book, boasting it was “based on the Buddhist practice of the Eightfold Path,” provides “a hands-on set of tools to reawaken yourself, your employees, and your organization.”

Ackerman told WND his client was in the management ranks for the organization and was required to attend a management conference that focused on the Buddhist book. He said managers also were required to be in 13-minute sessions in darkened rooms where everyone was instructed to sit in the lotus position with hands held overhead while the “om” chant was performed.

The “om” chant actually is more often associated with Hinduism, and an online information resource for the religion states, “The goal which all the Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at, and which men desire when they lead the life of continence ... is om. ... Whosoever knows this syllable obtains all that he desires. ... Whosoever knows this support is adored in the world of Brahma.”

At the seminar, after the lights were turned back on, those who “felt uncomfortable” with the stunt were required to stand and explain. The participation in the mysticism conflicted with the religous and moral principles of the law firm’s client, the wife of a local evangelical Christian pastor, Ackerman said.

“Basically what they did was made her life miserable [following her objections],” Ackerman said.

Ackerman’s letter to the real estate company cited its “2007 Fall Leadership Conference - ‘Rise Above’ Lake Arrowhead” event.

If these employees were required to pray to Jesus, study the Bible and engage in Christian worship it would be headline news. But, since Christianity is no longer acceptable in the public square in the country, no one will raise and eyebrow or any real objections to forced indoctrination into Hinduism or Buddhism by private companies.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76923

My late brother was a self taught musician, he could play them all percussion, string, brass, piano, violin and guitar. He grew up near Bakersfield in the Merle Haggard era, he played guitar with some of the greats in the early years in every dive on the West Coast. Slim Whitman was his favorite singer and picker, and I thought maybe a Saturday Night song might please a few people here.

Saudi cleric urges Muslim women to cover up all but one eye

By Haaretz Service

Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has declared that a Muslim veil, or hijab, that covers all but the eyes encourages women to use eye make-up to look seductive, the BBC reported Friday.

Al-Habadan has called on Saudi women to wear a full veil, or niqab, which covers the entire face, including one eye.

The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.

The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their hair, the BBC reported.

Sheikh Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd.

Nah, you can look at both of Zsa Zsa’s eyes, you won’t be seduced or die!

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1026273.html

From the Obama Youth:

Militant Obama youth march to ‘Alpha, Omega’ chant. Teen boys in [military] uniform drill, shout, profess, ‘Yes we can’

Jesus proclaimed Himself and He alone to be the Alpha and Omega, meaning as touching everything in this life and hereafter He is the First and Last, Beginning and End, the All-In-All, Preeminent in all things. This is what these Obama Youth are calling Messiah Barak.

Further, their chants invoke Obama’s name as being all important in every area of their lives. Obama is worshipped, he is praised as the Lord. So, please no more pretense that many, expecially blacks and extreme liberals do not see him as their Messiah.

Christian campaign website
endorses Obama as pro-life
Claims electing Democrat will result
in fewer abortions than repealing Roe

A group of Christian supporters of Barack Obama – who has a 100 percent pro-abortion Senate voting record – have created a website touting the Democratic presidential candidate as the most pro-life choice in November’s election.

The Pro-Life Pro-Obama website argues that Obama’s economic and health care plans and support of programs for the poor will do more for reducing abortions in the U.S. than the positions of his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain.

The site also claims Obama’s plans will reduce the number of abortions more than even overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that launched the legalization of abortion across the country.

The site’s spokesman, author Douglas W. Kmiec, a former professor and U.S. assistant attorney general under Reagan, writes, “After 35 years, a new approach is needed. Too many unborn lives are being lost as we wait for judges to get it right. Barack Obama’s strengthening of support for prenatal care, health care, maternity leave, and adoption will make the difference.”

The website cites a Catholics United study that concluded overturning Roe v. Wade would only send abortion law decisions to the states, in which case, the study estimated, at most 16 states would outlaw abortion, leaving it legal in most of the country.

Some pro-life leaders, however, find it impossible to look at Obama’s 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood and endorsement from NARAL and call the candidate pro-life.

In an article on her organization’s CitizenLink website, Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action, calls the Pro-life Pro-Obama website “a desperate attempt to attract pro-life Christian voters to Obama by misrepresenting and redefining the pro-life cause.” She calls it “an insult and affront to every true pro-lifer in the country.”

“The meaning of pro-life is to protect human life from the single-cell stage to natural death,” she writes. “That means opposing public policies that target and destroy innocent human life. From what I can see, not one word of this Web site addresses banning abortion, or even restricting it.

First, this group represents the Social Gospel crowd, a liberal wing of people claiming the Christian faith, while feeling free to edit the Bible to force it to support their liberal social and environmental gospel.

While some of them may be truly Christians, they are carnal Christians, those still operating not in the Spirit of Christ but according to the dictates of their flesh. They want to change a world God said He will destroy and they don’t want to promote the Gospel of Salvation for fear of offending others.

The Bible tells us that in the Last Days, people will take that which He calls evil (like abortion) and call it good, while taking that which He calls good (Like valuing all life) as being evil.

Obama wants to kill babies, even through partial birth to satisfy his blod lust for power, as do most liberals.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76920

Librarians: Christian books make ‘gays’ feel inferior
Public schools refuse donations from small, faith-based publishers

a Northern Virginia public school system banned books containing a Christian viewpoint on homosexuality from its library shelves, saying the texts might make “gays” feel inferior, students and parents are fighting back.

More than 40 Christian parents and students held a protest Thursday to speak out against Fairfax County public school librarians’ decision to refuse titles such as “Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting” and “Someone I Love Is Gay.”

Protesters wore black shirts saying, “Closing Books Shuts Out Ideas” after they unsuccessfully tried to donate more than 100 Christian books on homosexuality to several high school libraries, the Washington Post reported. Focus on the Family is the leading organization behind a “True Tolerance” effort to balance library shelves by adding a Christian perspective to the numerous pro-"gay" books currently stocked.

“We put ourselves out there … and got rejected,” student Elizabeth Bognanno told reporters. “Censoring books is not a good thing. … We believe our personal rights have been violated.”

The school system’s policy on library collections states “the collection should support the diverse interests, needs and viewpoints of the school community.”

However, it also states, “Librarians are under no obligation to include donations in the library collection.”

Coordinator of library information services Susan Thornily told the Post the books did not meet set standards. She said librarians told her the books contained large amounts of scripture, very little research or would make homosexuals “feel inferior.”

“Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family, said the purpose of “True Tolerance” is to prevent censorship, not promote it. “We hear … more and more that homosexuality is being promoted in schools,” she told the Post. “The word tolerance is often used, but a faith-based viewpoint is belittled or ridiculed.”

There will be no voices from the Left protesting censorship! The ACLU will remain silent! This runs absolutely contrary to the Bill of Rights. Add to this the fact that school textbooks, as I posted yesterday, are favoring Islam and condemning Israel and Christianity, and together we are witnessing, in our name, an atmosphere of State hostility towards Christ and the Church; get that, not religion as Islam is okay, no, this once Christian nation is rapidly making faith in Christ and the proclamation of the Gospel hate crimes and in the near future we will see ministers and laity imprisoned for their faith.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76930

Why is this scum bag still in business?

Larry Flynt is Hustling up an Ala-skin flick with Sarah Palin look-alike

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Hustler founder Larry Flynt. Larry Flynt is using the power of porn to express his views on Sarah Palin.

The Hustler founder and freedom of speech advocate has produced an X-rated movie using an adult-film actress who resembles the Republican vice presidential candidate.

VIDEO: DISCOVERED! PALIN PLAYING THE FLUTE IN MISS ALASKA PAGEANT
Flynt’s producers posted an anonymous help-wanted ad on Craigslist in L.A. just days after the Republican convention. “Looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike,” read the ad, “for an adult film to be shot in the next 10 days.” The actress would be paid $3,000 for the part, said the ad.

No, it’s not Tina Fey.

Flynt’s spokesman David Carrillo confirmed to us yesterday that the film has been shot by Hustler Video, but he wouldn’t yet reveal the title. They need only consult bloggers from humorist Mo Rocca to Choire Sicha at Radar, who upon discovery of the ad came up with such gems as “Juneau You Want It” and “Northern Xxxposure.”

The iconoclastic publisher, who was portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the movie “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” has never hidden his liberal views. In his 2005 book “Sex, Lies and Politics: The Naked Truth,” he eviscerated the Bush administration for what he saw as its violations of U.S. freedoms guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.

Gov. Palin’s spokesman could not be reached by deadline.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/10/02/2008-10-02_larry_flynt_is_hustling_up_an_alaskin_fl.html

This is a warning! The U.K. has failed to control its borders, failed to control immigration and it is allowing Muslims to set up Islamic Courts with the force of English Law, Muslims are so many there now that we joke about Londonistan, and now they are facing hundreds of millions a year to support refugee children just abandoned at its airports.

THOUSANDS of refugee children, some as young as three, are being found abandoned at UK ports and airports, new figures show today.
Often orphaned and from war torn countries, the children are packed off to this country by relatives unable to care for them.
More than 3,500 came last year at a rate of 75 a week and the numbers look set to top 4,000 this year.
The rising numbers mean that authorities and council tax payers are likely to have to bear costs of £150 million a year to support and educate asylum children. This fact has brought warnings of pressure on next year’s council tax bills because of the new influx.

Local government figures show that each asylum child costs taxpayers around £400 a week in extra costs.

Around a third of the children coming into Britain without parents or family are from Afghanistan, with a high rate of child asylum seekers also arriving from Iran, China, Eritrea and Somalia.
Concerns over asylum-seeking children and teenagers have been growing while numbers of adult asylum seekers remain much lower than they were during the boom years of the early 2000s.
The 5,720 asylum seekers who arrived in the country in the three months of the spring - the most recent for which figures are available - meant the flow of adults is little more than a fifth of that of six years ago.
However, unaccompanied minors are arriving at a rate two thirds of that of the asylum peak.

Like Great Britain, America is refusing in the name of liberal political correctness to control our own borders, we are being drowned in illegal immigrants, the number not really known but in the tens of millions. Most of them, because they want to stay here, vote Democrat. This is a loss of our national sovereignty and it is a clear and present danger to our national security.

Yes, Barak Hussein Obama has an interest in large scale illegal immigration and he’ll just tax us to death paying for these liberal voters; but McCain is not much better, he supports amnesty for these criminals, all to try and get a piddling amount of the Hispanic vote.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1067569/Child-refugees-young-abandoned-British-airports.html

A new study reveals that if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to criticize the nation of Israel before the United Nations, he could use American public school textbooks to do so.

“It is shocking to find the kind of misinformation we discovered in American textbooks and supplemental materials being used by schools in every state in the country,” said Dr. Gary Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research and a co-author of the study.

“Elected officials at every level should investigate how these offensive passages are creeping into our textbooks. Presenting false information in the classroom undermines the very foundation of the American educational system,” he said.

Tobin teamed with insititute research associate Dennis Ybarra for the study, titled, “The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion.” The five-year effort, which looked at 28 prominent history, geography and social studies textbooks, reveals American public school students are being loaded up with indoctrination about Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Middle East, to the cost of Christianity and Judaism and the benefit of Islam.

The authors found textbooks that stated or suggested:

Jesus was a “Palestinian,” not a Jew.

The Arab nations never attacked Israel. Arab-Israeli wars “just broke out,” or Israel started them

Arabs nations want peace, but Israel does not

Israel expelled all Palestinian refugees

Israel put the Palestinians in refugee camps in Arab lands, not Arab governments

Palestinian terrorism is nonexistent or minimal

Israel is not a victim of terrorism, or terrorism against Israel is justified

U.S. support of Israel causes terrorism, including 9/11

The intifadas were children’s revolts not involving adults or terrorism
They also found that Judaism and Christianity are treated as matters of believing, while Islam is treated as a matter of fact. In the glossary of “World History: Continuity and Change,” the Ten Commandments are described as, “Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai.” But the same glossary states as fact the Quran is a, “Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God.”

The study found, “Islam is treated with a devotional tone in some textbooks, less detached and analytical than it ought to be. Muslim beliefs are described in several instances as fact, without any clear qualifier such as ‘Muslims believe.  . . .’”

Likewise, the Islamic empire of the Middle Ages was “a time of unqualified glory without blemishes,” and Muslims “always tolerated Jews,” unlike their Christian counterparts. The texts use terms such as “stories,” “legends” and “tales” to talk about Jewish writings.

Liberals have long ago captured the minds of our next generations, filling them with the most extreme liberal ideology; like pro-homosexuality, a belief in Human Caused Global Warming as an absolute scientific fact and they have indoctrinated them in the religion of Darwinian Evolution, among many other things destructive of our society and world.

We have long ago surrendered to the liberal educational establishment an anti-Christian bias and now we have documented proof that their textbooks are preparing our children to accept Islam as being good for everyone, along with condemnation and ridicule of Christians and Jews. Next? How about teaching our children that the Holocaust was a damnable Jewish lie?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76671

I am not sure how serious this writer is, but in a strange way it helps explain why Obama, a man absent any experience, credentials or anything to recommend him for office would be poised to become POTUS. There is no rational reason, so maybe we need to look to an irrational answer to this strange love affair with an otherwise empty suit. I have listed this under religious topics, as I think Obamamania is a religion, faith absent any rational reasons, with a few miracles thrown in?

My interest was piqued, but the dark time lived on until my faith in others was renewed on Jan. 4 in the Iowa state primary. Obama had beat out squeaky clean southern boy John Edwards and former first lady and next in the line of political succession Hillary Clinton. I was in shock. And then I came to Jesus/Obama.

I donated to the campaign. I followed every primary with bated breath, and muttered my prayers to the political gods while proselytizing the miracle of my new prophet. I got a car magnet, I bought a t-shirt; a pin and bumper sticker are on their way to my campus mailbox. Then the media and right wing questioning began: what is he? A rock star, or the next president? Bono or Britney? The naysayers used his popularity among young people against him. Who had ever heard of political posters in college dorm rooms? Bumper stickers on the back of your high school neighbor’s Jetta? Guess what those “Jesus is my homeboy” t-shirts were replaced with at Urban Outfitters? A smiling Obama under his own cutesy sayings like “Obama for yo Mama.”

I must admit, I questioned this myself. After all, would I have ever bought a t-shirt with Al Gore’s face on it? Was this all he was, the newest pop culture fad? I questioned my newfound faith - was it all only a phase, like the time I thought I was Baptist in junior high? But my inner dogmatic struggle only helped cement my beliefs as I followed politics more closely than ever before. Obama’s mere presence, knowledge and enthusiasm in the political realm inspired my own desire to understand what exactly had gone wrong, what exactly he could do to remedy the mess we’d made.

Then I began to realize I wasn’t the only one trying to buy a WWOD bracelet and spending my weekends scouring CNN.com. The rock star-type love for Obama wasn’t just because he was pretty and in the media. Others too, had seen him as a shining light, heard that mythical voice boom out over the mountaintops; people were wearing the t-shirt because they would rather wear something representing a politician than a pop star. People everywhere, young and old, were caring again. So what’s the problem here?

I’ve officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too. I will follow him, all the way to the White House, and I’ll be standing there in our nation’s capital in January 2009, when Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America. In the name of Obama, Amen.

So, our choice is either to accept salvation from the Obamamessiah or… what? Whether we like it or not, we’ll see the light. And if we don’t want to, what will happen? We’ll be forced to? How very Hitler-esque. Stalin would be proud, as well. Worship me or suffer the consequences, huh?

Cassy Fiano:
http://www.cassyfiano.com/2008/10/whos-your-personal-jesus-obama-thats-who

Hat Tip: Hot Air

This is a parody, although there are some elements of truth.

Obama a Sidekick Like Gabby Hayes? That’s what the nutcase in Venezuela thinks!

SACRAMENTO – For the first time at a California college, a student council passed a resolution to support a proposed ban on “gay” marriage.

The American River College Student Council, facing fierce opposition and curses from peers Tuesday, voted 8-3 with three abstentions to support Proposition 8, known as the Marriage Protection Amendment.

Students who support “gay” marriage are furious, claiming they have collected 450 signatures to recall the eight students who voted for the resolution, the Sacramento Bee reported.

If the signatures are validated, the college will hold a special election within 10 days to decide whether the students will be recalled.

Former student representative Yuri Popov spoke in favor of the resolution at American River College. He told WND the student association has a right to take a position on issues that affect education policy.

“We have classes at community colleges that teach about marriage,” Popov said. “Some people don’t know that. There are psychology classes that teach family dynamics and about everything from childhood to marriage. If Proposition 8 isn’t passed, there will be a redefinition of marriage that will be taught in these classes.”

Interclub Council President Tim Richney is head of an organization that oversees all campus clubs. He is leading the effort to remove council members who supported the resolution.

“We are against discrimination and hatred, and we want them out of office,” he said.

First, it is great to see any young people today willing to take a stand for traditional family and moral values, even knowing there would be a penalty for their actions.

Great to see that forced liberal thought in College can be resisted by students with core moral values.

Lastly, it is the old, old crap that liberals bring out about discrimination and hate whenever anyone stands up to their socialist, anti-Christian agenda. That is because they have no rational arguments, they can only oppose free speech and independent thought that transgresses their twisted dogma.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76721

California approves nurse-assisted suicide
Schwarzenegger signs bill authorizing dehydration, starvation of patients

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be “terminally ill.”

The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Patty Berg, a Democrat, passed the California Assembly Aug. 28, and the state Senate Aug. 20. It was signed by the governor yesterday.

The legislation, called the “Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act,” or AB 2747, passed by a 42 to 34 vote. An Aug. 20 Senate vote of 21 to 17 ushered the measure to the governor’s desk for signing.

Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families, said the legislation is dangerous and should have been vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger.

“AB 2747 pushes suicide through the back door at the hands of non-physicians taking advantage of depressed patients,” he said in a statement. “AB 2747 cheapens the value of human life by endorsing suicide as an option.”

The measure allows physician assistants and nurses to decide whether a person is “terminally ill” and deprive them of basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water.

“Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days,” Thomasson said. “Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror.”

Thomasson said Berg “deceptively changed” the bill to appear that “voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking” and “palliative sedation” no longer were on a list of “symptom management” options.

“The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life option,” Tran said. “It is not clear why nurse practitioners and physician assistants could make such a significant diagnosis. It is further not clear from the bill how making such significant diagnoses on a case-by-case basis can be done by such practitioners and assistants based on so-called ‘standardized procedures and protocols’ not further defined by the bill. The potential effect of AB 2747 is extremely broad and could cause irrevocable harm.”

Schwarzenegger has been a rutting pig Governor, mainly ruling as a Liberal Democrat. He is worse than Gray Davis was, he is scum of the first magnitude as far as I am concerned.

This makes para-professional health care providers responsible for diagnosing end of life patients and being in charge of helping these people die through the ugly process of dehydration and starvation, while sedated of course and with no hope of changing their minds. Of course, these patients are most often depressed, suffering mentally and emotionally to the point of not being able to make rational decisions, but that’s okay these para-professionals will encourage them to “off” themselves anyway. Well except these patient’s really won’t be committing suicide, these para-professionals will actually be murdering them after counselling them to die, which makes them accessories to First Degree homicide, a crime for which they should be executed.

If you want to kill yourself, like my 90+ year-old father-in-law did last weekend, just take a gun and pull the trigger, take some pills, suck in exhaust fumes, hang yourself, have fun; but do not ask the state, in my name, to murder you because you are too gutless to do the job yourself.

Schwarzenegger should be charged with being an accessory to these murders, but what can you expect from a European, atheist socialist, liberal, scum sucking pig!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76713

Pastors rally for chaplains’ reinstatement
Demand jobs for those forced to resign for praying ‘in Jesus name’

Dozens of prominent Christian leaders in Virginia have written Gov. Timothy Kaine requesting a change in the state policy that bans “in Jesus name” from state police chaplains’ prayers and seeking reinstatement for the six chaplains who had to resign over the issue.

“This could impact the national election, since Virginia is such a close race,” said former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was dismissed from the military over the same issue but later won a battle in Congress creating a freedom for other chaplains to pray as their conscience dictates.

“These 86 pastors pledged to mobilize their people to vote accordingly, so the courage of these six police chaplains who were forced to resign because they prayed ‘in Jesus name’ could turn America’s head on November 4th,” Klingenschmitt said.

The pastors now are awaiting a response from the governor.

The group’s report said there had been no complaints about any of the prayers by chaplains; it was simply a ban adopted “to prevent any possible future lawsuits.”

The action, however, violates their First Amendment rights and prevents the chaplains “from serving effectively,” said House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith. “These men had little choice but to resign.”

Flaherty reported he was acting on an appeals court ruling dealing with prayers at the Fredericksburg City council, and his rule allowed only “nondenominational” prayers at public events.

“When the Senate first convened in New York City on April 6, 1789, one of its first orders of business was to appoint a committee to recommend a candidate for chaplain. On April 25, the Senate elected the Right Reverend Samuel Provoost, Episcopal Bishop of New York, as its first chaplain.” Thus, there can be no logical or constitutional argument against chaplains in various levels of government.

To deny Christian Chaplains the right to invoke Jesus name in their prayers is not unlike any communist state that dictates everything as touching religious faith. We have turned our back on our Bill of Rights, our Founding Fathers, our Judeo-Christian traditions all in the name of liberal, secular political correctness run amok!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76650