{"id":20323,"date":"2011-02-24T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/unblogged-bits-thu-24-feb-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2011-02-24T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T05:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-24-feb-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/unblogged-bits-thu-24-feb-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 24-Feb-11 2230)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Tennessee Bill Dubs Sharia Law \u2018Treasonous,\u2019 Would Punish Muslims With 15 Years In Jail<\/a> – To call it “complete nonsense” is … wildly charitable.<\/li>\n
  2. How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself<\/a> – It’s inspiring how joyful folks are to become US citizens. It’s irksome how formalized and goofy the questions are (and how incorrect some of the “official” answers are). But, then, the point of most good things is not the ritual but the result.<\/li>\n
  3. Fact-check: Religious Right Overstates Opposition to Expanding Marriage :: Bold Faith Type<\/a> – The Religious Right? Disingenuous? Say it ain’t so, St. Joe!<\/li>\n
  4. Iowa Personhood Bill Could Legalize the Murder of Abortion Providers<\/a> – I’m sure some folks will say (perhaps with a wink) that such a murder could never possibly ever happen under this law, that that’s not the intent here. Yeah, right.<\/li>\n
  5. Barber Says Islam Is Satanic While Tennessee Seeks To Make It A Felony<\/a> – Wow. Way to make me ashamed of being Christian, American, and Human, guys.<\/li>\n
  6. How Photography Shifted the Balance of the Civil Rights Movement [Photography]<\/a> – A picture can truly be worth a thousand words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Tennessee Bill Dubs Sharia Law \u2018Treasonous,\u2019 Would Punish Muslims With 15 Years In Jail – To call it “complete nonsense” is … wildly charitable. How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself – … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 24-Feb-11 2230)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48868,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/tax-incentives-of-the-lost-ark.html","url_meta":{"origin":20323,"position":0},"title":"Tax Incentives of the Lost Ark","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Dec-14 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Kentucky has reluctantly withdrawn $18 million in tax incentives from Ken Ham's planned Noah's Ark project. According to the state tourism secretary, \"Based on various postings on the Answers in Genesis (AIG) and Ark Encounter websites, reports from Ark Encounter investor meetings and our correspondence, it is readily apparent that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127887,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/laws-oaths-faith-and-kim-davis.html","url_meta":{"origin":20323,"position":1},"title":"Laws, Oaths, Faith, and Kim Davis","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Sep-15 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For those who are couching the Kim Davis debate as one of religious freedom (I'm raising an eyebrow at you, Messrs. Cruz and Huckabee), two questions:1. Should a Kentucky county clerk have been allowed to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, before Obergefell made it legal, using the excuse of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45647,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/religious-freedom-and-justice-scalia.html","url_meta":{"origin":20323,"position":2},"title":"Religious freedom and Justice Scalia","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Oct-14 10:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I applaud Justice Scalia for giving at least lip service to a strong divide between church and state, I find his argument that the government can clearly favor religion in general over non-religion to be quite disturbing. 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In this case, it's Ken Ham's organization \"Answers in Genesis, which is a biblical-literalist, Young Earth religious organization.A few years back, they convinced the Kentucky state government to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/corporations-are-religious-people-friend.html","url_meta":{"origin":20323,"position":4},"title":"Corporations are religious people, friend","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jun-14 4:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, that's... pretty irksome. Can we now ask that \"closely-held family corporations\" clearly identify themselves on all want ads and web pages, with a warning that \"The Supreme Court has ruled that we can do pretty much whatever we want in employment law as long as we claim it's based\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/03\/belief.html","url_meta":{"origin":20323,"position":5},"title":"Belief","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Mar-03 10:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an interesting Harris Poll on The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003. 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