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Prop 8 Trial is About "Putting Christianity on Trial"

I guess it isn't about equality, it is about putting Christianity on trial... Right Wing Watch has this Bill Donohue rant : Yesterday, the judge allowed Boies and Olsen to submit e-mails they obtained between the director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the bishops. Allowing such communication in a trial is unusual enough, but the purpose was even more invidious: to show that Catholics played a major role in passing Proposition 8. The lawyers did the same thing to Mormons, offering more e-mail “proof” of their involvement. ... Their goal is not to contest the First Amendment rights of Catholics and others—their goal is to put religion on trial. What they are saying is that religious-based reasons for rejecting gay marriage are irrational, and thus do not meet the test of promoting a legitimate state interest. That is why they have trotted out professors like Gary Segura of Stanford and George Chauncey of Yale to testify to the irrationality of the pro-Proposition 8 s...

Get Your Dunkin Tuesday

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The Real Asswipes of Washington, D.C. www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Well well well. I am full of rage. Friggin busy as all hell at work. Frustrated with the upcoming frigid weather and every morning hearing about only two things. Tiger Woods and THE STUPID WHITE HOUSE PARTY CRASHERS! Want to know what is wrong with our media? That sums it up. For about, what seems like an eternity, all we hear about is these two attention grabbing nothings, and a guy who was in a car accident. A CAR ACCIDENT! Are you fuggin kidding me? What a waste of time and airwaves, no wonder we have a misinformed public about the health care debate, Senators and Representatives getting away with being corporate ass hats and John McCain on the teevee all the time. It's nothing but a circus and no one in the media and I mean NO ONE wants to actually stop and think, "hey maybe we shouldn't give this a...