http://defconblog.org Campaign To Defend The Constitution. Because The Religious Right Is Wrong. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:46:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We wanted to let you all know that this will be our last blog post, at least for now. Our funding has run out, so we will be taking a break. We want to make it clear that this is in no way an admission of defeat, we’ve had some ... http://defconblog.org/2007/11/taking-a-break/ Today Georgia’s Governor decided to finally take action around the devastating drough that continues to wreak havoc on much of the South. Did he finally impose strick water conservation measures, you ask? No, he held a prayer service on the steps of the capital building. According to the Associated Press: As ... http://defconblog.org/2007/11/solution-to-the-drought-pray/ Don’t forget to tune in to PBS tonight to watch a new documentary of the Dover Trial, Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. http://defconblog.org/2007/11/dont-forget/ It’s Friday, talk to us! http://defconblog.org/2007/11/friday-open-thread-40/ For the last several months, the Religious Right have been incredibly vocal in their opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), as we told you about in September. In a victory against discrimination, and a defeat for the religious right, yesterday the House of Representatives passed the ENDA. According ... http://defconblog.org/2007/11/religious-right-suffers-defeat-in-house/ According to Pacific Magazine, Answers in Genesis, the group behind the first Creation Museum, plans on building another museum on the island of Saipan, which is capital the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: A U.S.-based Christian ministry group wants to build a museum promoting a creationist museum on Saipan, and ... http://defconblog.org/2007/11/creation-museum-the-sequel/ It’s Friday, talk to us! http://defconblog.org/2007/11/friday-open-thread-39/ So there is a new book out, written by Bob Heath, the leader of Kids for Christ USA, the purpose of which is to prove to Americans that the Bible is not, in fact, illegal in public schools. According to One News Now: In his new book How Are You Doing ... http://defconblog.org/2007/11/religious-right-takes-on-its-own-myth/ Bobby Jindal’s recent victory to become Louiana’s Governor has gained national media attention. As we’ve told you in the past, Jindal has not been shy about his creationist leanings. So it’s not surprising that tucked away in the many articles about Jindal’s success are not insigificant paragraphs about his desire ... http://defconblog.org/2007/10/jindal-continued/ It’s Friday, what’s going on out there? http://defconblog.org/2007/10/friday-open-thread-38/ A 1955 paper widely used by creationists as proof that life on Earth couldn’t have happened without Divine intervention has been retracted by the author, who did not like the fact that creationists were using his paper to fuel their arguments. According to The New York Times: In January 1955, ... http://defconblog.org/2007/10/bad-week-for-creationism/ According to a new study out of the University of Manchester in England, St. Bernard dogs have disproved the creationism theory: Biologists from the University of Manchester say that changes to the skull shape of St Bernards over the last 120 years “can only be explained” via evolution and natural selection. The ... http://defconblog.org/2007/10/dog-disproves-creationsim/ According to the Orlando Sentinel for the first time, Florida public school children will explicitly learn about evolution: Florida has written new standards for teaching science that for the first time say public-school students need to learn about evolution. The proposed science standards, released Friday, call evolution one of the “big ideas” ... http://defconblog.org/2007/10/good-news-in-florida/ It’s Friday, talk to us! http://defconblog.org/2007/10/friday-open-thread-37/ Remember when we told you that Louisiana Rep. David Vitter had earmarked $100,000 of public money to fund the creationist group the Louisaiana Family Forum. According to The Times Picayune, Vitter has decided not to earmark the money, after all: Vitter went to the Senate floor Wednesday and announced that “to ... http://defconblog.org/2007/10/vitter-takes-back-creationist-money/