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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

In Kentucky's Race For Governor, BluegrassPoll Still Has Matt Bevin Trailing Jack Conway By 5 Percentage Points; 15 Percent Are Undecided!


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Carly Fiorina's Misguided Supporters.


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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Tuesday Afternoon Special Cartoon: Extremists!



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Scientists Say They Discovered Flowing Water On Mars!


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Monday, September 28, 2015

Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk, Kim Davis' Book Deal.


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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Funny, GOP And Donald Trump.


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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Donald Trump Feels Like He Served In The Military! LOL.


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Friday, September 25, 2015

Pope Francis Meets Barack Obama!


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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Pope Francis Arrives In US For State Visit!




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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The #GOP!


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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Time For A Good Laugh At #VW!



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#GOP's Second Presidential Debaters!


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Monday, September 21, 2015

Iran Nuclear Deal, As Seen By Republicans?!


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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Kentucky's Kim Davis, And Her Enablers, Need To Read, And Re-read, The Whole Bible.

Kim Davis Needs to Read the Bible Again
BY GREGG EASTERBROOK

Kim Davis and her supporters lash out against homosexuality by calling on ancient divine pronouncements of anger, rather than upon the serene divinity who, in the New Testament, offered unconditional forgiveness.
Kim Davis and her supporters lash out against homosexuality by calling on ancient divine pronouncements of anger, rather than upon the serene divinity who, in the New Testament, offered unconditional forgiveness.

Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, returns to her post soon, after spending five nights in jail and then a few more days recovering at home. A Pentecostal Christian, Davis says “God’s authority” instructs her not to issue licenses for gay marriage, even though the law compels her to. Presidential contenders, including Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, both fundamentalists, have praised her stance.

It’s undeniable that the earliest scripture books, the ones Christians call the Pentateuch and Jews call the Torah, don’t like same-sex relations. At the Garden of Eden, God decrees that a man will be the husband and a woman the wife. (See the second and third chapters of Genesis, ideally a scholarly translation such as the New Revised Standard; this article cites the N.R.S.V.) In Leviticus 18:22, the text states, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” In 20:13, Leviticus specifies that both parties in male-male sex shall “be put to death.”


That seems open-and-shut, though one might wonder why Davis, Cruz, Huckabee and the like seek only to deny gays marriage, rather than execute them as God decreed.

But here’s the thing. Christian theology says the New Testament amends the Old: what happened in the days of the apostles amends what came long before. Acts 13:39: “By this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.” (Acts is the founding text of Pentecostalism.) Jesus overturned existing law about sin, the Sabbath, the afterlife and many other matters. His ministry proclaimed “a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.” (II Corinthians 3:6.) “Letter” in this context means archaic law—that is, the law Davis, Cruz, and Huckabee want applied today.

When conservative Christians justify opposition to gay relations by citing ancient scripture, by the most amazing coincidence they don’t mention the other stuff there. The ancient passages that denounce same-sex relations also denounce eating shellfish and trimming one’s beard. The Christian who says God forbids homosexuality – then shaves before going out for dinner at Red Lobster – is speaking from both sides of his mouth.

In Leviticus, the Old Testament book that calls homosexuality an abomination, God not only sanctions but encourages slavery. Leviticus 25:44–46 , spells out rules for seizing, holding, and selling slaves. And there’s no estate tax: slaves may be kept “as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property.” In Deuteronomy 21:18–21, near the passages on the abomination of same-sex relations, ancient scripture directs that a disobedient child be taken by his parents to the city gate and stoned to death.

If banning homosexuality is “God’s authority” to a modern Christian, ritual murder of children ought to be as well. So why don’t today’s Judeo-Christians believe in slavery and filicide? For mainstream Jews, some ancient doctrine has been reinterpreted by rabbinical commentary or civil law; for Christians, premises of ancient scripture have been amended. This happened first via the middle prophets Isaiah and Hosea, who came centuries after ancient scripture—biblical tip: the key that unlocks the beauty of Abrahamic faith is the seldom read Book of Hosea—and then through the ministry of the Redeemer.

What does the New Testament say about homosexuality and gay marriage? Silence on the latter; on the former, there’s one reference. In his Letter to the Romans, verses 1:26-27, Paul observes of idol worshippers, “Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.”

Conservatives prefer translations, such as the God’s Word Bible, that substitute “perversion” for “error.” Yet many church-married, monogamous, man-woman, devout Christian couples engage in acts once thought perversion. Beyond this, Paul frowned on all sexual interaction, including by men and women married to each other. (I Corinthians 7:29.) The apostles evinced no interest in any form of carnality. Jesus never wed, and if he experienced erotic longing, the specifics are lost to history. The Old Testament is chock-full with lust and rape: by the New Testament, it’s as if sex has gone out of style. Those who beheld Jesus bathed in the glory of the resurrection believed the long-dreamt golden age about to arrive. Sex just didn’t seem terribly important compared to that.

At any rate, the key word in Romans is not “perversion;” rather, “natural.” The science of the question of what a person’s natural sexual preferences are is unsettled, but tends toward the idea that people are born that way. If we are born with our sexuality, either it is a gift from God or evolved naturally. And if same-sex attraction is natural, then it is in concord with the New Testament.


Of course, believers of all stripes pick and choose. Liberal Christians avert their eyes from Christ’s near-absolute ban on divorce, in Matthew 5:32. Wealthy Christians ignore their Redeemer’s warning that the rich are barred from heaven, in Matthew 19:24. Most Christians would rather not know that Jesus said to give to panhandlers, in Luke 6:30. Right now, the mainly Christian leaders of the European Union don’t seem concerned that Jesus said that only helping the destitute counts in the eyes of God. (Christ says, in Luke 6:33, “If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.”) Republican candidates thumping their chests about how admirably Christian they are skip the fact that Christ banned exactly such puffery. (Matthew 6:1 reads, “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.”) The Israeli right pounds the table about ancient scripture, but skips Exodus 22:21: “You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”

In the eight hundred thousand words of the Bible, one can find a verse to support just about anything. Even so, it’s disturbing that contemporary Christian conservatives lash out against homosexuality by calling on ancient divine pronouncements of anger, rather than upon the serene divinity who offered the world unconditional forgiveness.

Voicing the thoughts of the serene God in John 15:12, Jesus summed up Christian theology in one sentence: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” Once, God was full of anger; ultimately, the Maker cared solely about love. Why don’t today’s Christian conservatives understand that the second part amends the first part?

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Kentucky's Kim Davis On Religion!


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Saturday, September 19, 2015

What Is Happening To Rand Paul?


Friday, September 18, 2015

Friday Afternoon Special: Donald Trump's New Apprentice: Arnold Schwarzenegger!


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Post #GOP Presidential Debate. LOL.


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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Watch The #GOP Presidential Debate, At Ronald Reagan Library In Simi Valley, California.

#Isamaphobes And A Student's Clock?


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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Did You Miss #Kentucky's Gubernatorial Debate Last Night? Well ... Enjoy.

Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk, Kim Davis, And The Taliban.


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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Barack Obama's Anti - Adviser. LOL.


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Monday, September 14, 2015

Syrian Refugees!


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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Rowan County Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis.


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Saturday, September 12, 2015

#LyingHillaryClinton!


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Friday, September 11, 2015

9.11. 01. May We Never Forget!




"There They Are: Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis AndPolitical Polygamy!


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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Kim Davis: FLAWED Martyrdom. YEP!

Cal Thomas: Kim Davis' flawed martyrdom
BY CAL THOMAS

Let's get something straight. America has never been a "Christian nation." Those who believe otherwise have an obligation to say what part of our history was uniquely Christian. Was it when slavery was legal? How about when women were denied the vote? The Gilded Age? The Roaring '20s?

America is a nation in which Christians — and every other religious and nonreligious person — have the right to practice their beliefs in private and public free of government intrusion, except in some cases of life-threatening medical conditions in which the courts have occasionally intruded. It may make some evangelicals feel better to think that the country once reflected biblical principles, but despite generic quotations about "divine providence" that hark back to our founding, that's difficult to prove.

In the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed last week for refusing to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, this flawed notion of a once-pristine nation that reflected "biblical values" is again being tested, because we never seem to learn from the past. Davis has since been released by the same judge who jailed her with the caveat that she not interfere with her deputies as they issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The late Charles Colson wrote a book titled Kingdoms in Conflict. It was about what evangelicals call the Kingdom of God vs. the kingdom of this world. For most evangelicals, it appears, these kingdoms are headed in opposite directions toward different destinations. Attempts by conservative Christians to impose through politics and government the principles inherent in their kingdom have mostly failed. The reason is set out in their Scripture: "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14)

If you are part of God's Kingdom, which has sought in nearly every generation to impose itself on the other, answer these questions: If you are pro-life, have you ever tried to get a pro-choice, non-Christian to accept your position? If you believe in traditional marriage and practice it, does your example and argument that marriage should be reserved for "one man and one woman" persuade proponents of same-sex marriage?

I didn't think so. That leaves members of God's Kingdom with two options: Force their views on those who don't share them (which an objective observer might say failed during the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition days of the 1980s and the Prohibition era before that), or accept the biblical verdict for that other kingdom: "And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever." (1 John 2:17 NLT)

And what, you might ask, pleases God the most? It is the sharing of His salvation message with members of that other kingdom, which has the additional benefit for those who accept it of changing their outlook on some of those very things most Christians believe. In other words, changed hearts are usually followed by changed minds.

Kim Davis chose the wrong issue for her "martyrdom." Amazingbible.org lists more than 600 sins mentioned in the Bible, including adultery, fornication, divorce and lying. If Davis wants to be consistent she would refuse a marriage license for anyone who has sinned, which would limit the number of applications to zero since "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

Davis had four options: Issue the license, have someone else issue it, resign, or go to jail. She chose to go to jail, which, unlike Rosa Parks to whom she is being compared, makes her look more like a religious fanatic than a martyr. Removal of her name from the marriage licenses would be a good compromise.

Uncompromising evangelicals should not expect more from a kingdom they regard as heading in another direction.

Reach Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/09/09/4027949_cal-thomas-kim-daviss-flawed-martyrdom.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

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Lying Hillary Clinton Apologises For Trying To Out "Nixon" Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon!


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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Rowan Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis


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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Donald Trump! LOL.




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Monday, September 07, 2015

Special Labor Day 'Toon: Happy Labor Day.


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The REAL #GOP'S Anchor Baby?!


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Friday, September 04, 2015

Donald Trump Signs #GOP Loyalty Pledge!


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News: Barack Obama Has Enough Senate Votes To Make Iran Nuclear Deal Law.


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Thursday, September 03, 2015

How Liberals See Kentucky's Gay Marriage Squabbles!


Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Is The Catholic Church A Cult?!

Catholis, hear this: your #pope CANNOT forgive sins, ONLY God can. wake up sheepish #catholics. QUIT deceiving yourselves. and, QUIT shedding blood of INNOCENT unborn babies!! hell is for REAL, and neither your #popefrancis nor any other pope or priest will be able to save you from it, if you keep murdering babies!!! sheeesh.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/pope-francis-allow-absolution-abortion-155149794.html

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#Denali Or Denial? Spells The Same!


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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

The REAL Liberal Truth!


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