More "thou shalt nots" from religious fanatics

From Findlay, Ohio,

A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.

According to the school handbook, rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds.”

Does the public really need more facts?

Facts.

That's what Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Jamie Spencer thinks he needs in order to be able to express an opinion on what Texas is doing in Eldorado, Texas.

Why? There's one fact that we all know. The State of Texas seized almost 500 children, so many that they couldn't even get an accurate count for the first week or so they had them in custody, and they had no facts to justify the seizure.

They seized the children, and some of the mother's to try make it easy to gather some facts that might justify the seizure.

That's the one fact that we actually know.

What more do we need to know?

Personally, I think it's clearly child abuse to allow your children to be in the same room as a Catholic Priest. But I don't see the state of Texas declaring any Catholic parents unfit and seizing their children to be raised by Pentecostals.

Protecting the Church

The primary mission of the Catholic Church seems to be to protect the Catholic Church. How any decent person can associate themselves with such slime is just beyond my ability to understand.

"More than anything else, they are fixated on avoiding depositions and courtroom testimony where they'll be treated like regular citizens instead of royalty, and where they'll have to explain decades of secrecy and recklessness and corruption,"

Leaving Italy

A group flying on a Brtish Airways flight from Italy to Qatur caused a commotion on the runway because they didn't like the assigned seats. They caused an over 2 hour delay before they got booted off.

Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know.

The dispute - in which the three princesses from the ultra-conservative Qatar royal family demanded segregated seating - left the London-bound plane delayed on a baking Italian runway for nearly three hours.

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The women, all relatives of the oil-rich emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thani, were booked into business class in a party of eight which included the emir and an entourage of cooks, servants and other staff.

After passengers had fastened their seat-belts and the plane had taxied on to the runway, two male passengers in the entourage got up to protest about where the women were sitting.

It's somewhat reminiscent of the "I can't ring that up" story from a Target store. But not exactly.

The story is very different in that the women didn't complain, some male muslim
nutcase (who probably could have just switched seats with her) complained.

The interpersonal dynamics going on in this story makes this story actually
interesting. Those muslim nutcases remind me so much of rednecks "defending their womenfolks".