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The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to release its decision on Sebelius vs. Hobby Lobby, the challenge to Obamacare's mandate that employers providing health insurance to employees cover birth control. Hobby Lobby argues that having to provide this coveragewhich includes birth control methods they consider to be abortifacients (because they have such a good grasp of medical science)is a violation of their religious freedom. If Hobby Lobby is to prevail in this suit, the court will have endorsed a very scary version of religious freedom that, in essence, is about freedom of religion for fundamentalist Christians to impose their beliefs on the rest of the nation.
That's certainly what the Greens, the family behind Hobby Lobby, hope to achieve with the millions they've made with the hobby and crafts chain of stores. Along with a bunch of projects, including an $800 million museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the Bible, they hope to rewrite the nation's public school curriculum.
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Most provocatively, theyve funded a multimillion-dollar effort to write a Bible curriculum they hope to place in public schools nationwide. It will debut next fall as an elective in Mustang High School, a few miles from Hobby Lobbys Oklahoma City headquarters.
A draft of the textbook for the first of four planned yearlong courses presents Adam and Eve as historical figures and introduces God as faithful and good, gracious and compassionate and an ever-present help in times of trouble. A list of curses for disobeying the Lord warns of defeat, fever, and disaster and panic in everything you do. [
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Our goal
[is to] reintroduce this book to the nation, Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, said last spring before the National Bible Association. This nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught. We need to know it. And if we dont know it, our future is going to be very scary.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Do you have a blog?
doxydad
(1,363 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)side with terrorists and corrupt corporations...
Our SC is a joke
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Indeed, we need to make sure every American knows that God thinks it's OK to murder children for making fun of a bald man's lack of hair.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)This week, DU says that to criticize theocratic bigots and anti choice loons is 'hating religion' or 'hating Methodists' or 'hating all people who profess a faith'.
So being critical of right wing religion is no longer acceptable on DU. It's called 'hate' by straight folks. Same straight folks who excuse the open homophobia of the Pope and defend Hillary's years of opposing basic rights for gay on the basis of the deep 'faith'. It's ok for religious people to despise gays and take up actions against us, but if we criticize their attacks that's called 'hate'.
Initech
(100,063 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)If memory serves, nearly everyone in Congress, and the President, swore their oath of office on that book!
treestar
(82,383 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)tanyev
(42,550 posts)Let's have every high school in the country have a course that critically examines the Bible. Let's learn that the books of the Bible were written decades, even hundreds of years after the events they relate. Let's learn why so many of the books could not have been written by the people who are believed to have written them. Let's learn about all the places where the Bible simply does not match up with historical fact. Let's do it.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
THAT'S what GOD taught.
asshat.