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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:05 PM
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Okla fundies erect 10 commandment monument on court house lawn
Stigler, OK. On local news, probably on website http://www.kotv.com
fuckin' fuckwads.
:grr:
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:07 PM
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1. But we NEED that!
:eyes:
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juliagoolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:08 PM
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2. Someone really needs to put a
budda on the Lawn
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:13 PM
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8. Hey great Idea
How about a nice big Star of David, a neon sign bilboard of verses from the Koran and maybe some wiccans can get to gether and draw up a pentagram.

They want religion, damn, we'll give them Religion.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:56 PM
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29. You are a GENIUS!
That is absolutely what we need to do.

Another thing I have been doing is asking the very religious a LOT of questions. Like I am REALLY interested. It is SO funny to see them squirm, but there is nothing they can say because our president raised the issue for EVERYBODY. Be VERY curious and be VERY helpful (ie, "yeah, and we can add all these other displays to represnet ALL of the other religions in this GREAT country of ours!)

This is gonna be more fun than I thought!
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eataTREE Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:08 PM
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3. Sigh.
More and more I think that dissolution of the Union is the only way out of this mess.

Screw 'em. Let them have their theocracy. All I ask is that I don't have to play.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:13 PM
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Yeah, a bloody civil war is just what we need.
Nothing like quitting when the stakes are high
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:55 PM
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28. Easier said than done. They can play fundie circle jerk on their own dime
But when they use public property and the state apparatus to promote their dogmatic mythology, big problem!
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:08 PM
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4. hey, do they say
thou shalt not be a homosexual, or thou shalt not have an abortion?

Didn't think so.


Let's all follow Teresa Heinz Kerry's lead and tell them to shove it!
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:09 PM
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5. Tomorrow they build a gallows for lynching Liberals
They'll make sure America is "cleansed" for Jesus' return after their Godly appointed President helps usher in the Rapture.

These people are clinically and legally insane.
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fknobbit Donating Member (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:31 PM
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18. Stocks
For missing Sunday schools, wood piles for auto-da-fe's to curtail blasphemous behavior, endless possibilities. Even without asscrack's help the fundie idiots and Bush can change America into a serfdom before 2008.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:10 PM
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6. Are They Passing the Collection Plate Yet?
Geeeeeezzzzzz! Sometimes I'm embarassed to live here.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:13 PM
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9. I've been embarrassed for years. (Wagoner area)
And now we've the snotty bastard Coburn as our new senator...how do I know he's a snotty bastard?...'cause I flew him all over the country for years since he was a snotty teenager in the 70s. :grr:
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:28 PM
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26. If I am Not Mistaken
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 07:29 PM by wow
He is part of the Muskogee family that owned Coburn Optical. Family patriarch O.W. Coburn once gave Oral Roberts $10 million for the purpose of starting a law school.

I've no doubt he is a snotty bastard. He's also a confirmed kook - a real rightwing nutjob.

On edit: Oral Roberts gave that law school to Pat Robertson a few years later and it was packed up and shipped off to Virginia Beach where it now operates as Regent University school of law.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:11 PM
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7. Did they add a pile of stones?
They are going back to stoning malefactors, right?
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:13 PM
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10. Bill of Rights
Can we not take up a collection to get a Bill of Rights put up next to every single one of these Ten Commandments monuments? That's the issue, the Constitution or the Bible. Which will it be.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:15 PM
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11. Is there any religion that worships naked women? or man sex?
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:03 PM
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25. I worship naked women.
If you can find a religion that does so too, let me know. :)
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:15 PM
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12. Money quote:
Haskell County Commissioner Henry Few: "It's been pounded in people's heads so long that a lot of people believe there is a difference between church and state, but I don't believe there is".

Mr. Few, you can believe whatever you want, but, to paraphrase, you are not allowed your own facts. The fact of the matter is that this nation was founded, in part, by people who fled a nation with a government-established church. Do you enjoy spitting in the eye of the Founders?
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juslikagrzly Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:17 PM
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13. Ah hell,
here we go again. Someone beam me up from Oklahoma. Pleeeeaaassseee!!!!!!!
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:20 PM
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14. Just when you think the Southern Hillbillies have
evolved to the intelligence of a squirrel, they pull something like this. Tsk..Tsk..
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juliagoolia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:20 PM
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15. Are there any local activists that will get other
and I mean MANY OTHER religious monuments on the lawn?
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:22 PM
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16. Oh well, it's only Oklahoma.
As long as they keep this kind of nuttery confined to states that are already lost causes, I'm not going to get any more worked up than seeing state prayers in Saudi-occupied Arabia.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:25 PM
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17. Be sure to introduce your dog to the monument.
One watering should be enough to attract many other dogs.
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:33 PM
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19. Great - my birth state is doing me proud again.
I don't even want to go read the news article. I'll bet you $20 that my fundie family is involved somehow.
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:36 PM
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20. Why wasn't someone there
with a loudspeaker seemingly coming out of the clouds, saying in God's commanding, booming voice, "Have I not commanded you not to bow down before graven images?" I would have paid to see that.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:41 PM
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21. "Thou shalt not walk under ladders"...
"Thou shalt not step on a crack"...

Any OK DU-ers want to erect a monument with these and other similiar "commandments"? There is NO difference.
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:02 PM
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24. Are there even DUers in a fundie state like OK?
Just kidding! There are always a few brave rebels. :)
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:48 PM
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27. I don't know about rank-and-file DUers, but...
I do believe that Bartcop hails from Tulsa (or, as he's referred to it, "K-Drag"). :-)
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:43 PM
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22. they're feelin' giddy! theocracy on the way. they will over-reach.
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:46 PM
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23. This country is so fukt.
eom
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:59 PM
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30. Here's a link to the story. The ACLU better be on this shit and in a big
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 08:01 PM by jefferson_dem
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=72118

If Judge Whore-More can be smacked down in Alabama, these chumps will too. When and by how much will depend chiefly on how aggressively the state and local authorities want to enforce the law.
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