Banning SI Swimsuit issues: Is government-sanctioned art next?

The president of Michigan's American Decency Association is encouraging Christians not to stand by while disguised pornography gets a foothold through local checkout stands. (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/32005h.asp)

I dunno, maybe even these are too raunchy for those so righteous.

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=556

for US citizenship soon.

... OBL can run for president. The fundies will finally have a true blood-brother to support. :crazy:

Oh the IRONY that would be! LOL!!!

My guess is that the "ban" will consist of those good churchgoing men buying the issue from a news stand outside their neighborhood and keeping it in the garage instead of on the coffee table.

In other words, this one aint gonna get far.

.Religious groups participating in federal job-training programs could hire employees based on their religious beliefs under a jobs bill that passed the House on Wednesday (March 2). The vote to extend and rewrite the 1998 Workforce Investment Act came a day after President Bush chided Congress for failing to pass his faith-based initiatives. Under current law, religious organizations that participate in federal job-training programs cannot discriminate in hiring or firing for taxpayer-funded jobs. The House bill would remove that prohibition, meaning that a faith-based group could limit such employment to fellow believers. Supporters of the clause stress that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects the rights of religious organizations to take religion into account in their hiring practices. The bill's prospects in the Senate are uncertain.

...Congressman Walter Jones has reintroduced legislation that would let clergy endorse candidates from the pulpit without jeopardizing their churches' tax-exempt status. It is his fourth attempt to win passage of the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act. At a Capitol Hill news conference with clergy and fellow Republicans from the House and Senate, Jones said, "This will happen in God's time and I believe the time has come." Several ministers said they should not have to worry that the IRS is reviewing their sermons. Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, who heads the Interfaith Alliance, responded that preachers already can say anything they want as long as they are willing to forfeit their tax-exempt status. But supporters of Jones' bill -- HR 235 -- say that effectively muzzles ministers who they say should be able to offer guidance to their flocks without fear of government reprisal.
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