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Post by daneaux on Apr 3, 2018 8:34:16 GMT -6
It's not. Yours is just big.
But your perfect hair makes up for it. Does it take you long to get it right?
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Post by x on Apr 4, 2018 21:25:28 GMT -6
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Post by okie on Apr 5, 2018 7:49:18 GMT -6
Most funding for schools comes from individual states and most states have, what is referred to as a Blaine Ammendment that exclusively addresses barring state funds from being used for religious schools, activities, or institutions.
38 states have some form of a Blaine Amendment attached to their constitution. In OK, it states:
"No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such."
It is ironic that the same people that tout the preeminence of state rights over the big bad federal government are clamoring for federal intervention in this instance.
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Post by daneaux on Apr 5, 2018 10:05:44 GMT -6
Our state constitution banned marriage in 2006 and still does.
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Post by okie on Apr 5, 2018 10:22:00 GMT -6
Our state constitution banned marriage in 2006 and still does. The OK Supreme Court used the Blaine Ammendment to have a Ten Commandments monument removed from the state capital grounds a couple of years ago. Man, you talk about a bunch of pissed off hillbillies. |
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Post by daneaux on Apr 5, 2018 12:19:36 GMT -6
I'll bet it was funny.
We haven't even admitted that the invaders from the north actually won the War of Norther Aggression. We ain't about to let fags marry.
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Post by okie on Apr 5, 2018 15:27:28 GMT -6
If it wasn't for the OKSC we would be right there. If it were not for the OKSC I would be banned. The legislature got an SQ 790 on the ballot to repeal the Blaine Amendment in the Constitution. It was actually voted down by the people. I wrote an op-ed that was published in the Tulsa World and picked up by The Daily Oklahoman and several other online and local news sources. I showed that the removal of the Blaine Amendment was just an attempt by the OK legislature to privatize education and it had nothing to do with the Ten Commandments monument. I became a leader in this effort which ultimately cpst me my job at the time, but I cannot prove that. www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/readersforum/bryan-france-oklahoma-s-education-crisis-and-the-ten-commandments/article_ae5224a5-8faf-540a-834b-85a77523c4ab.html |
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Post by x on Apr 5, 2018 16:08:56 GMT -6
Dang it. If we would have known about that article, the dooshies would have made the comment section ever doosh-tastic-er.
P.S. Your pic. It looks like have the bubble guts and are gonna shart yourself.
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Post by okie on Apr 5, 2018 16:39:47 GMT -6
I have had many a wonderful comment regarding that photo.
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Post by daneaux on Apr 6, 2018 8:23:27 GMT -6
Well done Okie.
I have also lead a recent successful public uprising of sorts in fighting an oil company that is known to be very aggressive in building a huge gas station and gas storage facility that would have trapped my neighborhood and caused huge traffic problems.
It was a rewarding challenge.
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Post by okie on Apr 25, 2018 19:48:11 GMT -6
Sam Harris is not allowed here.
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 23, 2018 23:17:23 GMT -6
You cannot get from Atheism to any other position without adding something else into it. Explain how that is a system.
"Take a jar full of gumballs. A theist says the number of gumballs in the jar is even. An atheist says, I don't believe that. This does not say the atheist believes that the number of gumballs is odd. It is saying I do not believe your claim is true."
-- Matt Dilahuntty
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 23, 2018 23:20:38 GMT -6
Knowledge is a subset of belief.
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Post by okie on May 24, 2018 6:35:48 GMT -6
"You cannot get from Atheism to any other position without adding something else into it. Explain how that is a system."
You cannot get from holocaust deniers to any other position without adding something to it. Regardless it is a system of belief.
Atheism is a system of belief because it CONCLUDES there is no God. Is atheism the true religion? I don't know.
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Post by okie on May 24, 2018 6:42:59 GMT -6
Knowledge is a subset of belief. Then "I don't know" (the wombat) is the true non religion, not the atheistic "there is no God". Atheism assumes truths not proven (faith). |
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