Idaho Republican Wants to Waste Tax Dollars on "Disinfecting Cubes"
When will the Lt. Gov. accept that they don't work?
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COVID has won a major victory in the Supreme Court. The conservative bloc ruled 5-4 that New York’s COVID restriction limiting attendance at places of worship were unconstitutional. Even the chief justice who sided with the liberals only did so not on the merits, but rather because the case was moot.
(Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s own White House nomination ceremony was a super-spreader event, so her decisive vote to allow the virus to flourish was just par for the course. )You can hear all about the disastrous SCOTUS decision and more in the latest episode of the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
Congratulations to the Cognitive Dissonance team for raising over $125,000 for Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who are campaigning to win Senate seats in Georgia runoff elections this January — and hopefully put the Senate in Democratic control.
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Atheists helping a reverend win a race because what unites us is greater than what divides us. You love to see it. You can still chip in here.Earlier this year, Anthony Weimer used his truck to tear down a Ten Commandments monument that was near a courthouse in Kalispell, Montana. Now that he’s had his day in court, we’ve learned of his motivation for the vandalism.
“It represents law and to me it’s hidden,” he said. “I also believe the government placing the Ten Commandments on its property is offensive to God.”
As we’ve said before, criticize those monuments all you want. File lawsuits when necessary. Vandalism doesn’t help the cause; if anything, it allows conservative Christians to claim persecution. Weimer was charged with felony criminal mischief.
No further comment needed:
Wait until you hear about Jesus.I was raised Catholic and 96% of the Catholics I know can’t stand the Pope. He despises individual freedom. He’s a socialist who believes in doing things for the "greater good" (who decides that?). His stance against freedom means he hates the foundational value of America. https://t.co/86Y6ocIGRMRobby Starbuck @robbystarbuckWhy isn’t the right to die with dignity a “pro-life” position? Paul Lamb, who was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash in 1990, has been challenging UK law so that doctors who help him end life on his own terms aren’t prosecuted for it, but to no avail.
Idaho’s Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin — you’ll remember her as the woman who drives around in a flag-draped van holding a bible and gun — wants to spend some of the state’s CARES Act funding on “walk-through disinfecting cubes.” It’s nice to hear some acknowledgment from McGeachin that the virus is real and something should be done— however, there’s no science behind her plan.
Such technology has been widely discredited. According to the National Institutes of Health, a June study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene found “walk-through sanitation gates” ineffective and potentially dangerous, noting that the practice violates World Health Organization standards. “Fumigation is meant for inanimate objects and surfaces, and it should never be used on people,” the study said.
What’s next? Injecting bleach?
You didn’t think we were going to end the newsletter without sharing a video that would make the skin crawl off your body, did you?
That video is from preacher Sid Roth, who gave a rather pathetic defense of “prophecies” that Trump would win the election. Apparently prophecies are always true, even when they’re not, and if they’re not, it doesn’t even matter.
That sound you hear is a goalpost moving.