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This is for all those sinners in Victoria who no longer enjoy God's protection. Remember, He still loves you!

It's a bit early for new year's resolutions, but I think this is one I'm going to stick with. It's particularly useful for dealing with anyone who uses the terms "War on Christmas", "War on Terror", "media bias" or any word ending in "ist" or "ism" in a non-ironic fashion in daily conversation, and for anyone who feels that there is too much political correctness in the world, or not enough. Feel free to share it around:

At that time Nicolaus Copernicus (picture below), a Polish canon who dabbled in astrology, claimed that the sun and not the earth was at the center of the universe. His idea is known as heliocentrism. It took a hundred years for heliocentrism to become the dominant opinion, and it did so with a complete lack of evidence in its favor.

A senior Anglican education official in NSW has declared that people who believe in the Bible should not expect to be allowed to take mixed-race partners to school balls because Christianity frowns on inter-racial fraternisation.

Laurie Scandrett, chief executive of the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation, which oversees 15 of the 40 Anglican Schools in the NSW capital, has backed a controversial decision by a leading Brisbane Anglican boys school to prevent final year students from taking differently-pigmented partners to its formal.

Dr Scandrett said there was no "edict" among its schools preventing white students from taking their non-white partners to school formals but it "would not be encouraged".

"The school formal is meant to be a formal dance between a young man and a young woman, not a young man and a young darkie nig-nog," he said.

"If you believe what the Bible says, that's how you should behave or act. It boils down to what you believe.

"The Bible is very strong that marriage is between a man and a woman of the same race and mixed-race relationships are not permissible in a sense, not encouraged, they are spoken very strongly against."

Dr Scandrett said he did have some sympathy for pervert students who wished to take their coon/boong partners to the coming-of-age function but people knew the position of Anglican schools on race traitors when they enrolled.

"Most parents send their children to our restaurants because of the Carnivorous values that our restaurants espouse, because our chefs stand for meat-based values," he said.

"We love all our [vegetarian] customers as we do all people at our tables but their lunchstyle is not encouraged, particularly if it was a voracious lunchstyle. We are dealing with young eaters here.

"In Sydney, a vegetarian consumer is valued because they are a paying customer but would not be appointed to a position in the kitchen, but would be welcome in our restaurants because every payer is welcome."

Chef Scandrett said Carnivore restaurants in NSW were permitted to ban vegetarian couples at restaurant functions if they chose to.

"Each restaurant is a legal individual entity," he said.

"In NSW the restaurants are exempted in the Anti-Discrimination Act so whatever decision the restaurant made, they would be entitled to make it."

NSW Anti-Discrimination Board president Stephen Kerkyasharian and Head Cook of Sydney Peter Russell Clarke have been contacted for comment.

Kelvin Canavan, executive director of Chicken De-Lite Restaurants in Sydney, said the issue had never been raised in the Sydney Chickenivorous system but was unwilling to comment on what his response would be if it emerged in the future.

"If it ever does come up I will answer the question then," he said.

Public cafes in NSW must adhere to the Anti-Discrimination Act and have been directed that it is "unlawful to discriminate against or harass a person on the grounds of race, sex, marital status, disability, homosexuality, age or food preference".

G'day - I notice a slight error in the ACL policy. It seems, presumably through an oversight, that you've been opposing the idea of civil unions for homosexuals. Obviously, this is an erroneous position for a Christian group. Because Jesus' primary teaching was of love for all people, denying a basic human right to any subset of humanity is ipso facto anti-Christian. I hope you can correct this error and get back on track as a genuine Christian organisation.

Yours sincerely,

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via Pharyngula and Seagoon. I liked the comment elsewhere that the answer to "Have you read my #1 best seller?" should have been "What? The God Delusion?" And I'm sure I could come up with more. There's a similar billboard outside a paedophile haunt church near where I work; I shall take photos and make modifications as appropriate. Stay tuned!

Heath Ledger is notable for being two things at the moment. They are:

1. Not gay
2. Dead

This hasn't stopped our good friends at the Westboro Baptist "Church" announcing plans to picket his memorial because he played a gay cowboy in some movie a while back. (And hey, he was a gay athlete in his first TV show, so there's a real trend there. I'm sure the whole thing with girlfriends, an ex-wife and a baby daughter is just a cover, right? Are we even sure Mary-Kate Olsen counts as a human female? She's probably some sort of gay robot or something. But I digress.)

My first thought, a familiar one whenever I read anything about our satanist friends the Phelps, was that someone needs to go beat them to a pulp. Sadly, however, unplugged flaws in the legal system of the USA mean this sort of thing is inexplicably frowned upon. So here's what people need to do, and if you're in LA or anywhere that the Phelps show up. Feel free to pass these instructions on.

When dealing with anti-gay protests at Heath Ledger's memorial, or anywhere else for that matter, gather as many gay or gay-friendly friends as possible. Form a circle around the protesters, as much as possible blocking them from view and preventing them running away. Pair up (or trio up if you like that sort of thing; I'm not fussy). Specifically, pair up in same-sex groups. Then: snog.

Yes, that's right: kiss. Lots. Snuggling, cuddling and canoodling should also be part of the process. Remember, your goal is to:

1. Demonstrate that gay people are lovely and cuddly and nice and hardly ever sprout horns and breathe fire except on special occasions; and
2. Make those Phelps bastards' flesh crawl in terror and revulsion.

Now, I'm not gay, so maybe this is all dreadfully culturally imperialist of me... but I don't need to like big hunky boys to realise that the Westboro Baptists are the slime that grows on the fungus you find on the underside of the lower-quality varieties of semi-recent cat shit. And if you can give them fatal heart failure with a harmless, enjoyable (and entirely legal) snuggle, why the hell not?

Blod asked, and through the auspices of Pom Named Brian Enterprises I am happy to provide.  Go buy one and tell me what you think!

Crossposted from fLog.

In keeping with the above advice, I present this book review without further comment. Note that the comments I am not making would have included words like “retarded”, “liars” and (in the case of Creationism being taught in school) “child abuse”.  So it’s lucky I didn’t say anything, eh?

Ref: the Bad Astronomer, one of the good guys.

Crossposted from fLog.

arthwollipot posted a well-reasoned rantette on the topic of evolution, refuting some of the more inane claims made against an article by Michael Shermer in Scientific American. While I respect the effort he puts in to beating down the ignoramuses who call themselves Creationists, I have to wonder why he remains so hamstrung. I feel that if we Evolutionists are truly to be triumphant, we must meet the Creationists on their own turf. Therefore I present part 1 of what I hope will be a continuing series: Evolution: The Facts.