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There is a great new organization set up to support non-theistic candidates for public office.  If you are a non-theist and need assistance running for a political office, consider contacting EnlightenTheVote.com

I hope to see them promoting non-theist candidates on their site and helping the growing majority of non theists in America have a prominent political voice.  Atheists are now at 15% of the total American population, more than Jews, Gays, and many other much smaller total populations with large voices in American politics.  Stay informed and sign up for their email alerts.

I always hesitate to post such non-information as this because it just threatens to draw attention to something that deserves none.  However, I broke down this time to show you a couple screen shots of the Conservapedia page on Charles Darwin.

The founder of Conservapedia appeared on The Colbert Show last week.  Colbert played along and helped Andy Schlafty make a fool of himself as he tried to answer how information was filtered on the site.

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Conservapedia’s page on Charles Darwin reads like a 7th grade book report. The information lacking, opinionated and simplistic.  The only informational topics on Darwin is “Biography”, 4+ pages of “Religion” and a bunch of opinionated titles like “Darwin’s Racism” and “Darwin’s Belief in Male Superiority”.  Nothing about his life’s work or topic headings on Evolution, the Voyage of the Beagle, or Science related studies.  It would be like writing an Encyclopedia page on George Washington without mentioning the Revolutionary War, his presidency or Mt Vernon and instead writing only on how he owned slaves and had children by them.

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I seriously hope “conservatives” are not degrading themselves to relying on poor resources with political and religious agendas paraded front and center.

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From The Rachel Maddow Show:

What does Former President Bush, “abstinence only” aids relief programs, US senators, “The Family” Catholic Mob, your tax dollars, and gay linchings have in common? Apparently quite a lot…

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Remember how worked up Glenn Beck and the Fox News network stars like Bill O’Reilly were when the tapes of ACORN workers giving prostitution advice on hidden camera came out?  And recall how angry O’Reilly gets when he interviews atheist spokesman Richard Dawkins, furious that a person could be so against organized religion.  Then we have Mormon follower Glenn Beck who advocates a religious fanaticism towards “God and Country”.

These guys love juicy stories with dirt and a cover up story.  Well, here’s one that seems to have slipped under their selective hearing.  The Catholic Church is a mulit million dollar supporter of ACORN.

“While Obama has strong ties to ACORN, they were originally established through the U.S. Catholic Church, which has also funded ACORN and similar organizations to the tune of millions of dollars. This is another taboo topic for most of the media.  Even conservative news organizations are afraid of raising the issue, apparently fearing being tagged with the “anti-Catholic” label.”  From AIM

From the mouth of Fox News: “We are not news, we are opinion”

Republicans hate fish?

This is classic! Republicans taking one small part of the big picture and blowing it out of proportion to push an agenda.

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Self proclaimed “family values man” Mike Duvall resigned today after in house audio recordings picked up his conversation with a college where he described spanking and having sex with two married women (neither of whom are married to HIM). Duvall was bragging about “getting into spanking her” and talked about his two mistresses under his breath without knowledge that his conversation was being picked up by in house recording. Hypocrisy at it’s finest. Way to go Mike Duvall, aka “Sir spanks-a-lot”

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