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As the Right Turns
This week we have an abbreviated and belated version of As the Right Turns.
President Obama has appointed the first woman to head the perennially scandal plagued U.S. Air Force Academy. Perhaps Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson can lead the Academy out of the era of anti-democratic religious supremacism and bigotry. The latest such unfortunate episode involves the Academy's promotion of a homophobic web site, JewFAQ, operated by an Orthodox Jewish layman. The site declares among other things, that "The sin of sexual relations between men is punishable by death (Lev. 20:13), as are the sins of adultery and incest." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has demanded that the Academy remove the link. MRFF wrote: Additionally, it includes a speciously hideous comparison of the originating cause of homosexuality to that of kleptomania. This disgrace is an open slap in the face to all lesbian, gay, and bisexual USAFA cadets, faculty, and staff. Additionally, the website contains the absurd and perverse notion that males who masturbate should have their hands chopped off."
Additionally, the website states that women's social status under Judaism is that they are "separate but equal," a statement that typically stipulates the polar opposite of any modern, democratic conception of "equality." |
As the Right Turns | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)
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