TenuredVulture wrote:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/ted-cruz-sacrificed-rock-music-after-911.html

What a dork. I mean, either he's an even huger phony than most politicians, or he's a bigger ass than I thought.

People who knew him recall Cruzasking them about their IQ and refusing to study in grad school with anybody who didn’t attend Harvard, Yale, or Princeton

TenuredVulture wrote:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/ted-cruz-sacrificed-rock-music-after-911.html

What a dork. I mean, either he's an even huger phony than most politicians, or he's a bigger ass than I thought.

TenuredVulture wrote:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/ted-cruz-sacrificed-rock-music-after-911.html

What a dork. I mean, either he's an even huger phony than most politicians, or he's a bigger ass than I thought.

jerseyhoya wrote:Congresswoman Demonstrates Worst Parking Job Ever - Not exactly making the case for full voting rights in Congress for DC

I'm without words

Soren wrote:So, a legal challenge to this or similar laws could force the SCOTUS to rule on what constitutes a legitimate religious belief right?

Either way I hate it. It's very transparently about discrimination.

Bob Jones University excluded African Americans completely until the early 1970s, when it began permitting black students to attend so long as they were married. In 1975, it amended this policy to permit unmarried African American students, but it continued to prohibit interracial dating, interracial marriage, or even being “affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage.” As a result, the Internal Revenue Service revoked Bob Jones’ tax-exempt status.

This decision, that the IRS would no longer give tax subsidies to racist schools even if they claimed that their racism was rooted in religious beliefs, quickly became a rallying point for the Christian Right. Indeed, according to Paul Weyrich, the seminal conservative activist who coined the term “moral majority,” the IRS’ move against schools like Bob Jones was the single most important issue driving the birth of modern day religious conservatism. According to Weyrich, “[i]t was not the school-prayer issue, and it was not the abortion issue,” that caused this “movement to surface.” Rather it was what Weyrich labeled the “federal government’s move against the Christian schools.”

When Bob Jones’ case reached the Supreme Court, the school argued that IRS’ regulations denying tax exemptions to racist institutions “cannot constitutionally be applied to schools that engage in racial discrimination on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs.” But the justices did not bite. In an 8-1 decision by conservative Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Court explained that “[o]n occasion this Court has found certain governmental interests so compelling as to allow even regulations prohibiting religiously based conduct.” Prohibiting race discrimination is one of these interests.

pacino wrote:LOL that the Christian Right(tm) used to rally around not allowing interracial dating and now they've moved onto gay and trans people. who will be next?

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:and Pence signs the bill to allow businesses discriminate against gays into law

The Republicans are really painting themselves into a corner with this shit