Friday, November 22, 2013

Dynamics of U.S. Senate race take shape in Mississippi

by Bobby Harrison
JACKSON
"In recent years, Republicans’ efforts to take over the United States Senate have been thwarted at least in part by the ultra-conservative wing of the party – i.e., the Tea Party.
In Nevada, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Alaska, to name a few, the Republicans have lost what at one time were considered likely victories by nominating candidates the general election voters viewed as too conservative, out of the mainstream.
PPP, a national polling firm that is viewed as having allegiances to the Democratic Party, recently polled the 2014 Senate race here in Mississippi.
The poll revealed that in Mississippi – viewed as a safe Republican seat in national and most state elections – at this point in time a Democratic candidate would be competitive with state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, who is the only candidate yet to announce he is seeking the seat in 2014.
McDaniel, who can be seen statewide in television commercials being paid for by national Tea Party-related political action committees, leads by slight margins two big-name Democrats – former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers of Booneville. He trails by a slight margin current Attorney General Jim Hood – Mississippi’s only statewide elected Democrat.
In all three instances, the races are statistically dead heats, meaning the results are within the poll’s margin of error.
It would be interesting to see how Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley would have fared in the poll.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a possible candidate for the Senate seat, polls better than McDaniel against the three Democrats – though there is only a one-point difference in a head-to-head with Hood.
PPP polled 502 Mississippi voters, “including an over sample of 422 Republican voters,” making the strong showing of the Democrats mentioned in the poll even more surprising.
Of course, the question is whether six-term incumbent Thad Cochran will run again. The veteran Republican has said he will announce a decision this month.
The poll indicates that Cochran is vulnerable. He leads McDaniel by only 6 percentage points and 55 percent say they would prefer a candidate more conservative.
At this point, the smart money might be on Cochran not running. Normally, if a politician plans to seek re-election, that person does not give any potential challenger an opening by wavering.
If Cochran does run, none of the aforementioned Democrats will enter the race, though, surprisingly, according to the poll, Hood would be competitive against the incumbent.
But still, regardless of the poll, it is difficult for daily observers of the Mississippi political scene to imagine a scenario where a Democrat could defeat Cochran in the general election.
If Cochran does not run, though, look for big-name Republicans and at least one Democrat to enter the race.
The PPP poll shows McDaniel, who has received a great deal of statewide attention since his announcement, with a slight lead in a crowded Republican field, which might include U.S. Reps. Greg Harper and Steven Palazzo, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Auditor Stacey Pickering and Hosemann.
Interestingly, Reeves polls at the bottom of the Republican field with only 3 percent support.
But the interesting proposition for state Democrats, who have been beaten up and are at a low ebb, is whether a candidate could emerge from the Republican primary that even by Mississippi standards might be viewed as too conservative.
That has happened in other states, costing Republicans a chance to garner a Republican Senate majority.
Many might argue that the general electorate is much more conservative in Mississippi, meaning that a candidate who is too conservative, say in Indiana, would not be in Mississippi.
Is that correct?
We might see next November."
Bobby Harrison is the Daily Journal’s Capitol Bureau chief. Contact him at (601) 353-3119 or bobby.harrison@journalinc.com.
Comments: Read more including an excerpt  from  the New York Times on Mississippi Senator Chris Mc Daniel's campaign to unseat incumbent Senator Thad Cochran here:



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

What Religious Liberty Is... and Isn't | Rev. Susan Russell

People Are Asking: What Is Religious Liberty That Has Some Folks, Tupeloans Included, All Upset?

The best answer I've come across to the question of Religious Liberty is offered up, rather well I think, by Rev. Susan Russell in her latest article link below:

What Religious Liberty Is... and Isn't | Rev. Susan Russell



Friday, November 1, 2013

Spotlighting The AFA "Dark Side" Of Tupelo MS An Otherwise All American City

Spotlighting A Revised Edition of The 'Dark Side' Of Tupelo, MS.....--Al Bratton, Tupelo, 11-28-13

Open letter to Tupelo Daily Journal Editor, Joe Rutherford:

Citizens of Tupelo and North Mississippi should be made aware of activities of  their Tupelo-based, Tim Wildmon managed, American Family Association.--Al Bratton

"The AFA is a notorious anti-gay hate group.": A link to SPLC outlining AFA's "Hate Group" designation.
"The problem with the claim [from the American Family Association] is that it just isn't true. Charisma News just took the AFA as a legitimate source, which it isn't. Religious fundamentalists believe AFA legitima[cy] simply because it tells them what they want to hear. Truth and accuracy has nothing to do with it."
 "The Religious Right assumes certain things true. Anything substantiating these beliefs is assumed accurate and reported as such -- no matter how flimsy or implausible."...--James Peron
Read the complete link below:
Anatomy of a Smear: The Religious Right vs. the American Psychiatric Association | James Peron




Thursday, October 24, 2013

California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source


My comment on Huffington Post that was moderated out:

"Any other American would do time for this scheme. When are the Krotch Brothers going to do their time in the slammer? When is the real justice going to start? It will be left up to the American People. I'm ready to do my part to see these crooks put where they belong like any other crook!"--ABratt

Read the HP article from the link below :             

California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source

Monday, October 21, 2013

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

*America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.

outlandish: If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats

ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/democrats-take-back-house_n_4133836.html

ni·hil·ism

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If it wasn’t for gerrymandering and strategic disenfranchising the Democrats would have the house now and the destructive economic vandalism that came from the tea caucus wouldn’t have happened.Democrats in the house vote in 2012 received around 1.5 million more votes yet Republicans lost a few seats but kept the house.Republicans had no honest mandate and the irony is that all the seats they lost in 2012 were held by Tea Party dormice, while in what should have been close races the Tea people spiraled out of contention by being so far over the top and so ignorant of facts that they flamed out and crashed to earth. 


Yet the Tea nihilists(1) who had even less of a mandate caused more economic and political destruction than imaginable. They are nothing but scorched earth destructionists that nearly threw America of a steep, undermined and crumbling cliff over the past month and their only regret is that they didn’t succeed and in the midst of pure unfettered nihilism the old guard Republicans only managed to prove how spineless and ineffectual they are. Republicanism unless it finally tries to enter the post civil rights era is an essay in diminishing returns. 


They’ve lost all of the ethnic voters and it was only 70 years ago that blacks voted in the majority for Republicans but  beat down after beat down, they fled the party of Lincoln as it morphed into first the party of the rebel south and more recently the party of the John Birch conspiracy central, non science believing fundamentalist, literalist bible party. Hispanic are gone after being vilified and the faux post outreach program devised and rolled out soon after the 2012 election proved to be nothing but smoke and mirrors, the mirrors were shattering as Reince Priebus was laying out their new direction. 


Forget about young voters, who are far less complacent about politics than previous generations and are pushing for change that is the antithesis of all things Republican, they [young voters and old voters] want a more diverse, more cultured, more inclusive, far fairer and more egalitarian America, none of which Republicans have to offer. The Generation X and Millennial voters are much further left than their parents and further left than the Democratic Party and I wouldn’t surprise me if the 2 party system morphs into the Democratic Party middle and a workers, social democratic Party on the left but right wing extremism will fade with the end of the me first, last and only generation that is the core of the Republican base.  *America is rejecting party politics based on strict religious dogma, politics of exclusion, politics of fabrication of facts and politics driven by who doesn’t deserve to be given a share of the pie which is all modern Republicanism is selling.

Read the complete article:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/democrats-take-back-house_n_4133836.html



Friday, October 18, 2013

Dedicated To AFA Dark Side Tupelo MS: Rick Scarborough, TParty Leader, Suggests Class Action Lawsuit Against Homosexuality

My favorite quote from the Web I dedicate to the American Family Association's "Dark Side" Of Tupelo, MS.:--ABratt
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Speak all you want Sir and use whatever tactics you feel are necessary, however, you will never stop the progress of freedom for all in this country. Slowly, little by little we are achieving that grand goal set forth by the Founding Fathers. Bit by bit we are becoming a nation of equality and equal opportunity for all Americans.  
Read the complete story from the link below:

Rick Scarborough, Tea Party Leader, Suggests Class Action Lawsuit Against Homosexuality

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'

Don & Tim Wildmon's American Family Association (and their Darling, Sandy Rios) Maintain A Very "Dark Side" In Tupelo, MS, An Otherwise Decent, All American City.

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'


A few of my favorite comments from the aricle:

"This woman calling herself a Christian is a fraud."


"I'm kind of glad that they openly say these sort of things at their conferences. By openly discussing their hatred and bigotry there is no mistaking by the rest of us what they are and what they represent. Anyone who attends this type of conference is tarred by the same brush."

"These speakers at this value summit are Frauds, these good loving Christians are showing what they really are HATERS"

Friday, October 11, 2013

6 absurd right-wing lies about food stamps - Salon.com

"Yet Republicans are picking on the poorest citizens, lying and smearing them as lazy druggies and blaming them for the high unemployment by saying that $133 a month is keeping them from bothering to look for a job. Why do we put up with this?"

Read more from the link below:

6 absurd right-wing lies about food stamps - Salon.com

Sunday, October 6, 2013

House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

... the House Republicans have every right to try to get their preferred policies enacted into law through the democratic process. They have tried to do this politically, electorally and judicially. They have failed at every turn. The have lost every time they have tried to repeal Obamacare through the legislative process. They have lost in the Supreme Court when they challenged the constitutionality of the law. They have failed politically with the electorate when they were soundly defeated in the 2012 election. Indeed, the only reason House Republicans can play this cruel and criminal game at all is because they gerrymandered congressional districts to enable them to control the House even though they were defeated by the Democrats in the national popular vote for Congress.--Geoffrey R. Stone 
Read the complete article below:

House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Globalizing Homophobia, Part 1: How The American Right Came to Embrace Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown | Right Wing Watch

ABratts Liberal Tupelo MS Blog:

AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer declared that Russian gay "propaganda ban"was exactly the public policy we (the American Family Association Family Values Association) had been advocating"...--aka against the constitutional/human rights of the GLBT American Community. And the Wildmon-Fischer operated AFA decries the fact that SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has placed them on their list of American hate organizations.-- Right Where They Belong --ABratt

Read the complete post here...  










http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism' | Right Wing Watch

Furthermore, the AFA has succeeded in obliterating the once outstanding reputation of a once- upon- a-time All American City: Tupelo, MS, my hometown. The organization was finally listed as a Hate Group by the SPLC, and still holds that title today.--ABratt

Read more here...
Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism'




















Irony Alert: The AFA Is The Epitome Of The 'Ugliness Of Christian Activism'

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Original Salon Post 8-15-12, Recent Blog Post 9-26-13

The author of this article appears to  equate the words "religious right" and "Tea Party" as synonymous or very nearly so, which, in fact, they are: The "Tupelo MS Tea Party" and the "American Family Association" are very close kin, so much so that I, a resident of Tupelo myself, have decided to include the two together as  being  a part of Tupelo MS's "Dark Side."--ABratt  
The Tea Party, which initially described itself as wholly concerned with debt, deficit, and federal overreach, gradually unmasked itself as being almost as theocratic as the activists from the religious right that Armey had denounced only a few years before. If anything, they were even slightly more disposed than the rest of the Republican Party to inject religious issues into the political realm. According to an academic study of the Tea Party, “[T]hey seek ‘deeply religious’ elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates.” The Tea Party faithful are not so much libertarian as authoritarian, the furthest thing from a “live free or die”Constitutionalist.

Read More:

GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

Will O stand by his word is yet to be determined.
Making a point melodramatically on Sunday, President Obama said, "We will not negotiate over whether or not America should keep its word and meet its obligations."
In reality, Congress and administrations have for decades—under both Republican and Democratic presidents—negotiated over or included spending and budget reforms as a part of debt-ceiling increases.
Read more:
Why Obama Can’t Pay a Debt-Ceiling Ransom -- Daily Intelligencer

Monday, September 23, 2013

Beck: Common Core Is Turning America Into A Police State | Right Wing Watch

I'm aware that the The Tupelo MS Daily Journal has been supportive of Common Core Educational Standards since its inception despite Glenn Beck's Dumb, Right-Wing Rant. But, of Course, the DJ is dedicated to improving education in public schools. Beck, from what I have seen, is totally lacking in the area of Public Education   --ABratt

Check the link below to read more:

Beck: Common Core Is Turning America Into A Police State | Right Wing Watch

Tupelo Mommies Don't Let Your Kiddies Grow Up To Be GOPTPers

Tupelo Mommies don't let your Kiddies grow up to be GOPTPers.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Spotlighting The Dark Side Of Tupelo MS An Otherwise All American City



  • "Mr. Mancno's comment seems to be right out the AFA's own playbook! It just sounds so like it, I'm inclined to believe the AFA wrote it themselves or had someone write it!"--ABratt
    Read more....

    AFA suspends boycott of The Home Depot

    Thursday, August 8, 2013

    Guinness: 'Cultures Where You Have A High View Of Homosexuality Have A Very Low View Of Women' | Right Wing Watch

    Sounds more like this person (Guinness) is alluding to The GOPERS (God's Obnoxious People) who certainly do have a very "Low View Of Women!"--ABratt

    Guinness: 'Cultures Where You Have A High View Of Homosexuality Have A Very Low View Of Women' | Right Wing Watch

    Spotlight On The AFA "Dark Side" Otherwise All American City: A Window Into Bryan Fischer's Worldview

    AFA's Bryan Fischer The Perfect Companion-In-Hate With "Ayatolla" Don Wildmon and his Son, Tim "Mullah" Wildmon Representing The "Dark Side" of Tupelo, MS, An Otherwise All American City!-ABratt

    A Window Into Bryan Fischer's Worldview | Right Wing Watch



    The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week


    The "No Atheists In a Fox Hole" mentality is part of this huge problem. It's a problem of religious fanaticism that has invaded the military. It's a slogan the Holier-Than-Thou membership are fond of because it makes them think they are marines that stand taller than the non-religious trooper who may, in truth, be the superior soldier. Crank in the observation that the religious marine is more likely to commit suicide and you have a real dilemma on your hands. Also, remember that Christianity is, in and of itself, a Sea Of Confusion, Put it all together and you have created a pending catastrophe, aka Suicide.--ABratt

    The U.S. military has a problem with atheists - The Week

    Thursday, July 25, 2013

    Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

    Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

    Eric, while you're at it, turn Gov. Perry feet up-head down, shake him real good, and check what falls out of his pockets. It might amaze the world what will come tumbling out!--ABratt






    Monday, July 15, 2013

    Rep. John Fleming: Obama Administration and Gay Rights Advocates Pushing Atheism, Socialism | Right Wing Watch

    To hear these Christian-Right Blowhards blow, you would think that Socialism in America was introduced the day President Obama was sworn into his first presidential term. Consequently, it's not at all difficult to understand why Jesus has apparently backed out on his return to rule the Earth. He just does not like what He sees when He looks down on it. Jesus Christ was also a Liberal. You know, He does not want to see the motions and hear the anti-Liberal rant of pseudo-Christian extremists.--ABratt    

    Rep. John Fleming: Obama Administration and Gay Rights Advocates Pushing Atheism, Socialism | Right Wing Watch

    Sunday, July 14, 2013

    REP. ALAN NUNNELEE: Obamacare concerns are coming true | Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

    REP. ALAN NUNNELEE: Obamacare concerns are coming true | Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

    It's evident to me from your post, Rep. Nonnelee, that the only ideas for Health Care For All Americans that you can come up with are combined into your three favorite words: "REPEAL OBAMA CARE." You and your ilk Don Wildmon, Tim Wildmon, Fundie Phil Bryant, your fellow-Republicans scattered around the Mississippi country side, etc. know those words because you are all part of Fundie Christian Politics headquartered on the "Dark Side" of Tupelo, MS an otherwise All American City.

    What, specifically, is your Health Care Plan, Mr. Nonnelee? Make it public to all your constituents in great detail. Explain how every feature of it will increase jobs, save money, reduce the deficit, well, just tell us how you will eliminate ever feature you are critical of in Obama Care. By the way,Alan, try to take time off from your personal War On Women's Reproductive Rights and get to work on your proposal to repeal and replace Obama Care.--ABratt

    Apes Created Men, Men Created Gods

    Apes Created Men, Men created Gods--ABratt

    "When you picture Neanderthals, you might imagine subhuman brutes grunting -- but new research suggests these ancient hominids might have been more articulatethan previously thought."

    Read more from HP link:

    Neanderthal Language & Speech Shared With Modern Humans A Million Years Ago, Researchers Say

    Saturday, July 13, 2013

    So This Is Christianity?

    So, This Is Christianity?

    Only In The Fundie South Where Ignorance Is Bliss, Intelligence Amiss.

    Point-Counterpoint Tupelo MS .Daily Journal Discussion Team– Ed Holliday, James Hull.

    Ed Holliday, July 13, 2013: 

    James, first let me say that the Shannon board has spoken and if anyone feels that their rights have been violated, then courts are available. [The Town Board of the Town of Shannon MS has, in the last couple of weeks, denied a prospective business owner a permit to manage a Gay Bar inside the Town Limits.]--ABratt
    James, now as to your point that traditional marriage in not threatened by same sex marriage I must say that you are dead wrong.  The entire debate about gay marriage should be about the children – children now and in the future.  Why would we give our children a different definition of marriage? In a country based on Judeo-Christian values, how is gay marriage affecting our children?
    First, we know longstanding institutions such as Catholic adoption services have been shut down in states where gay marriage is now legal because they refuse to place children into homes that contradict their beliefs. 

     Second, in states where gay marriage is legal, children are being taught in kindergarten that they can grow up to marry either a man or a woman. How will this affect the next generation? Preliminary statistics show that over 30 percent of children raised in a home with gay parents end up adopting the gay lifestyle, and, yet, in the general population only 2-3 percent of the population  practice the gay lifestyle.

     Are we experimenting with our children in a “Brave New World?” Will a continuing change in the definition of marriage lead to an imploding civilization such as ancient Greece and Rome?
    If our society says it is right to change the definition of marriage to include gay people, then how can we legally discriminate against the bisexuals? Shouldn’t they be given the right to marry a man and a woman? [LOL] And if it’s about marrying who you love why can’t people marry two or three or four or more different men and women? [LOL AGAIN]  Using these standards, how can we legally stop incestuous marriages? How about transgendered marriage rights?[LOL AGAIN & AGAIN].
    God is not mocked.  America is dying. Judgment comes on both the just and the unjust. The Bible tells us about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They refused to bow down and worship a false god in ancient Babylon. We need such men and women with a backbone today. [False Gods and Satan are both a part of the Fundie lifestyle!]--AB

    Read the complete post here...

    Thursday, July 11, 2013

    Robertson Cites Levitical Death Penalty for Gays, Warns the Land Will 'Vomit You Out'

    My message to all the normal people in the world: Pat Robertson is just an old Christian Fundie "blowhard" who lost his other "hard" years ago and has, until now, not found it He has to keep his following to manage his Christian 700 Club  Show and remain in the Evangelical Spotlight. His occasional rant also helps him to keep his Tax-Subsidized/Exempt status. Now, what is he good for you may ask? My answer is: Absolutely Nothing! 

    And, I say to Pat, "watch out with that Viagra. Some have reported that God increases its potency for his faithful men followers. Then, it's so effective that a hard(erection) may come on and then decide to stay with you a few extended days at a time. This could be extremely embarrassing for you, Pat.  If this happens pray to God in earnest and to your followers for the Viagra effects to diminish , pronto!"--ABratt   

    Read the complete post here...



    So This Is The Party Of Family Values And GOD'S Only People aka The GOP!

    North Carolina Becomes Ground Zero For GOP Cowardice And Contempt...

    Jonathan Weiler:
    For a clear sense of what the Republican Party has in store for the entire country, were it able to get its clutches on all the levers of power, North Carolina is becoming an increasingly illuminating place to look. With the election of the allegedly "moderate" Pat McCrory as governor last November, the Republican takeover of state government was complete. And in six short months, motivated by willful ignorance, spite and contempt, the party has cut a category-five hurricane swathe of destruction through the state, the damage from which could take years to undo. Tar Heel Republicans have, among other things, rejected Medicaid expansion,...

    Read the complete article from HP here...

    Wednesday, July 10, 2013

    Christian Fundamentalists to SCOTUS: We're the Real Victims

    Christian Fundamentalists to SCOTUS: We're the Real Victims | Fred Rich

    Beware fellow-Americans! Several of the Christian Fundamentalist's favorite talking points is that the US was created as a "Christian Nation" by the Founding Fathers. But it could be argued successfully that the opposite of that is true. If that's any consolation to those of us who are watchful of the Fundie Right in any case.  --AB  

    Andy Sanborn, New Hampshire State Senator, Compares Obamacare With San Francisco Plane Crash

    Andy Sanborn, New Hampshire State Senator, Compares Obamacare With San Francisco Plane Crash

    The Republican Party Is Well On Its Way To Extinction.--ABratt

    Monday, July 8, 2013

    Voting Rights Ruling, Threat To MLK's Dream, Poses Backlash Danger For GOP

    Voting Rights Ruling, Threat To MLK's Dream, Poses Backlash Danger For GOP

    "WASHINGTON -- Several Republican-led states have already rushed to capitalize on the Supreme Court's recent rejection of a key part of the Voting Rights Act, but some Democratic and civil rights leaders say the price for threatening Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream could be a nightmare for the GOP."
    Could this be the GOP's Waterloo?--ABratt

    Friday, June 7, 2013

    Mississippi Law Will Require Collection Of Umbilical Blood From Babies Born To Young Mothers

    "JACKSON, Miss., June 7 (Reuters) - Mississippi will require doctors to collect umbilical cord blood from babies born to some young mothers, under a new law intended to identify statutory rapists and reduce the state's rate of teenage pregnancy, the highest in the country."

    Mississippi Law Will Require Collection Of Umbilical Blood From Babies Born To Young Mothers

    Austerity To Cost U.S. Economy 2 Million Jobs By 2019: Study


    "Austerity isn't just hurting the U.S. economy right now -- the damage is going to last for many years."

    Read link below: 

    Austerity To Cost U.S. Economy 2 Million Jobs By 2019: Study

    Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed


    "The Bible's definition of marriage can be confusing and contradictory, noted the scholars. They stated in their column that a primary example of this is the religious book's stance on polygamy, a practice that was embraced by prominent biblical figures Abraham and David." 

    Read more from link below:
    Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed

    Thursday, June 6, 2013

    Monday, March 18, 2013

    RNC Growth And Opportunity Project Report: Voters See GOP As 'Scary,' 'Narrow Minded'

    RNC Growth And Opportunity Project Report: Voters See GOP As 'Scary,' 'Narrow Minded'

    "Being the Party of The Religious-Right is not mentioned as a problem area but it is a most severe problem Rethugs have, followed by its embrace of the TeaParty extremists, two real problems they can't shake, nor do they deserve to shake,  so long, good bye, Repubs, and take  Sen. Cruz and Santorum with you!"--ABratt

    Sunday, March 10, 2013

    New Family Structures Study Intended To Sway Supreme Court On Gay Marriage, Documents Show

    New Family Structures Study Intended To Sway Supreme Court On Gay Marriage, Documents Show

    This Biblically defined marriage between one man, one woman is based on an errant book of basically ancient myths from ancient civilizations--a thorn in the side of progress toward a better life for all in the now modern day world. No God would condone what is happening to people today based on religious dogma. Only man is to blame for creating such a monster. --ABratt

    Monday, March 4, 2013

    A Republican Civil War in the Old Dominion?

    A Republican Civil War in the Old Dominion?: Virginia is ground zero in the Republican correction process. Virginia voted Republican in every presidential election from 1968 to 2004. It has now gone twice for Barack Obama.

    Any Christian-Right presence in the State of Virginia governance is a bad-news-bear! Period!!--ABratt