FORT BRAGG, N.C., Jan. 25 (UPI) — A woman who is married to a female Army officer has been named Fort Bragg, N.C., spouse of the year even though an officers’ spouse club refused her membership.
Ashley Broadway, who is married to Lt. Col. Heather Mack of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, was chosen to represent Fort Bragg in a competition next month to determine the Army spouse of the year — with the winner representing the branch in the 2013 Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year competition, The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer reported Friday.
The award is presented annually by Military Spouse magazine.
Broun is also medical doctor who refers to himself as a “scientist.” Here’s what Paul Broun, M.D. said at the banquet:
“God’s word is true,” Broun said, according to a video posted on the church’s website. “I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”
Broun also said that he believes the Earth is about 9,000 years old and that it was made in six days. Those beliefs are held by fundamentalist Christians who believe the creation accounts in the Bible are literally true.
As you can see in the video, he went on to say:
“As your Congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington DC. and I’ll continue to do that.”
He threw this out there, too:
“This is not about politics.”
Right. Got it. Next.
He also says he “knows Jesus personally.” Name dropper.
Ironically, he’s on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Brilliant. With Tennessee lagging most other states in educational achievement, it opts to authorize schoolteachers’ religion-based challenges to indisputable scientific facts.
Now schoolchildren can disregard the evolutionary process, which saw humans’ superior mental capacities develop from primates’ modest brains.
Other states should respond with laws of their own. Start by mandating instruction that presents Tennessee’s legislation as evidence of humans’ devolution toward imbecility.
On the other hand, isn’t it of significance to discover that “new data from Public Policy Polling …shows that 52 percent of Mississippi Republican believe President Obama is a Muslim (a comparatively slight 45 percent of Alabama GOP voters agreed with them)”? In addition the poll shows some further disarming responses: 66 percent of likely Mississippi Republican voters don’t believe in evolution; 60 percent of Alabama GOP followers share that opinion. Oh, and 67 percent of likely Alabama Grand Old Party voters believe that the state’s xenophobic and harsh anti-Mexican “immigration law” is a “good thing.”
When you add these and other poll responses together, you realize that a large portion of the Southern Republican voting base that is living in the dark ages. The much-commented upon belief that Obama is a Muslim is just the most sensational of poll revelations, because it is so contrary to a verifiable fact.
What you have here is a profile of a segment of the US population that is somewhat akin to a religious cult with a deep fear of anyone who doesn’t look and talk like they do. [...]
[T]his “backwards in time” outlook currently has a stranglehold on the United States through Republican control of the House of Representatives. Furthermore, the US Senate Republican caucus frequently appeals to this base and stifles progress through the threat of filibusters. Not to mention that the GOP field of presidential candidates heavily leans in the direction of this minority of voters living in a bubble.
The creationist crowd does have some proof that Darwin wasn’t right about every individual in a species. They are living proof: after all, they haven’t evolved. [...]
Perry [to a little boy]: “In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution. I figure you’re smart enough to figure out which one is right.”
Except the US Supreme Court has ruled that it is a violation of the Constitution to teach creationism in schools. [...]
And then there’s Michele Bachmann, who just this week stated that Americans are concerned about the “rise of the Soviet Union.” … As with most embodiments of creationism, Bachmann’s frame of reference moves backward in time, not forward. [...]
Maybe the Creation Museum should replace the dinosaur with a wax replica of Rick Perry and put a saddle on his back.
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