On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired every member of the air traffic controllers union (PATCO) who’d defied his order to return to work and declared their union illegal. They had been on strike for just two days.
[T]he American Psychological Association voted unanimously 157-0 to support marriage equity as “the policy that the country should be moving toward.”
To sneer at it as obvious would be a mistake. Even the clunky or stammering expression of the three rules (“what the reviewer thinks about what the author says about that thing the book is about”) works as a hammer, driving home the essential principles and their distinctly separate, yet profoundly interrelated nature.
Perry has teamed with the American Family Association (designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) and is sponsoring “The Response,” a day of prayer and fasting at Reliant Stadium. They have made it clear that their Aug. 6 event reflects a “Christians only” ethos, and no other religious groups are invited to participate.
“This decision says all Americans are equal regardless of their beliefs about religion,” said Americans United Legal Director Ayesha N. Khan. “The government must never send the signal that one faith has preferred status.
“On August 6, Texas Gov. Rick Perry will host The Response, a “prayer rally” in Houston, along with the extremist American Family Association and a cohort of Religious Right leaders with far-right political ties […] powered by politically active Religious Right individuals and groups who are dedicated to bringing far-right religious view, including degrading views of gays and lesbians and non-Christians, into American politics.”
“[…] although the antigovernment “patriot,” or militia, movement did wane in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has come roaring back, from 149 groups in 2008 to 824 in 2010, even as the number of hate groups reached more than 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center began counting them in the 1980s.”
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