for all the porn-peddling perverts in Johnson County have been tarred, feathered, and indicted:

A grand jury has accused three Johnson County businesses of promoting obscenity, according to indictments handed down late Tuesday.

Even though the grand jury was convened in Johnson County District Court to investigate obscenity, the latest indictments are the first that actually deal with the subject.

Each of the three businesses was indicted on multiple counts, all misdemeanors.

According to court documents:

• Spirit Halloween, 6824 W. 119th St. in Overland Park, displayed adult costumes where minors could view them.

• Hollywood at Home, 9063 Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, “unlawfully and knowingly or recklessly” possessed and intended to sell obscene DVDs.

• Priscilla’s, 1848 East Santa Fe St. in Olathe, possessed and intended to sell various obscene devices and an obscene DVD.

The indictments are based on findings from Aug. 22 to Sept. 17.

Employees at each business declined to comment on the indictments Tuesday night.

Which apparently makes the Kansas City Star so giddy that they just had to send me an email alert with all the latest:

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: JoCo grand jury hands down obscenity indictments

A grand jury has accused three Johnson County businesses of promoting obscenity, according to indictments handed down late Tuesday.

The Star is covering the story and gathering more information. Click on the headline at top to read the most current and complete coverage from the largest, most-trusted news staff in Kansas City.

Oy.

In other mind-boggling news, atheists are just like Klansmen! Guess I’d better go shave my head, then.

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I mean, fuck, they’re still referring to the Church’s child prey as “alleged victims.” As if there’s any iota of doubt. Pffffft.

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An elegant-in-its-simplicity statement as to why fundies should be dead set against mixing church and state:

“It seems like a church has invaded our school system — and it’s not my church!”

Nah, it wasn’t a member of the vegnautic sect of the IPU who said it, but rather a deacon at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Odessa, Texas.

That’s karma, baby. Err, if I believed in such a thing.

Still pissed at the ACLU, btw.

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(Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!)

…and don’t fool yourselves, fundies, neither are you.

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You can practically smell the sweat, urine, and pre-ejaculate.

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I haven’t been keeping abreast of the news like I should lately, but I still check my email like an obsessive fiend. Via People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, I see that windbag Prager isn’t the only godidiot who endorses a religious litmus test for elected Congresspeople.

Here’s Kevin at PFAW:

After Keith Ellison was elected the first Muslim member of Congress last month, talk show host Dennis Prager, among others, attacked the Representative-elect for indicating that he would swear his oath of office with his hand placed on a copy of the Qur’an. Now, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and regular WorldNetDaily columnist Roy Moore has decided that regardless of how they are sworn in faithful Muslims are not fit to serve in Congress.

Citing the recent actions of the rebel government of Somalia and the public statements of the founder of a “radical Islamic school,” Moore argues that the Islamic faith “rejects our God” and is “simply incompatible with our law.”

Whereas evangelical xian calls for greater government invasion of citizens’ privacy and state-financed proselytizing to captive audiences would have been been met with barely contained enthusiasm by our founding fathers. Riiiiight.

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Indeed.

Another doozy from the Catholic Church:

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops adopted new guidelines for gay outreach Tuesday that are meant to be welcoming, while also telling gays to be celibate since the church considers their sexuality “disordered.”

In other words, come and gawd-bag with us, brother, and do be sure to tithe at least 10% (because, let’s be honest, you interior designers sure are paid well, and it’s not like you’ll ever have a quiver full of yung ‘uns to support anywho), just don’t look at me funny, or else I’ll have to throttle you like some Peruvian mistress.

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Note to spoiled American Christian crybabies who whine about the “subtle” persecution they suffer at the paws of liberal secular heathen meanies: this is what real religious discrimination looks like.

Photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized last week while travelling on a bus in southern Afghanistan.

The kidnappers will free Mr. Torsello, a Muslim convert, if Abdul Rahman returns from Italy where he was granted asylum earlier this year, the aid agency says.

Mr. Rahman had escaped a possible death sentence for becoming a Christian.

He had been charged with rejecting Islam and released this March after being deemed mentally unfit to stand trial on a charge of apostasy.

Next time y’all start blathering about ID in public schools or educating our troops about the dominant religion in a country where they’re fighting a goddamn war, stop. Really, just stop. Ending the privilege long enjoyed by one silly strain of superstition at the expense of all others does not discrimination make.

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“I think it’s great that more pro-life people are finally speaking up about it…It’s always been a touchy subject, but you have to stand strong on your beliefs. Contraception is the root cause of the explosion of the amount of abortions in the world.”

With November 7 rocketing towards us, it’s time for the so-called “moderates” out there - politicians and voters alike - to wake the fuck up to the right wing’s (read: evangelicals’) end game, particularly regarding women’s autonomy. Though they like to frame the debate re: reproductive rights, specifically abortion, in terms of life (”the baybees, think about the baybees!”), there’s nothing “pro-life” about their agenda. Make no mistake: they are anti-choice. Not just “anti- a woman’s right to choose whether or not to abort the parasite residing within her,”* but “anti- a woman’s choice to fuck without experiencing the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy.”

Exhibit #1: Their increasingly fervent assault on women’s access to contraception.

Emboldened by the anti-abortion movement’s success in restricting access to abortion, an increasingly vocal group of Christian conservatives is arguing that it’s time to mount a concerted attack on contraception.

Their voices were raised in Rosemont on Friday and Saturday at an unusual anti-abortion meeting that drew 250 people from around the nation to condemn artificial birth control. Experts at the gathering assailed contraception on the grounds that it devalues children, harms relationships between men and women, promotes sexual promiscuity and leads to falling birth rates, among social ills.

“Contraception is more the root cause of abortion than anything else,” Joseph Scheidler, an anti-abortion veteran whose Pro-Life Action League sponsored the conference, said in an interview.

See, your reasonable, “moderate” (theoretical) pro-lifer would recognize that contraception is actually the single most effective means of reducing the need for abortion. Our government’s enthusiastic support for abstinence-only education has demonstrated what feminists have known all along: you can’t stop people from fornicating. Ain’t gonna work. Besides, why should they? I know it’s hard to comprehend, but not all folks share your same set of values. For example, this statement:

Damon Clarke Owens, another speaker and president of New Jersey Natural Family Planning, believes contraception changes sex from a “unconditional gift of self” to a conditional act that turns away from “God’s gift of children.”

seriously makes me want to go out and buy a Baby Jesus Butt Plug, just so I can defile Owens’ deity’s image. Repeatedly. Even though I’m not really into that kind of thing.

It must be difficult to walk upright, what with such thick skulls and all, but not all people are Christians. And not all Christians share the same single (misogynistic, homophobic, insert your “ism” here) interpretation of Teh Bible. Shocking, I know. Plus, there is this little thing called separation of church and state. So your particular strain of superstition, while entertaining, cannot be used to justify which rights y’all decide to dole out to the populace.

But wait! Clark has more gems of wisdom to impart to us immoral heathens:

“If the sex act has nothing to do with a child, then what happens if contraception fails?” he asked. “Abortion becomes a backup for failed contraception, another way of getting rid of the unwanted and devalued child.” **

Again, I know we’re contending with that thick skull issue, but…if every American knew how to properly use contraception, had access to it, and made use of it consistently, then there would be very few abortions.