Allen West Joins Advisory Board of Far-Right, Anti-Islam Law Center

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The United States Constitution: To be waved about on the campaign trail and then ignored when it is convenient.
Congressman Allen West, everyone's favorite defender of the Constitution, has joined the citizens advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative legal organization that has spent more than a decade trying its best to roll back a rather important section of the Bill of Rights.

The Michigan-based firm says its goal is "to restore and defend America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values," and it has been involved in (or actively sought) some of the most controversial cases involving the side-stepping of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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Zev Auerbach, Aventura City Commissioner, Preaches Enlightenment Through Kabbalah

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After hearing Zev Auerbach a few times on the radio -- introducing himself as an Aventura city commissioner and promising to reveal the wonders of Kabbalah in "29 amazing minutes" -- I was curious. I had no idea what Kabbalah was, except for something about Jews and Madonna. I called Auerbach and arranged to meet him and attend one of his 29-minute sessions at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure in Weston.

The event is geared to sign people up for Kabbalah classes in Weston or at the Kabbalah Centers in Aventura and Boca Raton. A six-week introductory course costs around $250, including materials and one-on-one counseling. But... what's the payoff? My casual-Jewish upbringing didn't give me a clue.

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Florida Prayer in Schools Bill Passes House, Going to the Governor

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"Class, please pass your homework forward." -- Jesus
Joyous news, proselytizers of the world -- if Gov. Rick Scott signs the bill that the Florida House passed moments ago, Florida public school districts will now totally have the ability to allow prayer in public schools.

The bill, SB 98, doesn't explicitly allow prayer in schools, but it does say school districts can adopt policies allowing for "inspirational messages" on the condition that the schools don't control the actual message. That way, the logic goes, the school isn't endorsing the prayer because it didn't know the prayer was coming.

If you expect Florida school districts to make the right choice on their own, consider that, as of last year, 27 of them still allowed students to be beaten with paddles.

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Allen West May Have a Totally Legitimate Point About the Afghanistan Qur'an Burning

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When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone's going to get really offended.

But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning of several Qu'rans... and his "tell it straight and offend whomever I feel like" strategy doesn't seem horribly Islamophobic this time.

The brouhaha has been caused by the burning of several Qur'ans at a prison facility in Afghanistan last week; the violent reaction throughout the country has left...
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Florida "Prayer in Schools" Bill Passes Another Committee, Going to House

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Math class.
We told you earlier this month about SB 98, a bill that passed the Florida Senate that would allow prayer in Florida's public schools. It would have to be approved by both the Florida House and Gov. Rick Scott to become a law, and at the time, nothing had happened in the House to indicate movement.

That's since changed, and the amended, potentially unconstitutional bill is making its way to the House chamber for a second reading.

The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee 11-4, and Florida schools are one step closer to having student prayers at pep rallies.
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FBI Purges Anti-Islam Training Material

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A graph contends the more devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent. An instructional document saying that in Islam, "war is the rule and peace is only temporary." The paperwork sounds like propaganda produced by Joe Kaufman or U.S. Rep. Allen West. But the documents were used to train FBI agents in counterterrorism.

Prompted by an investigation by Wired.com, the FBI this week purged hundreds of pages of similar training documents, saying they contained "factual errors," promoted stereotypes, or were in "poor taste."

And the bureau is continuing to review its training materials, with more questionable documents expected to be revealed.

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Allen West on Contraception: Mocks Obama's Knowledge of the Constitution, Completely Mangles Constitutional Argument

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Whitney Houston: Something to do with the pilgrims.
​Congressman Allen West sent out his weekly newsletter Monday, barraging his constituents with an almost predictable combination of hyperpatriotic mumbo-jumbo and misguided, pseudo-academic posturing about his favorite book in the history of words, the United States Constitution.

Once you get past the part about crying while listening to Whitney Houston's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner," you get to what must be the meat of West's message: By attempting to mandate employer-provided insurance coverage to include contraception, President Barack Obama is waging war on religion.

West is wrong in every possible way -- about the constitutional reasoning behind his argument, about his nonexistent belief in freedom of religion, and about who is actually responsible for the mandate. We've broken it down into three sections for easier digestion.

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Florida Family Association: TLC Trying to Help Muslims Take Over America

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Crappy TV show, or a vehicle for Muslims to take over America?
Lowe's Home Improvement is making headlines this week after it publicly responded to a Florida Family Association petition asking for it not to advertise during the show All-American Muslim on TLC.

According to the Florida Family Association, Lowe's would be the 66th company to pull advertising but is the only company to issue a public statement on the matter since the FFA asked its supporters to email the companies with their conspiracy theory and demand that they not advertise during the show.

The FFA's claim is that TLC is purposely choosing Muslims who may seem nice to show on TV while ignoring most Muslims, who apparently "[pose] a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish."

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Westboro Baptist "Church" Coming to Fort Lauderdale to Scare Children

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Fred Phelps and the rest of the "God hates fags" crew from the Westboro Baptist Church in Nowhere, Kansas, say they're coming to Fort Lauderdale on December 8.

Remember, Fred Phelps told the Pulp back in July that he was gathering up the gang to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann in Fort Pierce, but he didn't quite tell the truth.

Still, they plan on scaring the shit out of high school kids early in the afternoon of December 8, and thanks to state Rep. Pat Rooney's idea to try yet again for a funeral buffer-zone law, the Baptist bozos claim they're showing up at Broward College in Davie before that to protest the bill.

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Boca Raton Pastor Protesting Casino Proposal, Believes It'll Just Bring Hookers and "Evils"

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Mark Boykin, a pastor at Boca Raton's Church of All Nations, isn't too happy about Republican State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff's filing a bill to allow Vegas-style casinos in South Florida.

After citing hookers, crime, "evils," and some stuff he found on the internet, he's planning to show up to Bogdanoff's office with some people and act angry.

"I believe that everything that happens in Vegas must stay in Vegas, and we do not need the kind of crime, prostitution, and others evils associated with gambling to expand in Florida," he says. "For decades, we have cultivated a family-friendly, vacation-postcard image here in Florida, and Sen. Bogdanoff's bill will destroy it."

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