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Bible Study Contest Winner - Mon, Mar 8, 2004
Full credit for the proposed "Constitutional Amendment on Biblical Marriage" now making its way through Congress must go to Alex Frantz of Public Nuisance. Alex is quite indisputably the originator. As Brent of Unscrewing the Inscrutable points out, Alex proposed the Amendment on August 18th, 2003 in response to an August 16th post by Atrios about the Presidential Prayer Team's August 15th request to legally codify the definition of marriage in accordance with biblical principles.
Alex later pointed out that quite a few sites immediately linked to the piece -- including Calpundit, Outside the Beltway and Austin Cline's Agnosticism/Weak Atheism Blog. Not surprisingly, a few days later he (along with Eugene Volokh and others) was sued for being Jewish.
The e-mail campaign that landed the proposal in Congress was apparently launched in late January of this year by Daniel Levitas who, in the Pagan Prattle comment I linked to on Friday, noted that he had passed it along to a major media outlet which subsequently expressed interest in doing a story on it. It is amazing how Alex's blog, which gets but 50-75 hits a day, has become a legislative puppet-master. Now, let's work on a Congressional resolution declaring that Allah is a syphilitic whoremonger who fucks goats in an outhouse . . . .
Anyway, the winner of the Bible Study Contest is Glenstonecottage, who correctly identified Frantz as the author in my comment section a day before Inscrutable's post about it (award ceremony later this week). That's "G L E N S T O N E C O T T A G E," Brent : )
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[Theme from "Rocky" plays loudly in the background] "I'd like to thank the Academy...."
I will gladly cede my prize to Alex Frantz, author of "Biblical Marriage"... but if Alex can't or won't accept it, then could the limerick be for my dad, "Ole Charlie"?... interestingly enough, my dad and both of his parents were atheists! So I guess I come by it honestly. My son is now 20 and seems to be following in the ancestral footsteps.
Actually, I don't know why I'm bragging about this, since one thing I've always noticed about religion is that most folks tend to just go along with whatever religion they inherited from their parents...
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You may have won this time, Glenstonecottage my old adversary, but one day you'll be on the losing end! *shaking my fist impotently*
Hehehe. That would be so cool to have an arch-nemesis, you know, in a fun, comic book sort of way. IRL I'm a lover, not a nemesis.
I'm just dying to read RA's limerick incorporating your handle.
[Edit] March 8, 2004
I have an arch-nemesis, his name is Donn.
[Edit] March 8, 2004
Another good article about so-called "Biblical morality" at today's (March 9/04) "Orcinus" blog
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
Sorry, Brent, you'll have to take a number! I've already got several arch-nemesises (or should that be nemesi? what is the correct plural?)... but the position of "Evil Twin" is now open, please send resume...
[Edit] March 9, 2004
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