Beit Shemesh – Israel – Child Abuse - Misogyny – Human Rights – Mashugana (strange desert god/religion)

G*d only speaks to me - not y*u!

I don’t know how to approach this story.  I am reluctant to touch anything Jewish for fear of being labeled an anti-Semite, the most abused label on the planet after the term “nazi”.

But I have seen this story on various blogs and expressing its opinions as it slowly makes its way out of Israel to the real world and light of reason.

To make a long story short, there are a bunch of ultra-orthhodox Jews living in the town of Beit Shemesh near Tel-Aviv that are coming up again uber-orthodox Jews who spit on an eight year old girl on the way to school.  She was not wearing the Jewish Sharia equivalent of a Burkha, to keep these horny uber-dudes from being temped and getting hard-ons in the presence of female flesh.

It sounds like a page out of Iran Sharia etc. and the standard hatred of women by the gay (one superior sex) mean desert god than many Jews, Christians and Muslims worship.  Worship a bit too much and a bit too hard.

Of course the fundamentalist Jews in Israel are the beard for the secular state of Israel and all that Jewish religious stuff that the crazy fundy Christians go in for like Bachmann, Perry, Hagee etc.

There is also an underlying hatred among secular Jews in Israel against the Fundy Jews that do no military services and apparently pay no taxes either etc. and they have more say in this town about how inferior women should or should not get an education and whether these satans in dresses sit in the back of the bus or not so to speak.  But like I said there is a method to the madness with the religious beard thing and a reason a so-called state of Israel exists.

This fundamentalist takeover of the public square and in favor of the closeted gay monotheistic desert god seems to be a disease among the ignorant amongst the Jews, Christians and Muslims worldwide.

Church and state should be separate and god help the Palestinians waiting for some humanity from all these Mashuganas who cannot help but abuse a girl child in the name of their strange desert god.

http://m.smh.com.au/world/fury-at-ultraorthodox-jews-after-girl-abused-20111228-1pcv4.html

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Quaker Cross - a Symbol for Compassion?

I ran into this modern symbol of the Society of Friends or Quakers. It is called a Quaker cross. It was first used by relief workers, as a symbol on their arms, by British Quakers in the Franco Prussian war in 1870-1871. It was also used as an armband for British conscientious objectors in WWI who did non-armed battlefield services.

The symbol above was adopted as the official symbol of the American Friends Service Committee in 1917. The variaton shown above is from the Australian Friends relief agency.

I like the circle around it. It really took me by surprise in that I grew up in Philly, a traditional center of Quaker culture, and never saw it before today. The Friends or the Quakers have been quietly doing charitable work for centuries without a visible or bloated bureaucratic religious leadership always handing out PR statements.

The Quakers as a Christian religion has a centuries old tradition of care for the mentally ill, anti-slavery campaigning and advocacy of equal rights for women. They also continue to condemn violence, the death penalty and war.

As such, as soon as I saw this symbol and understood its origin, I thought of the possible need of a visual for the Campaign for Compassion and or course the Tibetan Buddhist concept of Compassion, both of which are not unlike Jesus’ command to love your neighbor.

Of course you cannot steal a symbol but perhaps the design in two other colors could represent compassion.

Any suggestions on two good colors to go with a symbol design already associated with love and peace?

Stupak-Pitts anti-female Amendment and the Need for The Equal Rights Amendment

The House health care reform bill got narrowly passed on Saturday with one minor amendment that with all the legal jargon and loopholes would effectively ban all abortion in any health care plan nationwide that receives government subsidies.

Think of all the money Insurance Companies will save abolishing this one medical procedure used only by women. While I do not see this as passing in any final Senate House Bill, I am reminded by the indecency of this amendment of another amendment, the sleeping Equal Rights Amendment and it only needing three more states to ratify it.

It is time to stop all this medieval anti-female religious and political discrimination in this country!

It is time for equal rights in health care!

It is time to turn the table on these sniveling conspiring bunch of brain dead anti-female fundamentalists!

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

There are various things happening with that equal rights amendment. It is not dead. It only needs a bunch of angry women and gays to push for its gender neutral language to guarantee anything having to do with SEX. I think that in today’s realistic worldview that includes sexual orientation and Gay marriage along with physical gender.

Equal Rights Amendment

An article by three law students, published in the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law in 1997 explained a legal rationale for the "three-state strategy." It argued that:

1. The 35 ratifications from state legislatures during the 1970s remain valid;

2. Rescissions of prior ratifications are not constitutional;

3. The 1978 extension of the ERA's deadline demonstrates that Congress can amend previously established deadlines; and

4. The Twenty seventh Amendment's more than 202 year ratification period set a standard of "sufficiently contemporaneous"—a term used during the U.S. Supreme Court's 1921 ruling in Dillon v. Gloss—giving Congress the power to set time limits on constitutional amendments. Dillon v. Gloss was later modified by Coleman v. Miller, which is also a basis for the three state strategy.

The article further reasoned that because Article V of the Constitution gives the Congress the power to propose amendments to the Constitution—and including changing aspects of the ratification process itself— that if and when three additional states ratify the ERA, the Congress has the power to deem the ERA properly ratified and duly added to the Constitution.