Clergy talk about political candidates from the pulpit all the time. My pastor stood on the pulpit and said he thought Clinton should resign. I has no problem with it, even as a Democrat and nothing was ever said or done about it. On the other hand, there some limits. Churches have to decide if they want to keep there tax exempt status as a religious organization or not. Tax exempt status has nothing to do with separation of church or state or the Constitution but is written into law that cam be modified by congress. My view would be, if there really is no separation between church and state, then the state should not be giving religious organizations preferable tax breaks just because they are religious.

No they probably were not perverts. They did seem to be on some sort of power trip bullying a 13 yr old girl into undressing without her parents present to prove she didn't have large doses of a common analgesic on her. I can't believe anyone thinks this is ok.

It not the culture that has the right to treat the child as they see fit. Or the schools. Its the parents. If the kid is to be striped searched the parents should have been present. They probably did not what to get the parents involved because they knew they could not bully the parents into allowing it like they could the child. I doubt the police would have done it without the parent there. I myself am not a believer in spanking but I am also not a believer in the government telling parents they are not allowed to spank, within reason, if they think its the right thing to do.

I wonder if they are arguing they needed to take drastic actions to protect the 13 yr old with prescription medication from herself. That's not the school's role it the parent's role. The parents should have be called immediately and it been dealt with from there.

I wonder what would have happened if she would have refused to disrobe and allow the search. I also wonder what they threatened her with do get her to comply. I know if I had a child they would be taught to never to submit to any such searches willingly. Not sure about being perverts but sounds like some people in the school system are on some sort of power trip. I wonder who many kids the strip search a year. I bet a now a lot less than they used too.

it sounds reasonable if you understand that the truth Genesis is trying to communicate isn't about what or how, but why. Ironically, the Israelites of 3,000 years ago probably understood that better than most people do today.

I suspect one reason ESPN is doing this is to provide cable companies with an argument that ala-carte programming is something the internet is moving away from. Ala-carte programming would probably be just as bad for ESPN as the cable providers.

I might feel better if you could give me the standard deviation for that.

The problem is that it is clearly not designed to be stamped on, just intended to be. Which on one hand may be funny but on the other hand is the point. The fact that it doesn't take an engineering degree to see that the product couldn't hold up to its intended use doesn't make it better; it makes it worse.

I am a Obama supporter and I doubt writing to http://www.change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople is going to do anything. It might be more helpful to write to the senators on the conformation committee. It won't get him blocked but at least maybe he can explain himself and let him know this is an issue people are concerned about.

I was one of those 22 yr old managers for a while. The HS kids would complain because I would have them work 5 hours without a break rather then 5.5 with a break. There will always be people who are not happy. If your not being paid you can usually leave and return in 30 minutes. I worked at one place who didn't want people to leave so there where no 30 minute breaks just 20 minute paid breaks (can't do that to a minor in the US working over 5 hours). Even at my job now, my break time is at my bosses desecration and I like my current job better then any other job I have ever had. But if you are required to be somewhere at a certain time then you should be getting paid for it. If your not being paid then they probably can't make you stay there.

Yes, you need to get it straight because you haven't. The press is not biased if it doesn't report that x is equal to y unless x really is equal to y. In this case there seems to have been a lot of data to the contrary.