Judge rules Maine can bar religious exemptions to health care vaccine mandate

A U.S. District judge on Wednesday ruled that Maine could prohibit religious exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.Judge Jon Levy found that the health care workers who brought the case…

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/576662-judge-rules-maine-can-bar-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandate
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Abortion ban modeled after Texas’ sweeping law introduced in Florida legislature

A Florida lawmaker introduced a bill Wednesday modeled after Texas’ new law prohibiting abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, or roughly six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.

Why it matters: Similar bills introduced to the Florida legislature have failed, but that was before the Supreme Court declined to block Texas’ law, which is the most restrictive abortion law to be enforced since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, according to AP.

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The Florida bill, introduced by state Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby, allows private citizens to sue others that either performed or “aided or abetted” the procedure.

• Florida’s bill would allow people to sue others six months after an illegal abortion is performed unlike the four allotted by the Texas law. In both cases, the state would financially support the plaintiff in the lawsuit.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and several other Republican lawmakers said earlier this month that they could support an abortion law like the one in Texas.

The big picture: The Supreme Court has not ruled on the constitutionality of Texas’ abortion law and it has been challenged by multiple abortion rights organizations and other entities, including the Department of Justice.

• The Supreme Court’s five conservative justices said in an unsigned opinion this month that allowing the ban to remain in place should not be read as an indication of whether the court believes the law is unconstitutional or not.
• However, that hasn’t stopped citizens from using the law to sue other people. A San Antonio physician is now facing a lawsuit after saying he performed an abortion considered illegal under Texas’ new law.

Go deeper: HHS issues new protections for Texas abortion providers, patients

Source: https://www.axios.com/abortion-ban-florida-legislature-texas-law-af070427-48a8-473a-853b-1f1525b19f92.html
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Scientists found geological evidence of the Biblical destruction of Sodom

In a new scientific paper published in Nature titled, “A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea,” a group of two dozen scientists present the results of 15 years of research into the lost Middle Eastern city of Tall el-Hammam, presenting evidence that it was in fact destroyed by an asteroid some 3600 years ago or so:

The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000× more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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Transgender victory over Hobby Lobby could have national impact

Experts say a court deciding Hobby Lobby violated Illinois anti-discrimination law by denying a trans employee access to the women’s restroom could have nationwide implications.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-victory-hobby-lobby-national-impact-rcna1704
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Catholic Leader Placed on Ventilator for Covid-19 After Saying Vaccines Could Have Microchips

Cardinal Raymond Burke, a leader in the Catholic church, has been placed on a ventilator after contracting covid-19, according to the cardinal’s Twitter account. Burke has repeatedly made bizarre comments about the pandemic since it began last year, including claims that governments might try to place microchips in…

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Source: https://gizmodo.com/catholic-leader-placed-on-ventilator-for-covid-19-after-1847498791
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Fraudster Jim Bakker is selling $1,000 “Miracle Blankets” that will pay your mortgage for you

If I was as smart as Jim Bakker’s audience, I would join them in buying a $1,000 “Miracle Blanket” that magically pays bills.

Bakker, the convicted fraudster televangelist who was recently fined for selling a phony Covid-19 cure, seems destined to spend the rest of his life running grifts on wide-eyed suckers. — Read the rest

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Florida Republican says vaccination is “the mark of the beast”

Peter Feaman is a top Republican official in Florida and has a blog where he describes vaccination as “the mark of the beast” and compares the effort to vaccinate people against Covid to Nazi brownshirts.

In May, Feaman called Covid-19 vaccines a “mark of the beast” — a reference to a symbol from the biblical Book of Revelations showing allegiance to Satan — and called Michigan Democratic Gov.

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Louisiana clergy sign letter opposing transgender sports ban

A group of more than 100 Louisiana religious leaders have signed an open letter as of Wednesday that signals their opposition to legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams in Lou…

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/564117-louisiana-clergy-come-out-against-anti-trans-legislation
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Motorist “let God take the wheel” resulting in high-speed crash

In Beachwood, Ohio, a 31-year-old woman accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter was driving at 100mph when she decided to “let go and let God take the wheel,” according to her statement to police. God then smashed into a car, spun into a utility pole, hit another car, and finally crashed into a house. — Read the rest

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India’s Modi greets Dalai Lama on birthday in rare phone call

Indian leaders have generally been circumspect about public contact with Tibetan leader to avoid upsetting China.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/6/indias-modi-greets-dalai-lama-on-birthday-in-rare-phone-call
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Supreme Court to hear Maine ban on religious school funding

The Supreme Court has decided it will hear a case against Maine’s ban on using financial aid through a state program to attend religious schools, the court announced Friday.Families have challeng…

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/561338-supreme-court-to-hear-maine-ban-on-religious-school-funding
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Police interrupt exorcism at Home Depot

On Monday at a Home Depot in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, police were called to put an end to an exorcism underway at the store. Curiously, the exorcism seems to have been for the trees? That sounds more like a funeral to me. — Read the rest

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‘Fire monks’ preparing to defend California monastery from blaze

Monks at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center are clearing brush and running a sprinkler system called ‘Dharma rain’

A group of firefighting monks was ready to defend a Buddhist monastery threatened by a wildfire burning in the rugged central coast mountains south of Big Sur.

Seven monks at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center have been clearing brush from around the center this week and running a sprinkler system dubbed “Dharma rain,” which helps keep a layer of moisture around the buildings.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/23/firefighting-monks-monastery-california-big-sur-fire
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster denied legal recognition in Australia

In the mid-oughts, Boing Boing evangelized the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), a fine example of a religion pretending to be a joke (or a joke pretending to be a religion). FSM believers, known as Pastafarians, have been mostly quiet in recent years, but they’ve been quite busy in the shadows. — Read the rest

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Supreme Court sides with Catholic group that turns away same-sex couples as foster parents

The Supreme Court has ruled that Philadelphia cannot exclude a Catholic organization from its foster care program because the group won’t take applications from same-sex couples.

The decision could make it easier for religious organizations or individuals participating in government programs to refuse services to LGBTQ people or others.

The justices’ decision in favor of Catholic Social Services was unanimous, but three of the court’s conservative justices said the court should’ve issued a more sweeping ruling overturning a two-decade-old decision that the Constitution allows the government to enforce broad-based rules even if they burden specific religious groups.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/17/supreme-court-same-sex-couples-foster-care-catholic-church-494999
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The Satanic Temple in Texas is suing the state due to new abortion restrictions

Texas’s Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed a new abortion ban into law on Wednesday. While some Texans are calling the law a milestone in pro-life legislation, others say that it’s too extreme. The law, initially proposed by State Sen. Bryan Hughes, bans abortions six weeks into pregnancy, making it one of many “heartbeat laws” introduced over the past several years, and it’s sent to go into effect on September 1. — Read the rest

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LAPD investigating attack on diners as possible Jewish hate crime

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a Tuesday night incident in which diners at a California restaurant were attacked as a possible Jewish hate crime….

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At least 44 killed in stampede at large Israeli religious festival

At least 44 people have been killed and 150 hospitalized in a stampede at a large Jewish festival in northern Israel, AP reports.

The big picture: Tens of thousands of people gathered at Mount Meron to observe Lag BaOmer, an Orthodox Jewish holiday honoring Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a 2nd century sage buried there, per AP. It’s the deadliest civilian disaster in Israel’s history, tied with a 2010 forest fire that killed 44.

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• The festival was the largest event of its kind held in the country since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “heavy disaster,” per Reuters.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new details.

Source: https://www.axios.com/dozens-killed-stampede-israel-religious-6d4e6554-6b3b-40f5-86fb-80a33d4e21fa.html
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Israel uses ‘apartheid’ to subjugate Palestinians: HRW

Policymakers must shift focus away from a political solution to a rights-based approach, HRW and analysts say.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/israel-uses-apartheid-to-subjugate-palestinians-hrw-report
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Montana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation into law on Thursday that allows individuals to challenge government regulations that infringe on their religious beliefs….

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/549889-montana-governor-signs-bill-allowing-residents-to-challenge-regulations
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