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Parents charged in death of 16 yr old

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:09:43 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Their case has focused attention on some laws that let parents rely on prayer to heal their children. Marci Hamilton, a professor at Cardozo Law School, who writes about religious issues, said the case may test Oregon's religious freedom laws and may prompt other states to re-examine their spiritual healing laws.

"There was a time when we were willing to permit these children to be lost, but there are increasingly more prosecutions and lawsuits," she said. "Children should not be permitted to be the testing ground for their parents' faith or secular views if it's going to result in their death."

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The prosecution of an Oregon couple who allegedly tried to heal their dying son with prayer has focused attention on laws that, in some cases, allow parents to treat their children with faith.

Jeffrey Dean Beagley, 50, and Marci Rae Beagley, 46, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of their son, 16-year-old Neil Jeffrey Beagley.

Neil died June 17 from complications of a urinary tract blockage, according to medical examiners. The condition, which doctors say is easily treatable, caused kidney and heart failure.

The Beagleys belong to a religious sect known as the Followers of Christ Church, which rejects medical treatment and, instead, relies on prayer. Several relatives who were with Neil Beagley at the time of his death told police that he had refused medical care, according to the Gladstone, Ore., police.

Marci Beagley declined to comment when reached at her Oregon City home, Monday.

Attorneys for the Beagleys could not be reached for comment

Tags: faith healing, parent's rights, children's rights, religion

Sect attempted secret donations to Howard

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:26:04 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: I made this claim in a clip I posted about the family wreckers last night. My only surprise was that Howard claims he knocked it back. These people seem to believe that all conservationists are gay. They spent a lot attempting to sling crap at the Greens. Very vindictive and totally wrong. A strange group, still sects are sects and seem to like to label themselves as having exclusive rights to some afterlife.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

MEMBERS of the Exclusive Brethren attempted to donate to John Howard's re-election campaign last year in a way that meant the cash injection would never have been disclosed to the public.

A senior Liberal Party source has confirmed in a new book about the secretive Christian sect that, in the weeks leading up to the November election, he was approached by a group of Exclusive Brethren men in a city hotel building who offered him a large, anonymous financial donation.

"They said, 'We are a private group.' I asked them if they voted — it was a testing question. They said they didn't.

"It was a very short discussion," the source said.

The Exclusive Brethren are exempt from voting. But for many years they have extensively lobbied politicians, and, in the 2004 federal election campaign, pumped $370,000 into a pro-Howard, anti-Greens advertising effort without fully disclosing who they were.

Tags: sects, ain't, religious

Family care 'tied to sect gag order'sects

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:00:05 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: This group was sanctioned by the previous Govt (Liberals) after political donations hit the right spot. I think they are treated as a religion, as a result. The sect has had a lot of bad publicity.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

THE Exclusive Brethren sect has attempted to prevent a sick 85-year-old former member from revealing her terrible life story by saying that if she remained silent she could be reunited before she dies with the children she was separated from 28 years ago.

Alison Alderton's family was torn apart at the order of the sect's world leader in 1980, and she has barely had contact with her children, who are "in fellowship", since.

Inside the sect, kept apart from Mrs Alderton by the Brethren's founding doctrine of "separation," are three daughters and a son, 18 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren she does not know and cannot count.

The Exclusive Brethren teaches its members that they have a privileged place in God's eyes, and must keep spiritually separate from the world, to avoid being "defiled" by it.

But on May 26 this year, as Mrs Alderton lay sick in hospital

her daughter Jeanette Sivewright, and son-in-law Roger, paid her an unannounced visit,

notified of her emergency

Tags: sect, religion, difference, delusional

On the Fringe

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:28:08 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: One of many articles examining this far right Christian Dominionist sect that appears to be growing in number as members of Pentecostal churches split off looking for more "active" ways to force Christianity on the country. Their goal is to establish a Christian Theocracy in the US in preparation for the Apocalypse. Organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center fear that they may soon move beyond mere talk to armed action.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

Members of Joel's Army are fighting to bring about the millennial reign of Christ.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous "supernatural healing revival" in central Florida.

"An end-time army has one common purpose -- to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion," Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. "The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel's Army. ... Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God's kingdom on earth."

Tags: dominion, christian, pentecostal

Palin's Use of Pegler- A Fascist Writer for Hearst

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:08:18 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: The war of propaganda has been continuous since the turn of the century. Back then it was the "Specter Of Communism" now you can just replace communism with "Terrorism" and you will arrive at the NAZI propaganda. Same people, same families, same aim. You, the citizen

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Westbrook Pegler

Pegler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota; his father was a prominent editor. While working for United Press, young Pegler was the youngest American war correspondent in World War I. After the war, Pegler started off as a sports columnist, but later wrote general interest articles. In 1925 he moved to the Chicago Tribune. In 1933 he moved to the Scripps Howard syndicate, where he worked closely with his friend Roy Howard. In 1942 he was named one of the nation's "best adult columnists." His columns went out six days a week to 174 newspapers that reached about 10 million subscribers. He moved his syndicated column to the Hearst syndicate in 1944. Pegler's career ended 30 years later under the auspices of a sect of neo-Nazis and professional racists from the White Citizens Council and the Rev. Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade. This was the same White Citizens' Council that launched a campaign against "bop and Negro music"

Alleged cult leader due back in Wisc.court

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:25:05 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy

Clip Source: www.kare11.com

Alleged cult leader due back in WI court

MAUSTON, Wis. -- A self-proclaimed religious leader accused of helping a follower hide a corpse on her toilet is due back in court tomorrow.

Prosecutors say Bushey and his follower, Tammy Lewis, kept the decaying body of 90-year-old Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth on Lewis' toilet. Middlesworth was another member of their group. District Attorney Scott Southworth has described the sect as a cult.

A criminal complaint says Bushey told Lewis that God would bring Middlesworth back to life. Prosecutors believe they both wanted to go on collecting Middlesworth's Social Security.

Alan Bushey's plea hearing is set for Tuesday in Juneau County Circuit Court. He's expected to enter pleas to charges that include causing mental harm to a child, hiding a corpse and theft.

Tags: religous extremism

Parents arrested after hospital standoff over baby

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:05:24 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: The Canadian government has no jurisdiction over Moorish-Americans, the religious leader argued, adding the baby should not have been seized by the Children's Aid Society. "It basically infringes on his nationality," he said.

For decades, the U.S.-based Nation of Moorish-Americans has espoused that, thanks to a historic treaty, millions of black Americans are actually a divine and sovereign people, and also citizens of Morocco. The Canadian chapter led by Mr. Sut Tekh El is relatively new, but he said he has about 30 members.

Clip Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Parents arrested after hospital standoff over baby

Malnourished child taken from mother and father who belong to religious sect that does not believe in institutional medicine

The fugitive mother of a sick infant was arrested at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children yesterday, as her continued refusal to hand over her child prompted officials to take the parents into custody and admit the child to hospital as a ward of the state.

"She's not an evil person and she's not a bad mother," her spiritual leader, who goes by the title Grand Sheik Brother Kudjo Sut Tekh El, explained late yesterday

According to him, the baby has eczema and severe food allergies, which has left him very skinny. But "we have the rights as Moorish-Americans not to succumb to institutionalized ways of healing ourselves," Mr. Sut Tekh El said. He said members of his sect avoid hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs in favour of natural remedies for all ailments, including cancer.

Tags: religious right, religious freedom, government, religious extremism

9/11 Plus Seven

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:55:33 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: (cont.)That aim, as Feith explained in a subsequent missive to his boss, was to "transform the Middle East and the broader world of Islam generally."

Rumsfeld and Feith were co-religionists: along with other senior Bush Administration officials, they worshipped in the Church of the Indispensable Nation, a small but intensely devout Washington-based sect formed in the immediate wake of the cold war. Members of this church shared an exalted appreciation for the efficacy of American power, especially hard power. The strategy of transformation emerged as a direct expression of their faith.

Clip Source: www.thenation.com

9/11 Plus Seven

By Andrew J. Bacevich

September 9, 2008

The events of the past seven years have yielded a definitive judgment on the strategy that the Bush Administration conceived in the wake of 9/11 to wage its so-called "Global War on Terror." That strategy has failed, massively and irrevocably. To acknowledge that failure is to confront an urgent national priority: to scrap the Bush approach in favor of a new national security strategy that is realistic and sustainable--a task that, alas, neither of the presidential candidates seems able to recognize or willing to take up.

On September 30, 2001, President Bush received from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld a memorandum outlining US objectives in the "war on terror." Drafted by Rumsfeld's chief strategist Douglas Feith, the memo declared expansively: "If the war does not significantly change the world's political map, the U.S. will not achieve its aim."

Bond limit eased on 4 FLDS Members

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:48:20 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: The state took more than 400 sect children into custody in the early April raid on suspicion of widespread sexual abuse and forced marriage. Appellate courts forced the return of the children to their parents, but civil and criminal investigations are ongoing.

Clip Source: www.gosanangelo.com

Judge Barbara Walther presided over hearings Monday morning at the Schleicher County courthouse in Eldorado

The men, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, were indicted by a Schleicher County grand jury July 22 on charges of sexual abuse of a child and turned themselves in shortly after. They have been free on $100,000 bond since Aug. 6.

Walther approved amendments to each man's bond conditions that will allow them to travel outside Schleicher County but within Texas. On a motion of defense attorney Randy Wilson, Emack, a resident of Utah, received permission to go to his home state to bring a truck and tools back to Texas so he can work while awaiting trial.

"That's reasonable," Walther said during the hearing. "We want him to be able to work."

The Mormon splinter sect practices a form of polygamy involving "spiritual unions"

However, authorities have said that being married to more than one person - or purporting to do so - is against state law.

Tags: flds, polygamy

35 Mungiki sect members arrested in Kenya

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:04:44 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: “They have been charging us illegal fees and those who fail to pay the money are attacked and threatened with death,” one of the matatu operators said.

They said the sect followers usually strike in the evenings.

They said the Mungiki followers had sought refuge in the area after fleeing from other districts when they realised police were closing in on them.

Clip Source: www.nation.co.ke

Thirty five members of the proscribed Mungiki sect have been arrested after a confrontation with police officers.

A senior detective was injured in the weekend incident in Kirinyaga District. He was treated at a local hospital and discharged.

The sect members swooped on Kagumo Town on Saturday and attempted extorting Sh100 from each matatu plying the town’s roads.

When the matatu operators refused to pay up, the gangsters armed themselves with sticks and blockaded roads.

Police were informed and rushed to the scene. After a two-hour confrontation, the Mungiki adherents were forced to leave the area.

A senior sect leader was one of those arrested.

Area head of police Herbert Khaemba said the Mungiki raiders had come from Nairobi, Murang’a and other parts of the country.

“These are very dangerous people and we will not allow them to carry out their illegal activities in the district,” he said.

Matatu operators interviewed

narrated how the extortion cartels had made their lives miserable.

Tags: mungiki, kenya, cult

Uploaded Astrology-X Files

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:28:39 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: Zodiacal Aphesis and Planetary Period Chronocrators
Concerning Predeceasing of the Parents
A Brief History of Astrology
Concerning General Happiness and the Trigons
Birth Chart Elements
Significations of the Planets -
Calculating the Hellenistic Solar Return and Profections
Signification and Philosophy of the Greek Lots
Metaphysical Principles of the Planets
Finding the Hyleg and Alchocoden: Research in Life Expectancy
Indicators of Violent Death
The Use of Sect in a Birthchart

Clip Source: www.astrology-x-files.com

Uploaded Title and Description

Zodiacal Aphesis and Planetary Period Chronocrators

Concerning Predeceasing of the Parents

A Brief History of Astrology

Concerning General Happiness and the Trigons

Birth Chart Elements

Significations of the Planets -

Calculating the Hellenistic Solar Return and Profections

Signification and Philosophy of the Greek Lots

Metaphysical Principles of the Planets

Finding the Hyleg and Alchocoden: Research in Life Expectancy

7 Indicators of Violent Death

The Use of Sect in a Birthchart

Scientologists charged with fraud in France

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:02:04 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

A French judge has ordered two departments and seven prominent members of the Church of Scientology in France to stand trial on charges of organized fraud, a judicial source said on Monday.

The case is the latest in a series of legal battles that have pitted the French judicial system against the Scientologists, who could be forced to stop their activities in France if found guilty.

The latest suit centers on a complaint made in 1998 by a woman who said she was enrolled into the Church of Scientology by a group of people she met outside a metro station.

In the following months, she said she paid 140,000 francs (21,340 euros) for "purification packs" and books which she said were a fraud. Other complaints then surfaced, prolonging the investigation.

The Church of Scientology is registered as a religion in the United States but has struggled to be accepted in Europe, with French authorities seeing it as a sect masquerading as a church to make money.

Tags: scientology, religion, france, belief, legal, church, lawsuit

vietnam travel guide online 24/7

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:35:30 GMT

clipped by: vietravel247

Clip Source: www.vietravel247.com

There are eight towers near the Day Dieu and Va Quy slopes, among which one dates back to 1758. The relics of the first founder of Truc Lam Ch'an sect are also retained here. One of the towers’ platform is in the shape of a lotus flower with 102 petals. Inside the tower is the marble statue of the sect’s first founder.

World’s Gutter Governments To Sit In Judgment Over U.S. Human Rights Record

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:44:12 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: However, even in other highly advanced English speaking nations such as Australia and Canada, these offences can be defined in such a way as “disparaging” a religion. This can consist of claiming that the doctrines of your faith are superior to that of another sect under consideration such as in the case of a Canadian ministry that pointed out the shortcomings of the Watchtower Society and in the case of McClean’s Magazine where those pointing out the intentions of radical Islamists have been sued for racial defamation but no action has been taken against the aspiring Jihadists wanting to kill people.

Frankly, one could spend several lifetimes rifling through the human rights records of many of the nations on the U.N. Humans Rights Council and still not have the time to air America’s dirty laundry which is nothing more than a single used piece of toilet paper when compared to these cesspool countries.

Clip Source: mensnewsdaily.com

May 20, 2008 Washington Times article titled “U.N. Puts Its Scope On U.S. Racism”, this world body has sent an envoy to the United States to gather information regarding racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and “related intolerance”. According to others in the human rights industry, such as Freedom House, this category of protections does not limit itself to narrowly defined matters such as abridgements of free speech or mass killings and seizures of property but also includes healthcare, education, and equal justice for immigrants and minorities.

before we start badmouthing what is available in this great land for these particular classes of people (especially immigrants), perhaps we should take a look at the places from which the new arrivals came. For a toilet bowl might be a dramatic improvement if you just crawled up from the sewer. If they have it so poor here, why did they come here in the first place, and if it is not to their liking here, they are always free to go back

Tags: un investigation, racism in us, freedom house

Sarah Palin Wasilla Church: The President is a Representative of God

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:17:57 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: One word ... theocracy.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Sarah Palin's odd religious sect should NOT be a test of public office as she runs for Vice President, but given that John McCain and Sarah Palin have already made Palin's religion a campaign issue, it's a valid topic for public consideration (not as an electoral factor). The Wasilla Assemblies of God is holding, in one week, what it calls a Masters Commission in which prophecies for God and Alaska and the United States will be discussed. It seems that the church's leaders claim that God is "invading" Alaska and say that Wasilla is the key to God's plans for the entire world. It's hard to conclude that they are not talking about Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign.

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