United States elections 2024: Donald Trump Wins
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EugeneP
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He is a Rabbi, just praying. He is not legislating. Chaplains pray routinely in the House (of Representatives). Sometimes they invite leaders of other faiths too - Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh have all prayed in the Congress.
Hamartia Antidote
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Remember everybody the Democrats call the Republicans "the nutjobs with the guns"
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A space rocket program manager butchered her father with an ice ax on election night after a breakdown following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory — and was found smiling and clapping, covered in her loved one’s blood, cops said.
Corey Burke considered the bloody rampage — in which she allegedly strangled, bit and hacked her 67-year-old father in the $800,000 Seattle home they shared — an “act of liberation,” charging documents allege.
Burke, 33, is a training program manager at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft company, according to her LinkedIn, and is married to prominent transgender writer Samantha Leigh Allen, public records show
Corey Burke, 33, allegedly killed her father with an ice ax after the pair got into an argument over keeping the lights off on Election Day.
Corey Burke (left) is married to trans writer Samantha Allen (right), an editor for Them magazine.Facebook/Corey Burke
Allen is the author of the acclaimed book “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States” and an editor at Them, a Conde Nast transgender news publication.
The killing was meant to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and “had to happen today,” Burke told police, her face covered in her father’s blood, according to court documents.
Burke had been upset about the election and knew Trump would handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris when she allegedly snapped — apparently when her father, Timothy Burke, refused to turn off the lights.
She then went upstairs, grabbed an ice “pickax,” tripped her father, choked and bit him on the floor, and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool, police said.
Burke sat down next to her father and watched him die, then smashed all the windows in the house in what she described as “an act of liberation,” officers reported.
When cops arrived, they found Burke “clapping … because she was so happy.”
Burke has worked at Blue Origin for about five years, according to her LinkedIn page, and lived with her father in a house in south Seattle.
Burke told police she had a strained relationship with her father without strong “boundaries” that had left her feeling “hyperfocused and disorganized.”
Trump’s election victory “overwhelmed” her and finally pushed this tension to the breaking point, she said.
When officers arrived, she came out of the house with her hands up and blood smeared on her face, but she said she didn’t have any idea where the blood came from or who had smashed the windows.
She later described the dispute with her father over the lights, eventually whispering “I killed him” to one officer, charging documents said.
Burke has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $2 million bail.
Wife of prominent trans writer hacked father to death with ice ax after Trump’s election night victory: cops
When the cops arrived, they found Corey Burke “clapping … because she was so happy.”
nypost.com
Wife of prominent trans writer hacked father to death with ice ax after Trump’s election night victory: cops
A space rocket program manager butchered her father with an ice ax on election night after a breakdown following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory — and was found smiling and clapping, covered in her loved one’s blood, cops said.
Corey Burke considered the bloody rampage — in which she allegedly strangled, bit and hacked her 67-year-old father in the $800,000 Seattle home they shared — an “act of liberation,” charging documents allege.
Burke, 33, is a training program manager at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft company, according to her LinkedIn, and is married to prominent transgender writer Samantha Leigh Allen, public records show
Corey Burke, 33, allegedly killed her father with an ice ax after the pair got into an argument over keeping the lights off on Election Day.
Corey Burke (left) is married to trans writer Samantha Allen (right), an editor for Them magazine.Facebook/Corey Burke
Allen is the author of the acclaimed book “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States” and an editor at Them, a Conde Nast transgender news publication.
The killing was meant to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and “had to happen today,” Burke told police, her face covered in her father’s blood, according to court documents.
Burke had been upset about the election and knew Trump would handily beat Vice President Kamala Harris when she allegedly snapped — apparently when her father, Timothy Burke, refused to turn off the lights.
She then went upstairs, grabbed an ice “pickax,” tripped her father, choked and bit him on the floor, and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool, police said.
Burke sat down next to her father and watched him die, then smashed all the windows in the house in what she described as “an act of liberation,” officers reported.
When cops arrived, they found Burke “clapping … because she was so happy.”
Burke has worked at Blue Origin for about five years, according to her LinkedIn page, and lived with her father in a house in south Seattle.
Burke told police she had a strained relationship with her father without strong “boundaries” that had left her feeling “hyperfocused and disorganized.”
Trump’s election victory “overwhelmed” her and finally pushed this tension to the breaking point, she said.
When officers arrived, she came out of the house with her hands up and blood smeared on her face, but she said she didn’t have any idea where the blood came from or who had smashed the windows.
She later described the dispute with her father over the lights, eventually whispering “I killed him” to one officer, charging documents said.
Burke has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $2 million bail.
Davey Crockett
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Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall delivered the first Jewish prayer in Congress on February 1, 1860:
Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall
Prayer
"Thou who makest peace in Thy high heavens, direct their minds this day that they may, with one consent, choose the man who, without fear and without favor is to preside over their assembly"
Media coverage
Reported in the Alexandria Gazette, New York Times, and Philadelphia Press
Raphall's prayer was the result of an invitation from the speaker of the House to Rabbi Solomon Landsburgh of Washington Hebrew Congregation. Landsburgh, however, recommended Raphall because he didn't think he was fluent enough in English to address Congress.
The practice of rabbis praying in Congress became less controversial as more rabbis participated. Since 1860, 635 rabbis have prayed in Congress, and about seven or eight have prayed each year since World War II.
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First 150 years of Congress, a rabbi did a short prayer about every two years.
Today, seven to eight times a year.
I am not ok with that.
Hamartia Antidote
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Plus the Christian one is almost daily.
I'm against them both. People are just opening themselves up to precedents which will be difficult to undo.
Who knows what crazy religion will be popular 100 years from now to such a degree that they will substitute it for the current ones.
Are we going to be doing "flying spaghetti monster" prayers?
If you don't want to hear that in the future people should desist using the current ones.
Anytime there is question about religion in government we should be substituting the case in of the "flying spaghetti monster".
Want a Christmas nativity scene on the Whitehouse Lawn? Well you better like a Pastafarianism scene on it 100 years from now.
Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia
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EugeneP
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But most Americans are OK with it. We put "In God We Trust" on money. We even have a National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
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EugeneP
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I am not particularly religious, but I believe people should have what they want. If a majority of Americans (or even a significant minority) adopt Pastafarianism, we should probably have that.Plus the Christian one is almost daily.
I'm against them both. People are just opening themselves up to precedents which will be difficult to undo.
Who knows what crazy religion will be popular 100 years from now to such a degree that they will substitute it for the current ones.
Are we going to be doing "flying spaghetti monster" prayers?
If you don't want to hear that in the future people should desist using the current ones.
Anytime there is question about religion in government we should be substituting the case in of the "flying spaghetti monster".
Want a Christmas nativity scene on the Whitehouse Lawn? Well you better like a Pastafarianism scene on it 100 years from now.
Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Hamartia Antidote
Elite Member
Well the US Government is suppose to weigh equally the rights of the few (represented by the Senate) against the rights of the many (represented by the House).
EugeneP
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But the right to practice any faith, even Pastafarianism, is protected by the First Amendment. So, unless it violates others' rights (or other rights), Pastafarianism is Constitutionally firm. As firm as Christianity or Judaism.
KingSlayr
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I’m not gonna lie, you seem like a Fed trying to entrap folks on here. I don’t understand why the Mods let you post your BS left and right. Don’t even understand why you’re here,
Specifically on this forum spewing the crap that you do
Hamartia Antidote
Elite Member
Yes, but if all are equal shouldn't we have a row of 100+ different faith's emblems up on every government building? The list would be forever increasing as people would start creating religions just to have their name on equal footing next to the others.
All or nothing...no such thing as favorites..."top 5"
ain't cutting it either.
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EugeneP
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That is where common sense kicks in and only those faiths that have meaningful popular practice get to be in public and private communal spaces. For example, 60 years back, there was no Ramadan or Diwali acknowledgement in the White House, where it is now routine.
This was issued in 2001:
This came in 2016
This too
Hamartia Antidote
Elite Member
So you are going to be like the old Twitter and Cancel Culture the "nobodys". haha!!! That's not going to work.
Davey Crockett
Elite Member
AI Overview:
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which established religious freedom in Virginia and removed the Church of England as the official religion of the state:
When it was written
Jefferson wrote the bill in 1777, and it was proposed in the Virginia legislature in 1779.
When it was passed
The Virginia legislature passed the law in 1786, and it was signed into law on January 19, 1786.
What it established
The statute established that no one could be forced to support or attend religious worship, and that people could freely practice their religion. It also stated that people's religious beliefs could not affect their civil rights.
What it included
The statute included a preamble that affirmed that God created the mind free. It also included a declaration that the rights established in the statute were natural rights of mankind.
How it was received
Jefferson considered the statute to be one of his most important accomplishments, and he was prouder of it than of being the third President. The statute had a significant international impact, and Jefferson had copies published in Europe.
How it's celebrated
January 16, the day the statute passed the Virginia Senate, is celebrated as Religious Freedom Day.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which established religious freedom in Virginia and removed the Church of England as the official religion of the state:
82. A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 18 June 1779
Founders Online: 82. A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 18 June 1779
82. A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 18 June 1779
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