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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dixie*Darling on April 18, 2008, 08:00:53 PM
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http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL18258720080418?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on the home of the British prime minister at Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being "persecuted and prosecuted".
Organizers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer protection rules will remove key legal protection for "genuine" mediums.
They think skeptics might bring malicious prosecutions to force spiritualists to prove in court that they can heal people, see into the future or talk to the dead.
Psychics also fear they will have to give disclaimers describing their services as entertainment or as scientific experiments with unpredictable results.
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Protests, petitions and hands. What? No white light !?! No mirrors !?! It has to be fake then!
Ms. Cleo would have seen this coming! :whatever:
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Neither Ms. Cleo nor Dionne Warrick's Psychic Friends Network saw their own eventual demise coming.
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Oh yeah, and Johnny Smith didn't foresee the cancellation of The Dead Zone either.
But still I guess they are more accurate, overall, than the weathermen. The TV weathermen, not the terrorist group.
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I always wondered if Jeanne Dixon knew when she was going to die.
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Psychic Convention Next Month
You should know where and when.
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How come they didn't come out to complain about it last year?
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Being too zealous in protecting people from their own stupid beliefs is a dangerous road to go down, it leads all too easily to transforming Freedom of Religion into an aggressively-enforced Freedom from Religion.
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Being too zealous in protecting people from their own stupid beliefs is a dangerous road to go down, it leads all too easily to transforming Freedom of Religion into an aggressively-enforced Freedom from Religion.
H5! Without the freedom to fail and make mistakes, we never learn.
In Wisconsin there already is a bunch of nut-jobs who call themselves "Freedom From Religion Foundation" and this week they are up in arms about some prayer breakfast hosted by the sherrif's dept. I don't understand why they get covered in the news but they do.
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Being too zealous in protecting people from their own stupid beliefs is a dangerous road to go down, it leads all too easily to transforming Freedom of Religion into an aggressively-enforced Freedom from Religion.
H5! Without the freedom to fail and make mistakes, we never learn.
In Wisconsin there already is a bunch of nut-jobs who call themselves "Freedom From Religion Foundation" and this week they are up in arms about some prayer breakfast hosted by the sherrif's dept. I don't understand why they get covered in the news but they do.
LOL!
I canceled my State Journal subscription a few years back when they ran (Front page below the fold) the bleeding heart story about the poor woman who was forced by the terrible econmy into becoming a plant tender on what was the largest pot farm ever busted in WI history and then died in jail and wasn't it just APPALLING! :whatever:
And that was in what's supposed to be the "Conservative" paper.
The news departments on the local radio (except for IBA) are almost as bad.