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Waitaha penguin

2011-08-27T11:56:10Z

JeffWang:

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United States of America

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Americas

2011-08-27T11:52:20Z

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Dark Ages

2011-08-27T11:50:50Z

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Gospel Translation

2011-08-27T11:50:48Z

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Real price

2011-08-27T11:50:11Z

JeffWang:

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Secretary of Veterans Affairs

2011-08-27T11:50:08Z

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American History Homework Four

2011-08-27T11:50:05Z

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William Quantrill

2011-08-27T11:50:03Z

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

2011-08-27T11:48:55Z

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User:ZackMartin

2011-08-27T11:48:00Z

JeffWang: lol, don't stop vandals cus then they vandle your page lolol

I think the main problem with Wikipedia is NPOV (neutral point of view) — in reality, no one can agree on what a neutral point of view is.

I think a much better approach is to have several encyclopedias with competing viewpoints (POVs).

I don't really share Conservapedia's viewpoint, but I don't want to sabotage it either. I think the more POV-specific encyclopedia choices, the better — whether they are my POV or not. Let's have a free market of encyclopedias.

I have written several articles for [http://astorehouseofknowledge.info A Storehouse of Knowledge], I have copied some here when I think they would fit in with this site. I am careful however to only copy what I have written, not any edits by other people.

I identify as a religious liberal — my religion is [http://sites.google.com/site/maratreans/ Maratreanism] — I disagree with the average conservative on many issues, e.g. I support same-sex marriage and I strongly oppose the death penalty; but one thing I do have in common with many Conservapedia editors, is a disagreement with atheism, especially organized atheism. So I am hopeful I can contribute positively to articles on the topic of atheism.
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User talk:ZackMartin

2011-08-27T11:47:11Z

JeffWang:

{{Welcome|sig=--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 21:31, 26 March 2011 (EDT)}}

:Welcome! In reply to your comment on User:Maratrean, I don't specifically recall any disagreement with "A Storehouse of Knowledge," though it's possible there was a discussion about it. I welcome other wikis and approaches to providing knowledge and insights over the internet, and I have no quarrel with other efforts that disclose their point-of-view.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:41, 27 March 2011 (EDT)
::It's irrelevant anyway, I just deleted the sentence in question. --[[User:Maratrean|Maratrean]] 00:56, 27 March 2011 (EDT)

== suggestion/request ==

Could you significantly expand the [[Definition of atheism]] article so it incorporates some of this information:

http://creation.com/atheism-a-religion

http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/Kitzmiller%27s_error_summary.pdf

http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/Kitzmiller%27s_Error.pdf

If you choose to do this, let me know when you are done and I can make it the article of the week.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:17, 8 July 2011 (EDT)
:::You can contact me here: http://www.conservapedia.com/User:Conservative/messages If I am slow to respond, ask Admin RobS to contact me via email and that will expedite things. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:18, 8 July 2011 (EDT)

== other atheism articles ==

If you want to spearhead a project like this for atheism, go ahead and create one and I will feature it on the main page of Conservapedia: [[Conservapedia:Pro-life Project]]

Here is where you can create such a project: [[Conservapedia: Atheism Project]]

Below are some suggested articles if you want to spearhead such a project:

*[[Atheism symbols]]
*[[Soviet atheism]]
*[[Soviet realism and atheism]]
*[[Atheism organizations]]
*[[Atheism activists]]
*[[Atheism 1960s]]
*[[Atheism 1970s]]
*[[Atheism and consciousness]]
*[[Christian response to atheism]]
*[[Psychology of atheism]]
*[[Essay: Who is the father of atheism?]]
*[[Atheism and homosexuality]]
*[[Atheism and sexuality]]
*[[Four Horsemen of atheism]]
*[[Atheism and the founding fathers]]
*[[Atheism in popular culture]]
*[[Atheism vs. theism in education]]
*[[Isaac Newton and atheism]]
*[[Decline of atheism]]
*[[Difference between pantheism and atheism]]
*[[Atheism statistics]]
*[[Teenage atheism]]
*[[Atheism and logic]]
*[[Atheism in the media]]

[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:47, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

== Quick Question ==

Do you want to further develop the [[Definition of atheism]] and for me to spotlight the article on the main page when you are done? I offered some suggestions.

Or are you done working on the article and I should spotlight it ASAP. I do think that if it were more fully developed it would rank high at the search engines and receive more traffic. I do think that although there is not a perfect correlation with quality informational content ranking high at the search engines, there is a correlation nonetheless. I am assuming you would prefer that your work be read by more readers all other things remaining equal.

Please let me know what you want me to do. I do want to honor the promise I believe I made to you. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 03:47, 13 July 2011 (EDT)
:Hi Conservative, thanks. I can't personally think of anything else to add, but if you can think of anything let me know. Otherwise, yes, you can spotlight it, thank you. [[User:Maratrean|Maratrean]] 20:30, 15 July 2011 (EDT)
:::I will make it the article of the week soon. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:35, 15 July 2011 (EDT)
:::::Please feel free to remind me if I drop the ball. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:36, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

== I put your Conservapedia Atheism Project on the main page ==

I put your [[Conservapedia:Atheism Project]] on the main page. Plus, I added more potential articles to write. If you need more article ideas, I can generate more. If you want to help make Conservapedia move closer to being the definitive resource on atheism on the internet, the more high quality articles the better. Best wishes with your project. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:57, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

== Featured your definition of atheism article, which if memory serves, I believe I promised to do ==

Featured your [[definition of atheism]] article as article of the week, which if memory serves, I believe I promised to do. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:59, 23 July 2011 (EDT)
:::Someone made another article the article of the week and there may have been a committee decision concerning this matter. I wanted to keep my promise to you in a prompt manner so I made your article the "atheism article of the week". [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:27, 24 July 2011 (EDT)

== i just signficantly expanded the range of atheism articles requested/suggested and... ==

I just significantly expanded the articles requested for the [[Conservapedia:Atheism Project]]. I think you might find some of the articles interesting to write about. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 09:32, 24 July 2011 (EDT)

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good luck reverting the vandalism, peace

Family

2011-08-27T11:41:37Z

JeffWang:

Family is those kind of persons who come over when you least expect it. Conversations like these might occur:

* *''ding dong''*
** *''opens door''*
* oh helloh thar, g'day maet
** Oh, I didn't expect you to come
* Yeah people say that to me more often

and in such cases you turned a talk with an unexpected guest into a sexual conversation. Good luck trying it out, peace

Religion

2011-08-27T11:38:57Z

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Definition of atheism

2011-08-27T11:35:54Z

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#REDIRECT[[Islam]]

Problem of Evil

2011-08-27T11:34:52Z

JeffWang:

The so-called '''problem of evil''' is a topic of much debate in [[theology]] and the [[philosophy]] of [[religion]]. Many [[atheist]]s base their views to some degree on their assessment of this argument's strength:

[[God]] is, according to accounts given by the holy texts of most monotheistic religions, [[omniscience|omniscient]], [[omnipotence|omnipotent]] and [[omnibenevolence|omnibenevolent]].

# An omniscient being knows all the true propositions, including those which describe all the [[evil]] that exists.
# A [[benevolence|benevolent]] person seeks to prevent evil from befalling others, to the extent that he or she knows of it and can do something about it (ought implies can), and an ''omnibenevolent'' being never strays from this goal.
# However, an omnipotent being has the power to prevent evil from befalling persons.
# Given 1, 2 and 3, we would expect that God should prevent evil from occurring. However, we know evil occurs from time to time.
# Therefore, God lacks at least one trait usually ascribed to Him or else does not exist at all.

This is an example of an [[inconsistent triad]].
== Is the Argument Sound? ==

As with all logical arguments, we must ask if the premises of the "argument from evil" are true. If one or more premise is false, then an argument does not constitute a good reason for believing its conclusion.

The argument can be dismissed if one is willing to drop one or more of its premises: that God is omniscient, that God is omnipotent, that God is omnibenevolent, or that evil exists.

'''Rejecting omnipotence:'''

If God is not all powerful, then his ability to constrain all evil in any given moment is limited.

'''Rejecting Omnibenevolence:'''

If God is not all good, then evil may exist.

'''Rejecting the existence of evil:'''

Perhaps evil does not exist - a view taken by [[Augustine]] who classified evil as a [[privation]]. Perhaps we call those things we do not like 'moral evils' without justification. But it strikes at the heart of our intuitions about what it means for something to be morally wrong if something like the torture of innocent children would not count.

Also, rejecting the existence of evil would appear to contradict Scripture: ''I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].'' (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)

Although denying any one of the premises is sufficient to deflate the argument, such a move is not likely to satisfy a theist who wants to preserve the rationality of believing in the God as described in scripture. Thus, most theists do not attempt such a strategy.

== Is the Argument Logically Valid? ==

If a deductive argument is valid, the conclusion ''must be'' true if the premises are true. If it turns out that the conclusion is false while all the premises are true, then one has exposed an "argument" as invalid. Many theists think the argument from evil is logically invalid, meaning that the conclusion (God does not exist) does not necessarily follow from the premises (which theists tend to accept as true).

One who objects to the conclusion along these lines might say something like the following:

If allowing some evil serves a greater good, then allowing that evil is not by itself inconsistent with the existence of an omnibenevolent God. In other words, it is possible that an event that we observe as "evil" is, invisible to us, an event which serves the greater good.

Theists point to many possible explanations, called theodicies, that attempt to show how some greater good is achieved by allowing some evil. Some common examples:

*God allows evil in order to allow for soul-making - the process by which humans grow spiritually, from self-centered beings to moral beings who have compassion for others.
*God allows evil because it is necessary for the existence of free will.
*God allows evil so that we may come to see what life is like for human creatures when they have separate themselves from God and His will.

An atheist usually replies to such explanations by reminding the theist that each explanation's plausibility depends on one already believing in God. Thus, using simple theodicies as arguments against the logical validity of the problem of evil amounts to circular reasoning, in which the claim to be proved is assumed true at the beginning. Circular reasoning does not imply the claim is false, but it is a logical error. Therefore, theodicies cannot give anyone ''more'' reason(s) to believe that God exists than they already possessed.

An alternative reply that a theist might offer attempts to compare the finite pains associated with human existence to the infinite bliss of heaven. Given that the reward for the faithful is immeasurable bliss for eternity, then any amount of finite pain caused in a finite time period is vanishingly irrelevant.

A likely reply to ''this'' like of objection is that such a calculus illegitimately treats human persons as objects that can be manipulated to one's own ends so long as one returns the favor at a later date. It is utterly implausible that a person would be justified in enslaving another for a year, even if their plan was to give the victim a billion dollars in compensation afterwards. To treat a human in such a way is to lack respect for humanity's essential nature: we are autonomous moral agents who are ends in ourselves, rather than means to ends.

== Free Will ==

The twentieth century saw the rise of a "reformed" philosophy of religion, spearheaded primarily by Alvin Plantinga, a prominent professor at Notre Dame. Plantinga introduced, in his 1967 work ''God and Other Minds'', a defense of theism that counters the argument of evil with several observations about freedom of will. Rather than trying to give a moral justification for evil, Plantinga prefers to establish only that the existence of God and evil are jointly ''possible''.

Plantinga argues that God has a sufficient reason to allow some moral evil: only in this way can He make possible the greater moral good of human freedom. Thus, Plantinga opposes theological compatiblism - the view that God can allow human freedom and prevent moral evil. If he is right, theological compatiblism is incoherent; and could be likened to the claim that 'God can make a color that is bluer than blue.'

Plantinga's view hinges on the claim that even God cannot ensure free moral agents always do the right thing:

Suppose God creates an agent with the intent that this agent freely chooses good all the time. Now, if the agent is to ''freely'' choose some good, he must actually be free to choose it or to refrain from choosing it. Further suppose that there is a world - the world God wants to make actual - in which that agent does choose the good all the time. This world can only be made actual if its predecessor - a "world segment" that includes all of the world's states of affairs save the agent's choice - is first made actual (before it can be true that an agent chooses the right thing in a situation, the agent must be presented with the situation at hand). But if a world segment is made actual, then, if the agent is free with respect to the decision that must be made, God cannot control whether the agent will ''freely'' choose to do right or wrong. The upshot is that theological compatiblism must be false - for God to determine that an agent will do right all the time is inconsistent with that agent freely choosing to do right all the time. "God determines that an agent must freely choose to do right" is analogous to "God creates a married bachelor."

Plantinga furthers his defense in ''God, Freedom and Evil.'' If it is ''logically possible'' that all agents are depraved (will go wrong with respect to some action or other) in any world in which they exist, then it is logically possible that God could, no matter which agents he caused to exist, never create a world with human freedom and no moral evil.<br><br>

He thinks there is no reason to question the possibility of "transworld depravity," and thus concludes that his defense fends off the problem of evil. Many philosophers - both theistic and atheistic - agree with this assessment{{who says}}, although there is no settled consensus. The problem of evil will not likely go away so easily, as the matter of non-moral evils (diseases, predation and natural disasters, for instance) cannot be solved by Plantinga's defense alone.

== References ==

*Plantinga, Alvin: ''God and Other Minds'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967).
*Plantinga, Alvin: ''God, Freedom and Evil'' (Grand Rapids: Eerdman's Publishing Co, 1977).

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Pope Anacletus

2011-08-27T11:34:11Z

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Anacletus was the third [[Pope]], about whom little is known with certainty save that he died a martyr, perhaps in AD 91. <ref>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01446a.htm</ref>

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James Whale

2011-08-27T11:32:29Z

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'''James Whale''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot.

Walt Whitman

2011-08-27T11:15:00Z

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'''Walt Whitman''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot.

James Whale

2011-08-27T11:15:00Z

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'''James Whale''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot.

Allan Bloom

2011-08-27T11:14:49Z

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"'''Allan Bloom''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."Deceased author of ''[[Closing of the American Mind]]''.

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Gary Burton

2011-08-27T11:14:08Z

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"'''Gary Burton''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."Gary Burton (b. January 23, 1943) is a famous vibraphonist whose work in the jazz and fusion industries have made him one of the most recognizable names in the percussion world today. He has collaborated with artists such as Chick Corea, with whom he has released some of his best selling albums. <ref>http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33871</ref> His work has won 6 Grammy awards and 11 other nominations where he did not win.

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

William S. Burroughs

2011-08-27T11:14:02Z

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"'''William S. Burroughs''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."'''William S. Burroughs''' (1914 - 1997) was an [[American]] writer. He attended [[Harvard University]].

Some of his books are: ''The Adding Machine, Exterminator, Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, The Naked Lunch, and The Western Lands''.

== External links ==

*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wbburrou.htm William (Seward) Burroughs (1914-1997)]

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Guy Burgess

2011-08-27T11:13:54Z

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"'''Guy Burgess''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."'''Guy Burgess''' was a [[Soviet]] [[spy]] recruited by [[Arnold Deutsch]]; see [[Cambridge Five]].

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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]

Derren Brown

2011-08-27T11:13:25Z

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"'''Derren Brown''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."'''Derren Brown''' is a [[British]] [[hypnotist]] and [[magician]]. He is famous for using subtle tricks of the mind to encourage people to do things they may not ordinarily do such as accepting fake bank notes or handing over their wallets. Some of his more notorious tricks involve using subliminal messages to get people to carry out armed robberies then showing them later what they have done under his suggestion.
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Fred Barnes

2011-08-27T11:12:09Z

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"'''Fred Barnes''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."[[Image:Headshot_barnes.jpg‎|right|225px|]]'''Frederic W. Barnes''' (born 1943) <ref>http://www.nndb.com/lists/942/000105627/</ref> is a [[conservative]] political commentator who serves as an executive editor of the [[The Weekly Standard]] and regular on the [[Fox News Channel]]. Previously he was co-host of "The Beltway Boys," along with [[Mort Kondracke]]. Barnes is also the executive editor of Roll Call.

After serving in the U.S. Army he attended the [[University of Virginia]] and [[Harvard University]]. He went on to become a senior editor and White House correspondent for [[The New Republic]] from 1985 to 1995, and later a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group" public affairs television program. Barnes was a staunch defender of the [[Bush administration]]'s [[foreign policy]] and author of ''Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of [[George W. Bush]]''.

Fred Barnes has made cameo appearances as himself in ''Dave'' (1993) and ''Independence Day'' (1996).

==External links==
*[http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/fred-barnes/ Biography at Foxnews.com]

==References==
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Samuel Barber

2011-08-27T11:11:57Z

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"'''Samuel Barber''' had steamy gay sex with [[Andrew Schlafly]], who pretends to be conservative but is in fact a raging faggot."'''Samuel Barber''' (Mar 9,1910 - Jan 23 1981) was an American [[composer]] of [[classical music]], born in West Chester, PA. He studied composition, and as a singer, at the [[Curtis Institute]], 1924-32, where he first won acclaim.

His music is romantic and accessible, and he is one of the most popular American composers world wide, both in the concert hall and on recordings. "Adagio for Strings", his reworking for string orchestra, of the second movement of his String Quartet (1936), is a universal favorite. He also arranged it for choir as a setting of the 'Agnus Dei'. His Violin Concerto (1940) is also frequently programmed, and often recorded. His 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915' for soprano and orchestra is a musical invocation of an era.

His works include: 3 [[opera]]s, 2 [[ballet]]s, many pieces for solo voice or choir, much chamber and instrumental music, 2 symphonies, concertos for various instruments, and smaller orchestral pieces.<ref>The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music</ref>

==References==

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[[category:composers|Barber,Samuel]]

==External links==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g Performance of Barber's Adagio in honor of the victims of 9/11]

Rick Perry

2011-08-26T00:22:02Z

JeffWang:

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'''James Richard "Rick" Perry''' (b. 1950) is the current governor of Texas and has served as the [[Republican]] Governor of [[Texas]] since December 2000, when he succeeded then-Governor [[George W. Bush]]. He was then elected to full four-year terms the following three elections, in 2002, 2006, and 2010. He easily won an unprecedented third term in November 2010, after defeating by a wide margin the [[RINO]] Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in the GOP primary in March.

In August 2011, Perry entered the [[presidential election 2012|2012 race for President]]. His key positions include rejection of the theory of man-made [[global warming]], equal time for [[creationism]] and [[evolution]] in schools, pro-[[Second Amendment]], and [[pro-life]] with exceptions.

==Career==
A former Democratic state legislator who became a Republican in 1989, Perry was elected to a full term as governor in 2002, which he served, and then reelected to another full term in 2006 with only 39 percent of the vote. Previously he served as the agriculture commissioner (1991-1999), reflecting his background as a college graduate with a degree in animal science.
==Controversies==
He was much criticized concerning his attempt in early 2007 to mandate by executive order the [[HPV vaccine]] for young girls as a condition of entering school. Defiant, Perry then felt he had no choice but to sign a bill overriding his mandate because it had been passed by a huge majority in both houses of the legislature.

He was criticized by the ''Dallas Morning News'' for traveling to Turkey in early June 2007 to give a speech to a "secret forum" on the topic of [[federalism]], which is not even a topic on which Perry has any established expertise.<ref>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-perry_31tex.ART.State.Edition1.43b926a.html</ref>

On June 15, 2007, Perry vetoed nearly 50 bills in one day. He also asked that legislators quit wasting their time and start passing more conservative bills, especially restricting freedom of movement for radical homosexual activists, in order to prevent harm to young people from their vile propaganda.<ref>http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/138969.html here</ref>.

House Bill 2006 would have added protections to property owners facing eminent domain proceedings and it was vetoed.

In 2009, Perry drew fire for numerous statements that suggested Texas' legal right to secede from the union if it wanted to, a long-discredited legal interpretation which was the main argument of the terrorist [[Republic of Texas]] movement.<ref>[http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/04/17/0417gop.html "Governor says Texas is one state that could leave union, though he's not pushing it"]</ref> While such statements were viewed with favor by the Texas Republican party and helped him win the 2010 gubernatorial election, it is unclear whether they will come back to haunt his 2012 election prospects.

His prayer rally scheduled for August 5, 2011 has been strongly attacked by the left as a violation of the so called "separation of church and state," which is actually a liberal misreading of the constitution<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/opinion/how-to-respond-to-rick-perrys-response.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp "How to respond to Rick Perry's 'Response'"]</ref> True, however, is that Perry's tithing and charitable giving combined make up a paltry 0.5% of his salary, as investigative reporting by the Houston Chronicle has shown.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/new/7607414.html "Perry puts faith on display but offers little for collection plate"]</ref> His office's response to this story was "he refuses to talk about his faith."

== References ==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ Official Website]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnG_njvuoyA The Left Is "Never Going To Like Us, So Let's Stop Trying To Curry Favor With Them"]

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