Satanists, Atheists Passing Out Material in Fla. Public Schools

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The Satanic Temple and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have each announced plans to pass out their “literature” in public schools in Florida.

The New York-based Satanic Temple will distribute “pamphlets related to the [Satanic] Temple’s tenets, philosophy and practice of Satanism, as well as information about the legal right to practice Satanism in school.”

While the Satanic Temple says it has consulted with the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, FFRF has released a statement putting daylight between itself and the Satanic Temple, saying,

“FFRF does not believe that satanists or Christians or even atheists should be distributing literature to public school students…FFRF does not endorse the New York based Satanic Temple’s literature any more than we would endorse the bible or think it should be given to students. However, Orange County Public Schools cannot legally prevent the temple from distributing its literature.”

So here is a question: If the Freedom From Religion Foundation does not believe “even atheists” should be distributing material to public school students, why are they handing out anti-Christian literature in Florida schools? (more…)

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Half Our Voter’s Guides Are Gone! Order Yours Today–FREE!

Arkansas Voter's Guide

Last week I told you we needed to get rid of 30,000 printed copies of the Arkansas Voter’s Guide. So far roughly 15,000 of those guides have been ordered, meaning about 1/2 of our printed guides are already gone!

If you need printed copies of the Arkansas Voter’s Guide, don’t wait! Call our office at (501) 375-7000 today to request your free copy. We can send you as many copies as you need to pass around at work, at church, in Sunday school, or among your friends and neighbors.

If you live in Central Arkansas, feel free to come by our office in downtown Little Rock to pick up as many voter’s guides as you need. Call our office for directions, and let us know how many copies of the guide to have waiting for you.

Orders are coming in constantly, and the rest of our printed guides may go very quickly over the next few days. Don’t wait to order yours. Call us today or go to www.ArkansasVotersGuide.com.

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Lottery Proponents Don’t Understand Meaning of “Success”

Arkansas Lottery

How do you define a “successful” state lottery?

Is it the lottery that sells the most tickets? The lottery that has the highest gross revenue? What about the lottery that awards the most scholarships? Or the lottery that does the least amount of harm to the local economy?

I would argue there really is no such thing as a “successful” state lottery, because lotteries pull money out of the local community and drag the economy down. That said, however, I really don’t think lottery proponents have a clear understanding of what a “successful” state lottery is, even under their own terms.

When the Arkansas Lottery was pitched to voters, proponents promised it would be a “world class” lottery “for education.” It would “generate” money for college scholarships and help more Arkansans go to college.

They even named it the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. So in theory, the way you measure the Arkansas Lottery’s success is by the amount of scholarship money it pays out, right?

But that’s not the way lottery officials seem to measure its success at all. They are focused almost exclusively on gross ticket sales. This was underscored by a lottery consultant from Philadelphia who told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, yesterday, “Our objective … is to think about how we can get as many people to play the lottery as possible and spending really small amounts of money. We believe there is an opportunity for strong long-term sustainable, responsible growth.” (more…)

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