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  • Barbarism in America

    11/06/2009 6:51:36 AM PST · by Stoutcat · 19 replies · 512+ views
    Grand Rants ^ | 11-6-09 | Alan Speakman
    Does anyone wonder why Methodist Dick Cheney didn’t run over his own daughter when she came out of the (gasp) gay closet? Or why anaesthesiologist Capt. Mary Hanna didn’t decide to stage a massacre at her Army base because she had a resurgence of her Coptic Christian faith just before being deployed?
  • Judge: Doctor a Conscientious Objector

    10/06/2006 7:40:59 PM PDT · by SmithL · 26 replies · 934+ views
    AP ^ | 10/6/6
    BOSTON -- A federal judge ruled Friday that the Army was wrong to deny a doctor's application for conscientious objector status, and ordered that she be discharged. Dr. Mary Hanna, who had agreed to serve four years on active duty and another four years in the reserve in exchange for the Army's paying for her education, argued that her religious beliefs changed since she signed up for the Army program. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner agreed, writing, "it is clear from the evidence in the record that the act of serving in the Army violates Hanna's conscience." Hanna, 30, who...