BrainStream: Due to my extreme laziness

Due to my extreme laziness crossed with my sick desire to be online all the time, I wrote a script that, should my firewall get rebooted and DHCP a new IP while I'm away from my home network, it would be emailed to me. I wrote it primarily because I'm going away this weekend and I need full access to the Windows 2000 machine running WinFax. This way, along with PCAnywhere, I can send and receive faxes just as if I were at home.

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BrainStream: Is anyone else getting disturbed

Is anyone else getting disturbed by the increase of religion and religious influences in government? Ok, ok....so maybe the main reason I keep a close eye on this issue is because the religion I choose to practice is unrecognized by the current administration. However everywhere I seem to look lately, decisions and statements are being influenced by politicians religious preference.

The first and likely the most eggregious is the statements of the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore who said "that homosexuality is abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature." and allegedly quoted scripture to back his view. Of course, this is the same judge who has fought to have a 5,280 pound monument depicting the Ten Commandments in Alabama's Judicial Building.

The next issue is President Bush and Sen. Joseph Leiberman's "Faith-Based Initiative". I think faith-based charity and aid organizations are great - they do some excellent work. But please let the public support them on their own - they've been doing a great job so far. You want to fund charity and aid organizations? Then figure out a way to define these specific religious organizations as such. Don't open the government to linking itself with any specific religions.

Last, but not least, is the religious nature of our Attorney General, John Ashcroft. This is our nation's chief law enforcement officer - someone who, of all people, should go by the book and not personal moral or religious beliefs and he's holding Bible study in the Justice Department.

The seperation of Church and State was done for a reason. We need to keep that seperation because not only does it effect US citizens, but it also effects how the world sees us. Frankly, I don't think it would be wise to be perceived as a Christian state when it comes to international affairs due to the precarious nature of our current relations with *ahem* the axis of evil and surrounding countries.

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