GOP Extremism Is Not Palin’s Fault – Former W.H. Chief of Staff Is Mistaken
William M. Daly mistakenly claims the GOP’s “insanity” began when Senator John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008
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Hobby Lobby Owners Under Investigation for Illegally Acquiring Stolen Artifacts
The Green Family, owners of Hobby Lobby, if guilty, would seem to have one set of morals for others, and none for themselves
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Ben Carson Reassures the Faithful He’ll Only Screw Over Liberal Colleges When He’s President
Carson said “it’s not appropriate for public funding to be used to indoctrinate students in one direction” but it apparently is in the other
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Ben Carson Vows to Punish Liberal Colleges if Elected President
Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he doesn’t approve of – “extreme political bias” – otherwise known as facts.
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Ben Carson Says The Power of God is Behind His Presidential Campaign
Carson pulls out the old “God wills it” to sanctify his presidential campaign, saying critics fail to understand the power of God
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The Crazier He Sounds, The Less Money Mike Huckabee Gets
Mike Huckabee has dug his way into a hole only an extremist can dig, and he may not be able to get out of it as his campaign bleeds money
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California Law Prohibits Phony Pregnancy Centers From Lying And Evangelicals Are Furious
The Reproductive Fact ACT that forces faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to stop lying and stop posing as medical providers.
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Pro-Lifer Admits Regulating Women’s Sexuality, Not Abortion, Drives Planned Parenthood Attacks
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
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Faith-Based Phony Calls for Killing Non-Christians and Gays
Theodore Shoebat wants a “collectivisit society” to kill those non-Christians who don’t respect Christianity, and of course, all gay people
The GOP is Our Self-Made Punishment for Tolerating the Intolerable
The Republican Party has taken America for a nightmare ride, but this did not just happen overnight. We – Americans – let it happen
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Ben Carson Wants Muslim Civil Rights Group to Lose Tax-Exempt Status
CAIR criticized Carson’s claim that a Muslim should not be president and now Carson wants his revenge by revoking its tax-exempt status
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Clinton Impeachment Attorney Ken Starr Isn’t Jumping Up to Support Kim Davis
Ken Starr dished out some reality to a religious freed summit audience, cautioning them that choosing which laws to obey is problematic
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Michele Bachmann Says God Will Do Us Like Sodom, But the Real Threat is Republicans
More likely is man nailing his own planet. Republicans have a solid start on it, and they’d rather condemn gays than admit to global warming
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Ben Carson Tells Values Voters Even Christians Must Subjugate Their Beliefs to Constitution
Obviously, Carson himself does not subjugate his religious beliefs to the Constitution. No Republican candidate is willing to do that
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Donald Trump’s Phony Christian Routine Earns Boos at Values Voter Summit
Donald Trump told the crowd what a great Christian he is, right before he earned boos by attacking Marco Rubio in a very un-Christian way
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Colorado State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt Says Allah is Satan
When Muslims died in a crane collapse, Klingenschmitt said “this is the consequence of their sin when they were really praying to Satan.”
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Religious Right Encounters the Constitution and Tosses its Collective Cookies
The Religious Right had a bad week with Constitution. You wouldn’t think people could be this, well, dirt stupid, but they can, and they are
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CNN Host Drops U.S. Constitution Truthbomb on Ben Carson Supporter
Alisyn Camerota read the “No Religious Test” clause out loud and said, “Carson’s belief system violates that part of the Constitution”
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Bernie Sanders Outrages Evangelical Republicans With The Idea Of A Socialist Jesus
Evangelicals are incensed by ideas of a socialist Jesus, but facts are facts – Jesus, like Bernie Sanders, championed the poor, not the rich
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Kim Davis To Get an Award From Family Research Council for Excellence in Bigotry
Based on a fantasy version of the US Constitution, the Religious Right hails Kim Davis as a Savior and Gives her a Medal for Bigotry
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Donald Trump is Not as Popular with Evangelicals as He Lets On
Some Evangelicals are wiling to accommodate Trump, but Gallup shows religious people like Ted Cruz, and especially Ben Carson, even more
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Republicans Only Allowed Religious Experts To Testify In Planned Parenthood Trial
The Republicans’ witness list was “a veritable who’s who” of evangelical anti-women’s choice experts – but no medical experts
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GOP Race Gets Physical As Huckabee Aide Boxes Out Ted Cruz At Kim Davis Release Circus
A Huckabee staffer blocked Texas Senator Ted Cruz from getting on stage with law-defying Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis at her release party.
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Look Out! “General” Jerry Boykin Says Christians ARE the Government
Boykin claims “when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it” and pretend they’re the exact same thing
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David Barton’s Appalling Lie that the Constitution Puts God’s Law Above Man’s Law
Barton says the Founding Fathers were all about God’s law trumping man’s. The problem is, the idea is nowhere found in the U.S. Constitution
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Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution
Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that’s freedom of speech, not persecution
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Ted Cruz Urges Pastors to Join His War on Women
Thinking like a terrorist, Cruz wants pastors to help him radicalize their congregations to join his war on women with a pre-prepared sermon
Christian Democrats of America Say Republican Dominance of Christianity Ending
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
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Trump’s New National Co-Chairman Questioned His Moral Center in Emails
Trump’s new national co-chairman raised doubts about his “moral center” and his “foundational beliefs” lacking a foundation in Christ
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Planned Parenthood Strikes Back At Religious Bully Bobby Jindal
Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life
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Ted Cruz Launches Crusade to Defund Planned Parenthood in All 50 States
By Defunding Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz has shown that he plans to climb over the bodies of women to claw his way into the White House
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51 Christian Faith Leaders Smack Down Republicans By Supporting Obama on Iran
More and more groups have come forward to support the president. The latest is a group of 51 Christian leaders, who represent dozens of Christian denominations and organizations. In a letter to Congress, they voiced their support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as the best means of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran.
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Donald Trump Declares War on the War on Christmas
Donald Trump promises to go out of his way to use the word “Christmas” as he sees beyond liberty and assaults stuff having to do with that
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The Appalling Evil of the Religious Right and All its Works
Take a look at these people: the whole edifice of conservative Christianity is rotten, and that therefore all its fruits will be rotten
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John Kasich Claims He Doesn’t Read Bible to Figure Out What He Thinks
John Kasich does his best on CNN to come across as a religious moderate, but his policies reveal the appalling extent of his lies
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Donald Trump Praised For Not “Using” Evangelicals as Pawns
You have to wonder what bizarre alchemy is taking place when Trump is praised by Evangelicals. It turns out the explanation is not pretty
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Tony Perkins Says Muslim Immigrants Threaten Our Country from Within
People for the American Way reports that yesterday, Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins said that “legal immigration is a big problem” because “people that have come in from Muslim Countries” may “threaten our country from within.” Listen courtesy of Right Wing Watch: Apparently, Perkins thinks the military can’t protect us because he also claimed that…
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Cowardly Americans Tremble In Fear While A Courageous Nun Defends Women
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The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
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Donald Trump May Be the Worst Thing to Happen to the Religious Right
Trump doesn’t seem impressed by the Religious Right and has shown no signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter
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Christians Are Evangelicals’ New Enemy In Marriage Equality War
It is a sad fact of life that there are some human beings who cannot exist without expressing animosity, or worse, deep and extremely emotional dislike directed against individuals, groups or ideas. Indeed, hatred is nearly always associated with feelings of intense anger, unwarranted disgust and an unhealthy pre-disposition towards hostility and violence. It is…
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American Taxpayers Fund the Largest Christian College In America and the World
Using taxpayer-funded federal aid is a critical part of Liberty University’s business model to create a “uniquely Republican” education program
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Crazed Pastor Says “Sodomites” Have Stolen God’s Rainbow
If he’d read his Bible, he would see that what Jesus is probably mad about is catering to the rich, not the gay people he never mentions
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The Problem is Not Gays but the Religious Right’s Culture of Repression
Bart Barber argues that it is “too late to prevent this nation’s social experimentation by way of the removal of sexual taboos.”
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David Barton Rejects Retirement as a Pagan Concept
Were he being honest, or did his words bear an even passing resemblance to fact, I would say that I have never been more proud to be a Pagan
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New Report Reveals GOP-Aligned Extremists Are The Greatest Threat To Americans
There is hardly a bigger motivator than fear, and it is a fact not lost on Republicans who prey on Americans’ fear of all things not conservative, but especially those foreign “extremists.” Of course, some Americans are acutely aware that the biggest threat to their safety, and the nation, is from American extremists in the…
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Texas and South Carolina Take Two Very Different Views of the Confederate Flag
The State of Texas won’t allow the Confederate flag on its license plates, while South Carolina won’t even lower their’s to half-mast
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Hypocrisy Alert: Patriarchal Glenn Beck Says Gay Marriage is About Power
Beck, spokesman for patriarchal control, says “the [gay] agenda is control and the destruction of anyone else who disagrees,”
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The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution
If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you’re in the wrong country
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Michigan And North Carolina Republicans Enact Un-Constitutional Theocratic Laws
Today, more so than at any time in the nation’s history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the nation’s laws on the Christian religion to discriminate against Americans who do not fall into the mold of a religious Republican.
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Dorothy is Wrong – We ARE in Kansas – And it Sucks
Not only have the wheels started to come off democracy everywhere Republicanism reaches, but they have sold the damn wheels.
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Marco Rubio Says Marriage Equality a Real and Present Danger to Christianity
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
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Thwarted By House Committee, Jindal Imposes Religion on Louisiana by Executive Order
In one stroke of his pen, perversely pretending to be a defender of the First Amendment,Jindal turned Louisiana into a theocracy.
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One Bush is Like Another: Jeb Doesn’t Know. Jeb Doesn’t Care
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
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Limbaugh is Wrong: Gay Activists Didn’t Kill Christianity – Christianity Did
Rush Limbaugh blames gay activists for Christianity’s demise even while he is one of the people driving Americans away from organized religion
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Survey: Americans Prefer A Gay President Over An Evangelical
It turns out that not only are Americans not the least bit enamored at the prospect of an evangelical fanatic as president, they are, by a large majority (61%), much more supportive of a gay or lesbian occupying the White House than a religious Republican seeking to rule according to Christianity.
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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
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Fox & Friends: Priest Says Don’t Trust President Who Doesn’t Fear Eternal Damnation
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause
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Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God
Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa
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Where The States Stand On “Therapy” that Amounts to Brainwashing the Gay Away
When the President supported a nationwide ban on “Conversion Therapy”, he mentioned the idea of state solutions.
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Iowa FAMiLY LEADER Event Showcases Presidential Hopefuls’ Religious Bigotry
Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base
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Religious Right Leaders Threaten to “Rise Up” If they Don’t Get to Persecute Gays
Since the RFRA was revised, the Religious Right has gone full-tilt crazy with threats to “rise up” against their left-wing oppressors
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Jesus Respected Women – the GOP Just Wants to Screw Them
Jesus valued women and saw the need for money. Republicans value money and see little need for women beyond the need for sex
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Conservative Defense of Indiana’s Hateful RFRA is Awash in a Sea of Lies
Republican and Religious Right damage-control over Indiana’s RFRA is chaotic and entertaining, and as dishonest as the day is long
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Seattle Joins San Francisco in Banning City-Funded Trips to Indiana
The backlash against Indiana’s embrace of religious tyranny has expanded to include cities inside and outside Indiana
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A Religious Right Heretic Says Interfaith Dialog is Heretical
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
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Corporations Suddenly Don’t Have Religious Freedom if They Support Marriage Equality
Corporations apparently have religious freedom if they are against contraception, but they have no right to speak up about marriage equality
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The Entire GOP Field for 2016 is as Tainted as a Bucket of Rotten Meat
We are already well on our way to becoming a 13th century-ish, Islamic State-like apparatus of repression
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Donald Trump Can’t Figure Out Why Jews Support Obama
Donald Trump can’t figure out why Jews support Obama. That is because there is no room for Jews in conservative “Murica.”
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PFAW’s New Ad Calls Out the RNC for Israel Trip with Hate Group
PFAW says, “We deserve to know why Republicans continue to stand with this hate group after years of offensive statements by their leaders”
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The Republican Cult of the Penis Has Replaced Christianity
The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs
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Bryan Fischer Fired, but Jews Still Lack First Amendment Rights, Says AFA
The GOP has tied itself to a hate group – the AFA – which insists America is for Chrisitans only and Jews don’t have First Amendment rights
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Bobby Jindal Warns America: Our God Wins!
Saying no to Jindal’s God can get you killed, yet once upon a time, there was a woman who dared talk back to a white male missionary, and live
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Firing of Atlanta’s Anti-gay Fire Chief Puts Religious Right Hypocrisy on Display
“Equal rights for ALL Americans! The cultural cleansing of our nation must stop!” Except for gays and anyone else you decide is the Other
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Betty Bowers Looks at the Religious Right’s Best of 2014
Betty Bowers nails Dick Cheney by pointing out that for him, rectal feeding “is just eating through his mouth.” That explains a lot!
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In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights
NRA-Republicans Blocked Treaty Banning Arms Sales To Terrorists
One might wonder what kind of malcontent opposes a worldwide treaty that limits the transfer of conventional arms and battlefield components to evil dictators who promote and commit genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and attack civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals. In America, it is Republicans indebted to, and serving, the National Rifle Association.
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No, We Don’t Care If President Obama Goes to Church
Obama critics might take a moment to reflect that even though Obama does not go to church regularly, the economy is booming
CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
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Dick Cheney and Evangelical Christians Epitomize Dark Age Barbarism
Instead of shame and humiliation that this government condoned and defended myriad human rights violations, one of the architects of torture, Dick Cheney and several Bush officials hit the airwaves defending torture with overwhelming support from the religious right.
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McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
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Why it is Important Scott Lively Be Held Accountable for Wanting to Kill Gays
How long do you think it will be, if you can be murdered for being gay, before extremists go down the rest of the biblical list and find YOU there as well?
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The Rest Of The World Tries To Explain To Republicans How Good They Have It Under Obama
It is a damn wretched commentary on this nation’s voting public that people around the world are better-informed about America’s economic situation, and why it is leading the world still suffering Bush-Republican economic malfeasance and ineptitude.
Right-Wing Clergy Are Violating the Law With Impunity Right Up To Election Day
It is no great shock, then, that the religious right, staunch supporters of corrupt Republicans, are blatantly violating the law right up till Election Day and daring anyone to stop them because they know no-one will.
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Evangelical Vote Crusade Warns: Government Is ‘ISIS Attacking U.S. Christians’
Although the religious right has effectively, through the Catholic Supreme Court, eliminated the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment and wiped out religious freedom of non-evangelicals, women, and non-believers, they are still convinced they are facing an existential threat from the federal government.
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Hey Republicans, Hate and Bigotry are not Values, They’re Character Flaws
Rick Santorum claims if he hadn’t been persecuted into silence, he could have convinced millennials to be hateful bigots like he and his buddies
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Women-Hating Republicans Are Making a Major Effort to Appear Pro-Choice
Don’t believe Republicans. Ladies, if a Republican says he has your back, clench; it’s not because he wants to give you a back rub.
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Right-Wing Evangelicals Violate the Law and Campaign From the Pulpit
The organizers behind Pulpit Freedom Sunday do not even contend they are prohibited from preaching religion, they complain they cannot preach Republican politics and are seeking redress through the courts to use taxpayer dollars to campaign for Republicans.
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Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
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Right Wing Columnist Wants to Hang Women Who Have Abortions
For Williamson, facts are a “metaphysical dodge” and zygotes are people simply because he says so
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Ted Cruz Parlays His Execrable Behavior at Arab Christian Conference Into Martyrdom
“They persecuted the Prophets of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) who were speaking truth to power and these so-called Christians are persecuting Sen. Cruz in the same manner.”
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The Right’s Push to Deny Birth Control Is All About Controlling Women
The inspiration for Hobby Lobby, and 71 other “religious” corporations, to sue for a religious exemption of the contraception mandate is not about abortion, but about controlling women and inflicting consequences for not adhering to their Puritanical belief that women in their employ, can not, and will not, have sexual relations without paying a heavy price.
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On Independence Day Republicans Crusade To Eliminate the Rights of Half The Population
Republicans at all levels of government, at the behest of the religious right, have launched a vicious crusade to eliminate well over half the population’s liberty to control their own actions and the ability to choose how one conducts their life. It is beyond refute that the attacks on women’s sexuality and reproductive health.
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The Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Trojan Horse For All Businesses and Corporations
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
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Right-Wing Christians Take It To a New Low By Handing Out Guns In Churches
The notion of so-called Christians exposing themselves as the anti-Christs they really are is being played out in the drive to put more guns in the hands of more Americans, especially conservative Christian Americans; it is no surprise it is being advanced by right-wing Christian churches.
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Seattle Pacific University Shooting Hero Debunks The NRA’s Biggest and Most Bogus Claim
The bad guy with a firearm that gunned down four innocent students at Seattle Pacific University was stopped by a good guy with pepper spray; not a gun.
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Right-Wing Christians Ignore Republicans and Push Extreme Anti-Abortion Amendment in Tennessee
All of the Republicans interfering with personal health decisions are in league with extremist Christian organizations and corporations (Hobby Lobby et al) that demand authority be given to them to have complete control over a doctor and woman’s medical decisions; something that Tennessee voters, even Republican voters, overwhelmingly oppose
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The Republican Party Has Become a Haven For All Forms of Right Wing Extremism
The Pew survey should disabuse Americans of the notion that the teabagger or Republican movements are not havens for right wing extremism,.
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Creationists Respond to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos With Moronic Babble
Although fundamentalist Christians have no dearth of so-called tormentors, for the past eleven weeks their greatest enemy has been science in the person of Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Fox science documentary series Cosmos.
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Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate
The latest Republican to introduce legislation attacking women’s right to choose is Senator Lindsey Graham who attempted to bypass a committee and asked for unanimous consent to bring the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” up for a vote.
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The Religious Right Is Using Hatred To Try To Fundamentally Transform America
There is a relatively large contingent of disgruntled citizens who seriously hate this country with a passion, and yet instead of fleeing America for their concept of Utopia, are Hell-bent on transforming America into a land Europeans emigrating to America sought to escape.
