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Hate Group Leader Calls on Trump to Lead Witch-Hunt of Pro-LGBT Officials
Trump needs to make clear “’activists’ within the State Department promoting” pro-LGBT policies “will be ferreted out and will be replaced”
Tagged Tony Perkins
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Trump Helped Fracture The Religious Right – Not Break It
The fault lines among evangelicals that the election of 2016 has exposed are likely to reshape national politics for years to come.
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GOP Platform Committee Embraces A Purely Puritanical Agenda
Republicans will end up with a platform that will be Victorian in its moralizing and deeply critical the modern American family.
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Tony Perkins Complains Haters are Being Forced into “Spiritual Ghettos” Because They Can’t Persecute People
“We see the left creating these spiritual ghettos where we are forced into…trying to quarantine faith so it’s more easily controllable.”
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Religious Right Leaders Say No Cruz, No More America
They’re falling over themselves with dire predictions, like Tony Perkins’ “I’m afraid we may not have another election for our republic.”
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Religious Right Leaders Rally Behind…Ted Cruz
Hate group leader Tony Perkins got Religious Right bosses to rally behind proven hater Ted Cruz, but will it make a difference?
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Michele Bachmann Says “Jesus is Coming Soon” and it’s Time to Convert the Jews
MIchele Bachmann shows what a true friend of Israel she is by calling for the conversion of the Jews as soon as possible
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Trump Will Speak at Values Voter Summit’s Orgy of Hate This Weekend
Donald Trump may have divorced himself from Fox News, but he’s throwing himself into Evangelical arms this weekend by speaking at the so-called Values Voter Summit. This is the yearly conference hosted by Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council, where Republican candidates can pretend they’re in Iowa and, as Right Wing Watch’s Brian Tashman puts it,…
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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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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 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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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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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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TLC Finally Gets It. Duggars (At Least For Now) No Longer Welcome On Their Airwaves
How this punk stayed out of juvenile detention up to age 21 (and perhaps well beyond as an adult) is a mystery. A young black kid, accused of the same aberrant behaviors, wouldn’t see the sun for two decades at the very least.
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Republicans, Family Research Council and Josh Duggar Are A Match Made In Heaven
It is curious that so many Americans were surprised over the revelations that a religious conservative idol is guilty of molesting his sisters, or that Republicans embraced the FRC’s icon they must have at least suspected was a fraud. In fact, the close relationship between Republicans, the FRC, and Josh Duggar was a match made in heaven.
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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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Louie Gohmert: It’s Obama’s Fault We’re all Idiots
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
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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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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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Senate Subcommittee Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify about Religious Freedom
Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance
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Todd Starnes Says Muslim Holy Days in Public Schools Persecute Christians
It is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with somebody who wants a holiday which falls in the fall to be called the “mid-spring break”
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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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Bobby Jindal’s Prayer Rally Has Just Become a Demonic No-Go Zone
We are told angels will guard the site of Jindal’s prayer rally and turn it into a “no-go zone for demons in the name of Jesus.”
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The GOP is Getting Hysterical Over Impending Immigration Executive Action
Republicans are even talking about embarrassing themselves with another lawsuit, like the one that worked so well with healthcare reform
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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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The Real Enemy This Halloween isn’t Demons, Says Jesus, But the Rich
The problem with Halloween isn’t kids walking around in scary costumes and falling prey to Satanic influences; Jesus has identified a far more dangerous group – the rich
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America, Our Children Are Being Punished for Excluding God from Pledge of Allegiance
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
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Republican Says One Invented GOP Scandal Proves Another Invented GOP Scandal
Texas Republican Randy Weber says Obama’s record on invented scandals is so bad that he can’t possibly be on top of another scandal they invented
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It is Time Again for the Value[less] Voters to Rail Against Reality
Would-be martyr Ted Cruz will join pretend moderate Rand Paul and Bobby “Rooting for Obama to fail isn’t treason” Jindal in vying for the hate vote in 2014
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Pope Francis Condemns Those Who Use Religion to Promote Violence
“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”
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Tenth Circuit Court Dismantles Religious Right Marriage Equality Claims in Utah
The Court pointed out that “the Supreme Court has repeated held that public opposition cannot provide cover for a violation of fundamental rights.”
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Louie Gohmert Tells Americans Without Jesus, They’re All Going to Hell
Gohmert asks, “So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?”
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No Global Warming? NOAA Says January Was Fourth Warmest on Record
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
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Virginia Marriage Equality Decision Exposes Religious Right’s Hatred of America
Religious Right leaders don’t understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don’t understand.
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The Theocratic Agenda Behind the Anti-Marriage Equality Movement
The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone besides themselves having rights
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Did God Harden Barack Obama’s Heart or Did He Make Joseph Farah Stupid?
What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible in its place
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Aberrochristians Say Gay Sex is Yucky and if We Lose that Yuck Factor, Civilization Dies
Linda Harvey says the “yuck factor” is a gift from God, a “basic instinct.” When we think about gay sex we’re supposed to shudder and make sour faces and just be generally disgusted.
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ENDA is Great but Do Not Count the Religious Loons Out
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of “liberty and justice for ALL”
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Religious Right Freaks out When Air Force Academy Obeys Constitution
Tony Perkins says religious freedom is FORCING Air Force cadets to say “So help me God” at the end of their Honor Oath
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Castro Wannabe Ted Cruz Wins Valueless Voters Straw Poll
Ted Cruz was the winner of the yearly “theogasm,” being nominated the man best equipped to destroy America’s experiment in democracy
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The Valueless Voters Summit Recap
Trending at the Values Voters Summit: when “a president praises a promiscuous co-ed,” it is “the definition of civilization decline”
Hate Spewing Family Research Council Asks, Why So Angry, Bro?
After years of conservatives demonizing liberalism and progressivism, atheists, Muslims, environmentalists, Pagans, moderate Christians, and, especially, members of the LGBT community, the Family Research Council is acting like they don’t understand why people are so angry. Senior Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder seems to be asking, “Why so angry, bro?” when he writes: So, the Left…
As Shutdown Continues, a Traitors’ Bromance is in the Air
Tony Perkins said, ‘I think they are acting heroic, I think they are heroes. They are along the lines of the patriots who founded this nation’
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Tony Perkins Warns Against Indoctrination at Government-Run Schools
Tony Perkins wants you to worry about your child being brainwashed by the “radical teachers” that “infest” our public schools.
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The Religious Right’s Lunatic Response to the DOMA Ruling
The Supreme Court’s DOMA decision, as can be imagined, has really sent them off the deep-edge.
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The GOP Dream: An America Like Heaven that is For Christians Only
According to Republicans, if liberals would stop saying no to fundamentalists, we could have the America Jesus intended when he wrote the Constitution!
Gay Marriage Has Created a Rift Between the Religious Right and the Republican Party
Support from religious conservatives is in jeopardy as Republicans are accepting the idea the gay community deserves the same right to marry as heterosexual couples.
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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
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The GOP Needs to Shed its God Problem Before it’s Too Late
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
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Conservatives Introduce Their New Fantasy: Barack the Destroyer
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
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After Campaigning from the Pulpit, Right Wing Churches Must Lose their Tax Exempt Status
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end their government-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded entitlements once and for all.
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The GOP’s Blatant Support for Theocracy
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
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Ralph Reed Tries Some Hocus Pocus for a Bush Redux in 2012
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
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Clint Eastwood Becomes the Incoherent Face of the Incoherent GOP
Odd as Eastwood’s “Eastwooding” performance was, Mitt Romney was back stage laughing and Eastwood was praised for hitting key talking points
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Florida Family Council-Only Christianity Could Create or Save America
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
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Withering Support for Todd Akin, and Karl Rove Pulls His Ads
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
Brian Fischer Says Shooting Proves NRC and AFA Not Hate Groups
Brian Fischer thinks if somebody hates a hate group that the hate group is magically no longer a hate group and wants SPLC to agree with him
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Repression = Aggression Against an Entire Population in the Name of God
The homophobic flood gates opened and the sewers are filling with hate and self-loathing by voices consumed by fear.
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An Old School Fundie Hater Rationalizes Love for Romney
James Robison, once God’s Angry Young Man, now rationalizes love for Mormon Mitt Romney while spewing hate for all things liberal, Obama included
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Protecting Women from Themselves in Mississippi
Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant says if liberals really cared about women’s health issues, we’d join him in stripping women of the right to make their own healthcare decisions
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Tony Perkins Claims Gay Pride Flag in Afghanistan Endangers Americans
Tony Perkins claims a gay pride flag endangers American lives, but apparently Nazi flags, urinating on dead Afghans and burning Qur’ans does not
Santorum Ignores Economy – Makes his Religion a Problem for Voters
The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.
Tell MSNBC To Stop Courting And Promoting Right Wing Bigots
In recent weeks right wing bigots like Tony Perkins have been featured on Hardball, The Ed Show, and Rachel Maddow among others, and it must stop.
Tony Perkins Claims Obama Plans Left Wing Theocracy
It was inevitable, I suppose: The forces of theocracy accusing the so-called political left of trying to foist a theocracy upon the United States. And no, it’s not for the reason voiced by Ann Coulter that liberalism is a religion, but that Obama (gasp!) quotes scripture in defense of his policies. The accusation comes from…
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The Republican Appeal to History as it Should Have Been
The GOP doesn’t want to study history but to construct a theological narrative that re-purposes history to be more useful to present needs
