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Religious Bigots Gather at National Religious Freedom Conference
Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints
Tagged Mosaic Law
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A Look at 30 Extremists Who Want to Destroy America
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
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Satan Ate My Government! The Fundamentalist Addiction to Satan
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
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Romney to Speak at Ralph Reed’s 2012 FFC Conference & Strategy Briefing
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
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The NAACP Comes Out in Support of Marriage Equality
The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.
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Under-Mom’d One Million Moms Throws Hissy Fit at GAP
After failing to terrorize JC Penney into submission, One Million Moms threatens to do the same to GAP for showing two men in one t-shirt
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What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said
The GOP insists we obey the Bible but the Bible doesn’t define traditional marriage and it turns out God orders abortions with wild abandon
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Abortion: Religion-Based Bigotry Versus the World of Facts
The GOP stance on abortion hinges on religious dogma, not on science and even when science does enter the picture it is 18th century science
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Obama Adding a Faith Vote Director to Campaign
Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP
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Fundie Says Obama is Gay, Imprison Gays Before They Kill Kids
Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids
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Sen. Rand Paul Says He Didn’t Know Obama’s Views on Marriage Could “Get any gayer”
Sarah Jones says Republicans must evolve or die. Rand Paul chose a third option: third grade: “[he] wasn’t sure [Obama’s] views on marriage could get any gayer”
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Look Out First Amendment – Theocracy Inbound
Theocracy is coming to with a GOP win in 2012: they have made their position clear enough and it becomes more pronounced with each new bill
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Fundamentalists to Wear Condom to Protect Against Romney Mormonism
Christian fundamentalists are engaging in paroxysms of verbal acrobatics to account for Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, donning a virtual condom to protect themselves
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Once Again, Christians Mistake Removing a Special Privilege with Oppression
Fundamentalists are crying oppression because the U.S. Air Force has decided that as of Oct 1 the Bible is not a required item at lodging facilities on its bases
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David Barton Says Science Can’t Cure Divine Punishments like AIDS
David Barton claims that science won’t be able to cure AIDS because AIDS is a punishment for sin showing he is as ignorant of science as he is of history
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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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America Faces the Specter of Religious Apartheid
Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty
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Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry
Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away
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Neutering the Republican Penis
The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own
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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
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Welcome to Talibanessee
It is time to define gateway sexual activities and to determine whether or not they can be considered a spectator sport
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Condemning the Catholic Church’s Attack on Americans’ Freedoms
You live in a modern world only because you have insisted on living in a modern world, not because the Church has ever agreed to or condoned it, but simply because since the Enlightenment they haven’t been able to do anything about it
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David Barton Lies About Who was Burning Whom at the Stake
David Barton wants to pretend Christians were being burned at the stake by the government but doesn’t mention it was a CHRISTIAN government
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The Republican War on the Girl Scouts
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis
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The Republican Way of Governance is Bad Governance
On the basis of GOP legislation since 2010, it is an inescapable conclusion that Republican governance is bad governance as it consistently violates the democratic process
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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
The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy
The GOP wants us to believe that we must all collectively and individually do as their God wants or suffer the consequences, but how to know what God wants when the Bible was written and what we are supposed to believe decided by fallible humans?
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Taking a Ride on Bryan Fischer’s Secular Sharia Crazy Bus
After putting words in George Washington’s mouth, Bryan FIscher produces bullshit from his and claims “the Ten Commandments of secular Sharia law” is taking over the land
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Imagining a Life Without Jesus – Two Minutes That Decided History
Two minutes in the life of Pontius Pilate decided world history for the next 2000 years, two minutes in which Jesus could have been pardoned – and forgotten by history
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Fundamentalists Are Hell-Bound, Says Jesus: More From Our Exclusive Interview
Jesus explains that his ministry was for the poor and oppressed, not against them, and that the rich and powerful serve Satan and the demonic powers in control of the earth
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Jesus Says David Barton Doesn’t Speak for Him: An Exclusive Interview
David Barton has little to do with actual Christianity and even less to do with first century Judaism, as Jesus explains in this exclusive interview
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Profiteering for Jesus
And Jesus so loved the rich he gave his life for them. Or so you’d think. Jesus’ evolution into a plutocratic champion of the ultra-wealthy beggars belief. That is certainly the outlook of prosperity gospel, the idea that Jesus will make you rich.
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The Consequences of Alaska’s Female Sexual Servitude Legislation
Alaska legislation proves that state-sponsored sexual servitude is alive and well. So much for the First Amendment, because all this is 100% religiously based
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.
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The Republican Platform Aims at a Time Before the Constitution
Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.
Taliban? Talibangelical? They Both Hate Women
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
The Grim Calculus of Rights of Conscience
The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.
The Shining City on a Hill is a Destroyer of Freedom
It’s easy to see why Robison likes the city on a hill imagery because the only freedom will be that of Talibangelicals like Robison to force the rest of us to toe the religious line.
High Pucker Factors Are Not Just for Caliphates Anymore
Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy at home
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Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves†are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.†His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
People Are Laughing at My Country – And They Should Be
Why has my country become the laughingstock of the world? Well, look at the comments above: you need look no further than Rick Santorum
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Chris Christie’s Dangerous Attack on the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution was written by 55 men and signed by 39, but Chris Christie says 121 men and women can’t give New Jersey a marriage law
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…
Santorum Surge Thanks to Power of Shared Idiocy
Rick Santorum has something in common with the base: shared idiocy about an America that never was, and the culture war cred to go with it
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Fundamentalist Kristi Watts Upset that Atheists Do Not Hate Wiccans
Kristi Watts, Pat Robertson’s co-host on the 700 Club wants to know why atheists don’t chop down all the trees since Wiccans “worship” trees
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It is Time for the Mainstream Media to Talk Religion and Politics
The mainstream media’s reluctance to talk about religion and politics with regard to America’s problems and possible solutions is troubling
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Wisconsin High School Student Endorses Biblical Death Penalty for Gays
A Wisconsin high school student condemned gay adoption in his school paper, reminding the students that God wants gay people to be killed
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Newt Says He is Running to Save Western Civ from Pagan Culture
Newt claims that marriage equality represents perfectly natural pagan behaviors and are somehow a fundamental violation of our civilization
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Occupy the Bible
The Religious Elite like the Wealth Elite wants us to subordinate our interests to their own. We can Occupy the Bible or let it destroy us
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Cults of Personality – The GOP’s 2012 Narratives
The Republican presidential hopefuls have established cults of personality in line with Max Weber’s model of charismatic leadership
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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
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Ralph Reed Seeks Resurrection as Republican Kingmaker
While so many Republicans rush toward self-martyrdom, one, Ralph Reed, is headed in the other direction – toward resurrection in 2012
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Oh the Things They Say About Islam
Republicans in embracing 1950s-style paranoia makes Islam the new Communism and accuses it of everything the GOP is itself guilty of
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The Rise of American Fundamentalism 2006-2008
Before the 2006 midterms, the Religious Right controlled Congress, the White House and four out of nine seats on the U.S. Supreme Court
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Using Religious, Philosophical and Political Views to Excuse Bullying
Republicans in Tennessee say anti-bullying exceptions should be made on the basis of religious, philosophical and political beliefs
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The Rise of American Fundamentalism 2004-2005
President George W. Bush, toward the end of his first term and into his second, continued to push a theocratic agenda for America
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Ralph Reed Wants You to Believe Evangelical Vote is a Myth
Ralph Reed, who was so instrumental in the Religious Right’s takeover of the GOP, now wants you to believe that the Evangelical vote is a myth
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Republicans Hang a Whites Only Sign on America
Republicans have adopted the old definition that says an American is white, and have added the stipulation that one must also be a Christian
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The Ten Commandments Resurface as the Personhood Amendment
Anti-choice advocates in Mississippi have begun to advance so-called Personhood Amendments to attack birth-control, abortion, cloning, and stem-cell research.
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Civil Liberties Not Part of the Republican Plan for America
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
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Christofascist Group CADC Threatens Divine Wrath for America
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has proven it is all about defamation with its attack on the repeal of DADT, threatening Divine punishment for America.
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Oklahoma Judge Stands Up for the First Amendment
Oklahoma’s efforts to turn the state’s Muslim population into Untermensch (or “sub-humans”) in some sort of quasi-National Socialist racial hierarchy, with White Anglo-Saxon Protestants occupying the top rung as Herrenvolk (or “master race”) of the Volksgemeinschaft (or “national community”) have hit a snag. A federal judge did what a federal judge is supposed to do…
