Theocracy

Opinion: HHS Secretary Celebrates Chance To Deny Women Contraceptive Access

We will take action in short order to follow the President’s instruction to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of…

6 years ago

Opinion: Trump Gives Churches Free Rein To Campaign For Profit

Greedy evangelicals expected much more in remuneration for their electoral support for Trump’s candidacy than freedom to violate IRS rules…

6 years ago

Opinion: Trump Gives Raging Anti-Choice Propagandist HHS Public Affairs Job

Yoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the…

6 years ago

The Diabolical Plot Behind Trump Cabinet’s Weekly Prayer and Bible Lessons

She thinks biblically, She doesn’t need time to figure out how to vote because she sees the world through a…

6 years ago

Opinion: SCOTUS Hears Arguments To Tear Down Church and State Barrier

A ruling for theocracy will effectively demolish church-state separation and neuter the First Amendment’s religious clauses.

6 years ago

Opinion: Texas GOP Bill Allows Officials to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

"Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn't meet a public official's personal [religious] standards."

6 years ago

Opinion: Pence’s Rush To Break Senate Tie and Eliminate Women’s Access to Healthcare

We must use the full force of Congress and strength of the [Catholic] pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule…

6 years ago

Jeff Sessions Believes the First Amendment Separation Clause Is Unconstitutional

Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is "unhistorical" according…

6 years ago

Vice President Mike Pence Wants the Bible Taught As Science

The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he,…

6 years ago

Trump’s Emboldened Religious Right Will Wreak Havoc on America

  *The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the course of the last several years no small…

6 years ago

56-Million Voters Handed the Kochs and Religious Right Control Over America

Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress' disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

The National Review Says Because Theocracy Has Been Held Off, the Threat Never Existed

On the contrary, we have seen religious laws against abortion, contraception, marriage equality, religious diversity, education, and even global warming

7 years ago

GOP Platform’s Hideous Plan to “Rebirth” the Constitution

"If God-given natural rights come in conflict with government, court, or human-granted rights, God-given natural rights always prevail."

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

Judge Decimates the GOP’s Religious Freedom Concept – Strikes Down Mississippi Law

Judge Reeves noted that “the title, history and text of the law showed it to be the State’s attempt to…

7 years ago

DOJ Warns North Carolina Its Bathroom Law Is A Serious Civil Rights Violation

"North Carolina's HB2 is deeply discriminatory and violates civil rights law in all kinds of manners."

7 years ago

Oklahoma Republicans Are One Signature Away From Banning Abortion

Oklahoma evangelical Republicans force doctors to give patients deceptive and unscientific advice just to keep their medical licenses.

7 years ago

Two More GOP States Pass Laws Nullifying the Constitution

Religious Republicans passed unconstitutional legislation denying a wide swathe of the population their constitutional rights.

7 years ago

Theocracy Warning In Republican Strongholds Of Kentucky and Texas

The latest drive toward an iteration of Sharia Law for the cult of right-wing Christians panting for a theocracy is…

7 years ago

Cruz’s Iowa Victory Was A Theocratic Win Driven By Evangelical Taliban

Since its inception, Cruz has portrayed his campaign for the presidency as a religious war, and Christian crusade with Cruz…

7 years ago

Cruz Calls Clergy To Awaken And Energize Christ’s Body Into the White House

Americans should not underestimate Christian crusader Cruz and his spiritually-armored preachers' concerted efforts as a wrong maneuver.

7 years ago

A Very Texas Christmas – Evangelicals Force Another Nativity Scene To Be Taken Down

Texas' governor claimed that the sentiment that others celebrate the holidays in their own way was bullying and persecuting Christians

7 years ago

Kansas Secretary of State Fires State Employee For Not Attending Church

A former Kansas state employee has filed a federal wrongful termination lawsuit targeting Kansas' Secretary of State and assistant secretary…

8 years ago

Anti-Public School Evangelicals Now Control Alabama and Texas Education Boards

It is obvious that the owner of a professional sports franchise, say a National Football League team, would only hire…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

Tom Delay’s GOP Crusade to Establish Theocracy Is Doomed To Fail

The latest indication that Republicans will enjoin the Catholic bishops' and religious right's war against the Constitution, was disgraced former…

8 years ago

Minority White Christians’ Religious War On the Constitution

There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is…

8 years ago

Republican Kasich Forces Public Schools To Partner with Religion Or Lose Taxpayer Funding

Ohio Governor John Kasich made that "religious extremist duty" mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing…

8 years ago

The Koch Brothers Fund Religious Groups That Are Eliminating Women’s Rights

To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians…

8 years ago

Michigan License To Discriminate A Portent Of Impending Theocracy  

It is astonishing, but the extremist Christian fundamentalists are basing their punitive power on the religious freedom guarantee in the…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

Bryan Fischer Says Government is Meant to be a Minister of God

"When government defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman...It's doing its job. It's fulfilling its role…

8 years ago

With Nothing To Run On Republicans Blow Religious Dog Whistles

Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to…

8 years ago

The Values Voter Summit’s Promotion of Religious Tyranny is Un-American

These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would…

8 years ago

Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force

The United States Air Force, itself sworn to "support and defend the Constitution," cannot abide by, support, or defend either…

9 years ago

Cutting Through The Conservative Lies About The Hobby Lobby Ruling

Two issues alone will have a devastating affect on any religious business or corporation's employees, but after doing a cursory…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

Christian Conservatives Are Trying To Use Hobby Lobby To Discriminate Against Gays

Maybe the President regrets intertwining government and religion when he continued George W. Bush's Faith-Based initiatives. Now they are using…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

Supreme Court Throws Out Establishment Clause With Public Prayer Ruling

When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy,…

9 years ago

It Is Time For Constitution Loving Americans To Stand Up To Right Wing Republicans

Americans who value their freedoms, religious or otherwise, would do well to avoid the pitfalls of staying silent for fear…

9 years ago

Kansas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Passing Anti-Gay Segregation Law

The Kansas House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a piece of legislation crafted to legalize anti-gay segregation under the guise…

9 years ago

The Christian Right Boycotts Girl Scout Cookies Over Wendy Davis

The fanatical Christian-right is targeting Girl Scout USA's annual cookie sales for a boycott because the group listed Wendy Davis…

9 years ago

Southern Republicans Are Using Charter Schools To Inject Religion Into Public Schools

There is a concerted effort in primarily southern Republican-controlled states to use sketchy and horribly underperforming charter schools to inject…

9 years ago

The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible

The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment…

9 years ago

The Religious Right Is Counting On the Courts To Help Them Achieve Their Tyrannical Goals

Right wing Christians define their right to practice religion as forcing compliance of their beliefs on the rest of the…

9 years ago

Bad Apple Ted Cruz Didn’t Fall Far From His Father’s Equally Rotten Tree

If Americans wondered what drove the man who masterminded the $24 billion government shutdown all they need to know is…

9 years ago

‘Christian’ Conservatives Abuse The Judicial System In Their Latest Battle Against The ACA

Conservative Christian business owners are appealing to other conservative Christians on the Supreme Court to grant them religious immunity from…

9 years ago

The Religious Right Attempts to Circumvent the Constitution By Claiming Academic Freedom

The latest attempt by the religious right to circumvent the Constitution involves claiming that prohibiting teachers from teaching the bible…

9 years ago

Republicans Propose Legislation That Would Allow Discrimination Against Same Sex Couples

A group of House Republicans have announced their intent to propose legislation to give conservatives groups legal cover to continue…

10 years ago

Corporations Use Religion to Try to Deny Female Employees Medical Care and Medications

The judicial system has become a partisan tool of corporations and Republicans to impose theocratic law on women.

10 years ago

Evangelical Corporations Try To Force Their Employees To Follow Their Religious Beliefs

At issue is whether a secular corporation with no business relationship or involvement in a religion can be considered religious…

10 years ago

America is Under Siege As The Koch Brothers Look to Replace The Constitution

America is one election away from total dominance by the Koch brothers billionaire club and is on the verge of…

10 years ago

Gay Representative Barred from Speaking Because He is in Violation of God’s Law

Apparently, those who find themselves in violation of God's law, lose their rights under Republican governance

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

While Stealing Women’s Rights Republicans Pledge Allegiance to Evangelical Christians

Republicans typically oppose women's equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their…

10 years ago

Bryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity

Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded

10 years ago

Republicans Use Their Power to Establish State Religion and Steal Individual Rights

There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women's rights are changing for the better,…

10 years ago

Mitt Romney is the Tip of the Republican Religious Extremist Spear

America's worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.

10 years ago

1,000 Evangelical Preachers Will Break the Law and Support Republicans from the Pulpit

On October 7, about a thousand preachers will violate the requirement they agreed to with the IRS by actively providing…

10 years ago

Bill Clinton’s Truth Serum Overpowers Paul Ryan’s Faith Based Temper Tantrum

Bill Clinton's delivered a dose of DNC truth serum to Romney, Ryan, and their crowd of habitual liars, religious sycophants,…

11 years ago

Missouri Votes to Allow Christians to Discriminate Against Non-Believers

Voters in Missouri took a major step towards granting Christians the right to dominate public meetings, discriminate against non-Christians.

11 years ago

American Women are Under Assault from Christian Republicans

The past two years should give all Americans pause at what conservative Christians in control of the government would mean…

11 years ago

Stars and Stripes Forever? The Republican Plot to Fracture America

Today marks our 236 birthday, and instead of a United States of America, Republicans have created a divided populace based…

11 years ago

Celebrate Pulpit Freedom Sunday by Calling for Politically Active Churches to Pay Taxes

Although this Pulpit Freedom Sunday has been going on for three years, the event has taken on new dimensions with…

11 years ago

Republicans Defy the Founding Fathers By Allowing Religion to Influence Policy

When the Founding Fathers devised how America would function they knew the danger of allowing religion to govern the country,…

11 years ago

Backed by a Failed Economic Theory, Republicans Turn to Religious Extremists

Republicans have enlisted religious fanatics to forward their dangerous agenda by instilling fear that Democrats are waging a war on…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

Rick Santorum Attends Event Telling All Non-Christians To Get Out Of America

Rick Santorum attended an event in Louisiana where renowned hate-monger Dennis Terry unleashed a vitriolic hate-fest aimed at gays, Muslims,…

11 years ago

The USCCB Decides To Go To War Against The American Government

The USCCB is in a war with the American government to assert their authority as Onward Christian Soldiers over legally…

11 years ago

The Religious War On American Liberty Takes Another Disturbing Turn

America's liberty is being eroded by religious and corporate fundamentalists who demand strict adherence to specific dogmata in combination with…

11 years ago

Dear Rick Santorum, America Elects Presidents Not Popes

It is likely Rick Santorum truly believes he was called by god to become America's pope and not the president.

11 years ago

Vote for the Constitution on November 2

The Republicans intend to take us to a place from which there is no return. You see, their fantasy America,…

12 years ago

Christian Dominionists and Islamists: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Christian and Islamic extremists drink from the same wellspring of authoritarianism - the desire to impose authority, to force submission…

13 years ago

Palin Invokes Prayer Warriors In Her First Amendment Jihad

The idea of divine right died out a long time ago, when god fled the political scene, only to be…

13 years ago