Category Archives: Religion

Louisiana’s Backward Views – Creationism and Unconstitutional Laws

Posted on Friday, May 31st, 2013 by Amanda Sheppard

How did Louisiana find a DeLorean big enough to fit the entire state so they could take us winging back to 1925? This past Wednesday, the Louisiana House Education Committee tromped on a measure to repeal a 1981 creationism law.  … Continue reading →

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Will South Carolina Voters Choose the Adulterer… Again?

Posted on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 by Cindy Rose

“Family Values”, a favored mantra among Conservatives, has been exposed over the last year and a half as having nothing to do with family at all; it is now simply political code for anti-gay marriage (Probably another Luntz invention), as … Continue reading →

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Fox News Makes News By Misreporting the News; Palin Threatens the President

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 by mlitman

Fox News published an article on April 30, 2013 accusing the Pentagon and President Obama of trying to prevent members of the military from practicing their religion. Sarah Palin jumped at the chance to attack President Obama, and in a threatening way … Continue reading →

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev – Too Radical for American-Islamic Theology

Posted on Monday, April 22nd, 2013 by Doug Marquardt

Today, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon murderer was formally charged at his hospital bedside with the judge, prosecutor and defense present. The New York Times has all of the fascinating details of the visit. I found the last few … Continue reading →

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Conservatives Have Much in Common with Nazis

Posted on Friday, April 12th, 2013 by Doug Marquardt

Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity … they all love to describe the people who dare to disagree with them as “Nazis”. But the fact is, conservatives have a great deal more in common with Nazis than anyone on the left.

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The Religious Right to Protest Roger Ebert’s Funeral

Posted on Monday, April 8th, 2013 by Doug Marquardt

The Westboro Baptist “church” is once again proving that the religious right is full of assholes. They had the nerve to release the following statement (from their site “god hates fags”) on the late Roger Ebert and, apparently, they intend … Continue reading →

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Seriously? They Didn’t See This Coming?

Posted on Thursday, April 4th, 2013 by Cindy Rose

What do you get when you propose bills that divert public school dollars to private religious schools? In Tennessee you get a bunch of bumpkins scrambling to find a way to keep that money from going to Islamic schools. The … Continue reading →

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Quotes From the Far-Right on Marriage Equality

Posted on Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 by Cindy Rose

With both Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court this week, the far-right has gone into lunatic commando mode. Here are some of the latest quotes from the far-right’s biggest zealots: Gary Bauer, President of … Continue reading →

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Early Reflections On Francis The First

Posted on Friday, March 22nd, 2013 by Ken

Warning:  The following post delves into Ken’s take on the Pope and various religious issues.  Anyone not interested in such matters is fairly warned. I am not Catholic, but freely admit that I am somewhat taken with the new Pope.   Quite frankly I … Continue reading →

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Moving the First Amendment Goal Posts… Again

Posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Religious leaders have joined together to fight the HHS contraception mandate since its announcement, claiming it infringes on their religious freedom. HHS has recently issued another revision in an attempt to accommodate religious institutions; but in a letter outlining his … Continue reading →

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