Because a black President with an Arabic-sounding name is holding the first-in-history White House Seder.
Family Research Council Responds To Vermont Vote To Recognize Gay Marriages
Tony Perkins: Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins today condemned the vote of the Vermont State Legislature to overturn the Governor’s veto on same-sex “marriage” as well as the vote by the District of Columbia City Council to recognize same-sex marriages performed in the 50 states. “Same-sex ‘marriage’ is a movement driven by wealthy homosexual activists and a liberal … Read More
Pssst… We’re NOT A “Christian Nation”
We never were. Read the Constitution. But Obama is ruffling some feathers on the right, because he actually said that at a press conference. At a press conference in Turkey, President Obama casually rebuked the old chestnut that the United States is a Judeo-Christian nation. "One of the great strengths of the United States," the President said, "is … we have … Read More
Now This Calls For Some Serious Schadenfreude
The James Dobson-led conservative religious group, Focus on The Family, has fallen on hard times. First, their once-significant political inflluence has dwindled to almost nil, as shown by the last elections. Secondly, they have had to undergo serious layoffs recently. So this can't be welcomed with much pleasure: A Colorado Springs man who narrates the Bible in Spanish on CDs and … Read More
Kudos To Iowa
It's one thing when Massachusetts courts recognizes a constitutional right to gay marriage, but when it happens in the "middle America" state of Iowa, that's an entirely different thing: The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry. “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection … Read More
Why Many People Can’t Take Congress Seriously
Exhibit A. This is Representative John Shimkus, Republican from Illinois. He serves on the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, a body which considers, among other things, global warming and climate change. Below is a clip of Representative Shimkus speaking on March 25 in the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. He is expressing his view that global warming is not … Read More
If Atheists Ruled The World
All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums: From fstdt.com (Fundies Say The Darnedest Things)
And I Want A Masters Degree In Magic
Oy: State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism, was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas' Higher Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees. Berman's bill would allow private, non-profit … Read More
Westboro Baptist Church vs. University Of Chicago
The UofC students done good: Over 100 students gathered on South University Avenue and in Hutchinson Courtyard Monday to demonstrate against six protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) advocating against the University of Chicago, the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS), and the University of Chicago Law School’s employment of Barack Obama. The WBC protesters arrived at the CTS at … Read More
How Religious Are We?
American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) last took the religious pulse of America in 1990. Last year, they did it again. US Today has the findings in nice graph form, but here are some stand-out findings: Despite growth and immigration that has added nearly 50 million adults to the U.S. population, almost all religious denominations have lost ground since the first … Read More
Finally Tonight, Jesus….
Nice compilation:
By Any Other Name
Leaders of the religious right no longer want anybody to refer to them and their followers collectively as "the religious right". According to John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: "People associated it with a hard-edge politics and intolerance. Very few people to whom that term now would apply would use that term." Gary Schneeberger, … Read More
PreCalculus For Christians
A series of math books published by the Bob Jones University Press is virtually guaranteed to make students stupider. Exhibit A is Precalculus For Christian Schools: "A line can be described either by its slope (a ratio) or by its inclination (an angle). These terms describe the deviation from the horizontal, but the word inclination also has a non-mathematical meaning. … Read More
Nathan Tabor On Evolution and Gays
Our locally-living nationally-syndicated columnist, Nathan Tabor, is a howl today. After trying to make the argument that Obama's policies will effectively result in genocide of African-Americans (yes, he really makes that argument), Tabor writes: But blacks are not the only minority group which could suffer under the Democratic regime in Washington. Democratic leaders believe that children must be taught evolution, … Read More
Stay Classy, Religious Conservatives
Oops. Too late. Over at WorldNetDaily, the Christian News service, we get this editorial from WND CEO Joseph Farah: Pray Obama Fails That's why I do not hesitate today in calling on godly Americans to pray that Barack Hussein Obama fail in his efforts to change our country from one anchored on self-governance and constitutional republicanism to one based on … Read More