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Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books €" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.
He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
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(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 18, 2010 The Senility Defense: Pat Robertson Goes To Trial In The Court Of Public Opinion.
Pat Robertson and Hate(ee): his publicity team came up with an explanation of Robertson's statements about Haiti. Unfortunately, the public isn't buying into any of it.
I agree with the White House: saying that Haiti had long ago made a pact with the Devil was very, very stupid in light of the tragedy.
And if hate makes one stupid...
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Will May 21st Really Herald The End Of The World? We're Sooo Looking Forward To It!
What happens on May 22nd when people people wake up to the fact that nobody's been Raptured? Will old Harold Camping and his loyal followers give up on predicting the End Time? Will there be, like in 1847, a "Great Disappointment?"
No.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 28, 2013 The Vatican's Golden Toilet Flush: Mussolini's Millions Point To Greater Secret Papal Wealth
The newest Vatican financial revelation brings about one very important point: no one knows just how much the Vatican is worth except the pontiff himself and some very close-lipped minions.
The "Mussolini Millions" were astounding to begin with - how far they were invested and how much they've grown is now anybody's guess. Even God wants an answer.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Oral Roberts Gets Taken By God While Rod Parsley Gets Taken To The Cleaners
Pastor Rod Parsley has a problem: he's got to come up with $3 million before New Year's Eve. Why?
Because the Devil stole it from him and he has to get it back so's he can preach the prosperity gospel. Now isn't there an irony here somewhere?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2009 Kimberly Daniels: The Ghost Behind Robertson's Rant About Demonic Halloween Candy!
Pat Robertson is now contracting out his stupidity: he has "guest" writers declare all the things he believes, but knows that the public won't stand for more idiocies from him.
His newest clone is Kimberly Daniels. She was responsible for stating that Halloween candy was cursed by witches and demons. Scary, yes, but not as scary as Kimberly Daniels.
Not by a long shot.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2009 Will James David Manning Be Tried As A Martyr ... Or As An Idiot?
Are fraudulent ministers just plain stupid?
Maybe so. James David Manning, "Ph.D" has been operating ATLAH Ministries Worldwide and calling for the death of the President.
His last video was so threatening that Homeland Security paid him a visit on November 16th. He fully expects to be carted away any day now for his reasonless rantings.
We hope he is. Pray for the members of his congregation.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 8, 2009 Eric Prince's Blackwater: Christofascism At Work
Eric Prince is only 40-years-old and he already has his own private army: Blackwater (now known as Xe) still has over 1,000 armed mercenaries in Iraq. And Blackwater has managed to kill hundreds (if not thousands) of Iraqi citizens.
But the testimony of two former Blackwater employees may demote Prince to pauper: they allege that he may have murdered two whistle-blowing employees.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 23, 2009 No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History
The Republic of Ireland has just released a report that has taken nine years to produce: for 60 years, state-subsidized Catholic institutions such as industrial schools, orphanages and reformatories covered up widespread physical and sexual abuse: 30,000 children. Statements of apology from the Church regarding this story were read yesterday. But were they enough?
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 26, 2009 The Elephant In The Room: Christofascism Defined
With "Christian Right" searching for a new brand that is not pejorative, the term "Christofascist" is particularly derogatory. It may be, however, the most apt label of all. This article addresses the question: "Who/what is a Christofascist? It takes the standard warning signs of fascism, then adds the particular signs of Christofascism. You may never see Mike Huckabee in the same light again!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 12, 2011 GOOD Brain? BAD Brain, Red Brain Blue Brain?: Scientific Study Shows Gray Matter Differences In Political Views
Red Brain? Blue Brain? Do you have an enlarged anterior cingulate cortex or a larger-than-normal amygdala?
A study in London concludes that politics might result from particular parts of the brain being larger and having varying functions: Republicans tend to worry about the unknown, while Democrats have a higher tolerance for the unknown.
No, they haven't studied Michele Bachmann yet.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 27, 2011 Update on The Sacred And Profane: Sweetwater, Tennessee's War On The American Family
Who's picking on poor, squeaky-clean little Sweetwater, TN and why?
Ms. Victoria Barnes of the Sweetwater Housing Authority has given the U.S. a portrait of bigotry behind bucolic beauty. And while Sweetwater can't say that it's isolated (20 WalMarts surround the town), it is proud of its down-home attitudes towards gays.
Welcome to the Heartland of America!
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Now Coming To YOUR Church: Evangelism and Gay Porn
First Uganda, now Kenya. The exportation of the subject called homophobia is having a toxic results on the citizens of Africa.
The way Pastor Martin Ssempa deals with it is to make congregations so nauseated with pictures of gay sex, they will go out and shoot a person suspected of being gay.
So now it's gay porn being shown in churches.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 18, 2011 The Morality Of OWS: U.S. Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas vs. The Christian Right Establishment
What it all boils down to: money vs. morality. And Sgt. Shamar Thomas helped us see it.
Occupy Wall Street gives us an odd sense of deja vu and we may now wonder where our churches stand in all of this: will the Christian Right sidle up to the 1% and progressive churches support the 99%?
You've got that right!
SHARE Saturday, December 5, 2009 Warped Worldviews: The Manhattan Declaration of War and the Rick Warren Silent Declaration of Genocide
The Christofascist Right has finally enough nerve to declare war and its chief enemy is, of course, the LGBT community.
And while one of its shining leaders has not yet signed the document, he's acting as if he did, keeping silent on the gay genocide legislation that is being proposed by the Ugandan legislature.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Is Viral Video Nightmarish Enough? Daniel Pierce's Travail Harkens To Even Worse Punishment 24 Years Ago
Viral video of a violent reaction to coming out has a parallel to what happened 24 years ago.
Daniel Ashley Pierce's video has been seen by over 3 million people. The outpouring of support is tremendous. But where was the support (and outrage) when people were cast out while they were sick and dying?
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 28, 2011 Africa's "Gay Question": Ghana Teeters On The Brink Of A Holocaust ...Just Like Uganda
Ghana is poised to go the way of Uganda. How deadly will the final decision be? More deadly than people think!
The prison conditions of Africa are so notoriously bad, that languishing in a prison may equal (or be worse than) death. So does incarceration of gays indicate a holocaust?
Think about it.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 7, 2011 The Fine Print: Beck's Demise Is No Demise ... and No Surprise
SHOCK!!! Glenn Beck's Fox News show has been cancelled! Will the world as we know it be the same?
Yes, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, but the reality is that Beck will be with us much longer than we care to imagine.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 19, 2010 Our Knights In Rusting Armor: K of C Hit With First Sex Abuse Scandal
A bastion of moral rectitude and homophobia has fallen: two sex abuse lawsuits have hit ...The Knights of Columbus!! This just came out and this might be the first place you'll read about it, so hold on to your (whatever)!
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 19, 2009 British Warned of Terrorist Attack- By Fred Phelps!
Westboro Baptist Church "Rev." Fred Phelps and his family plan to picket a presentation of the play "The Laramie Project" at St. Marry's College, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England! George Bush may have killed foreign diplomacy, but why does this insanity have to put nails in the coffin?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 12, 2010 Bishop Eddie Long Throws His First Rock: A Wayward Custard Cream Pie That Lands Back In His Own Face!
Eddie Long is definitely no David: his first "rock" is a dud, and chances are he doesn't have any more "rocks." The upshot is: both sides have agreed to MEDIATION. And what does that mean?
GUILTY. To what extent? Enough to make Long realize that he doesn't have a good chance of proving himself innocent. And no matter what the $ettlement, ANY settlement will cast a pall over his ministry.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Birthers And The PENIS PROBE!!
Just when you thought you were safe from another birther idiocy, there comes along another even dumber!
This time the subject is the President's penis.
Yes. Penis. They want to see if he is circumcized or not.
Oh, the lengths they'll go to!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Six October Surprises?: Not Just Staples, But Gay, Mormon, And Three Trumps!
October surprise.
This election year, we're treated to a whole host of them! How many? Let us count the days ... and ways: a Staples divorce, Log Cabin Republicans, heartless Mormon bishop, birthers, and cocaine and Trumps, oh my!
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 13, 2011 The REAL "Sissy Boys" And What They're Doing To America!
Sissy Boy. The name seems to say it all. Anderson Cooper probed into it last week and it put a serious dent into the armor of the ex-gay movement.
It also guided us in the right direction to find out who the REAL "sissy boys" are: those cowards who demonize people, then claim no responsibility for their words or actions.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 14, 2010 Soros and Murdoch: Fighting For Control of the World!
So why is there a feud between George Soros and Rupert Murdoch? Maybe, with all the billions of dollars being flung about, it's still a microcosm of what's really happening throughout the country.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 23, 2010 A Ministry Unraveling, A Call For Murder, A Convicted Sex Offender: We're Not Making This Stuff Up!
Twenty years ago, he encouraged his congregation to burn and shoot gays. Today he's apologizing because the audio was discovered, but Pastor Jeff Owens of Shenandoah Bible Baptist Church has a lot more to explain: like - "What was your son's sentence for molesting young girls?
As with the Rekers story, this man's career is unraveling quickly. And it all stinks of hypocrisy.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 22, 2010 Pope OKs Condoms For Gay Porn Stars!!
Falling under the heading of "special protection for gays" is the latest Pope Benedict pronouncement that hustlers can use condoms - a step in the direction of moral responsibility.
This should keep us laughing for the next week!
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 29, 2010 There Was A Boy: The Latest Suicide Negates Tony Perkins' Credibility
The disingenuous Tony Perkins of Family Research Council has again tried to cloak his culpability with gay teen suicides by putting the blame on homosexuality itself.
The suicide of Joseph Jefferson tells us differently.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 25, 2009 The Art Of Human Sacrifice: When Religious Families Become Too Extreme In Their "Love" of God
An internet, nationwide search for Bryce Faulkner has been taking place for several weeks with no results. Bryce was forced by his parents to enter a de-gaying program (Exodus, Int). It was a case of "Go, or else we cut off all your funds (including med school), all communication, all your credit cards, then kick you out on the street."
Were they really willing to sacrifice Bryce to God in this way?
Yes, they were.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 3, 2010 140 Million Dead? So What! Christianity's STILL A RELIGION OF PEACE!
I will definitely be slammed as anti-Christian after this post, but I can't assent to hypocrisy by remaining silent on this subject.
Now with Islamophobia in full swing, and with people like Tony Perkins and Rick Warren chanting "Christianity = Peace,Islam = war."
So I've trotted out something I've been working on for quite a while and it will sting, sting, sting.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Challenge To Birther, Obama Hater And Alleged "Reverend" James David Manning: Show Us YOUR Documents!
"Rev." James David Manning may be today's best example of the accuser becoming the accused.
Manning is a darling of the "birther movement" and has trashed President Obama and his family with epithets so heinous that even Sean Hannity decried them as "not acceptable."
Investigating Manning and his ATLAH Ministries International, however, could result in more fraud and larceny than anything he could hurl at Obama.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Texas Hates (Heathen) America And (Deceived) Oprah: Rick Perry's Prayer-Fest And What It Means To The Rest of America
Texas LOVES Rick Perry, so therefore it hates Catholics, Jews, Muslims, illegal immigrants, Buddhists, gays, feminists,and, of course, OPRAH.
Perry's call to arms against the rest of the wicked country - The Response - is a fearsome group of the Christian Right, excluding all of the above and not apologizing for it.
For a man with Presidential aspirations, this does not bode well for the rest of the country.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Is Bishop Eddie Long's Glass Of BS Half Empty? Or Just Half Full Of It?
Eddie Long's "sermon" is being thoroughly ripped apart by everyone, so I thought I'd waste no time in putting in my two cents worth, especially when it's backed up by a wonderfully bawdy and foul-mouthed gal like Cadillac Kimberly.
Just presenting both sides and playing them against the middle (most of the American public, according to the latest online, interactive survey - check it out!)
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Must Be The Home of "RAMBO JESUS": Home School "Arsenal Sermon" On Newtown Hits New Low " For Christian Right Paranoia
In the quest to find answers for the Newtown massacre, many on the Right are trumpeting" "more guns!!" One pastor's sermon proposed more heavily armed home schools.
Although it's been hailed as the most ludicrous rant from the tragedy, the sermon of Pastor Morris of Sparta, Tennessee (of course) has hit a new low in Christian Right paranoia and hatred of America's school system.
This must be the home of "Rambo Jesus."
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 2, 2011 Is the Murder of 7 UN Workers Enough For The Likes Of Pastor Terry Jones?
When self-righteousness takes its toll, it is more disastrous than anything "sent by God." Why? Because it could have been avoided.
Pastor Terry Jones knew the consequences of burning a Q'uran: whole nations begged him not to do it. But moral supremacy overcame him and he decided that people were expedient. Yes, this is a polemic, but one that may be necessary.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2009 The New Repulsive Republicans: Featuring Cheney's Chamber of Horrors!
Stupid. Arrogant. Bloviating, Weird. The Republicans now have a new descriptive adjective: REPULSIVE! es, as in bloodthirsty, slimy, yucky, even worse than "Bill the Cat" repulsive. Think Dick Cheney breathing, repulsively, in the face of Sigourney Weaver in "Alien." THAT kind of repulsive.
Of course, Ann Coulter(geist) comes with her own set of adjectives.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 15, 2012 The Extremist and The New Yorker: Will The "Bully Pulpit" Piece Dampen Bryan Fischer's Climb To Political King Maker?
The New Yorker's scathing profile of the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer has hits the stands and, understandably Mr. Fischer is not amused: after all, it used facts!
Jane Mayer's 10-page article, "Bully Pulpit" is spot-on with quotes from former friends, colleagues, critics and most of all, Fischer himself.
In his diatribe of the New Yorker, Fischer himself resorts to lies and distortions.
Pity.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 25, 2010 The Church of St. Beck: Can "Divine Destiny" Help Restore Honor To The Christian Right?
So just whose honor is going to be restored this Friday and Saturday in D.C.? Will Glenn Beck be able to rally "everyone"? Does he INTEND to rally everyone? This could be a colossal fake-out or a stupendous blunder. It has Sarah Palin to boot, so, if anything else, it should be amusing.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 23, 2010 What's In A Name? Eddie Long Knows.
Ted Haggard beat by a mile! The world now knows that "Bishop" Eddie Long is being sued by THREE young men coerced into sexual relationships. How many more will come forward?
Amid all the questions and accusations, Dan Vojir takes a hard look at two core issues: Long's "covenants" and just how much undue respect is given to clergy with titles. Are "Dr." "Rev." "Bishop" just weapons in the arsenal of a religious con game?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 10, 2009 Glenn Beck By Numbers: The True Story (We Think)
How much further will Glenn Beck go? He's already been blamed for inciting riots. Three of his most important sponsors have left him. What makes Glenn Beck tick? In this article we take slightly more critical view of today's "shock jock du jour".
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 22, 2011 A "Demon-Buster" Who Thinks She's A Democrat: Kimberly Daniels Runs For Jacksonville Seat
Kimberly "Halloween Demonic Candy" Daniels has popped on our radar - this time as a candidate for Jacksonville, Florida's city council - AS A DEMOCRAT!!
Doesn't anyone in the local Democratic Party know?
Forget that she's Bishop Harry Jackson's "comrade in arms." She's toxic in her own right!
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2012 The Nuns' Revolt: Why Benedict's Own "War On Women" Has Backfired.
The nuns are revolting!! Nuns On The Bus have created a stir both nationally and in the Vatican: it's "war on women" is heating up and nuns now make it look quiet acrimonious and mean.
And the nuns don't look to be backing down any time soon.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 Update on Mural Controversy: Still Bleaching Arizona
Arizona is now getting to the point that people may want a wall built ENTIRELY AROUND the state! Not to keep illegal immigrants out, but to keep its racist attitudes in!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Emotional Vandalism vs. Freedom Of Speech: Will The Malice That Fred Phelps Embodies Prevail?
Fred Phelps knows how to abuse freedom of speech: he's based his entire life on verbal bullying. And people know that his "protests" at soldiers' funerals is sheer malice. Phelps loves to hate ... and be hated.
When SCOTUS gives sway to Phelps' malice (and it will), the question then arises: just how vocal will the Christian Right be? Will it cheer, then say, "While we do not condone..."
Some may not react at all.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 17, 2011 The "Compassion" of Paul Ryan and The Right: "The Poor You Will Always Have With You - We'll See To It"
The Budget, The Debt Ceiling, The Compassion: which of these is missing from the current political scene? Rep. Paul Ryan's definition of "compassion" is off-the-mark: no matter what the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate, PEOPLE will be hurt.
NOW.
They call it INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE. Others call it genocide of the poor and disenfranchised.
SHARE Sunday, October 18, 2009 Truly Scary, Part I: Halloween Hell House
- Via Child Abuse, Sarah Palin, ObamaCare And Religious Intolerance.
Hell Houses. Halloween. Morality. Hellfire and Brimstone. The Devil. Evil, evil SEX. Abortions. Homosexuality. Fear.
Hell Houses across the nation now consider themselves an art form. But no art form would ever try to damage kids' brains. Some people consider them a form of child abuse.
They may be right.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 19, 2011 Compassion Without Evangelism: What Japan Needs Vs. What Japan Will Get
Is compassion possible without evangelism? Of course it is. Unfortunately, some people see a chance in disasters to evangelize without restraint. When disaster strikes, God's Ambulance Chasers will always be there.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 4, 2009 If Fetuses Could Vote, Who'd Win?
Pro Choice Or Pro birth? The most important factor in the abortion wars is one who has no choice in the matter: the fetus. “Of course the fetus would be pro-choice.†But what if the fetus knew about the sea of hypocrisy he or she would be born into?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 22, 2010 You're Right, Mr. Obama, It Gets Better - But Not If The Christian Right Has Anything To Say About It!!
The President has now said "It Gets Better" But The Christian Right wants everyone to know that "It Gets Worse" and they'll be willing to prove it.
The repercussion of President Obama's 3-minute speech to potential gay teen suicides will be quick and lasting: remember, the Christian Right still has thousands of Hell Houses and millions of votes.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, February 21, 2011 Ciavarella Is Convicted: But The Kids For Cash Scandal Does NOT Come To An End
Corrupt judge Mark Ciavarello has been convicted of racketeering charges - but NOT of the scheme that alerted the Feds to his corruption: "Kids for Cash." See what one mother said when she confronted the crooked judge.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 20, 2011 And Some Will Laugh: The Bible "Told Me To Stone The Homo To Death!"
The brutal slaying of an elderly man has people in Darby, PA. shocked - and a little puzzled: what was the motive?
And did the Bible really "tell" John Joe Thomas to kill Murray Seidman by stoning since Murray was a homosexual?
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The Latest Birther Revelation: OBAMA IS FROM MARS!!
What's a "birther"? And why are some people attracted to the "birther movement"?
Birthers are people who are desperate to take any means to justify their end: bash Barack Obama. They'll scream loudly and clearly...anything.
The juiciest theories are like the most hilarious Weekly World News Headlines.
Too bad CNN, "The Most Trusted Name In News," has got commentator Lou Dobbs to give them a platform for stupidity.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 7, 2010 In Flagrante Delicto: Dangerously Stupid Bigotry In Action From Gainseville, Florida
Stupidity has its privileges.
Especially when you have an "Rev." in front of your name. Ask Rev. Terry Jones who plans to have his congregation (all 50) burn copies of the Quran. An entire nation and its leading general are pleading with him not to do such an obvious act of hatred, but to date, the man of God will not in any way budge from his mission: to "convert" Muslims away from Islam and prove its violence.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 1, 2010 Danger! Right Wingnuts! Danger! Home Depot And The Homosexual Agenda Approaching! Danger!
Sometimes the Right Wingnut Tony Perkins seem as if he's the robot in Lost In Space: "Danger! Danger! Danger!" So now he's flailing and flopping his arms trying to warn people about the possible repeal of DOMA and the recruitment of children by Home Depot.
Don't laugh. The Four Horsemen of the Homosexual Agenda are upon us - harbingers of Fear, Deception, Hypocrisy and Malevolence.
We're doomed.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 11, 2010 The Prop 8 Decision: Can We Laugh Now?
Just how ridiculously inane was the Christian Right before, during and after the Prop 8 decision?
Very.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 4, 2012 For A Good Time, Call ...Your Local Church Lady!
"Church ladies have the best sex!" You read that right. In one unbelievable WTF moment, Leslee Unruh of Abstinence Clearinghouse has managed to undo all of Western Civilization's reasoning.
But wait, there's more! Like a Ronco Popeil commercial, Unruh keeps adding more inane precepts, like the fact that sex education is "really based on profound ignorance about human nature" and people who wait til marriage make more money
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 6, 2010 The Defenestration of The Hypocratic Oath: Doctors Who PreJudge You
Healthcare may be turning more religious and political than humane. Compare the statements of two doctors to some of the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath and see how different they are from the Oath that has evolved into a universal moral statement.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 28, 2009 Baby Be-Bop And The Badassed Bigots! Burning books in West Bend, WI
This is about bigotry for the sake of bigotry: in little West Bend, WI, nebulous group calling itself the Christian Civil Liberties Union is filing suit against the local library in order to have a young adult gay-themed novel removed from its shelves ...and burn it.
Yes, burn it.
The saga has drama galore in the persons of the wingnuts who have filed suit. It's scary, but hilarious at the same time.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 Lou Engle's Goal Of Demonizing Gays To Extinction Is Working - In Uganda
Lou Engle's efforts in demonizing gays to extinction seems to be working: the head of activist Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu's farm (where it was found)was a member of Integrity Uganda, a gay rights or;ganization.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Sunday Sermons Blast Obama Over Gay Marriage - But Not At The Fever Pitch Social Conservatives Want!
The First Gay President? Covers such as Newsweek stoked the fires against Obama and became THE topic for Sunday Sermons (besides Mothers Day), but social conservatives everywhere were betting on fire and brimstone coming from every black church pulpit and all they got was "whatever...we'll still probably vote for Obama."
How disheartening.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 30, 2010 The Greatest Story Never Told, Part I: When Did The Writ Hit The Fan For Other Homophobic Pastors?
Bishop Eddie Long: not the first, not the last, just maybe the most mind-bending. Compared to the others, is he the "monster" or the "preditor" today's accusations portray him to be? You be the judge:
Lonnie Frisbee
Billy James Hargis
Ted Haggard
Paul Crouch
Lonnie Latham
There's more. Read on.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 8, 2009 Pastor Gary Cass: Let's Get Together For A Good Ole Christian Hatefest!
Pastor Gary Cass loves putting together hatefests. And his most ambitious event yet is having ministers gather in front of the Department of Justice to scream out verses freom the Bible to see if they will be arrested for ahte crimes
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, February 5, 2010 Known Diseases Attacking the Republican Brain: Prognosis Negative
Since the Research 2000 poll of Republicans came out the other day, journalists across the country have been giving their views on the states of the Republican mind.
This article conjectures the possibilities of a mind that voted negatively on ALL the questions. How many people are there who are homophobic and hate Obama and love Sarah Palin and who vote for the death penalty while voting pro-life?
More than you know.
SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 A Purpose Driven Genocide: Rick Warren and Gays in Africa
Couple Rick Warren's statements on Larry King's show with his work for "Purpose Driven" nations in Africa. Rick Warren will certainly never support gay rights. In fact, he's going in the opposite direction: big time.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 27, 2011 The American Family: Sacred or Profane?
Does anyone on the Right actually know what the American Family is? Was it ever the sanitized "Leave It To Beaver" and "Donna Reed" family?
Of course not, but don't tell them that. What they don't realize is that we may have a more beautiful family unit than ever before through its diversity.
So why are they trying to destroy what is the REAL American Family?
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 18, 2009 Truly Scary, Part IV: When Christofascists Turn On Themselves
When Christofascists start to claw at each other, the results are hysterical!
A Book Burning? Such an awful thing is changed into a farce by one pastor in bib overhalls right out of Snuffy Smith.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 14, 2009 Islamophobia: An Irrational Rage Among People Who Can Barely Spell Islamophobia
Is Islamophobia in the air? Hell, no, it's in the streets! From preachers using their pulpits to denigrate anyone who is a Muslim, to their results (violence), being Muslim has become the "sinner du jour."
We will continue to be bombarded with ranting, irrational sermons and illiterate picket signs. But when will it stop?
After a large amount of people are killed.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 7, 2014 Republicans Devolving: It Goes Beyond Creationism
More Republicans believe in Creationism than ever before. As one ape said to another upon seeing Man: "Well, there goes the neighborhood."
(17 comments) SHARE Monday, July 21, 2014 Politicizing AIDS Deaths: What The Right Has Done From The Very Beginning
Brayn Fischer's horrendous tweet about Obama's MH17 statements on the deaths of AIDS researchers has struck a nerve with people reeling from a senseless act of violence.
But its certainly not the first time the Right has politicized AIDS deaths.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 17, 2010 Christine O'Donnell Loves Frodo - As Long As He Doesn't Spank The Monkey !
Tea Baggers and Republicans both have a penchant for NOT vetting their candidates. And it's certainly evident with Christine O'Donnell who, if she's smart, will drop out of the race.
But that's the problem: she isn't smart.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 18, 2010 Demonizing America - Part 2: "Kill Them All! God Will Take Care Of His Kind!"
Just who have been the biggest bullies in history? Who have been the most effective demonizers? Not Christianity, but certainly people who identified as "Christian."
From the first genocide of Europe to the Southern Baptist Convention's refusal to help AIDS victims, mankind has wondered: WHY?
The answer may be in this series - Demonizing America
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 16, 2011 "You Know They Do It In The Pool, Don't You?" When Gay Rights Become Civil Rights In Hazard, KY
Hazard, KY is not on the list of the world's most romantic places: it doesn't even want PDA (public displays of affection) in their recreational facilities, so you can imagine what happened when two developmentally disabled men were seen being affectionate to each other! The proverbial sh*t hit the fan.
Gay rights vs. civil rights is now on the line.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 19, 2011 BE PREPARED! And BEWARE! Of Those Family Values Scoutmasters!!
Who knew? Actually child sexual abuse has been happening for a long time in the revered Boy Scouts of America. The latest rash of arrests and convictions is really nothing new.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 11, 2010 The Frightened and the Insane: Looking at the Latest In Right-Wing Intolerance
Emotional vandalism. Covert plans for genocide. The draconian Texas GOP. A clueless senatorial candidate attack ad. A 4th of July fear-and-loathing fest. Darwin = Hitler.
The last several weeks of horrendous ideologies have been brought to us by "social conservatives" across the country.
Will we survive it all? What's next?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 21, 2009 The Two Biggest "Hate Crimes" Of All: Prop 8 and Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins is a hate machine in a league of his own: his attacks on the Obama administration and on gays are always larger than life and laden with "conspiracies." The signing of the U.N. declaration decriminalizing homosexuality (non-binding) made Perkins go ballistic. But he's one hate crime we cannot totally ignore.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 5, 2009 Sex With Ducks, PRIDE and The Gayification Of The Obama Administration
June is a whole month of PRIDE: President Obama put his pen to the declaration that June is to be LGBT Pride month! Of course, some people aren't happy about it: the American Revolution, the Irish, mothers, fathers, lovers get only ONE DAY! Even Jesus gets only a handful in comparison!
The "slippery slope" theorists are seeing red: first a whole month dedicated to gays, then gay marriage, then...sex with ducks!
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2012 Mitt Gets Worse: One Negative Ad Campaign We Hope Goes Viral
Mitt Gets Worse - the title says it all in this new anti-Romney ad. It's more than an attack ad: it's a scathing indictment against a flip-flopper who will try to appease anyone to get elected.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 15, 2012 Hate Ascending To The Heavens: Rabid Hate Groups Rise, With Anti-Gay Church Groups Leading The Choir!
Faith-based hate groups are on the rise and knowing about them takes vigilance.
This may not be the definitive article focusing on all of them, but it tries to present the reader with a much more in-depth look that a mere list.
It's as up-to-date as it can be and imparts a sense of what these hate groups are about.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 24, 2011 Life After St. Liz
Of all the film stars who deserved to be canonized as a saint, Elizabeth Taylor would certainly be one of them.
That might sound blasphemous to some, but that's the way I see it.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 11, 2010 Another Teen Suicide's Bully May Have Listened To This "Pastor"
It is obvious that the Christian Right cares little about gay teen suicides or bullying. What is not obvious is the lengths some of its "men of God" will go to enable bullies.
"Dr." James David Manning of ATLAH Ministries in NYC's Harlem may be looked upon as a complete buffoon, but please remember that Killer Clowns From Outer Space was a HORROR film!
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 3, 2011 This Is The BIG ONE! It Even Beats Eddie Long!: The Hypocrisy of the Year Award Goes To ...
This one is at the very top of the long list of hypocrites: Pastor Grant Storms, the anti-gay preacher who gathered media attention because he declared the New Orleans gay event, "Southern Decadence" "disgusting" and "nasty" was just arrested for masturbating in a public park - near the playground.
Maybe "Southern Decadence" was just too adult a playground for his lifestyle.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 9, 2010 Hey Kids! It's Time For Tony Perkins' Fear and Confusion Show: ENDA's a DRAG!
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Tony Perkins' Nightmare.
Fear and Loathing in Colorado Springs.
The headlines are almost endless, because the subject is timeless: discrimination in the workplace. But Family Research Council's Tony Perkins doesn't see it that way: he only sees drag queens employed as receptionists, grocery clerks, municipal bus drivers, police and youth counselors.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 24, 2010 Stranger Than Fiction: Tony Perkins' Christmas Card
Political ramblings from the FRC? Never! Yet that's just Tony Perkins'
Christmas card looks like: cobbled together are all of the Allelujahs, sheep, magi, mangers, stars and angels one could wish for in his syrupy greeting.
What gets me is that it's all the most obvious subterfuge: politics has crept into the most holy story. Read about it.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Demonizing Gays And Abusing Puppies: How the Religious Right Is Killing Us One Proposition At A Time
Just who demonizes the most? No doubt about it, the Radical Religious Right has demonized people, well, it seems -FOREVER.
Thanks to the RRR, demonizing has become a national pastime resulting in teen suicides and draconian laws.
And the RRR is trying to pass more laws. Read more to find out what state propositions have in store for you.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 17, 2011 Because Gloating For God Is Soooo Good!: Jacobs, Joyner, Pierce and TamtamPam Delight in Japan's Tragedy
How can we apologize to Japan for Cindy Jacobs, Rick Joyner and Chuck Pierce? How? Tell Japan that we don't listen to them? Tell Japan that "they don't represent us"?
These people are an embarrassment enough without having them overtly insult a country that has been stricken by disasters.
Somehow they look like schoolyard bullies kicking the most vulnerable kid after he's fallen down.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, January 28, 2011 Poor Scott Lively? Poor David Kuto? Poor Uganda? No: Poor America - Our Religious Right Got Just What It Wanted!
The choruses of "We're Not To Blame!" will be ringing in our ears for weeks.
It may be a good thing David Kuto is not alive to hear such calumnies. He died fighting the same people who will be singing them.
Whatever the views about his murder, one thing stands out above all others: America's Religious Right has exported anti-gay sentiment to Africa - vehemently.
And some say - murderously.
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 21, 2013 The Season Of Getting, Part 2: Uganda Gives Duck Dynasty A Present
Uganda's gift to America's Christian Right (and in particular to Duck Dynasty and its supporters)is sad in its cruelty: a new law criminalizing homosexuality AND forcing Ugandans to turn in their neighbors.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 23, 2011 The Political Half-Quit: Sarah Palin Couldn't Do Better Than GRACIE ALLEN
Sarah Palin - the political half-quit - says she is postponing the rest of her magical mystery bus tour across America because of jury duty obligations.
How convenient.
Sorry folks, but she's a quitter.
Compare her "campaign" to Gracie Allen's run for President in 1940. It gave us entertainment and a chance to laugh at ourselves as political animals.
Certainly more than Palin is doing right now.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 29, 2010 Demonizing America - Part 3: SPECIAL REPORT - HELL HOUSES - Causing Teen Suicides Or Rescuing Souls?
"It Gets Better" proclaim the compassionate people trying to stem the tide of gay teen suicides. But while "It Gets Better" is resounding through the nation, another group is saying, "It Gets Worse - MUCH WORSE!!"
This Halloween, over 2 million people will be subjected to scenes of botched abortions, rape, teen suicides and gay men dying of AIDS.
HELL HOUSES - are they out to rescue souls or merely ruin lives?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 4, 2010 Simply Christians or Simply Terrorists: the Violence of Christofascism Comes Home to Roost
Militarism has always maintained a strong standing in religion. But when it supercedes religion, the results can be very dangerous.
Hutaree, the militia cult monitored by the FBI, is only an overt form of religious militarism. nd there are other groups waiting to take over where Hutaree left off.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Be Careful Who You Lionize: Bio of Barton's Hero Devours His "Founders Bible" With Slavery, Incest And Homosexuality
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is perhaps more believable than some of the things the Right comes up with to "prove" we are a "Christian Nation.
In his new book, "The Founders Bible", pseudo historian David Barton again comes up with "facts" and names of people who say "Christian nation" more than once. With congressman and governor James Henry Hammond, however, Barton steps into hilarious doo doo.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 15, 2009 The Bestseller That Isn't: Going Rogue Hits Bestsellerdom With A Wimper!
What constitutes a bestseller these days? The number of copies sold is still the criteria, but there is something else, or rather, there are things which don't "pal around with" good writing. Notoriety of the author or subject sells. Even negative publicity sells.
In the case of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, however, booksellers' intuition might go into play: Amazon has discounted this $28.99 book to...$9.00!
SHARE Thursday, August 27, 2009 Anti-Health Care Reform, Anti-Obama: What's Been Going Out As "Gospel" Part Two
Now we finally get to that part about "pulling the plug on granny." The Health Care Bill repeatedly cites that the patient's wishes and decisions are paramount.
But to suspicious Christofascists, like Prof. Stevor, there's too much leeway for the Obama administration to step in and turn us all into "Obama Zombies."
Read all of the sections Stevor cites and I annotate. At times, you just don't believe he can read.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 4, 2009 Ann Coulter(geist) Bites A Big One
So you think Ann Coulter is the LAST person to be fooled about anything? Guess again. In her rabid chase for anything anti-Obama, she fell for an April Fool's joke and even Rush Limbaugh laughed and insinuated that she was stupid! And in her corollary rhetoric, she revealed that she even depends upon Michelle Malkin for "news" from time to time! Of all the Republicans to fool, Coulter will be the most dangerous - to herself.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 15, 2011 Uganda's "Kill-The-Gays" Pastor Accused Of Extortion, Perjury and Fraud To Push Bill
"Eat Da Poo-Poo" pastor may be in big trouble: his "poster boy" accused him of extortion, bribery and other low dealings in order to get the "kill the gays" bill passed. He talked - to the New York Times, no less.
Whatever the outcome of this story, our own Christian Right may not come out too clean.
SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2009 Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedaphile Priest to Mother Theresa
Whoopi Goldberg is only three degrees of separation away from Mother Theresa.
The elements:
Goldberg filmed the blockbuster movie, SISTER ACT at St. Paul's church in San Francisco at the same time Father Donald McGuirre was there, welcoming Mother Theresa. He became the nun's confessor.
But he also used the confessional for unorthodox purpose than hearing sins.
He's serving a 25-year sentence for child abuse.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2011 San Francisco Is Damned!: Will the "Tales of the City" Town Withstand The Coming Onslaught Of Violent Rhetoric?
Tales of The City, the new musical is beautiful for a number of reasons, one of which is that it tears down barriers and replaces them with acceptance and love.
So of course, the Christian Right will demonize it to the enth degree. More importantly, it will step up its vehement and violent rhetoric against the City of San Francisco.
Will it survive the onslaught of hate?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 14, 2010 The Last of God's Ambulance Chasers: Pat Robertson Delights in Haiti's Hell!
Pat Robertson has been out chasing ambulances again - for God! He's the only one delighting in the Haitian earthquake disaster because, as he said, "They made a pact with the devil."
Of course, his "apology" will be to send thousands of Bibles to Haiti in the hopes of more converts.
He did it with Katrina, so why not Haiti?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 24, 2011 Eating The Chocolate Bunny: No Profound Easter Message Inside
Taking a big bite out of the Easter Bunny's hide isn't really that easy: frivolous, mindless Easter commercialism is something we can't rid ourselves of no matter how hard we try.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 23, 2009 Anti-Health Care Reform, Anti-Obama: What's Been Going Out As "Gospel" Part One
Dan Vojir goes point-by-point with the Dean of Liberty University Law School and his “brief†describing HR 3200, the Health Care Bill. Vojir points out how a dyed-in-the-wool Christofascist has been presenting a pack of assumptions, misinterpretations, and lies as “the Gospel Truth.†This screed reeks of Obama hatred and tries to instill fear that we will all become “Obama Zombies†on the road to totalitarianism.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 10, 2010 The AFA and The Muslim Question: Deportation, Reservations, Concentration Camps or Gas Ovens?
Will the American Family Association wind up on Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups? It certainly looks that way.
AFA spokesperson Brian Fischer has just released his latest solution to "The Muslim Question": stop their immigration to this country and deport ALL of the Muslims already here.
He says, after all, that's the "Judeo-Christian" compassionate thing to do.
No kidding.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Islamophobia And Free Speech: Are Jones-Fueled Riots At Two Embassies Justified?
Pastor Terry Jones has struck again with the posting of TWO videos: one depicting Islam's Muhammad as a bisexual, megalomaniac and pedophile and another in which he "tries" Muhammad and declares 9/11 to be "International Judge Muhammad Day." The protests have sparked riots and have been linked to the death of one American diplomat in Cairo.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Transcending Christmas, Pt 3: Can OWS Help Save The Spirit of Christmas?
Will the OWS help keep the Spirit of Christmas alive?
Don't count on the Christian Right to do it, since they're too busy owning Christmas itself.
UPDATE on Zuccotti Park: it will be closed for Christmas. Figures.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 24, 2012 "Tough Love" On Trial: Support Of Pastor Worley's Genocidal Homophobia Has Finally Made Gay Rights Into Civil Rights
The outrage caused by Pastor Charles Worley's viral video may indeed cause some "tough love" but not the kind Worley would anticipate... or like: the entire country will be viewing the protests against Providence Road Baptist Church - and with the feeling of deja vu. What the Christian Right has tried to cover up for decades has come to the fore with Worley's diatribe: gay right are civil rights.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 23, 2010 The Madman and The Little Flower: Glenn Beck Unwittingly Mimics The FATHER Of Hate Radio!
Glen Beck is adamant about not being compared to Father Charles Coughlin, The "Father of Hate Radio," but just because Beck hasn't been overtly anti-Semitic, doesn't mean he's as "reasoning" a man as he claims to be.
Far from it. But this piece let's the reader decide.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, March 30, 2015 No Jews/Hindus/Muslims/Atheists Allowed: What About The Rest, Indiana?
The idiocy of Indiana has risen to the fore: at what better time can it pass a law so blatantly religionist and say that it is not discriminatory?
BTW: it may have to pass a bill to define the bill.
SHARE Tuesday, December 1, 2009 The Manhattan Declaration: Hypocrites United
The Manhattan Declaration is all about hypocrisy - on a vain and boastful scale. It purports to be a manifesto of what ALL true Christians should be doing: beating the crap out of liberals, hating their guts and opposing any idea they ever come up with (bad or good!), but doing this out of - love!
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 9, 2011 A Victim Of The Masses?: Piers Morgan Gets Ann Coulter To Admit That She's Really Marie Antoinette!
Hail Queen Marie Antoinette!
Actually, it's Queen Ann Coulter of the "let them eat cake" school of politics and social responsibility.
On the Piers Morgan show (CNN), she showed her utter disdain for the bourgeoisie (all liberals, of course) and the "demonic" mob mentality of half the country.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 22, 2009 The New "Social Conservatives": Mormons On The Attack!
Just how aggressive is the Mormon Church going to be in the "Culture War"? Was Prop 8 just the beginning or was it, as one Mormon elder put it, "the Gettysburg of the Culture War"?
For years, the Mormon Church has struggled for acceptance by mainstream American religions. They helped pass Prop 8 with money...and manpower. So just how far will they go?
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 11, 2011 Treating Children Like Horses: Christian Right "Historian" David Barton Gets Violent
David Barton treats children like horses.
Unfortunately, that statement might be more true than anyone would like to think. And it's good news for those fathers who are searching for justification in beating their kids.
But beyond that, Barton's rhetoric has become increasingly violent in his quest for a Christian Only nation.
No wonder Mike Huckabee wants Barton's writings read at gun point!
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 31, 2010 The Vampires Have Their Mistress Back ...
So now the REAL "Queen of the Damned" has returned to her fans: Anne Rice has "quit" Christianity. Actually, she has simply echoed Ghandi: "Love your Christ. Don't like your Christians."
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Condom Papa: The Pope Blinded By The Fantasy of Abstinence
Pope Benedict XVI is against the use of condoms for preventing AIDS/HIV. So? Everybody knows that. But for the first time, he actually said that condoms are part of the problem, especially in Africa where he is currently touring. His power-grab for spiritual allegiance in Africa is almost as effective as Rick Warren's. He has not yet visited Uganda, a "Purpose Driven" nation. Maybe he doesn't see it as a potential money-maker?
(14 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 26, 2009 Thank God For Religious Intolerance!
Since when have Christian sects ever agreed on anything? With the exception of Prop 8, the "Christian Right" has had a very long history of embracing warfare, especially amongst themselves.
Why don't we just leave them alone to fight their own battles? Because they may unite someday. And that day may be the Armaggedon they've dreamed of.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 4, 2010 The Season's First Storm of Righteous Indignation: The SPLC Tells The AFA, FRC, KKK and FWBP to STFU
Ever since the Southern Poverty Law Center came out with its latest list of hate groups in the U.S., the Christian Right has been back-peddling and anointing the apologists who can sound the most righteously arrogant against the SPLC.
Which group will sound the biggest fool? Judge for yourself, because your guess is as good as mine.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Is Christianity Worth Saving?
Right Wing Christianity has a stranglehold on today's religion and politics. What are the rest of us to do?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Avatar: Giant Smurf Pixies and The Christofascist Perspective
We have made a religion out of entertainment...and an entertainment out of religion.
At least that is what the popularity of the film Avatar has proven. Although the Christian Right has completely demonized the film ("...an abhorrent New Age, pagan, anti-capitalist worldview that promotes goddess worship and the destruction of the human race.", James Cameron's film keeps packing them in even in Alabama!
SHARE Friday, November 6, 2009 Pray For Carrie Prejean!
The darling of the Christofascist set, Miss Carrie Prejean has fallen from grace again and may not be "Still Standing" after tomorrow.
The real villain of this saga, however, is the Christian Right who trained her, coddled her, lionized her and made her fame dependent on their own terms.
SHARE Monday, January 11, 2010 The Elated And Inflated Rick Warren: More Than $2.4 Million ...In Publicity!
It's a miracle!! Rick Warren asked for $900,000 to fill Saddleback Church's financial hole. "Ask and you shall receive" sayeth the Bible.
And Warren received almost three times his request. But what Warren really wanted was publicity. And he got that too.
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 The Bleaching of Arizona
The treatment of a mural in Prescott, Arizona has gone viral with the face of racism coming out of that state and its immigrations policies.
The mural is on two sides of a K-5 school, depicts some of the actual kids in the school and is the subject of intense debate.
To calm down the controversey, the principal of the school is ordering the faces of the (mostly) Latino children LIGHTENED.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 15, 2013 The Vomit Value Of Pat Robertson: Irrelevance Is The Issue
Is Pat Robertson relevant? After his latest bout with reality and gays, it would seem not, but this author says yes - for reasons with which Mr. Robertson would definitely not agree - if he grasped what the author was talking about.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 26, 2012 You Might Be A Right Wing Bible Thumper, If...: Foxworthy's New Bible Quiz Show Promises Unintended Laughs
"The American Bible Challenge" will be hosted by none other than ... Jeff Foxworthy! Foxworthy ("You might be a redneck, if..." and "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" is known for putting stupidity and oafishness in the spotlight, but what will he do with Bible verses?
The possibilities are fun to think about.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Hell To Pay: Francis Tells The Christian Right To "Back Off" And Instantly Becomes The Anti-Christ
The Pope is the ANTI-CHRIST!!! Or so the reactionaries think.
Francis' first interviews have revealed a dreaded "social justice" predeliction, but moreover, they have told the Christian Right to back off groups and ideologies and concentrate on the important things - like taking care of the poor and correcting the vast economic inequality that exists primarily in our own country.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, May 1, 2009 Unabashed Hatred From The Republican Party Has Been Condensed...
Remember Matthew Shepard? If you weren't living in a cave at the time, you know his story by heart: he was murdered because he was gay. But some people still don't get it: hate crimes exist.
Unfortunately, some members of Congress hate the thought of any form of hate crimes legislation. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is one. In her speech to Congress opposing the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, she defined the Republican Party.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2009 Joe Sixpack (aka Sarah Palin) vs The Volcano (Mt. Redoubt)
Natural disasters always test the mettle of a leader. Yesterday AND NOW TODAY, Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Volcano has erupted SIX times, the largest plume being over 60,000 feet (11.5 miles). While vulcanologists are being optimistic about the fate of Anchorage in regards to volcanic ash, that largest major eruption in 1990 caused $160 million in damages: the same amount rejected by Palin slated in the Stimulus for Alaska schools.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 15, 2011 Ann Coultergeist: Gays Love Me! I'm Their Judy Garland! I'm Delusional!
For one week, the media has been abuzz with GoProud's assignment of Ann Coultergeist to their advisory committee. (honorary chair). So AC has lapped it up and now thinks that all "true gays" love her.
She has a serious case of ODN (Outright Delusional Narcissism).
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 11, 2011 And The Hate Goes On: Has The Death Of Matthew Shepard REALLY Made A Difference?
Thirteen years ago. Think back to the images of a young man's body hanging on a fence, of people with wide "wings" of white muslin shielding a grieving funeral gathering from Fred Phelps' hate group, and of an addle-brained old congresswoman declaring that the hate crime was a "hoax".
How did Matthew Shepard's death change anything?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 10, 2009 Townhall.com and the Militia Movement: The Guns Are Free, But Are The Bullets?
The "Millionaire Patriot" has struck publicity gold again! His complaint that Premiere Radio Network won't run his ad because it gives away guns has been making the rounds.
The real question: Why does Townhall.com promote his programs in such a stealthy fashion? Inquiring minds want to know!
SHARE Wednesday, September 9, 2009 The Clowns Of September: Bachmann, Boykin, Schlafly, Beck....and MORE!!
Ah, the month of September. A time of frenetic activity for school kids and folks preparing for the holidays.
And a frantic time for the clowns of Washington.
This article will give you a glimpse at what lies ahead for circus neocons: parties! awards! fear-mongering seminars! Speeches from the likes of the venerable orator Stephen Baldwin and the not-quite-dead Phyllis Schlafly!
(Also: a SPECIAL "warm-up" video!)
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Values Voter Summit: O'Donnell, Fischer, and The Usual Panoply of Clowns
What is it about conservatives and vetting (or lack of it)? The Values Voter Summit last weekend was a hilarious affair of consistent inanities and proof that if a person says "God", "Christian" and "Obama is a socialist" enough that anyone can to be a new "star" in the celestial firmament of right-wing politics.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 18, 2009 There Is NO War on Christmas! Jesus Told Me So!
'Tis the season - for pundits like Limbaugh and O'Reilly to declare that there is a "War on Christmas." True, there is a war going on besides Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's not on Christmas.
Instead, it's the war on tolerance.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Putrid Politics of Jesse Kelly's Super-Ego
So when is Jesse Kelly going to be able to take a shot at Giffords' again? I mean, at her Congressional seat, of course. It depends upon patience, generosity and compassion on the part of Vision 360 a "church planting" group that has hired Kelly as part of its promotion and development team.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 4, 2009 The Inflatable Nativity vs The True Meaning of Christmas
Just what does the Christian Right want insofar as Christmas is concerned? Do they want us to manufacture more plastic, light-up nativity figures? There's a war on Christmas to be sure, but it's being fought with tastelessness
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 8, 2012 Tennessee Gets The Call: Slouching Towards Africa, The Lou Engle-Honored State Proudly Touts The Right To Bully
The influence of "prophet" Lou Engle in Tennessee has come to light with the consideration of a new "anti-bullying" law that is really a license for bullies to get away with their taunts as long as they say that they're for religious reasons.
But some people see through the Christian Right First Amendment smoke screen.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, January 14, 2011 Just The Way The Right Wants It: The Queen of Idiot America Will Be President!
It was announced on Monday that Michele Bachmann would not rule out a bid for the Presidency.
Yes, you read that right. The more ridiculous idea is that her wingnut base thinks this is wonderful!
Let's face it: having crazies loose on shooting/assassination rampages is one thing, but having BACHMANN SUPPORTERS running loose in the streets is too much for us to bear!
Stupidity will reign. America will be doomed.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Viva MEXICO CITY! The Catholic Church's New Satan!
Marriage equality in Mexico?
What a slippery slope for Mexico: Mexico City has adopted same sex marriage and actually REDEFINED their legal definition of marriage:
"the free uniting of two people."
Anyone want to check in on Pope Benedict's pulse?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Bully For The Press, But Boo For Benedict: Why Peggy Noonan and Benedict's Defenders Are Wrong
The Catholic Church has been in the grips of a monumental scandal for over a decade. It has paid out millions of dollars in damages to victims of sexual abuse by priests.
Now that the scandal has been placed directly in front of the pope, will he admit to some culpability?
Don't bet on it.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 The Outbreeders: Mandating A Baby Boom For The Culture War
Could the nation's future be populated solely with Christionists?
That's what the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer fervently hopes. His theory: "social conservatives" will "outbreed" gays, feminists and pro-choice people, eventually taking over the government by sheer numbers.
Scary, isn't it?
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 22, 2009 Ann Coulter: Too White To Be Clean?
Famous right-wing pundit Ann Coulter(geist) always has someone or something to bash: whether it's Joe Biden's hairplugs, Michelle Obama's style, Princess Diana (yes, her too!)Jews or Muslims, she goes for the lowest common denominator. This post, however, shows that what she ACTUALLY SUPPORTS is really White Supremacy in all of its ugly glory. Her defense of the Council of Conservative Citizens is rank and detestable.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 16, 2011 Day Of Silence, Day Of Bigotry: Who Are The Victims, Who Are The Bullies?
Today not only marks the dreaded Income Tax deadline, but is also designated as this year's "Day of Silence" in schools across the country. But instead of a day symbolizing confraternity with LGBT students and a rebuke of school bullying, it has come to delineate intolerance and acceptance.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 10, 2010 No Laughing Matter: The Fudds Are Besieging Amarillo, Tx. And There Will Be Bloodshed - Eventually
Amarillo, Texas is under siege by Elmer Fudds!
We've always applied the rule that there are Elmer Gantrys in the Christofascist world. But there are also their minions: the Elmer Fudds. The Fudds may be the more dangerous of the two: they're quite brainless, but they're the ones who have the guns.
And Repent Amarillo is now a breeding ground for Elmer Fudds.
SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2009 You Don't Have To Eat 10,000 Boxes Of Crackerjack To Become An Ordained Minister! [Satire]
No, your pastor didn't have to eat 10,000 boxes of Crackerjack to get that "Doctor of Divinity" tag, but just where DID he get it? Is the title R-E-V-E-R-E-N-D synonymous with R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Most people think so.
[Satire]
Ordination by the Universal Life Church (online or by mail!) of over 20 million people since 1959 brings up the question: how good are your pastor's educational credentials?
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, December 20, 2010 Feeling The Wrath of The FRC: Republicans Rue The Day
The sh*t is hitting the fan at warp speed! And the viciousness of Christian Right organizations such as the FRC is proof that they will not put up with the Republican senators who voted for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 12, 2012 Bringing Hate To Paradise: Will Bali Suffer From The Wrath of NOM?
The National Organization for Marriage may have hit a new low - and a couple of new snags in its DumpStarbucks campaign.
The boycott has gone global, targeting many countries were homosexuality is already criminalized or marginalized and some countries that openly accept gays - like Bali.
Yes, "Paradise" accepts gays.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 14, 2011 Who REALLY Killed 4-Year-Old Jadon Higgenbotham?
The murder of 4-year-old Jadon Higgenbothan may not hit the headlines like the latest Casey Anthony saga, but it bears looking into all the same -- as to who was REALLY responsible.
SHARE Saturday, September 12, 2009 Getting Serious About Stupidity: Another September Clown, Carrie Prejean and the FRC
Will the Christian Right (embodied in self-righteous institutions such as Family Research Council) ever monitor itself?
No. It will trot out clown after clown each September to hammer at it's message of righteousness without caring that the people they are using are, well...clowns.
This year's Values Voter Summit will feature Miss Carrie Prejean. Our deep apologies to Miss Prejean for this piece.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Evangelical Healing Or Sanctified Manslaughter? British Deaths Allegedly Result From Nigerian Preacher's Scam.
The latest Nigerian scam may come in the form of deadly "spiritual advice."
Pastor T.B. Joshua of Nigeria's Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, has claimed to cure AIDS, cancer, various other illnesses (and even dwarfism?).
The problem with his ministry is that it has induced deaths by telling sick people to throw away their medications.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 26, 2009 Going After Christofascist Clowns: Frank Schaeffer and The Scariest Video EVER!
In a recent poll in South Carolina, 8% of "social conservatives" believed that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. And 13% said they were not sure.
When it comes to the President, health care, the war in Afganistan, same-sex marriage and abortion who is sane? Who is insane?
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, May 15, 2009 An Open Letter To Hillary Clinton: Don't Let Michael Savage Out Of The Country!
Open Letter To Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: PLEASE don't rescind Britain's ban on Michael Savage. Britain has gone through enough these last 2000 years: besieged by Romans, Britons, Vikings, Dutch and Germans. Sicking Michael Savage on them would devastate them! Leave the poor British alone!
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 8, 2010 God Talks To Robertson: "Oh, Come On Pat, Lend Me Fifty Mil!"
Rod Parsley and Rick Warren have maxed out the headlines with their budget deficits but Pat Robertson sits back, counts his money and ...talks to God.
What does God say? Maybe He asks for a loan.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Little General Michele Is Skipping Gleefully To The Gallows - And Her Mighty Militiamen May Just Give Her Enough Rope
Michele Bachmann may seem like some deranged Shirley Temple sailing her Good Ship Folly Pop into a hurricane, but who are the guys letting her helm the ship? Some things have been said about Marcy Bachmann, but the others (including media) need closer attention:
Sean Hannity, Tony Perkins, Bryan Fischer, Bradlee Dean, Frank Vetters, Robert Tatreau, Andrew Breitbart are just a few who could be crazier than Bachmann!
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, May 4, 2012 Fighting The Righteous Right With 300 OpEdNews Articles: Was It Worth It?
300 articles - 250,000 words, 464 comments - 410,000 page views.
Let's face it, I'm a bit tired. But a passion keeps me going: a passion for exposing hypocrisy in the Righteous Right. It's a passion that can be exhilarating to the point of orgasm.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 15, 2010 America As A Hostage To Stupidity
The machinations of a disreputable preacher (whose congregation numbered 50) brought America to its knees begging him not to insult our volatile enemy and our own citizens. And in the process, he proved that America has long been a hostage to an aggregate group of people who are too self-righteously arrogant for their own good.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, March 13, 2009 I Hope Rick Warren Fails
What is there about Rick Warren that masks the REAL Rick Warren? Has his art of manipulation gone too far? Just what are his motives in expanding his "Purpose Driven" empire? These are questions Warren won't answer and that can make a person more than skeptical - it can make a person...afraid.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, July 19, 2010 The Passion of the Mel
Should we fire Mel Gibson or force him to retire?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 31, 2011 Sweetwater, TN Infects Rome: Now CATHOLIC BISHOPS Tell HUD To Take A Hike!
The bigotry of Sweetwater, TN has now spread to...Rome! Catholic Bishops are in a tizzy about HUD's non-discriminatory policy regarding sexual orientation. Compassion, it seems, has its limits.
To point out how compassionate other areas of the country (damned liberal ones, of course)have saved lives, I'm proffering my own story as it is.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 4, 2011 Michelle Obama Sends Pedestrians Across the Country To Untimely Deaths!
People have never slammed a First Lady like they have Michelle Obama. Never. So why now? Ask Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Glen Beck and the rest.
Now they've blamed a rise in pedestrian deaths to her fitness campaign.
Great.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2013 The Irrelevance Of "Screw You": Ann Coulter Panders To Paranoia
Ann Coulter's pandering to paranoia has just come out with the ubiquitous "Screw You!" to Obama. Too bad it will generate the publicity she wants: what a waste of air space!
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 6, 2014 Gay Adoption: The New Demon Of The Christian Right's Lawmakers
For get gay marriage. Gay adoption is the new frontier! With state bans dropping like flies and the Christian Right looking defeated, the new bulwark against the downfall of civilization will be gay adoption.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 14, 2011 God Never Apologizes -- But Don't You Think It's About Time He Did?
If God has any "representatives" down here, He's never allowed them to do one thing on His behalf: apologize.
For thousands of years, God's "men of God," have done numerous dastardly deeds in His name, but never apologized. Is that God's fault, or is it His representatives' lack of decency?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 9, 2010 Compassion to Glenn Beck?
Glenn Beck recently announced that he is taking leave of his show for a couple of days due to illness.
He asked people to pray for him.
This occurred a day after he warned us about "compassion"
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 3, 2012 Gerbils, Cell Phones And Bats Up The Butt: The Culture War Heats Up With Diatribes From Another World
From Eddie Long being crowned "king" to a Tennennesse state senator's declaration that its' "virtually impossible to get HIV through heterosexual sex" the culture war is ramping up to ridiculous heights.
Some don't think it's effecting the electorate, but tell that to a bludgeoned cat with "liberal" scrawled across it.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 1, 2010 The Greatest Story Never Told, Part II: If Eddie Long Is David, Who The Hell's Goliath?
Will the case against "Bishop" Eddie Long take forever? Let's hope not. The public wants every salacious detail. Both Long and his accusers, however, have given over vagaries, not details. And Long has not defined just who "Goliath" is.
Added to this saga will also be the sideshow of the lawyers, both Titans of the courtroom. So if there is any more action, tighten your seat belts, folks!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 28, 2012 The Language Of Haters: NOM's Viral Memo Exposes Reprehensible Tactics And Comtempt
After failing at calling for an international boycott of Starbucks, the National Organization of Marriage - NOM - has hit a serious snag in its anti-gay marriage campaign: a memo of its rather unethical strategies has been discovered. Is it the end of NOM?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Rut! Rabbit! Rut!
Bryan Fischer is talking sex again. Ho Hum. This time, he's targeting African American single moms.
Boring.
SHARE Tuesday, January 12, 2010 American Putz: Will Fox Go To Hell Riding A VERY Happy Horse?
Family Guy and American Dad are the animated series which push the envelope, but the one really doing the pushing is creator Seth MacFarlane.
Now Parents Television Council is asking the FCC to see that FOX, MacFarland and American Dad are censured and off the air. Why?
For implying that the main character of American Dad masturbated a horse.
Is this tantamount to bestiality? Who knows? Who cares?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 24, 2016 Hero Or Nero? Is Trump The Worst Thing To Happen To America In 156 Years?
The Aftermath - it's what people are talking about today: what will happen when the hopes of Trump's rabid supporters are dashed on November 8? Will Trump continue his quest for universal love and admiration with Trump TV?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 7, 2011 Pat Robertson: As Christians We Must Love ALL of God's Murderous Dictators - Even Laurent Gbagbo!
Cote d'Ivoire has been a stronghold for the Christian Right as long as Laurent Gbagbo has been in power. All of that might change: the new President is Muslim! The travesty that is religion in Cote d'Ivoire is portrayed in its ridiculously huge, ostentatious Bsilica - mocking the poverty of the country.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 6, 2012 THE BATTLE OF THE BULLIES!!: Dan Savage and Brian Brown To Fight Over ... "Bullsh*t"
The BOOK OF BULLSH*T war is in full swing with battle lines drawn and sides taken:
Dan Savage has agreed to take on NOM's (National Organization for Marriage) Brian Brown for a debate that should see people feinting in the aisles for its viciousness. But for all his crudeness, Savage will undoubtedly reign supreme with reason, because the entire uproar can be looked upon as just... "bullshit"
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 "Send 'em To Siberia" NH Politician Resigns Due To "SLIGHTLY Unfavorable Publicity."
Marty Harty has resigned. Good. But what we should really be asking ourselves from the "Send 'em to Siberia" controversy is what led people to vote for him in the first place? And did the New Hampshire Republican party simple want someone old and (possibly) senile?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Insanity Overload: Why Can't We Just Sit Back And Enjoy It?
If the last three weeks are a portent of things to come this year, then we should all crawl back under the covers. Seriously! The panoply of dimwitted preachers and politicians that came out of the woodwork threatens to destroy our faith in God and humanity: Cindy Jacobs, Michele Bachmann, Wiley Drake, the Southern Baptist Convention, World Net Daily, Rick Joyner, and newcomer Michael Voris, S.T.B. (whatever that is).
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 30, 2012 Tropical Storm Limbaugh Lashes The Poor, Democrats And Obama. Leaves Only Remnants of GOP "Compassion" In Its Wake!
Rush Limbaugh's genocidal humor has created a firestorm - but not of sufficient strength to do any damage to the pundit or to the Republican Party. It is an incident that will be noted by the many, but glossed over by the few - those in the halls of conservative power.
They survived Tod Akin. They can survive Rush Limbaugh. Look! Over there! It's the economy!
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Can We Stop Laughing Now? GOP Hypocrisy Campaign Hits New High With Herman Cain and His Campaign Manager Mark Block
Who's dumber, Herman Cain or his campaign manager, Mark Block? It's hard to tell since Cain hired Block and Block has thrown Cain under the bus so many times you wonder who's side he's on.
The ineptitude goes on and on.
To prove it, the last statement regarding the Ginger White affair has a statement that must have sent Bill Clinton into gales of laughter. To wit: "none of the public's business." LOLOLOL!
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 9, 2011 Marking 200 For OpEdNews: The Best of Times (Sex With Ducks), The Worst of Times (The Deaver Fetus)
Marking 200 for OpEdNews sounds like a lot, but compared with the prodigious output of most of its progressive writers I feel like I'm just bringing up the rear on the battle.
Anyway, 200 articles does cut a hefty chunk of a writer's life, so sit back, relax and get a whiff of all the false prophets,bloviators, weirdos, heinous politicians and atrocities that I've had to put up with.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2013 Hypocrisy Hits The Skids: NRA Targets Protection Of President's Daughters
Sasha and Malia have become the latest targets of the NRA: the President is now "hypocritical" in having his daughters protected by the Secret Service.
But...
perhaps the President and his family need protection from adherents of the NRA.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 25, 2010 The Tale of Clay and Harold: The Type Of (Ill) Treatment The AFA Can Believe In!
By now, most people on the net know the story about Clay Greene and Harold Skull, long-time partners who were separated by Sonoma County, placed in nursing homes, their property auctioned off and denied access to each other until Harold's death.
So what does the American Family Association feel about it? Smug, to be sure.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 7, 2012 Lest We Forget: Vain Hubris Can Be Disastrous - The Hindenburg Showed Us How.
The Hindenburg disaster was 75 years ago, but few people commemorated it - perhaps because it reminded us of the hubris of Germany that preceeded it - much like our own today.
American exceptionalism is in the news - that left-over from the Puritan ethic that (temporarily) defines America. Will it take a disaster to put us back into perspective again?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 3, 2009 Why I Am Allergic To Glenn Beck
I don't really hate Glenn Beck, it's just that I'm allergic to him. Actually, I'm allergic to stupidity. So, how many Americans are afflicted with this allergy?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 13, 2009 When Violent People Come Out Of The Woodwork
This year has been one big series of hatefest after hatefest, with one of the biggest and most unruly of all coming up: Rally For Religious Freedom, proving that absolutely no one can top the Christian Right when it comes to hate.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Carrey Mocks Moses, Fox Fumes: NRA's Sacred Cow Not To Be Blasphemed
Don't mock Moses (aka Charleton Heston)!! Jim Carrey will pay dearly with his very soul (or his life) - so say that pundits on FOX News. Carrey's video ("Cold Dead Hands") has created such a stir at FOX that the offending satire has soared in views ever since Coulter, Hannity, Gutfeld and Ingraham have been "eviscerating" it.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Robertson Redux: Listen Kid, I Love You Even Though You're An Abomination!
When Pat Robertson gives advice, does anybody listen? It's easy to dismiss him because his statements have become manna from heaven to stand up comedians.
The problem: he's still here bloviating about sin and sexuality, while his fans are sure to keep him in the limelight.
And he probably knows where the bodies are hidden.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 17, 2013 Savage Sunday
The savagery - and hypocrisy - demonstrated in the accompanying video only serves to point out that certain aspect of religion have become increasingly negative - and hostile to the welfare of humanity.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 21, 2009 The New "Social Conservatives": Mormons On The Attack!
Just how aggressive is the Mormon Church going to be in the "Culture War"? Was Prop 8 just the beginning or was it, as one Mormon elder put it, "the Gettysburg of the Culture War"?
For years, the Mormon Church has struggled for acceptance by mainstream American religions. They helped pass Prop 8 with money...and manpower. So just how far will they go?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 30, 2010 We Told You So! We Told You So! Nah - nah - nah - NAH - nah!
So now it's finally confirmed: Right wing Christians know less about religion than atheists and zip about other religions.
And what they don't know about their own religion is ...pathetic.
America maybe a "Christian Nation" BUT it's a nation that knows little about Christianity and hates a religion (Islam) with little or no knowledge of what it is.
Thus is the portrait of a vast hypocrisy.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 13, 2011 High On Uganda's Hit List, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo Will NOT Go Into Hiding.
Two men were pictured on the front page of the (now) infamous tabloid in Uganda with the slash-headline "Hang them!" One of those men, David Kato is dead.
The other man is still alive. But for how long? He is Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, one of the best friends Uganda's terror-racked LGBT community.
Bishop Senyonjo spoke at his friend's funeral and spoke bravely and truthfully.
People don't like it.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 16, 2010 Bring Forth The Gays! Bring Forth The Jews! And RELEASE THE KAGAN!!
The Right (both Christian and otherwise) is totally confused about denouncing Elena Kagan as a future Justice of the Supreme Court. Lesbian? Anti-military? Obama's Harriet Miers?
Hey, it's fun watching them all grasp at straws!
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 20, 2009 GITMO FOR KIDS? Senator Buttar's Idea Of "Tough Love"
What is West Ridge Academy in Logan, Utah? A summer camp? A detention center? A boot camp? A Mormon indoctrination center for "wayward" kids? With the articles and "commercials" floating around you'd probably say, "a bit of all of these - but leave out the summer camp."
And how does the (now) infamous Utah state senator Chris Buttars fit in? How much abuse did he approve of?
SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2009 The Rift Of Rifqa Bary! Or Is It Elian Gonzales? Or Terry Schiavo? Or Carrie Prejean?
Mainlining celebrities, or more accurately, cause celebres, is what Christofascists seem to do best. They inhale them!
From Hurricane Katrina to Elian Gonzales to Carrie Prejean, the Christian Right will grab on to anything to help them plug their self-righteousness. Now Fathima Rifqa Bary is their new "Eshter" or maybe even Joan of Arc.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 25, 2012 Do Pedophile Clergy And Their Enablers Get What They Deserve?
The conviction of Monsignor William Lynn brought headlines because he was the highest ranking official in the Catholic Church to be convicted in a case involving child sexual abuse.
However, it also brought out the fact that the punishment (3-6 years) might not fit the crime.
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, February 9, 2015 The Day Christian Accountability Died
Obama reminded Christians and other religions not to be too righteous when looking at the atrocities of ISIS.
A firestorm ensued. Accountability was scorned.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 6, 2011 The Most Violent Rhetoric Is Upon Us: An Analysis Of Rev. Lou Sheldon's Latest Rant
Words. Should we wait for them to kill people? Rev. Lou Sheldon's latest diatribe could cause any number of "righteous assassinations" against gay people - but he says he doesn't hate homosexuals - so read the explosive words yourself - and see it analyzed in a "wordle" that makes the point.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 26, 2010 Pushing Us Over The Edge: Holy Evil Lurches Towards Christmas
Christmas in all it tacky glory is now breathing down our necks. And despite wars and strife, we always manage to locate that spark of true humanity.
Then again, maybe not this year. Consider the crimes in this short article and you may want to bury yourself somewhere and not come out 'til after New Year's.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 31, 2009 The Dirtier The Pulpits, The Dirtier The Politics
The fighting from the right is getting dirtier and pulpits are seminal: the furies of hell are being called upon to rid us of liberal politicians and even the President.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Instead Of A Merry Christmas, Why Not Have A Happy Transcendental Holiday?
Do Christians OWN Christmas? Not any more. The beauty, the concept of Christmas fairly zoomed right past them during the 20th century, leaving some of them behind. In their efforts to "keep the Christ in Christmas" the Christian Right is almost killing the transcendent sentiment.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 24, 2009 Warren: "Uganda Have Heart!" Uganda: "Damn Yankees!"
To Kill Gays Or Not To Kill Gays?
Whither shall Rick Warren go now? Talk about being between a rock and a hard place! Warren encouraged Ugandan leaders to take a harsh stance against homosexuality. They have.
Then, under pressure, Warren denounced it. Now religious leaders are asking for an apology from Warren!!
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 2, 2012 Would The Morality of a "Christian Only" Country Be ... Truly Moral?
What would a "Christian Only" country look like? Before you shudder from the thought, keep in mind that there are people who truly believe that a "Christian Only" country would cure all the country's ills.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, December 10, 2012 The New White Supremacist Is The Same Old Ann Coulter(geist)
Ann Coulter is not exactly out to make friends either South or North of the Border. But then was she ever...out to make friends?
The right-wing polemicist has got a new take on America's problems: lazy, hyper-breeding Hispanics.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Pray-Away-The-Gay And Ex-Gay Voodoo Get SHOKed By Rep. Jackie Spier ... And Sued by The SPLC
The Self-Loathing Industry may be getting several kicks in the rear: Calif Rep. Jackie Speier is introducing a resolution called SHOK (Stop Harming Our Kids) aimed at preventing reparative therapy for kids. And the Southern Poverty Law Center has just filed a law suit (first of its kind) charging fraud against a Jewish pray-away-the-gay organization.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Have aProblem? Burn A Book! Some Thoughts on The Flames Of Control
Book burning has been around for a long time. So has religion. So has self-righteousness. They've gone hand-in-hand for over two millennia, skipping gleefully over so very many poor souls. From the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria, to the publicity-seeking ministers of today, book burning fostered by religion has always meant one thing: control.
So when is Uganda's next bonfire? Ask Lou Engle, he ought to know.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 28, 2012 The Monday Sermon: Should We Honor The Soldiers Of The Culture Wars On Memorial Day?
The culture wars have left more misery and destruction in their path than all the military wars combined: in many case they have been the CAUSE of military conflicts.
And they've have more casualties than wars, so why don't we honor those casualties, those "culture warriors" who fought on both sides?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 We Don't Have To Be Nice Anymore: Is The Christian Right's "Tough Love" Gaining Ground?
The Christian Right is still trying to making inroads for their form of fascism: the loudest are screaming hatred of Muslims, gays, feminists, just about everything they don't consider "Christian" so are they gaining ground?
And are they telling us that they don't have to be "nice" anymore?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 7, 2014 Battle Of The Bullies?
It's not the battle for Brendan Eich's free speech, but a battle between two entities in the culture war: has the gay rights movement become a bully to match the Christian Right?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 15, 2020 The Real Suckers and Losers of America
Who are the real losers and suckers of America? Just look at the news featuring Trump supporters and you will find them.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 Riding The Train To Homophobia: Those Tickets Cost A Lot, Don't They, Tony?
Tony Perkins of Family Research Council has telescoped onto a small amount of money spent to target the LGBT market for Amtrak. Seems, that Amtrak, a government owned transit system is promotion the "gay agenda."
But how much money does the FRC spend on homophobia? You'd be surprised.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 13, 2011 God Never Apologizes. ... But Don't You Think It's About Time He Did?
Have you ever noticed that certain groups of people consider themselves beyond blame or guilt? They tacitly excuse themselves from the world stage as if they are not of the same substance as the rest of mankind.
And they do it all the time, especially in times of crisis: they wash their hands of any culpability. In other words, they think they're God.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 We Don't Have To Be Nice, Ctd: Goodness Is Our Sole Propriety
Continuing with the concept of "good" vs. "nice", some Christian leaders are now coming to an obstacle: "It's the Christian thing to do" may not be the same as "It's the American thing to do."
They'll overcome it: demonizing Islam as only the Christian Right can do: "Islam is not a religion."
Hell, it's already working.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 31, 2009 So How Magnanimous Will The Protect Marriage people Be Now?
So the PMs (Protect Marriage people) think they have a victory? Well, not a complete victory. You see, they want BLOOD. There are 18,000 "demon spawn" out there whose lives they haven't been able to ruin - yet.
Magnanimous? Guess again!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2015 The Profits Of Martyrdom
Just what kind of benefit will Rowan County Clerk get for her incarceration? Maybe not as much as you think.
SHARE Monday, October 26, 2009 Genocide Looming In Uganda! Whither Warren?
The time to uncover Rick Warren is NOW! If he truly "loves" gay people ("I have many gay friends" "I know gay leaders") he will use his influence to stop genocide of gays in Uganda.
But you KNOW he won't.
He's throwing money and medical supplies at Uganda while they're throwing "saved souls" and the bodies of gays and lesbians at him. And he has only two words for everyone: "abstinence only."
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 29, 2009 Nobody EXPECTS the Spanish Inquisition
Monty Python's troop said it all: "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Loyal ex-Bushies like Alberto Gonzales certainly didn't expect it! But now Spain has agreed to open a case against six former Bush administration officials charging war crimes.
Relief! We were waiting with baited breath until a country started advocating justice against Bush's crew.
If other countries follow suit: "Paraguay here we come!"
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 31, 2010 And This Is Who They Listen To
Why is it that the Christian Right still depends on pseudo-historians, pseudo-psychologists and pseudo- well, everything? Can't they get anyone, well, reputable?
Beats me.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 13, 2010 Sorry Billy, We're Looking For Christians With Good Taste
So who has better taste, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League or CNN? While Christofascists decry the lack of taste and the use of horrible images of massacres, Bill Donohue outdoes ethe media with his descriptive, unsubtle passages of prose.
Compare two key passages from CNN and Bill Donohue on the subject of the massacre in Kenya. You'll see just how nausestingly uncouth Christofascists can get.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Holy State-Of-The-Ark Politics! $50 Million In Tax Dollars Go To Replicate Noah's Compulsive Hoarding!
The state of Kentucky has bolstered the economy...of the Answers in Genesis Foundation by allotting it a whopping $50 million in tax rebates. It's counting on the replica of Noah's Ark and the accompanying theme park to being in big money.
The State of Kentucky does not believe in separation of church and state.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Solar-Powered Bibles: Misguided Donations To Haiti or Spiritual Shysters?
The donation of solar-powered Bibles by a Christian manufacturer (requesting 3000 more)to Haiti has resulted in very critical responses.
This article is no exception.
A bit of research accompanied by video clips explains why.
SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Obama's Courage Comes At The Last Minute: A Tale of TWO Speeches
While the ink is still on her hands, Sarah Palin has no right to say how much she thinks Obama depends on teleprompters. In fact, I think the speech given at the National Day of Prayer Breakfast proves that he is not only not dependent on any technical, he's capable of introducing new concepts at the last minute and making them sound as if he has been practicing on his speech for weeks.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 12, 2010 Heather Knows Best: Two Moms Really Can Make A Right
This "shocking" study is another blow to conservatives who need studies that show the opposite. Their "kids need both mother and father" rant can be easily blown apart.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Wrinkles Cost Money. What The Nation's Elderly Need Now: Facial Spackle And Fake IDs
The next big business: supplying fake IDs - to the elderly. Declaring one's age may become harmful to one's health and well-being.
And along with the fake ID's, another must-have commodity will be lots and lots of make-up (aka facial spackle) to cover up the wrinkles - wrinkles will be an extravagance limited to the wealthy.
OK, maybe it's not an age of senior genocide, but it might be one for the "senior closet."
SHARE Saturday, February 28, 2009 Rush Limbow-wow: King-maker or King-breaker?
Who would want someone who's usually foaming at the mouth for a champion? Evidently Bobby Jindal has got a champion in Rush Limbaugh. And why not? They certainly both share the same views.
But state them differently. The critics sounded an acute alarm after Jindal's famous "front porch speech." He garnered more rhetorical and literary contempt than Edward Bulwer-Lytton ("It was a dark and stormy night").
Enter Rush...
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Pulpit Gun Pimps: Evangelical vs Catholic Edition
America's love affair with guns has long been exploited by forces of the Christian Right, but will it go too far with churches actively promoting gun use and sales?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Out With The Old...In With The Absurd
Conservapedia, that lame answer to "Godless" wikipedia has launched one of the most ludicrous attempts at promoting today's conservative ideologies: it is RE-WRITING THE BIBLE!
Under the auspices of Scott Schlafly (son of Phyllis... made, not begotten), The Conservative Bible Project will go down in history as the nail in the coffin of conservative intelligence.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2012 An Open Letter To Tony Perkins: Why I Celebrate Gay Pride Month And Not Self-Righteous Pride Month
Last week, Tony Perkins of the hate group Family Research Council mocked Gay Pride Month celebrated by President Obama by asking why we did not therefore have an "Adultery Pride Month" or a "Drunkenness Pride Month".
This is an open letter to Mr. Perkins asking him where HIS pride is.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 25, 2012 The Bludgeoning Of Cats: The South's Right Wing Politics Has Never Left Us. But What's Good For Gingrich ...
Last Sunday, an Arkansas state congressional candidate's campaign manager and his family came home and his young daughter discovered a gruesome sight:
someone had bludgeoned their family cat to death and left the word "liberal" scrawled on its side.
During this election year, we may have to ask ourselves -
Is this Southern Politics as usual?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 1, 2009 The Jindal Juggernaut: Bush With A Brain?
Barack Obama's speech addressed the country's needs. Bobby Jindal's response speech expressed his desire to be President. Is Jindal just "Bush with a brain?"
SHARE Sunday, November 1, 2009 That Was The Week That Was: A Warren Uganda Guam Palin Bennny Kind Of Week
WOW! What a week for executing gays, for putting money into the Vatican's coffers, for...chewing Guam!
Who ever thought we'd see a week encompass: Rick Warren's tacit response to intentional gay genocide in Uganda, the pope's money grab from lost Anglicans, Guam's archbishop agreeing with the annihilation of gays in Islamic countries and Sarah Palin's formation of a new PAC and her polar-bear-phobia.
What a week
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2009 Dobson, Warren, Parsley, Hagee, Perkins go back to their cages ... for now
James Dobson made a farewell speech to his Focus On The Family staff and supporters that shook the evangelicals quite a bit: "We've lost the culture war." But did he mean it?
And just how far did the Christian Right go in their part of the "war?" A lot further than we wanted them to go. The war's not over by a long shot.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Hawaii Got A Scientist While Russia Got A Crackpot: Two Sides Of LGBT Equality
While Hawaii got a reasoning researcher and bio-geneticist to put the lid on "it's a choice during its laborious debate on same-sex marriage, Russia got a discredited "researcher" spewing hate. Guess who's to blame for that?
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 24, 2014 The Iron Fist in Francis' Velvet Glove: Former Prelate Under House Arrest in Vatican
Meek and Mild Francis has finally proven that he's made of sterner stuff: his arrest of former papal nuncio Woslowski has taken time - but proves that Francis indeed has "zero tolerance" when it comes to child abuse cases in the clergy.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 6, 2009 Holy Hannity! Notre Dame Doesn't Know What It Means To Be Catholic Today!!
Sean Hannity drove Obama-bashing into overdrive Friday on a subject that everyone but the particulars in the matter has covered ad nauseum: Obama's speaking at the Notre Dame Commencement in May.
The crux of his interview with Jim Nicholson (former Ambassador to the Holy See) was: Obama must hate Catholics and Catholics must hate Obama.
SHARE Monday, March 1, 2010 The Blatant Bigotry At CPAC: The Anger, The Arrogance And A Distinct Lack Of Reasoning
Ryan Sorba needed a good piece of theatricality to help him and his labored writing.
He got it at CPAC.
Resorting to a direct attack on CPAC for being too liberal in recognizing, GoProud, Sorba bashed gays and anyone who supported them.
Ryan gives speeches on "The Born Gay Hoax" based on a book of the same title.
But what may be the real hoax is Sorba himself.
SHARE Wednesday, August 12, 2009 The Best Offense: Bankrupt Hate!
How much does hate cost in America? From printing fliers at KLinko's to slick commercial actors talking ominously about a "coming storm," hate groups spend billions upon billions of dollars. Most of the promotional items are carefully budgeted. But what about unexpected expenses? Like lawsuits.
During these hard economic times, their money may run out. What will YOU do?
SHARE Wednesday, December 30, 2009 A Rib-cracking Bear Hug: The Russian Orthodox Church Embraces Gays:
"Love the sinner, hate the sin" has always been a cover-up for intolerance. But looking tolerant in the Church is more important than being tolerant.
The Russian Orthodox Church has lifted one of its mysterious veils to exhibit a soft, compassionate side. But is it for real?
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 25, 2013 The Trials Of The Century: Homosexual Love vs "Morality"
Two days that may shape our world: the Supreme Court will hear the arguments before and against same-sex marriage. But are they REALLY about marriage, or are they actually about the validity of love?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Like The 1968 Riots? More Like A Trumped Up Laugh Riot!
The demographics of Trump's followers make the possibility of riots at the RNC a theater of the absurd. In no way can it be compared to the 1968 Chicago riots. Then there's Mayor Richard J. Daley ... Hmmmm....
SHARE Friday, August 28, 2009 Get FRC's Health Care Townhall Kit! (Obnoxious Idiot and Gun Not Included)
Won't you be glad when Congress convenes and we return to normalcy? (OK, a modicum of civility!) Townhall meetings in America have shown us that even our Christian churches can give harbor to inane antics and almost violent outbursts of unfounded vitriol. Family Research Council has recently gotten into the act by providing churches the tools to conduct a Bash-Obama event masquerading as a townhall meeting.
SHARE Friday, February 27, 2009 Chris Buttars Will Raise Jesse Helms From The Dead On Satruday Feb. 28!
Utah State Senator Chris Buttars will be the focus of attention this Saturday when a unique blend of party and protest occurs on Saturday in front of Utah's State Capitol building.
Buttars in the (increasingly) famous politician who stated that gays were the "worst threat" to America. However, what may also come to light (as this article points out) is Buttars association with what has been called the Mormon Gulag.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Heal Hitler!
So will your right wingnut church start sending bills to Medicare on your behalf for all that "healing" its prayers did? Doubtful, but nonetheless possible.
A tiny phrase in the the healthcare reform bill prohibiting discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare" puts Christian Science "prayer treatments" on par with other medical expenses.
What will Benny Hinn charge?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 16, 2009 The Rise In Militias: Palin's "Rallymen" Coming Home To Roost!
What kind of people go to town hall meetings these days? What about "desperate"? How about "crude and rude"? How about "misinformed"? Is there a link to these ideological free-fore-alls to the dramatic rise of the militias?
SHARE Wednesday, August 19, 2009 He's Just One Bad Apple! We're Not ALL Like That!
"One bad apple"- You know that it's a valid argument, but come on! We heard it A LOT through Abu Ghraib. We've heard the same said at least a thousand times about Fred Phelps.
Now we've got a man who scribbles on cardboard a death threat to Obama, the First Lady, AND they're two daughters! So it's "one bad apple"- time again. But this time the phrase might not work: we're stuck with an orchard of bad apples.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Boy Scouts May Accept Gays. Christian Right Heads Explode. News At 10.
An explosion took place yesterday in the form of a news story about the Boy Scouts of America. The Christian Right is fuming so much that its airwaves (and FOX News) will not let up on the fact that the Boy Scout of America is reversing its policy on allowing gays to be scouts.
The furor (and fumes) will last quite a long time.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 27, 2014 Two Governors, One Agenda?
Brewer vs. Perry. Two Republicans. Two governors. One agenda?
SHARE Thursday, March 5, 2009 CPAC: Just How Different Was This Hate Fair From a Palin Rally?
What went on a the hallowed CPAC? With such international luminaries as Phyllis Schlafly,Michele Bachmann and Stephen Baldwin, like the tag on The National Enquirer: Enquiring Minds Want To Know!
Of course what REALLY mattered was what Rush Limbow-wow said (that's my pet name for him - he really does remind one of an aging pitbull!)
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Warren, Spin, Iowa and Vermont
The way some people spin news is in many ways hilarious. However, when you use words that border on falsehoods, you run the risk of looking just a bit fascist.
Iowa, Vermont and Rick Warren's appearance on Larry King last night made the issue of gay marriage look like all out war consisting of "activist judges" "misconceptions" "Democrats - the gay marriage party"
When will it let up? No. Fasten your seatbelts...
SHARE Sunday, September 20, 2009 Sorry, Beck and Savage, San Francisco Prefers More Imperial Clowns
San Francisco has always loved and embraced its eccentrics. And the most eccentric of all was it's own Emperor Norton I (Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico). He had class (he once printed a proclamation that anyone saying the "abominable word 'Frisco' would be fined $25).
Unfortunately, two media clowns named Savage and Beck, have absolutely no class. Because San Francisco can't tolerate intolerance.
SHARE Saturday, October 10, 2009 Obama: Lost With Chicago, Won With Oslo
The right wing pundits will be screaming, crying, gnashing their teeth or simply vomiting verbal abuse on the President.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize.
They will also be speculating on "conspiracy theories", proffer allegations of political bribery, or belittle the prize and its committee.
The circus is in town, but I'm not interested.
SHARE Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Out From Underneath His Rock: Rick Warren To Speak (His mind?)To American Muslims
Rick Warren speaking to Muslims?!? While some right wingnuts think he's pandering to Obama and diplomacy a bit too much, other people think it's hypocritical and, well, ludicrous. An example of Rick Warren's fuzzy logic is how he fared with Sam Harris in a debate. Guess who won?
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(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2012 On March 7th, Will The Rest Of The GOP Candidates Be Raptured?
Raputrist believe that people will be raptured (taken bodily to heaven) before the End of the World. And given that so many people believe that Obama's re-election will signal the end times, which Christian GOP candidates do you think will get raptured?