Fundie Watch: January 2008
John & Rudy Sittin' in a Tree
Filed by Jerame Davis | January 31, 2008 1:30 PM |Is it just me or does it seem that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani have suddenly gotten very chummy? Something tells me that when John McCain sends Rudy to find his Veep, Rudy is going to find himself as McCain's...Read More
Ugliness in DC black Baptist church - outing email campaign by homophobic choir member
Filed by Pam Spaulding | January 31, 2008 9:02 AM |"I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do." -- female choir member of the DC-based...Read More
Obama’s playing us stupid
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | January 29, 2008 4:07 PM |Is it mere happenstance that once again, and seemingly unbeknownst to the Obama campaign, another anti-gay African American minister has endorsed the presidential hopeful? But with an Obama endorsement coming from the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, longtime spiritual adviser to President...Read More
Heath Ledger, John Gibson, and the Westboro Baptist Church
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 26, 2008 6:25 AM |Dan Abrams took a look at some of the homophobia following Heath Ledger's death: iPhone users: Click to watch video in YouTube App That the Westboro Baptist Church is protesting his death isn't surprising - they use any tired link...Read More
The good ol' boys at the Concerned Women for America are too stupid to be described in one post
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 23, 2008 7:08 AM |So I won't even try. They've put out a press release calling on HRC, the Task Force, GLAAD, and Lambda Legal to condemn (several types of) gay male sex. Seriously. I was thinking about writing a 70-some-odd-point ordered list of...Read More
35 years after Roe, the right tries a new tactic: exploiting men
Filed by Jen Jorczak | January 22, 2008 8:30 AM |Today is the 35th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. You probably already know that Roe struck down state laws outlawing abortion, but unless it's part of your job description (as it is mine) to keep...Read More
Fact Check: Elaine Donnelly in The Washington Times
Filed by Steve Ralls | January 21, 2008 7:24 PM |This morning's Washington Times includes an article about the decline in dismissals under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," pointing to a 50% drop in firings under the law since 2001. Right-wing pundit Elaine Donnelly, of the Center for Military Readiness, tries...Read More
Fact Check: Elaine Donnelly in The Washington Times
Filed by Steve Ralls | January 21, 2008 7:24 PM |This morning's Washington Times includes an article about the decline in dismissals under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," pointing to a 50% drop in firings under the law since 2001. Right-wing pundit Elaine Donnelly, of the Center for Military Readiness, tries...Read More
Marriage as Perks
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | January 18, 2008 5:27 PM |Ten years ago, I published a long essay about how marriage can equal perks. With the discussion raging on, the issues haven't really changed. I'd like to make some of these points again: When the American Revolution separated church and...Read More
Who needs 10 commandments? AFA prefers 8.
Filed by Bil Browning | January 18, 2008 12:45 PM |So what is it about "Christian" groups with "family" in their names? They always seem to be the most unlike Christ, don't they? Take the American Family Association... Back in June of last year I reported that the AFA had...Read More
"Biblical law" isn't a figure of speech to Huckabee
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 15, 2008 8:19 PM |From a "political rally" in Michigan: That's right, folks, the Constitution doesn't matter to Mike Huckabee. Time to impose one religion on everyone else. Line the sluts, queers, and anyone else Huck decides he doesn't like up for stoning. I...Read More
Why Romney Looks So Robotic
Filed by Jerame Davis | January 13, 2008 3:15 PM |He's really Bob Barker after a rejuvenation treatment gone horribly awry... But at least we know if Romney gets elected every pet in America will be spayed or neutered....Read More
Legalized Loan-sharking
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | January 12, 2008 1:15 PM |The human face of all the devastation created by the credit industry is finally looming on the news. Yesterday, news media put the spotlight on Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson. His Honor is mad as hell at what home foreclosures and...Read More
Star Trek fan fiction gone bad
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 11, 2008 2:51 PM |I don't know if I'm most offended by this as a biology major, a nonreligious person, a queer boy, or a Trekkie, but I was laughing throughout: Riiiiiiiiiiiight... because the Religious Right definitely believes that everyone is equal. (h/t JMG)...Read More
Irreplaceable: Three Days with Darren & His Mom
Filed by Steve Ralls | January 10, 2008 7:30 PM |For the past three days, I've had the privilege of spending time with Army Sergeant Darren Manzella, the openly gay medic who recently came out on 60 Minutes, and his amazing mother, Nancy. Darren and his mom (pictured, below) came...Read More
Stephen Baldwin: evangelical conservative or bisexual playboy?
Filed by Bil Browning | January 09, 2008 9:45 AM |"Actor" Stephen Baldwin swings far right now that he's converted to evangelical Christianity. In fact, he's about as far right wing as brother Alec is liberal. When I hear about his latest fundie screed, I can't help but remember how...Read More
Thus spake Ron Paul
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 08, 2008 3:49 PM |Or so it seems. The National Review The New Republic has hunted down some of Ron Paul's old newsletters (blogs before there were blogs... and some are still being published to this day). One, entitled Ron Paul's Freedom Report, was...Read More
May God Be Your Co-Parent...Or Else!
Filed by Terrance Heath | January 07, 2008 3:18 PM |That's what I thought when I read about John and Cynthia Burke, after someone linked to the article in a comment on my post at Pam's. After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to...Read More
Colts' Coach Dungy bungles employment civil rights questions on HBO
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | January 04, 2008 4:31 PM |Tony Dungy, in a recent interview on Bob Costas' NFL show on HBO, virtually announced how he has and/or plans to break several federal, state, and local civil rights laws regarding employees' rights to employment regardless of religion and sexual...Read More
When Even Romney Isn't "Right" Enough
Filed by Steve Ralls | January 04, 2008 11:50 AM |When Mitt Romney becomes too liberal for the GOP base, you know it's time to worry. That's just what seems to be happening, though, among the fervent few in the Republican party who hold tight to the idea that the...Read More
The founders got it right
Filed by Mike Rogers | January 04, 2008 6:00 AM |Some Americans get it that religion has no place in politics....Read More
Equality cuts deeper than Huckabee's personal religious views?
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 03, 2008 9:10 AM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] This guest post is by Brent Childers. Brent serves as executive director of Faith In America, a North Carolina-based organization that works to educate Americans about the harm caused by religion-based bigotry. GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in...Read More
Pope: Gays will eat your children
Filed by Bil Browning | January 02, 2008 1:48 PM |Ah, that darn Pope! He's such an over-achiever! Not content to simply call us an abomination and knock off early for a bottle of baby seal blood, Pope Benedict the Fearsome always has to take things one step too far....Read More
