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Right Wing Media Already Misleading About Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Comments

Right wing media defend using Christianity to justify Jim Crow & Spanish Inquisition
130The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
February 2015
re: #92 #FergusonFireside Well, rinderpest is as old as cattle-herding, maybe...but measles didn't mutate from it till the 10th or 11th Century A.D. Meanwhile rinderpest has been eradicated since there are no antivaxxer cows.

NPR: The Mormon Church Wants a Free Pass for Bigotry

Here we go again - bigotry redefined as “religious freedom”
211CleverToad
January 2015
Supposed to be asleep an hour ago, but there's music going on. The Carpenters. Goodbye to Love. Road Ode. Rainy Days and Mondays. Yeah, and Superstar. Wrote a novel set in 1973 -- there are refs to 140 songs, mostly ...

Islamophobia, Fox News, and Bogus Statistics

Steve Emerson’s use of bs stats about Muslim demographics in UK furthers agenda of Islamophobia
411CuriousLurker
January 2015
re: #409 Khal Wimpo Yep, that's that non-existent Islamophobia for you. // Both Sam Harris & Bill Maher have fawningly (and incorrectly) attributed the following definition of Islamophobia to Hitchens: Andrew Cummins later proudly took credit for the definition, according ...

Pope Francis Takes a Stand for Evolution

US conservatives are now to the right of the Pope
314Florida Panhandler
October 2014
having grown up within Texas and a deeply "Conservative" family and church, I can tell you that Popes in general and the Catholic Church in particular might as well be Muslim or space aliens for all they care- the only ...

ABC’s This Week Easter Show: Gays Are Going to Hell, Civilization Is Doomed

“A more authentic Christianity”
277Rightwingconspirator
April 2014
re: #99 goddamnedfrank Interesting! The idea to take this further is to bring two 500 watt lights in to bring the background detail and light up. We have not been using a tripod as the shutter is so fast it's ...

No, Angola Has Not ‘Banned Islam’. It’s a Little More Complicated Than That.

267Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
November 2013
So, the wingnuts cheer the Russian dictator, devour Kremlin propaganda as Gospel, and, now, we see them enthusiastically (if mistakenly) support the suppression of religion by a Russian satellite regime. My, my, this is not your father's right wing, folks. ...