TagsTagsThe wingnut sites are all hyperventilating about President Obama's speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, in which he ad-libbed a quote from the Declaration of Independence -- and left out the words "by their Creator." The Weekly Standard's Jeffrey Anderson, in a post dripping with horror, asks the all-important question: ...
Barack Obama, Speech, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Separation of Church and State
When video aficionados sit around the campfire and tell scary stories, you'll sometimes hear tales of film clips so abysmally stupid that they exert a strange power over the viewer, leading to uncontrollable convulsions of laughter and sometimes resulting in permanent loss of IQ points. This isn't such a clip. Not ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Cordoba House, Mosque, Manhattan, Bigotry, Islam, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Constitution, Ignorance
The LA Times has the complete text of President Obama's long-overdue statement on freedom of religion, the US Constitution, and the tide of prejudice that has risen up against the Cordoba House project and other mosques across the nation. The White House posted the full video: Celebrating Ramadan at the White ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Cordoba House, Mosque, Manhattan, Bigotry, Islam, Barack Obama, Freedom of Religion, Constitution
The latest really bad idea to move from the fringe to the Republican mainstream at light speed: repealing the "birthright citizenship" granted by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution. That's right -- the people who publicly make a fetish out of the Constitution, declaring their unconditional love for every word ...
Immigration, nativism, Xenophobia, Republican Party, Constitution, 14th Amendment
If you thought the recent right wing push to repeal part of the US Constitution’s 14th amendment and take away automatic birthright citizenship was just a wacky idea from the Rand Paul fringe, think again. Lindsey Graham eyes ‘birthright citizenship’. And in his statement on Fox News (where else?), Graham resorted ...
Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Republican Party, Constitution, Hate Speech
In an interview with the Russian propaganda network “Russia Today” (a whacked out conspiracy show pretending to be legitimate news; RT often features Alex Jones and other conspiracy advocates), Rand Paul says we should forget that pesky 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and take away the citizenship of children born ...
Rand Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, Republican Party, Immigration, Constitution
Well, it’s the Christmas season, and you know what that means — time for the annual War on Christmas! Bill O’Reilly’s ramping up to cover one outrageous story of horrible persecution after another, with a flashy animated rotating “War on Christmas” logo, as atheists and pagans do their best to ...
Religion, Christmas, War on Christmas, Hyperventilation, Religious Right, Establishment Clause, Constitution
Sarah Palin’s extreme religious beliefs are on display in this video released by the Billy Graham organization, in which she repeats the long-debunked fundamentalist canard that the founding fathers “dedicated the country to God,” and calls for America to be ruled by “godly” leaders. And of course, she’s not talking about ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Birthers, Religion, Theocrat, Constitution
At the Washington Post, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey bring up an interesting question about President Obama’s health care legislation: Does the US Constitution give the federal government the authority to require citizens to buy nationalized health insurance? President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned ...
Barack Obama, Health Care, Reform, Constitution, Health Insurance
Joe the Plumber weighs in on the pressing issue of “queers:” In the last month, same-sex marriage has become legal in Iowa and Vermont. What do you think about same-sex marriage at a state level? At a state level, it’s up to them. I don’t want it to be a federal ...
Bigotry, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Constitution, Theocracy, Homophobia, Gay Rights, Joe the Plumber
Sure enough, after my post yesterday on respecting the Constitution and opposing theocracy, the hate mail started pouring in, from self-labeled “Christians.” There are four of them this morning, but I’ll just post this one because the others are banal and uninteresting. (The contact form has an explicit notice: “Messages ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
Here’s a piece by David Kennedy Houck on Muslim organizations’ attempts to establish “separate but equal” enclaves in the United States: The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution. First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and enforce ...
Middle East Quarterly, David Kennedy Houck, Islam, Constitution