TagsTagsAt his "Campfire Blog" (with a logo reminiscent of the infamous farting scene in Blazing Saddles), Rick Santorum's super-rich Dominionist backer Foster Friess is apologizing that so many Americans didn't get his "joke" about women using aspirin for birth control (between the knees): For those who misunderstood my joke today, ...
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The Republican candidates are performing another debate-like charade today in Iowa, hosted by the extreme religious right group Family Leader. Oddly enough, the two Mormons among the GOP field decided to sit this one out. There's a live video feed here.
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From NPR's Fresh Air, here's an excellent in-depth investigation into the ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation, the movement of extreme right wing Protestant Christians that is deeply involved in the Republican Party and this presidential campaign: The New Apostolic Reformation: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare. [Audio] On Wednesday's Fresh ...
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Here's a good piece by Frank Schaeffer, who has a former insider's perspective on the extreme religious ideology followed by Michele and Marcus Bachmann: Are Michele Bachmann's Views About 'Christian Submission' Even More Extreme Than She's Letting On? The issue of wifely submission is at the heart of the entire ...
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Today Texas Governor Rick Perry held his prayer rally "The Response," with a panoply of the most insane, bigoted, and outright racist fundamental Christian leaders imploring their God to help them turn America into a repressive theocracy. No, I'm not exaggerating. Right Wing Watch is posting videos from this bizarre congruence of ...
Rick Perry, Texas, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Dominionism, Abortion, Anti-Choice
Fundamentalist Texas Governor Rick Perry announced today that he's starting to hear that call from the Big Guy. “I’m not ready to tell you that I’m ready to announce that I’m in,” Gov. Rick Perry told The Des Moines Register. “But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that ...
Rick Perry, Texas, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Dominionism
Tonight's must-read article is by Forrest Wilder, for the Texas Observer; a look at the strange theocratic movement behind Rick Perry's Army of God. The movement is called the New Apostolic Reformation. Believers fashion themselves modern-day prophets and apostles. They have taken Pentecostalism, with its emphasis on ecstatic worship and ...
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It's been a third rail of US politics to accuse Republicans of deliberately sabotaging the economy to advance their political agenda, but Sen. Jim DeMint made this intention absolutely explicit today. “We're at the point where there would have to be some, you know, some serious disruptions in order not ...
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The people of Alabama may have thought they were electing a Governor, but they got a Republican Ayatollah. Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day message Monday that he does not consider Americans who do not accept Jesus Christ as their savior to be ...
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One of the tenets of the very politically active far right Christian sect known as the “Dominionists” is the “Seven Mountains” analogy — a strategy for building political influence and gradually turning the United States into a theocracy. It may sound crazy, but the people who believe this are completely ...
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