TagsTagsThe radical anti-choice movement called "Personhood" is holding a "National Presidential Pro-Life Forum" tonight in Iowa, sponsored by a collection of the farthest right religious groups in America. Attending this gathering of fanatics: Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry. It's being broadcast on the radio show of Iowa ...
Republican Party, Religious Right, Personhood, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Women's Rights, Evolution
Louis C.K. has a new video, "Live at the Beacon Theater," that he's selling for only $5 at his website, and this is an outtake from it. (Kinda NSFW, but very funny.)
Just to drive home the point that the Republican Party has become the anti-science bad craziness party, Michele Bachmann came out today and joined Rick Santorum in calling for creationism to be taught in public school science classes. BACHMANN: I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part ...
Evolution, Creationism, Michele Bachmann, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Intelligent Design, Fundamentalism, Establishment Clause
Here we go again with the right wing's bizarre obsession with evolution. For more than a century religious conservatives have been waging a war of denial against reality itself, and there's no sign of a cease fire yet. Rick Santorum has long been known as one of the GOP's most overt ...
Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Fundamentalism, Rick Santorum, Establishment Clause
Watching the debate last night, I was struck by the fact that we've now seen several of these gabfests unfold without a single mention of one of the Republican Party's biggest and most irrational problems -- their total rejection of science in many important areas. In the early debates we saw ...
Republican Party, Debate, Anti-Science, Media, Right Wing, Evolution, Climate Change, Global Warming
Today at the Values Voter Summit attended by all the major GOP presidential candidates, fanatic hate-monger Bryan Fischer uncorked a truly deranged rant about evolution, calling the separation of church and state "mythical," and arguing that "not a single one of our unalienable rights will be safe in the hands ...
Bryan Fischer, Evolution, Creationism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Fanaticism, Republican Party, Values Voter Summit
www.blogherenow.net Republican leaders have become fond of denying well-supported facts in the last few years, including such well-confirmed phenomena as (at least partly human-induced) climate change, the proven safety of vaccines, and of course evolutionary theory. What seems to be guiding them, at least unconsciously, is (roughly) the following form of ...
Republican Party, Anti-Science, Logic, Modus Tollens, Evolution, Vaccines, Climate Change, Denial
Yesterday before the GOP debate, Ralph Reed's "Faith and Freedom Coalition" (Ralph Reed? wasn't he totally discredited in the Jack Abramoff scandal?) held an event at which Florida's Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll let loose with an openly theocratic speech calling for 'Christians To Step Up And Lead This Country', and ...
Republican Party, Florida, Jennifer Carroll, Evolution, Anti-Science, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
Ann Coulter has always been willing to take the crazy rhetoric one step farther, and now she's coming out as the champion of right wing American creationism: LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE!!! Intelligent design scientists look at the evidence and develop their theories; Darwinists start with a theory ...
Evolution, Creationism, Ann Coulter, Right Wing, Far Right, Ignorance, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness
Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the politically active hate group American Family Association, says "defeating Darwin" is so simple even a caveman could do it. Then Fischer demonstrates how a caveman does it. This hilariously stupid article has so many howlers in it, it's hard to pick out a favorite, but this one ...
Bryan Fischer, American Family Association, Religious Right, Evolution, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Idiocy, Anti-Science
The latest attempt by creationists to get their nonsensical beliefs afforded special protection in public schools has been struck down by a federal appeals court: US judges rule in favor of teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense'. A public high school teacher in California may not be sued for making ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, California
In an interview for ABC News, Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change. Tapper asked, "Were you just being cheeky or do you think there's a serious problem with what Governor Perry said?" Huntsman's response: "I think there's a serious problem. ...
Women's Rights, Misogyny, Climate Change, Evolution, Jon Huntsman, Abortion
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
This needs to get much more attention: Rick Perry is the most overt creationist in a political party that's completely dominated by a crazed rejection of science. Here he is in New Hampshire, telling a young boy that evolution is just "another theory that's out there," and "in Texas, we teach ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
Once again I'm traveling, rambling through the countryside, searching for the elusive Crocoduck. No sign of the Crocoduck yet, but here's a video featuring a whacked out creationist with the same name as another whacked out creationist who used to post comments at LGF before flouncing away in the Great LGF ...
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Republican Party, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Evolution, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking, Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Michele Bachmann
Good grief. Sometimes the right wing gets so crazed it seems they're about to warp themselves into another universe, where they win every argument and history means only what they want it to mean. Here's Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann's (R-Mars) favorite religious fanatic fake historian, David Barton, explaining that the ...
David Barton, Religious Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness, Evolution, Creationism
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is suddenly dodging the question of whether he's a creationist. And the reason is no mystery. If he's considering a run for the GOP nomination and he doesn't personally believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, it's vital for him to avoid the question -- because ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Chris Christie
Across the country, Republicans in state and local governments are pushing hard to destroy environmental protections, destroy women's rights, prevent gays from having rights, destroy unions, destroy child labor laws, etc. etc. etc. There's a parade of right wing atavism going on, the likes of which I've never seen. And as ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, North Carolina
Tennessee is a very active front (but not the only one by a long shot) in the Republican Party's all-out war against science. As we noted last week, Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives passed an absurd anti-evolution bill deceptively labeled as "academic freedom" -- the latest tactic of ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Tennessee, Albert Einstein
While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield science teachers from being disciplined if they're creationists or global warming deniers. The Republican Party: protecting ignorance and destroying America's scientific future. Some quotes from the Neanderthals who pushed this ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Tennessee, Global Warming
The religious fanatics on the Texas State Board of Education are gearing up for another fundamentalist hoedown, as Chairwoman Gail Lowe tries to stack the panel that will review the state's science curriculum with creationist loons. Lowe has nominated more potential panelists than any other board member. And a number ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Texas, Gail Lowe
In addition to all the other wonderful things Republicans have been doing lately (union-busting, misogynistic anti-abortion legislation, tax breaks for the richest, keeping gays down), they've also introduced a record number of bills that promote the teaching of creationism in science classes as a valid alternative to evolution. Sometimes these ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Atavism