TagsTagsThe Republican Party's descent into Dark Ages misogyny continues; now Mitch McConnell, sensing that the GOP is on a reactionary roll, is planning to introduce legislation to let any employer deny contraception coverage. Just amazing. In the space of a few months the Republican Party has gone from opposing abortion to ...
Republican Party, Mitch McConnell, Contraceptives, Birth Control, Misogyny, Religious Right, Dark Ages
The thing about Rick Santorum is that he's genuine. He really believes that anti-science reactionary bullshit he spouts. He's not just saying it to get elected, unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The reactionary Republican base senses this genuineness; they see Santorum as one of them. And this has now catapulted ...
Republican Party, Election 2012, Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Anti-Science, Poll
Catholic leaders and evangelicals have apparently managed to raise enough hell that President Obama is making some adjustments to the newly announced contraception rules. Now employers won't have to provide insurance plans that cover contraception for women; insurance providers will do it directly. The move, based on state models, will ...
President Obama, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness
Unless I passed out under an enchanted tree and have been sleeping for decades without knowing, this is the year 2012, right? AD? So why are we still fighting over contraception? The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— ...
Religious Right, catholic church, Contraceptives, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Atavism, Election 2012
Rick Santorum's big wins last night in Minnesota, Colorado, and Missouri are important signs of the power of reactionary religious thinking in today's right wing. Of all the candidates, Santorum is by far the most fanatical; he's absolutely opposed to all contraception, wants to see abortion made completely illegal, is anti-gay ...
Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Republican Party, Atavism, Reactionary, Religious Right
Republican anti-choice activist Karen Handel is resigning from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, with an angry statement defending her work against Planned Parenthood: Karen Handel Resigns From Komen for the Cure. I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement ...
Susan G. Komen, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Bad Craziness, Misogyny
Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Abortion, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Health Care
The ideological bent of Komen Foundation public policy VP Karen Handel really becomes clear in this 2010 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the topic of gay marriage and adoption, in which she says she favors outlawing gay adoptions: Handel Says Gay Parents Not as 'Legitimate' as Hetero Ones. Q: ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right, Karen Handel, Gay Marriage, Adoption, Anti-Gay
Komen Foundation CEO Karen Brinker may have denied that their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood had anything to do with politics, but the religious right activists who've been waging a campaign against Planned Parenthood certainly think otherwise -- and today they're freaking over the Komen Foundation's apparent reversal: Religious ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right
Judging from the statement they released, Planned Parenthood seems to believe the Komen Foundation will restore their funding for breast cancer screening. But is the Komen Foundation just spinning some more? I just got off the phone with a Komen board member, and he confirmed that the announcement does not mean ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right
Apparently, the people in charge of merchandising at the Susan G. Komen Foundation had a little talk with their anti-abortion executives, and today the Komen Foundation is reinstating their Planned Parenthood funding, and apologizing to Planned Parenthood and the American public. Planned Parenthood has released the following statement in response: “The ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right, Breast Cancer, Women's Rights, Misogyny
This video is titled "Straight Talk from Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen," the official response to the outrage that followed the Komen Foundation's defunding of Planned Parenthood breast cancer screening programs. Brinker says their grants to Planned Parenthood were canceled because they have "new standards," ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Religious Right
Big LGF kudos to the Obama administration for holding the line against the whiniest lobby in America -- the "social conservative" Neanderthals opposed to contraception: Health plans ordered to cover birth control without co-pays. Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting ...
Contraceptives, Religious Right, HHS, President Obama, Health Insurance
Things aren't looking good for Newt Gingrich, so he really has no choice but to double down on hatred, bigotry, and ridiculous victimhood inversion memes: Gingrich Touts War Against Christianity, Gay Adoption In South Carolina. Here comes that old chestnut about a nonexistent "war on Christianity" again. GINGRICH: The challenge we ...
newt gingrich, Religious Right, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Victimhood
Tea Partiers and religious social conservatives are now in a sheer panic at the prospect of a Mitt Romney candidacy, desperately hoping that some last minute far right savior will appear to rescue them from the dreaded Mormon moderate. (Romney's not really a "moderate" at all, of course, but compared to ...
Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Tea Party, Social Conservatives
Today Newt Gingrich neatly summed up one of the most dishonest arguments from the right: that their "religious freedom" is being taken away when the government won't allow them to act on their anti-gay bigotry. It's an argument that tries to cast the offenders as victims and vice versa, and ...
newt gingrich, Religious Right, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Victimhood
Wow, Rick. You don't seriously believe that having a convicted criminal for a father is better for children than having two parents of the same sex, do you? MANCHESTER, N.H. -- For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum on Friday drew attention away from his efforts to ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Gay, Gay Marriage, Homophobia, Religious Right
Religious right crocodile Pat Robertson said on his TV show "The 700 Club" that God told him who the next president will be. But he's "not supposed to talk about it." God did give Pat permission, though, to let the world know that He's not a fan of Barack Obama. Sometimes I marvel ...
Pat Robertson, Religious Right, Derangement, Apocalypse, End Times, Bad Craziness
This election will go down in history as the time when the religious right completely stopped trying to hide anything about their atavistic agenda, and just let everything pour out in a flood of bigotry and misogyny. Rick Santorum, as one of the most fanatical and deranged representatives of this cult, ...
Rick Santorum, Bigotry, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Contraceptives, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
A photo that succinctly sums up everything that's wrong with today's Republican Party, from Michele Bachmann's campaign headquarters: Credit: Garance Franke-Ruta
Michele Bachmann, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Theocracy, Republican Party
The latest video by Benny and Rafi Fine shows a group of teenagers talking about Rick Perry's now-infamous anti-gay advertisement "Strong." Funny stuff!
It's horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker's child. There's nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry (who previously supported rape/incest exceptions) ...
Abortion, Anti-Choice, Religious Right, Rick Perry, Women's Rights, Misogyny
The 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
The religious right's misogynistic "Personhood" bill may have been defeated by voters in Mississippi (one of the most conservative states in the nation), but that hasn't stopped GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry from co-signing a pledge to support the ultimate anti-choice ideology. In a ...
Republican Party, Personhood, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Abortion
Today, Newt Gingrich is proudly announcing the endorsement of what may be the most insane religious right group in America: the incredibly bigoted American Family Association, home of hate monger Bryan Fischer. Newt Gingrich rolled out a pair of high-profile endorsements Tuesday, hoping to regain momentum in Iowa as recent ...
newt gingrich, American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, hate groups, Hate Speech, Anti-Gay, Anti-Muslim, Misogyny, Bigotry, Religious Right