TagsTagsAt wingnut site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is promoting yet another anti-abortion story, citing a “local investigator” in Virginia who claims that a woman who smothered a newborn infant cannot be charged with a crime because of a statute that says as long as the umbilical cord is still attached ...
Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Crime, Virginia, Fact Checking
All of these videos are from last night’s “prayercast” in Washington DC, posted at Right Wing Watch. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), James Dobson, and the completely insane Lou Engle, praying for health care reform to fail: [Video] Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Lou Engle discuss how ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Theocracy, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Michele Bachmann, Video
Here’s Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) at meetings of the Living Word Christian Center in 2006, telling the crowd that she receives prophetic visions and divine instructions directly from God, revealing that she got her law degree from the fundamentalist Oral Roberts University — and telling several outright lies about her ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Religious Right
Here’s a fascinating interview with religious right apostate Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, talking about the epiphany that led him to renounce his upbringing, from Point of Inquiry. [Audio] And here’s Schaeffer’s latest book, a memoir of growing up in the heart of the religious right: Crazy ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Calvinism, Rushdoony, Dobson, Far Right, Frank Schaeffer
The religious right’s pernicious influence in Africa isn’t limited to Uganda’s persecution of homosexuals; the Bush administration’s much-praised anti-AIDS program had a decidedly less altruistic side. SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, The Family, Uganda, Africa, Homophobia, Abstinence, Birth Control, Women's Rights
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
Remember Conservapedia’s New and Improved Non-Commie Bible? The new translation of the Bible that’s going to remove all those commie concepts like “forgiveness” and “volunteering,” and produce a book that red-blooded conservatives won’t have to be ashamed to read to their home-schooled children? Here’s Stephen Colbert interviewing the founder of Conservapedia, ...
Stephen Colbert, Humor, Comedy, Andrew Schlafly, Conservapedia, Right Wing, Religious Right, Video
Because the wackos have taken over. Should the “Tea Party” movement organize itself to run congressional candidates across the country, it would poll better than the Republican Party, according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports. In the national telephone poll of 1,000 likely voters released Monday, 23 percent said they ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Far Right, social conservatism, Religious Right, Tea Parties
Here’s a great example of what I mean when I say the religious right has a stranglehold on the GOP: NPR’s interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power — a book I highly recommend. This is no conspiracy theory; it’s ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, The Family, Uganda, Africa, Homophobia
A few days ago I asked this question about Mike Huckabee’s decision to grant clemency to suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons: One possibility: Huckabee is a fanatical fundamentalist. Was it because Clemmons pretended to “get religion” in order for his sentence to be reduced? Well, several LGF readers thought I ...
Mike Huckabee, Theocracy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Crime
Theocrat Mike Huckabee’s PAC coordinator in Arkansas has quit, over Huckabee’s decision to grant clemency to suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons. (CNN) – The Arkansas coordinator for Mike Huckabee’s political action committee resigned Tuesday, citing the former Arkansas governor’s decision nine years ago to grant clemency to Maurice Clemmons, the ...
Mike Huckabee, Theocracy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Crime
While I supported the Bush administration’s foreign policies for the most part, one of the biggest disagreements I had with them was their blatant bias against scientific research; and one of the best examples of that bias was their opposition to stem cell research, an opposition based entirely on irrational ...
Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Medicine, Health, Religious Right
Theocrat Mike Huckabee has posted another statement at his PAC site, passing the buck and taking no personal responsibility for his disastrous decision to grant clemency to suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons: Huck PAC - Blogs - Statement Regarding Washington State Slayings. The senseless and savage execution of police officers ...
Mike Huckabee, Theocracy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Crime
Mike Huckabee is in big political trouble tonight, as the story breaks that he granted clemency to the man suspected of murdering four police officers. Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers this morning, has a long criminal record ...
Mike Huckabee, Theocracy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Crime
The publisher of World Net Daily, Joseph Farah, is openly calling for theocratic totalitarianism in the United States, in an almost unbelievable article that says the US government should enforce Biblical law or God will destroy us — and once again, it all boils down to a reeking puddle of ...
World Net Daily, Extremism, Bigotry, Far Right, Religious Right, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
This is just unbelievable to me; the national Republican Party is actually going to consider a purity test that candidates for the 2010 elections must swear to uphold — or forfeit any GOP campaign money. The far right section of the GOP is really feeling its oats lately, and now ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Far Right, RNC, 2010 Elections, Purity, Purge, social conservatism, Religious Right
She did her best to obfuscate the issue during the campaign, but her book completely settles the question: Sarah Palin is an “I didn’t come from no monkey!” creationist. Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving ...
Sarah Palin, Creationism, Anti-Science, Religious Right, Fundamentalism
Since the murder of Dr. George Tiller, anti-choice extremist Randall Terry’s been getting louder. In his latest unsavory stunt, he’s advocating that people burn effigies of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Dave Weigel points out Terry’s classy demonstration videos. [Video]
Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, Women's Rights
A new survey from Public Policy Polling shows that the most popular Republican so far, when compared with Barack Obama, is far right theocrat Mike Huckabee: 2012 Poll: Huckabee Performs Best. Rather than facing each other in this poll, the Public Policy Polling survey (Oct. 16-19, 766 RV, MoE /- 3.5%) ...
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court. To challenge the state constitutionality of ...
A town hall meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) turned into an angry confrontation with raging Paulians, in which Graham said (as the audience hooted and shouted at him), “We’re not going to be the party of angry white guys.” Might be too late for that, Sen. Graham. [Video] Here’s an article ...
Republicans, Ron Paul, Paulians, Bad Craziness, Lindsey Graham, kooks, Religious Right
Here’s evangelical author and radio host James Dobson accepting the Ronald Reagan Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual meeting of the secretive right wing group known as the Council for National Policy. Dobson invokes anti-government and apocalyptic imagery to attack President Obama, telling the audience that America is “in greater ...
James Dobson, Religious Right, social conservatism, Fanaticism, Council for National Policy, CNP, Video
Here’s a preview of tomorrow’s right wing blogosphere/religious right (is there a difference?) Outrage of the Day: Obama tells gay rights group he will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’. Reporting from Washington - President Obama, speaking to the nation’s largest gay rights organization, pledged tonight to end the law prohibiting ...
Barack Obama, Gay Rights, Military, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Religious Right
[As Fox News runs the label: “Richard Dawkins - Atheist” over a pre-recorded, heavily edited interview...] Bill O’Reilly: Atheist. Atheist! You’re an atheist! And a fascist! You atheist! Richard Dawkins (atheist): But science is working on the problem... Bill O’Reilly (interrupting): [pictures of Jesus flash on the screen] So you hate Jesus! I ...
Evolution, Creationism, richard dawkins, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Religious Right, Fanaticism
Rifqa Bary, the 17-year old girl raised as a Muslim who converted to Christianity and ran away from home, claiming her parents were going to murder her, suddenly turned up on a conference call a few days ago, led by Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, ...
Islam, Rifqa Bary, Honor Killing, Apostasy, Bigotry, Anti-Islam, Tony Perkins, Religious Right, James Dobson