TagsTagsThe most extreme religious fanatic in the Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum, is not going to back down on his crazed statement that John F. Kennedy makes him want to puke. It's hard to believe that this kind of hateful, childish ranting is going to get Santorum elected. But it might ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Religious Right, JFK, Separation of Church and State, Bad Craziness
As Rick Santorum's star continues to rise, his rhetoric just keeps getting more and more extreme. Today on ABC News, Santorum said that John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 speech on the separation of church and state makes him want to puke. And in Santorum's opinion, every American should feel just as ...
Rick Santorum, Election 2012, Republican Party, JFK, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Far Right, Religious Right
How do you know when the Iowa Caucuses are approaching? When Mormon Mitt Romney starts sounding like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum, all rolled into one ranting Christian fundamentalist: Romney talks 'war on religion' in Iowa. "I know there are some people who would like to make this nation ...
Mitt Romney, Republican Party, War on Christmas, Separation of Church and State, Establishment Clause, Religious Right
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
Creationist-friendly officials in Kentucky are moving forward with plans to grant tax breaks to the ridiculous "Ark Encounter" theme park, thereby ensuring the state's status as a laughingstock for the entire world, for many years to come. The six-member board voted unanimously to approve the incentives for the Kentucky Speedway ...
Kentucky, Separation of Church and State, Establishment Clause, Bad Craziness, Answers In Genesis, Anti-Science, Creationism, Evolution, Amish Carpenters
Although the vast majority of creationist politicians are Republicans, here's a monumental facepalm of a story from Kentucky, where Democratic Governor Steve Beshear is proposing to hand over millions of state dollars and tax breaks to a dishonest fundamentalist Christian group run by fanatics, to build a ludicrous creationist "theme ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Answers In Genesis, Bad Craziness, Establishment Clause, Separation of Church and State
The Republican Party's attack on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has gone into high gear in this election. All the GOP candidates are sounding like Pat Robertson. Now anti-wanking candidate Christine O'Donnell's campaign manager, Jonathon Moseley, is offering a $1000 "bounty" to anyone who can find the exact phrase ...
Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Evolution, Creationism, Religious Right, Young Earth Creationism, US Constitution, Separation of Church and State
In today's fanatic-dominated Republican Party, theocracy is all the rage. But they usually try to dance around it a little bit, and sugar coat it for the masses. Not Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck, though. He comes right out and says it: 'I Disagree Strongly With The Concept Of Separation ...
Colorado, Ken Buck, Religious Right, Propaganda, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
Peter Daou makes a good point about Christine O'Donnell's First Amendment gaffe -- to the right wing audience it was aimed at, this was not a gaffe. It's an article of faith (literally) on the right wing that separation of church and state was not the intention of the First Amendment. ...
Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Debate, Evolution, Creationism, Religious Right, Young Earth Creationism, US Constitution, Separation of Church and State
The AP story on Christine O'Donnell's shocking ignorance of the Constitution says her statements "generated a buzz in the audience." But in fact, the audience laughed out loud at O'Donnell's idiocy. Here's the video: Video Notice that at the beginning of this clip, she rambles on and on about "intelligent design" creationism, and ...
Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Debate, Evolution, Creationism, Religious Right, Young Earth Creationism, US Constitution, Separation of Church and State
Yesterday, in a debate at Widener University Law School before an audience of legal scholars and law students, Christine O'Donnell reiterated her position that local public schools should teach young earth creationism in science classes. Which is bad enough. But in trying to support her ludicrous anti-science position, O'Donnell revealed her shocking ...
Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons, Debate, Evolution, Creationism, Religious Right, Young Earth Creationism, US Constitution, Separation of Church and State
The 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
Jon Ralston has quotes from an interview Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle did with a Christian radio station, revealing how shockingly extreme her views are: Angle: 'What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God.' She's not simply a far right ideologue -- she's a ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State
At New York's Governors Island this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an impassioned speech about Park51, the planned Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero, and its importance as a test of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Bloomberg even apparently choked up at one point; ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Mosque, Manhattan, Michael Bloomberg, Separation of Church and State, Religious Freedom
In Nevada, the latest Mason-Dixon poll shows Harry Reid with a 7-point lead over Tea Party kook Sharron Angle. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has opened up a seven-point lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle, according to a Mason-Dixon poll taken after Reid aired a barrage of negative ads targeting ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Constitution Party, Harry Reid
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle says she’s not going to have a political makeover. Republican Sharron Angle said Saturday she won’t change her staunch conservative views to win the U.S. Senate race, although she acknowledged softening some of her rhetoric to avoid giving Sen. Harry Reid and other Democrats ...
Abortion, Sharron Angle, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Far Right, Tea Parties, Nevada, Separation of Church and State, Constitution Party
Remember earlier today when Sharron Angle was quoted calling the $20 billion BP escrow fund a “slush fund?” Well, what she really meant to say was that it’s an important first step. Which is a little like a slush fund, isn’t it? Kinda? There’s been some confusion this morning regarding my position ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson
It’s obvious why Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle’s GOP handlers try so hard to keep her away from inquisitive reporters: she’s nuts. Really, honestly nuts. Don’t want her talking to journalists, oh no. That’s no way to get elected. Today she’s back in the news for echoing reptilian Rep. Joe ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson
Sen. Tom Coburn lets his fanaticism hang out during the Kagan confirmation hearings, pushing the by-now very familiar religious right line that there is no separation between religion and government, by trying to get Kagan to say there are “natural” rights that precede the US Constitution. The organization that uploaded this ...
Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Human Rights, Separation of Church and State, Tom Coburn
To no one’s surprise, in her interview with Nevada reporter John Ralston yesterday, Tea Party extremist Sharron Angle started trying to walk back some of her earlier disastrous statements: Sharron Angle grilled on Social Security, Medicare and ‘taking Harry Reid out’. In her TV appearance Tuesday, Angle said that she ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson