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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
“Conservative” speaker Kitty Werthmann has long been a fixture on Alex Jones’ insane conspiracy radio show and last weekend she made a special appearance at the “How To Take Back America Conference,” telling her audience to stock up on guns and ammunition (applause, applause) because Barack Obama is turning ...
Far Right, kooks, Phyllis Schlafly, social conservatism, Religious Right, Alex Jones, Kitty Werthmann, Obama Derangement Syndrome
At the “How to Take Back America” conference last week, attended by Republican leaders including Mike Huckabee, Steve King, and Michele Bachmann, speakers railed against the “Marxist and/or Nazi dictatorship” of President Obama, and promoted a full raft of far right conspiracy theories. Following the Values Voters Summit the previous ...
Far Right, kooks, Phyllis Schlafly, social conservatism, Religious Right, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Extremism
Two well-known figures in the public debate over the scientific theory of evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins and Wendy Wright (president of Concerned Women for America) square off for a fascinating glimpse into the glazed mind of a creationist. [Video] That’s part one; here’s part two, and if you can stand ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, richard dawkins, Wendy Wright, Pseudo-Science, social conservatism, Science
At RedState: Jesus would have waterboarded. It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. Excuse me while I pick up my jaw from the floor. ...
Waterboarding, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Redstate, social conservatism, Fundamentalism
Liberty University, the fundamentalist Christian college founded by Jerry Falwell that actually has “biology” courses titled “Advanced Creation Studies,” has announced that they’re banning the campus Democratic Party club — despite the fact that the club opposes abortion and gay marriage. The religious right is starting to purge the unfaithful ...
Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Fundamentalism, social conservatism, Religious Right
The Sensuous Curmudgeon writes an Open Letter to the Republican Party: My fellow Republicans: As our party is going though a much-needed period of introspection, please consider that there was a time when this party stood for the Constitution, the rule of law, national defense, free enterprise, limited government, ...
Politics, Religion, Science, social conservatism, Republican Party
An editorial in London’s Times Online: The incredible shrinking elephant - Why moderate US Republicans must stand up for themselves. The background to Mr Specter’s defection is a case in point. He is unquestionably an opportunist, abandoning the Republicans only when it became clear that staying with them would ...
Arlen Specter, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Far Right, social conservatism, Abortion
On “Meet the Press” this morning, Senator Arlen Specter said a big factor in his decision to become a Democrat was that the Republican Party had moved “far to the right.” Specter told David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had determined “with polls and a lot ...
Arlen Specter, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Far Right, social conservatism, Abortion
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe follows Jon Huntsman Jr. in an attempt to stage an intervention on the GOP: We Didn’t Have to Lose Arlen Specter. There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a ...
Olympia Snowe, GOP, Republican Party, Ideology, social conservatism
Social conservatives are up in arms about RNC chairman Michael Steele’s less than pure opposition to abortion, and calling for his job. Allahpundit puts up a poll: Is it time for Steele to go? I’m curious to see how LGF readers feel on the subject, so here’s our own poll: ...
Apparently there is a significant faction of hidebound GOP spokesmen who believe that criticizers of Bobby Jindal must be cast into the outer darkness: Rush: If you think Jindal reeked last night, I don’t want to hear from you again.
Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Evolution, GOP, social conservatism
Sure enough, after my post yesterday on respecting the Constitution and opposing theocracy, the hate mail started pouring in, from self-labeled “Christians.” There are four of them this morning, but I’ll just post this one because the others are banal and uninteresting. (The contact form has an explicit notice: “Messages ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
Barack Obama picked evangelical minister Rick Warren for the invocation at his inauguration, and gay activists are furious. Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing ...
social conservatism, Saddleback Church, Gay Rights, Rick Warren, Barack Obama