TagsTagsAs 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
Speaking to the Ohio Christian Alliance today, the GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination, Rick Santorum, said that he's opposed to requiring health insurance to cover prenatal screening. How in the world can anyone be opposed to prenatal testing? Because, according to Santorum, it's just another part of President Obama's nefarious ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Prenatal Screening, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Theocracy
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
Rick Perry told Fox News's Chris Wallace this morning that if he's elected President, one of his priorities will be a constitutional amendment "allowing our children to pray in school." What a pile of disingenuous rubbish. It's utterly false that children are banned from praying in public schools; nobody stops children ...
Rick Perry, Fanaticism, Victimhood, Religious Right, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...
Family Leader, Vander Plaats, GOP, Iowa, Theocracy, Pew, Patriarchy, Paul, Santorum, Christian Reconstructionism
I mean, come on, God. You've told Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and who knows who else to run for the GOP presidential nomination. Now you're encouraging Herman Cain too? Take a chill pill, deity! They can't all win, You know. Ever think of that? Cain: God Told Me To Run. ...
Herman Cain, Religious Right, Grandpa, Mission from God, Theocracy
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
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
Rick Perry clarified the reason behind his attack on President Obama's Middle East policies today; as a fanatical fundamentalist Christian, he must support Israel because the appearance of the Jewish state is supposed to signal the End Times and the second coming of Supply Side Jesus: Perry’s Theocratic Foreign Policy: ...
Rick Perry, Religious Right, End Times, Israel, Fanaticism, Theocracy
From NPR's Fresh Air, here's an excellent in-depth investigation into the ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation, the movement of extreme right wing Protestant Christians that is deeply involved in the Republican Party and this presidential campaign: The New Apostolic Reformation: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare. [Audio] On Wednesday's Fresh ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Fanaticism, Dominionism, Theocracy, New Apostolic Reformation, Rick Perry, Republican Party
Here's Michele Bachmann explaining that God talks to her all the time, and told her to run for President of the United States. God also apparently told her to shamelessly dodge Bob Schieffer's questions about whether she'd refuse to nominate judges who support same-sex marriage, or whether she believes homosexuality is ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Extremism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, Anti-Gay
It's been frustrating to watch the media suddenly falling all over themselves to proclaim Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) a "serious candidate," because I've been keeping track of her sheer lunacy for years, and Bachmann is so extreme she makes even Rick Santorum look sane. Michelle Goldberg has a very good piece in ...
Michele Bachmann, Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Loon, Extremism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
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
The American Family Association's head loon, Bryan Fischer, thinks that since Ed Schultz was suspended from MSNBC for using the word "slut," the federal government has the right to make blasphemy and profanity illegal. Another one of those "limited government" right wingers.
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Bryan Fischer, American Family Association, Theocracy, Fanaticism
Here's American Taliban leader David Barton, a man who is very influential with top Republican politicians and the Tea Party base (thanks to Glenn Beck's relentless promotion), explaining that everything should operate according to Biblical principles, because America's founding fathers wanted it that way. This bizarre revisionist view of America's ...
David Barton, Religious Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
Here's an astonishing statement by GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, who told the "Rediscover God in America" conference last weekend that "All Americans Should Be Forced at Gunpoint to Listen to David Barton." David Barton is the religious right pseudo-historian who specializes in trying to prove that the founding fathers intended ...
Mike Huckabee, Religious Right, David Barton, Theocracy, Bad Craziness, Extremism
The people of Alabama may have thought they were electing a Governor, but they got a Republican Ayatollah. Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day message Monday that he does not consider Americans who do not accept Jesus Christ as their savior to be ...
Theocracy, Bigotry, Religious Right, Dominionism, Robert Bentley, Alabama, Creationism
Here's an amusing and interesting Wikileaks revelation; it shows who is really the boss in Iran, and it's not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard. The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, "He Who Got Slapped," quotes an intelligence source recounting a contentious ...
Wikileaks, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Revolutionary Guard, Theocracy
A reminder that in some parts of the world, "theocracy" is not just the fervent desire of fanatics -- it's the dominant paradigm: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people ...
This midterm election will go down in history as the Year the Wingnuts Came Out of the Woodwork and Took Office. Case in point: Republican Loy Mauch, newly elected state representative from Arkansas House District 26, an overt neo-Confederate who once hosted a conference with a keynote address titled, "Homage ...
Arkansas, Right Wing, Neo-Confederate, Sons of Confederate Veterans, League of the South, Racism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
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
At the Tablet, Michelle Goldberg has an excellent and disturbing piece on the historical revisionist promoted by Glenn Beck as "the most important man in America" -- fundamental Christian theocrat David Barton: History Lesson. I've had several posts about Barton -- he's a fraud with no education as a historian (he ...
Glenn Beck, David Barton, Wallbuilders, Theocracy, Texas, Neo-Nazis, Christian Identity
Oregon GOP congressional candidate Arthur Robinson, subject of several posts at LGF, was on the Rachel Maddow show tonight. And you won't believe how crazy this one gets. Robinson claims to be a scientist, when he's one of the most rabid, irrational anti-science GOP fools in an election full of them. ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Oregon, Far Right, Arthur Robinson, Creationism, Racism, Home Schooling, Theocracy, Religious Right
One of the top GOP Senators, Jim DeMint, says gay people should be banned from teaching in public schools -- and so should unmarried women who fornicate. DeMint has never been shy about expressing this creepy atavistic view, but for some reason he's in the news for it today. “People ...
Religious Right, Jim DeMint, Theocracy, Fundamentalism, Fornication, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Bigotry, Republican Party
On his radio show this morning, Glenn Beck made excuses for the Birther movement by saying that Barack Obama is "a Christian that Christians don't recognize," and therefore it's perfectly understandable that they would think he's a Muslim. Beck, of course, is a converted Mormon who promotes Christian supremacism with the ...
Glenn Beck, Christianity, Birthers, Nirthers, Bigotry, Theocracy, David Barton