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1/29/15 @ 3:00pm
Sandy Rios, the American Family Association’s director of governmental affairs, said today that criticism of her organization’s role in financing a Republican National Committee trip to Israel is unfounded because Israel “could not have a better ally” than the AFA … de... MORE
1/29/15 @ 5:34pm
Paul @ PFAW Blog: Not Even GOP's Own Witnesses Oppose Loretta Lynch. Andrew Prokop @ Vox: Is Lindsey Graham running for president to troll Rand Paul? Paige Lavender @ The Huffington Post: Texas Muslim Capitol Day Tainted By Anti-Islam Protesters, Lawmaker. Carlos Maza @ Equa... MORE
1/29/15 @ 5:31pm
If GetReligion is going to criticize those who don't "tell both sides of the story" regarding the American Family Association's designation as a "hate group," perhaps GetReligion ought to actually bother to address the bigotry that regularly flows from the AFA which ea... MORE
1/29/15 @ 5:20pm
To say that Tony Perkins is no fan of Dan Savage would be an understatement, as the Family Research Council president has threatened Savage with legal action and claimed that the It Gets Better Project is a “disgusting” attempt to “recruit” children into “perversion.... MORE
1/29/15 @ 4:57pm
Yesterday, the American Family Association announced that it was stripping Bryan Fischer of his position as a spokesman for the group. The AFA's move to distance itself from Fischer’s regular barrages of bigotry apparently came in response pressure from its allies in the Republican Nationa... MORE
1/29/15 @ 3:36pm
Bryan Fischer kicked off his radio program today by refuting reports that he had been fired by the American Family Association, explaining that he has simply given up his role as an official AFA spokesman while retaining his role as a daily radio host for AFA's radio outlet, American Family Radi... MORE
1/29/15 @ 3:25pm
Mike Huckabee stopped by the American Family Association’s radio network today to denounce the Obama administration as “incapable of knowing the difference between good and evil” in the fight against extremist groups.
The former governor and likely presidential candidate told Kevin... MORE
1/29/15 @ 2:27pm
On his "WallBuilders Live" radio broadcast today, David Barton revealed that he will be heading to Congress to lead a training session for lawmakers on how to prevent the court system from ruling in favor of marriage equality.
Responding to a question from a listener on what steps Congress... MORE
1/29/15 @ 1:55pm
The Republican member of the Nebraska Board of Education who until recently ran a blog that called President Obama a “half-breed” and railed against “queers and perverts” is facing calls from his peers to resign from his post.
By a 6-2 vote yesterday, Pat McPherson’s fe... MORE
1/29/15 @ 1:49pm
If “superhero” is not the word that comes to mind when you think of Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, or Rick Perry, you clearly aren’t CPAC material. The Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual right-wing gathering hosted by the American Conservative Union, is promoting this y... MORE
1/29/15 @ 1:35pm
Whenever a Republican presidential candidate prepares to campaign in Iowa, he or she will inevitably start putting in appearances on “The Steve Deace Show.” Ben Carson recently chatted with Deace about why Congress should remove judges from office if they rule in favor of marriage equal... MORE
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1/29/15 @ 11:48am
Last night it was reported that the American Family Association had finally fired the Religious Right's most notorious bigot, Bryan Fischer. While that would be welcome news, if true, the AFA has a long history of trying to salvage its own reputation by distancing itself from Fischer's unrel... MORE
1/29/15 @ 12:40pm
Last night, Rachel Maddow reported that the American Family Association has fired Bryan Fischer as its official spokesman, while letting Fischer keep his radio show on the organization’s radio network. The move apparently came as a result of growing controversy surrounding a trip to Israel for... MORE
1/26/15 @ 12:50pm
During a speech earlier this month at televangelist Morris Cerullo’s annual conference, Mike Huckabee said that school shootings wouldn’t take place if public schools organized daily prayers, religious assemblies, Bible readings and “chapel services.”
“Because we were b... MORE