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7/22/14 @ 10:50am
It was only a matter of time before completely insane right-wing pundit Sher Zieve began writing for Matt Barber’s new conservative outlet BarbWire.
Her opening column does not fail to disappoint.
Zieve writes today that President Obama “has invited [immigrants] into the country as a for... MORE
7/22/14 @ 10:48am
In a blog post last week, Concerned Women for America reminded us of one ever-present subtext in the Christian Right’s focus on support for Israel.
Christian Zionists believe that biblical prophecy requires Jews to converge in Israel to pave way for the Second Coming, at which time Jews will b... MORE
7/22/14 @ 10:23am
Jody Hice, the GOP nominee to replace Rep. Paul Broun in Georgia’s congressional delegation, told a conservative radio show last week that “we have the responsibility as individuals and as states to step up in those areas where our federal government will not,” and suggested that p... MORE
7/21/14 @ 5:33pm
Jeremy Hooper: Bryan Fischer: POTUS 'stood on the graves' of Malaysia Air victims 'to promote the legitimacy of sexual deviancy'. Joe Jervis: Cardinal Francis George: America Is Being Destroyed By Tyranny Of Gay Marriage. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Creationist Ken Ha... MORE
7/21/14 @ 5:31pm
Beware! "Archie Comics Embraces Homosexuality, Witchcraft Demons and Occult Practices." Mat Staver says that President Obama's executive order protecting LGBT workers is "not non-discrimination, it's not tolerance: it is absolute dominance particularly not only of all w... MORE
7/21/14 @ 5:00pm
The right-wing outlet Charisma Magazine ran a story today about states that still have religious tests for people holding public office, even though they are not enforced.
“With the never-ending battle in our culture atheists bring against Christians, will [sic] the bans may soon be altogether... MORE
7/21/14 @ 4:35pm
A senior policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, which bills itself as the think tank of the anti-immigrant Right, told a Florida-based Tea Party group last week that President Obama not only deserves impeachment, but that “being hung, drawn and quartered is probably too good fo... MORE
7/21/14 @ 4:32pm
Sen. Ted Cruz announced last week that his new “top priority” in Washington is to end President Obama’s deferred action program for DREAMers and start deporting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
But to show that he is approaching his new top priority in a co... MORE
7/21/14 @ 4:12pm
Today, Rick Joyner's Oak Initiative sent out an email to activists asking if the crisis along the southern border just might be God's judgment on America for allowing legal abortion and same-sex marriage.
Written by Kenneth L. Carozza, the piece declares that while evangelicals have a lot in... MORE
7/21/14 @ 4:10pm
Former congressman Todd Akin said last week that the firestorm over his comments about how women’s bodies “shut down” pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” was all part of a spiritual war between good and evil, and obviously, Akin was on the side of good.
Even thoug... MORE
7/21/14 @ 3:38pm
Last week, the city of Salem, Massachusetts canceled a contract that it had with a local Christian college because the school prohibits "homosexual behavior." Since 2008, Salem had allowed the college to maintain a local landmark in exchange for being able to use it for educational purpose... MORE
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7/21/14 @ 12:45pm
For weeks now, anti-immigrant groups have been hyping a “National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge,” meant to be two days of protests in cities across the country in reaction to the Central American children who are coming to the southern border to... MORE
7/3/14 @ 12:18pm
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ended this Supreme Court session with a bang, writing the majority opinion in two cases that gave for-profit corporations the right to make religious liberty claims to evade government regulation and set the stage for the fulfillment of a central goal of the right-wing political movement: the destruction of public employee unions. MORE
7/7/14 @ 1:10pm
Tony Perkins invited Fox News’ go-to-Christian-persecution-commentator Todd Starnes to join him on the weekend edition of “Washington Watch,” where Starnes pointed to recent remarks by Rick Warren and Russell Moore warning of the imminent imprisonment of Christians in America as pr... MORE