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Pat Robertson Blames Woman For Drawing In 'Indigent Or Abusive' Spouses
12/5/13 @ 12:45pm
Televangelist Pat Robertson has a flair for making sweeping judgments about people simply by reading the short questions they submit to the 700 Club’s Bring It On segment. Just today, Robertson seemed to be able to uncover intimate details about a the life of a twice-divorced woman who was won... MORE
Gun Owners Of America, Allen West Embrace Debunked EPA-Gun Control Conspiracy Theory
12/5/13 @ 12:30pm
In a blog post this week, former Florida congressman Allen West gets behind a conspiracy theory that holds that the Environmental Protection Agency is launching a “clandestine” and “backdoor” assault on the Second Amendment. The gist of the theory is that President Obama used... MORE
Fischer: Obamacare Is A 'Disaster Of Historic Proportions' Representing The 'Death Throes Of Socialism'
12/5/13 @ 11:41am
We already know that Bryan Fischer has a pretty active political imagination, dreaming up scenarios in which Democrats might decide to impeach President Obama in order to win re-election in 2014. On his program yesterday, Fischer returned to fantasy land in order to declare Obamacare is such a monum... MORE
Perkins: Tide Turning Against Marriage Equality
12/5/13 @ 11:20am
Back in June, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins pointed to the marriage equality fight in Illinois to argue that marriage equality is not inevitable: Today, Pew Research Center did its part to dispirit supporters of natural marriage by insisting that 72% of Americans believe same-sex... MORE
Glenn Beck And Mark Driscoll Declare That The Religious Right Is Dead
12/5/13 @ 11:04am
On his television broadcast last night, Glenn Beck spent the entire hour interviewing controversial pastor (and alleged plagiarist) Mark Driscoll about what has gone wrong in America. Early on in the discussion, Driscoll revealed that his church had recently conducted a survey to find out why people... MORE
Nugent: Save America By Banning People Who Don't Pay Federal Income Taxes From Voting
12/5/13 @ 10:35am
NRA board member Ted Nugent says he is willing to support a proposal to close the gun show loophole, but only if in return people who pay no federal income taxes are banned from voting. In 2013, about 43% of households owed no federal income tax, but the vast majority of households did pay federal t... MORE
Right Wing Round-Up - 12/4/13
12/4/13 @ 5:36pm
Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Check Out How a Fox News Reporter Spins This Story About a School District ‘Confiscating’ Holiday Cards. Kathryn Joyce @ The American Prospect: The Homeschool Apostates. Luke Brinker @ Equality Matters: WND Wonders Whether Obama Wants To Infect... MORE
Right Wing Leftovers - 12/4/13
12/4/13 @ 5:33pm
We are looking forward to Religious Right anti-gay activists start screaming about how God will destroy Israel now that its president has endorsed gay marriage. Speaking of Israel, Liberty Counsel is inviting you to travel there with the organization next May. Michael Youssef is calling o... MORE
Fischer: Muslim Prayer Rooms On Christian Campuses Are 'Idolatrous Temples'
12/4/13 @ 4:51pm
On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer discussed a report that a few Christian colleges in the United States had built Muslim prayer rooms on campus.  Fischer was, of course, predictably disturbed by the fact that these colleges were willingly building "idolatrous temples" through... MORE
Schlafly & Solomon: Liberals Will Take Kids From Conservatives, Give Them To Gays Who Will Abuse Them
12/4/13 @ 4:45pm
Last night, Stan Solomon hosted Eagle Forum head Phyllis Schlafly to discuss his latest conspiracy theory that liberals intend to take kids away from conservatives and give them to gay people, some of whom will inevitably molest them. Why haven’t you and I heard of this plot? Because the media... MORE
Barton: Everything Good In American History Came From The Bible; Everything Bad Came From Not Following The Bible
12/4/13 @ 3:01pm
As anyone who has read any history knows, the idea that slavery was ordained by God through the Bible was an argument frequently and forcefully put forth by the institution's most dedicated Christian defenders leading up to and throughout the Civil War. But in the telling of modern day revisioni... MORE
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