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5/24/13 @ 4:02pm
On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer weighed in on the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on gay scouts last night.
Admitting that he was shocked by the vote since he was positive that it was going to be retained, Fischer declared that the BSA should change its name to... MORE
5/24/13 @ 4:34pm
Josh Israel @ Think Progress: Ten Right Wingers Freak Out Over Boy Scouts Policy Change. Katie Mcdonough @ Salon: Mississippi could begin prosecuting women for miscarriages. Charles Johnson @ LGF: Sarah Palin Is Very Confused About Which Scandal Is Which. David Edwards @ Raw Sto... MORE
5/24/13 @ 4:24pm
Anti-gay activists are now hoping to start a new anti-gay alternative to the Boy Scouts. God TV will be setting up new UK headquarters located in a red light district next to a strip club. The next Pulpit Freedom Sunday takes place on June 9 and will focus on the issue of marriage, whi... MORE
5/24/13 @ 3:25pm
According to Tea Party Nation, “the future of conservative movement” is found in a candidate who believes gay people are “sick” and “degenerate” and that Planned Parenthood is worse than the Ku Klux Klan. In an email today, the group’s president Judson Phill... MORE
5/24/13 @ 2:34pm
On his radio program today, Glenn Beck went off on the "sheep in the streets of London" who stood by as two radical Muslims attacked and murdered a British soldier instead of collective attacking them.
Comparing the current generation to the "Greatest Generation," Beck said the p... MORE
5/24/13 @ 2:26pm
At a rally in Germantown, Maryland this week, anti-choice activist Lila Rose compared the effort to bring about “the complete end of abortion” with the abolitionist movement, the civil rights movement, the movement to end child labor, the Revolutionary War and the early women’s mov... MORE
5/24/13 @ 1:50pm
Fred Jackson and Dan Celia of the American Family Association discussed the Boy Scouts of America’s vote to end the ban on openly gay members under the age of 18 this morning on Financial Issues, which Jackson called an “open rebellion against God.” The two expressed shock and disa... MORE
5/24/13 @ 12:05pm
Todd Akin isn’t the only one urging the Republican Party to move even further to the right. In an interview with Policy Mic, Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum says the GOP should put more of an emphasis on social issues and look to conservative firebrands Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee as thei... MORE
5/24/13 @ 11:44am
Despite having been removed from his position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court back in 2003 for refusing to remove a massive monument of the Ten Commandment from the court house, Roy Moore was re-elected to that very position last year.
And though Moore has long been little more than a... MORE
5/24/13 @ 10:45am
You know the Republican Party is lost when failed GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin of “legitimate rape” fame takes to the conspiracy theory website WorldNetDaily to lecture his fellow conservatives on how to win elections. Akin, who received just 39 percent of the vote against Sen. Claire... MORE
5/24/13 @ 10:03am
Back in February, the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board was entertaining the idea of ending the organization's ban on gay scouts but after an outcry of opposition by anti-gay activists, decided to postpone the decision and instead put it to a vote, allowing the members of th... MORE
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5/20/13 @ 11:05am
With the ultraconservative Ken Cuccinelli as their candidate for governor, it only makes sense that Virginia Republican delegates picked far-right pastor and failed U.S. Senate candidate E. W. Jackson as their nominee for Lt. Governor.
Jackson is running on a “message to inspire and unite Virg... MORE
5/15/13 @ 12:30pm
Pat Robertson has advice for women who are struggling to forgive their cheating husbands: “Well, he’s a man.”
On today’s 700 Club, Robertson told a woman whose husband was cheating on her that she should stop focusing on the adultery and instead ponder, “Does he provide... MORE
5/10/13 @ 12:16pm
Bachmann declared that both the original 9/11 attack and the attack in Benghazi on 9/11 of last year were God's judgment while promoting a Birther-hosted payer event. MORE