I recommend the entire series of God In America for a great look at how religion has affected American history. But I particularly recommend the final hour of the series as the religious right themselves explain the way in which Republican presidents like Reagan and George W. ...read more

CREW crunched the numbers. Pretty sick the way the religious right defiled our White House during the Bush years. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) has just released a report tallying visits to the Bush White House by major Religious Right players. CREW ...read more

The "Christian" right strikes again. On August 16, Anderson delivered a sermon titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama." In it, Anderson admitted he prays for the president's death. It is a position he reiterated Sunday. "If you want to know how I'd like to see Obama die, I'd like him ...read more

What? The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God. Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their ‘common faith’ ...read more

One of the continuing themes we're seeing with the conservative movement's attempts to recover from the last two elections is a search for leadership. The problem is that structurally conservatism has a strong tendency to gravitate towards the known - a mindset that's part and ...read more

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Very sad. The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday that his Wichita clinic will be "permanently closed," effective immediately. In a statement released by Tiller's attorneys, his family said it is ceasing operation of Women's Health Care Services Inc. and ...read more

There is apparently some controversy that Liberty University banned the Democratic club at the school. This brings to mind the question: Why are we pretending that Liberty is an actual university? There are many serious, well-regarded institutions of higher learning in the ...read more

Conservative blogs like Newsbusters are seriously debating whether the evangelical vote determined the outcome of American Idol. We all know the evangelical right spends its entire life focused on distractions that don't remotely matter, so if we can keep these rubes mass texting ...read more

65-31 for a nominee the religious right went all out against. Got impotence? The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health secretary, filling a crucial spot in President Barack Obama's cabinet amid growing fears of a possible swine flu pandemic. ...read more

This is not a parody ad. The ad is from "National Organization For Marriage", whose president is Maggie Gallagher. If that name sounds familiar, Maggie Gallagher was one of the pundits who were paid off by the Bush administration and didn't disclose it. But what she objects to ...read more

Is getting the usual moderate and calm reaction from the religious right. People getting married: clearly the worst thing in the world. If they're gay. Come on. ...read more

That's what the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius is coming down to. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will testify on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, and committee Chairman Max Baucus said he expected her to get the job. "I think she should be confirmed," Baucus ...read more

Dramatic readings of message board postings from fundamentalist Christians. Also known as the funniest thing ever. (some nsfw language) (via) ...read more

That this is even an idea is a testament to the stupidity of the cultural right. A Texas legislator is waging a war of biblical proportions against the science and education communities in the Lone Star State as he fights for a bill that would allow a private school that teaches ...read more

Well, they'll never completely go away (sadly) but Frank Rich's Sunday column does a good job of going through the culture war b.s. that's supposed to whip people into a frenzy but doesn't anymore. In our own hard times, the former moral “majority” has been downsized to more of a ...read more

A few days ago Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council sent out an email blast trying to whip up opposition to David Ogden, president Obama's nominee for Deputy Attorney General. Always temperate, Perkins called Ogden a "porn advocate" for his previous work for Playboy. Also ...read more

The notoriously idiotic right-wing organization that speaks for a fringe group of Catholics is going to attack the upcoming Angels & Demons movie. Donohue & Co. went after The Da Vinci Code and the movie just eked out $758 Million worldwide. I am sure Opie is quaking in his ...read more

The religious right is seriously against Kathleen Sebelius being nominated to Secretary of Health. Today alone right-wing Christian groups like the Family Research Council, Catholic League and Concerned Women of America have sent out e-mails opposing Sebelius. On the flip side, ...read more

From a Fark thread on celebrity ghosts comes this gem on the dead as a doornail Jerry Falwell. ...read more

Florida Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (do you really have to ask what party?) calls atheism "evil" and something that causes "damage". This is someone making laws. Laws that extend beyond his own living room. Please, stifle yourself. ...read more

Conservatism can't exist without puffed up propaganda because its adherents don't see an sort of division between science and religion. That's why they think Jesus Juice is a chemical formula. ...read more

That conservatives are still arguing with themselves about whether gay people should be allowed to adopt kind of tells me that they've already lost on the question at hand. Why is there even a movement where this up for debate? Children need loving homes, and the best thing is to ...read more

From their most recent email blast: In a surprise ambush yesterday, liberal House Democrats unseated longtime chairman Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) from his position on the Energy and Commerce Committee and replaced him with Rep. Harry Waxman (D-Calif.). Waxman's coup is alarming ...read more

The news may be slow, but Focus on the Family is going through layoffs, so that's something. (via) ...read more

The religious far right deals with exile. Don't write, fellas. ...read more

Because you're simply teaching your kids to make life tough for teachers and disrupt the learning of others. God. (via) ...read more

The liberal future would make an awesome novel or one of those Christian movies starring Kirk Cameron. ...read more

Beware of sealed documents... ...read more

Writing about the fact that Sarah Palin's teen daughter is pregnant (I don't care, to be frank, I care more about Palin being unqualified and unready for the job as well as her being an uninformed right-wing nutter), famed plagiarist Ben Domenech of Redstate.com writes an entry ...read more

Image of Tony Perkins from today's Family Research Council e-mail. Done somewhat in jest to remind people about registering for their Right Wing Nutjob Values Voter Summit, it is a pretty good encapsulation of where these nutters base their "values". ...read more

Nuance ‘Obama’ and ‘infanticide’ are being matched in the latest venom eruption on hate-monger sites. For the record, Senator Obama did NOT vote for infanticide while in the Illinois State legislature. At issue is his vote on a bill entitled, ‘Born Alive Infants Protection Act’ ...read more

Focus On The Family is praying for rain on Obama's acceptance speech. Really. ...read more

... sometimes it really sucks sharing the same planet with you. I don't understand how allowing gay people the same basic privileges as the rest of us turns the earth on its axis. ...read more

When James "Beat Children Like Animals" Dobson accuses you of distorting the bible. ...read more

Catholic Democrats sent out the following in response to right-winger Bill Donohue attacking the Obama campaign for not doing Catholic outreach. It's not clear why a non-profit organization with a noble mission like that of the Catholic League -- founded to defend Catholics in ...read more

John McCain has been the nominee of his party for over a month now. He has no active opposition, no figure on his side of the aisle contesting him for leadership of the Republican party and the conservative movement. And yet, Republicans are still voting against him. In Indiana ...read more

I posted this in links yesterday, but I'm putting it here because I thought it was funny and worth more notice. I really hate these intelligent design (creationism) people and the way they continue to try and pervert science and education. Expelled and Ben Stein are even worse ...read more