Pretty stunning news: A Christian ministry that led the so-called ex-gay movement, which professes to rid people of their homosexuality, has announced that it will shut down, and its leader apologized extensively to gays for causing “pain and hurt.” The ministry, Exodus International, was founded in 1976 and claims more than 200 branches, churches and […]
East Texas Congressman Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert doesn’t like President Obama’s pledge to scale back the U.S. nuclear arsenal (along with the the arsenals of other nuclear powers). He tweets: Is now really the time to reduce America’s nuclear strength, when we can’t even secure our borders? http://fxn.ws/145pFHz What is he suggesting? That we nuke […]
Blogger and psychology professor Warren Throckmorton has a new piece up exposing how David Barton, the pseudo-historian who founded the religious-right organization WallBuilders in Texas, is trying to cover up errors in his historical work. Barton’s apparent strategy: revise his claims but don’t tell anyone about those corrections. Throckmorton points out how a Barton tour […]
Monday night the brilliant writers at The Daily Show offered a classic takedown of right-wing evangelicals who claim gay and lesbian activists bully and even beat up Christians and straight people. “The Christians that I talked to are intimidated,” Idaho pastor and radio host Matt Slick tells Samantha Bee of The Daily Show. “They’ll often […]
As the nation focuses on concerns like jobs and health care, congressional Republicans have turned their attention to a favorite cause of right-wing culture warriors: banning abortion. So on Monday, Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, offered his reasons for why the U.S. House of Representatives should pass a new anti-abortion bill that bars women from […]
