From today’s TFN News Clips: “There’s a cultural war going on in our society today. I feel that homosexual behavior is an affront to the family values of one man-one woman, and homosexual behavior, to any society that’s embraced it, has led to the extinction of that society.” — Dave Wilson, longtime anti-gay activist, defending his […]
Wow. Just, well … wow. It seems that some folks are now driving around with bumper stickers that read, “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8.” What does that Bible verse say? “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” And what does that mean? The verse that immediately follows clears up any ambiguity: […]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “It’s pretty clear the organizational Republican Party in the state has been pretty much totally captured by the extreme right, with Cathie Adams being the most recent example by winning the vote in their executive committee.” — Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist, in a story about the Texas governor’s […]
Here’s a new one for the “why it’s a bad idea to allow ideologues to write history standards” file — a file that is growing by the day, thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). Today’s example comes from the Rev. Peter Marshall, appointed earlier this year by far-right SBOE members Barbara Cargill, R-The […]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she ‘didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea’ or from ‘monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.’” — From a New York Times […]
