It’s been a while since we shared some of the hate mail the Texas Freedom Network gets from folks. Enjoy! Lots of our hate mail is along these lines: “Dear Nut Jobs — Leave me alone! You IDIOTS!” And another: “Wise up! You can not be a liberal & please God. Get on God’s side not evil Obama” […]
Recent Newss
Texas County Clerk Issues Manifesto Declaring Defiance of Supreme Court’s Marriage Ruling
As Americans were celebrating freedom on the nation’s 239th birthday last weekend, a county clerk in West Texas was preparing a manifesto defying the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gay and lesbian couples have the freedom to marry under the U.S. Constitution. Then on Sunday the clerk, Molly Criner of Irion County near San Angelo, posted her manifesto on a listserve […]
The Week in Quotes (June 28 – July 4)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
How the Religious Right Is Turning Pastors into Politicians
The Texas Renewal Project, part of a web of state-based organizations designed to drag churches into partisan politics, has a new project for turning pastors into politicians. On Wednesday we saw an email invitation asking pastors to attend an event on August 24-25 at the downtown Hilton Hotel in Austin. The two-day gathering will feature prominent religious-right speakers, including presidential candidate and […]
TFN’s Kathy Miller to Texas AG Ken Paxton: Obey the Law of the Land
The Austin American-Statesman has posted a short video of TFN President Kathy Miller calling on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to stop obstructing the Supreme Court’s ruling on the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples. Kathy was speaking at a press conference on Monday at the Texas Capitol. She spoke along with leaders from the Human Rights Campaign, […]
