TFN PRESIDENT EXPRESSES DISAPPOINTMENT IN ABBOTT’S SBOE CHAIR CHOICE Bahorich Appointment Almost Guarantees Continued Culture War Battles at SBOE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2015 Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller is expressing disappointment in Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision, announced today, to appoint State Board of Education member Donna Bahorich, R-Houston, as board chair: “If […]
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Anti-Abortion Extremists Would Rather Women Die Than Go to Planned Parenthood
Listening to right-wing radio often leaves us wondering whether we need to get a rabies vaccine. It’s really that bad. But we monitor those programs so we can shine a light on the frothing, hateful nonsense they promote. Case in point: today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program from Liberty Counsel, the Florida-based organization so extreme that the Southern […]
Texas GOPers Take Anti-Constitutional Position on Supreme Court and Marriage
Polls show that a growing majority of Americans support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples, but that’s not the case specifically among Republicans. In fact, the Texas Republican Party — largely controlled by the religious right for the past two decades — is particularly hostile to the freedom to marry. And some GOP elected officials have been […]
The Week(s) in Quotes (May 31 – June 13)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Dallas Religious-Right Pastor: American Christians Face Persecution Like the Jews in Nazi Germany
The religious right has invested a lot of energy and resources into trying to convince Americans that Christians are somehow under attack in a country in which the population is overwhelmingly Christian. Latest example: Robert Jeffress, the far-right Dallas pastor who thinks President is paving the way for the Antichrist. Now Jeffress says Christians in America are facing persecution […]
