The anti-Muslim organization ACT! for America has fired the head of its San Antonio chapter apparently for — get this — being too extreme. And the guy who got canned, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Roy White, is very familiar to us as TFN. […]
Religious Right Watch
Abbott, Patrick, Paxton Join Hate Campaign Against Same-Sex Married Couples in Texas
The highest Republican elected officials in Texas have now officially joined the appalling campaign to use state and local governments to discriminate against legally married same-sex couples. Let’s be clear: this is nothing more than a shameful effort to validate the hatred of religious-righters for LGBT Texans and their families. […]
Character Matters ‘More Than Anything.’ Except When It Doesn’t.
Watching religious-righters twist themselves into knots in an effort to explain their support for Donald Trump has been a fascinating experience. Consider, for example, the experience of state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano. […]
Dallas Religious-Right Leader, Prominent Trump Supporter Says Right to Privacy Is Imaginary, Invented
Robert Jeffress, the far-right pastor of a Dallas megachurch and a prominent religious-right supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is arguing that the Constitution doesn’t protect a right to privacy for Americans. In one of his “Daily Devotion” emails sent to followers last week, Jeffress attacks Supreme Court justices for supposedly “inventing” that right: […]
Former Texas GOP Chair Joins the Right’s Worship of Putin’s Russia
What is it with the American right’s love affair with Vladimir Putin’s Russia these days? Tom Pauken, who served as chair of the Texas Republican Party in the 1990s and currently supports Donald Trump for president, tweeted this morning that Russia is “returning to its Christian roots” while the United States is “going in the opposite direction.” […]
