The right-wing Texas Pastor Council is pushing hard to get conservative Christians to the polls in November. But perhaps the group should consider choosing a messenger who doesn’t offend a lot of those very Christians. An email Wednesday from the group to supporters includes an appeal for Tim LaHaye, a prominent fundamentalist preacher and coauthor […]
Religious Right Watch
So Registering Young People to Vote Is a Bad Thing Now?
From the department of NWHIA: Now We’ve Heard It All Republicans on the Dallas County Commissioners Court are criticizing county election officials for helping the League of Women Voters and other nonpartisan organizations register eligible high school students to vote yesterday. From the Dallas Morning News: The county elections department put the League of Women […]
David Barton: ‘Liberalism Kills’
The level of depravity revealed by this statement from David Barton yesterday is hard to fathom: “I tell you what, Richard gave a two-word axiom that we ought to emblazon on everything we have: liberalism kills. Liberalism kills, whether it’s in the family; whether it’s in a university; whether it’s in education; whether it’s in […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Let me go on the record as saying, I believe in Satan.” — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, responding to a question from Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune about recent Perry comments that Satan is spreading untruths around the world Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a daily digest of […]
David Barton Calls Idea That the Bill of Rights Was Intended to Protect Rights of the Minority ‘Ridiculous’
Having his distorted book on Thomas Jefferson pulled off the shelves by a prominent evangelical publisher doesn’t seem to be slowing down David Barton’s efforts to rewrite history. Now he’s promoting an essay in which he calls the idea that the Bill of Rights was intended to protect the rights of the minority “ridiculous”: Sadly, […]
