He’s too old to have been in school when the Texas State Board of Education passed its 2010 resolution attacking Islam and falsely claiming that history textbooks have an anti-Christian and pro-Muslim bias. But a 24-year-old Texas man has been charged with violating the civil rights of members of a Tennessee mosque. Talking Points Memo […]
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An Anti-Gay Voice from the (Recent) Past at the Southern Baptist Convention
When Southern Baptists reaffirmed their hostility to equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans this week in New Orleans, a leading anti-gay voice there was a Texas pastor who has promoted Texas Gov. Rick Perry to conservative evangelicals in the past. Southern Baptists meeting at their denomination’s annual convention overwhelmingly passed a resolution attacking marriage […]
South Carolina Governor Vetoes HPV Vaccine Bill
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has vetoed a bill that would have provided the HPV vaccine free to the state’s seventh-graders after opponents said the measure would sexualize girls at a young age. South Carolina lawmakers had passed the bill by large bipartisan majorities in the state House and Senate. Moreover, Haley had co-sponsored a […]
Facts Remain Elusive for ‘Historian’ David Barton
“Historian” David Barton is either very gullible or thinks everybody else is. Barton — Glenn Beck’s favorite “historian” and head of the Texas-based history revisionist organization WallBuilders — is promoting a list of executive orders a right-wing website suggests President Obama has issued so that our nation’s elected leader can destroy our freedom. But “historian” […]
The Christian Coalition on Geritol?
Young people have been turning away in larger numbers from the extremism, hate and intolerance of the religious right in recent years. In 2008, for example, polling showed that Barack Obama doubled his support among young evangelicals compared to John Kerry’s performance with the same group in the 2004 presidential election. From a New York […]
