Category: 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

  • Don McLeroy Wants Your Children to Be Stupid

    Texas is the country’s largest textbook market and sets the national standards for content. A group of ultra-conservatives are revising history to be sure it meets their needs: The margins were littered with stars, exclamation points, and hundreds of yellow Post-its that were brimming with notes scrawled in a microscopic hand. With childlike glee, McLeroy […]

  • Cardinal: Gays 'Will Never Go to Heaven'

    I wonder if this applies to hateful demagogues? Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said that while the Church regarded homosexuality as an “insult to God”, this did not justify discrimination against gay and transsexual people. You’re just an abomination and an insult to God and damned from the start… but that doesn’t mean people should treat […]

  • US Fundamentalist ‘Family’ Behind Ugandan Law to Execute HIV+ Men

    From Raw Story: Under current Ugandan law, homosexuality is a crime punishable by life in prison. The proposed law would not just condemn HIV positive gay men and “repeat offenders” to death, it would also jail for three years anyone who knows a gay man but refuses to report them to authorities. Further, anyone who […]

  • US Catholic Bishops Release Document on Marriage

    Commenter: Hilarious when a bunch of men who are forbidden by their vocation to get married themselves make pronouncements about how marriage is affected by another relationship they are forbidden to enter into. Will they start making statements about tampon vs. napkin use next? I mean, they have about the same amount of experience with […]

  • People to Set On Fire: Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri

    What an asshole: It seems like such a simple act of compassion – allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But according to Governor Donald L. Carcieri of Rhode Island, bestowing this small but vital legal right to gays and lesbians will somehow “degrade” traditional marriage. From […]

  • Mark Morford on Maine, Washington, the Bible and Gay Marriage

    From the always awesome Mark Morford: Meanwhile, there was a glimmer of good news up in the state of Washington, where they voted in favor of gay marriage, sort of, only they didn’t actually call it marriage because That Would Be Wrong, given how we all know “marriage” is a registered trademark of the Bible […]

  • Vatican Continues to Scapegoat Homosexuals

    The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was “busy cleaning its own house” and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger. In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN […]

  • Notes from the Homosexual Extremist Movement

    From the Phyllis Schafly’s Take Back America Conference for a session called How to Counter the Homosexual Extremist Movement: (emphasis mine) [F]ervent and relentless homosexual propaganda goose-steps along, trampling upon those who observe traditional notions of sexual morality. … Thus we find ourselves — back against the ropes — in a fight we did not […]

  • The Good Old Days

    I really miss the days when people who were ultra-religious who had problems with other’s moral actions took the position of “they’ll get what’s coming in the end so why waste energy with some meager Earthly punishment.” I don’t remember anywhere in the Bible it says you’re supposed to force your religion down people’s throats, […]

  • Matt Taibbi on Peasant Mentality

    But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant […]