Today’s anti-science object of my scorn is William Saletan, the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, and who, in a new Slate article, Winning Smugly, is pompously warning President Obama, and by extension the American people, that while we may have won the stem cell “battle”, we’re in danger of losing [...]
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Sisters Dogood Recommend Charitable Holiday Shopping
If you’re a regular reader of our site, you know well how pissed off we get at the efforts of conservative Christian organizations to fight this so-called “war on Christmas.”
Whether it’s Liberty University or Focus on the Family, these groups only show how far they have fallen from the true teachings of Christ their savior [...]
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Pilgrim’s Progress: Colonists Opposed Prop 8
Religious-oriented foes of social and cultural progress (aka evolution) often cling to revanchist notions about what America’s early settlers and revolutionary leaders intended for our nation.
The James Dobson’s of our country paint American history with a single-hued brush, as if the evangelical movement arrived full sprung in the 17th-century, settled a wild frontier absent of [...]
Posted in Bitching and Moaning, Politics Also tagged Catholic Church, civil rights, gay marriage, marriage, Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, Prop 8 Comments closed
Focus on the Family: Abuse Children This Christmas
I get so tired of reminding Christians of Jesus H.’s well-known objections to materialism. Despite his pacifist tendencies, he even fashioned a whip out of spare cording to drive merchants from the temple with force, screaming at the dove sellers as they fled, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house [...]
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