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Academic Freedom Bill Season

By Lauri Lebo

…clutching slightly tweaked versions of such bills. The title “Academic Freedom” sounds noble enough (how could a freedom-loving American oppose such a thing?) but the real purpose is to to proclaim: “Evolution is a lie! Evolution is evil! If your children learn we came from monkeys, they will go to hell!!!!!” Chism unsuccessfully sponsored similar anti-evolution legislation last year. According to the National Center for Science Education, Chism t…

Darrell Issa’s Show Trial
on Alleged Obama Administration “Anti-Catholic Bias”

By Sarah Posner

…ctims of kidnapping, assault, rape, and imprisonment by violent abusers to reproductive health care that includes abortions and family planning services, while protecting the “religious freedom” of those federal contractors who refuse to make such referrals. Even though these victims of horrific sexual violence were the subject of the hearing, the Republican majority had refused the Democrats’ request to have victims themselves testify at the hear…

The Unbearable Lack of Self-Awareness of the Anti-Muslim Sally Kern

By Sarah Posner

…me to stand up and speak out.” Wait, what? Christians are losing their freedoms? Kern singled out hate crimes legislation as an infringement on religious freedom: “The goal of hate crimes legislation is to silence speech determined to be opposed to the homosexual lifestyle.” Kern is also close to Paul Blair, a local pastor who also leads Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ and, along with Kern’s husband, joined Baldwin’s Black Regiment. In 2010, Americ…

Gay Lawmakers Paving the Way for Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Illinois State Rep. Deborah Mell captures the growing trend of openly gay lawmakers who are using their personal stories to try to sway laws in favor of marriage equality. Rep. Mell was successful in her push to get civil unions recognized in her state. Right now, there are 85 openly gay or lesbian legislators around the country. That’s a small percentage of the more than 7,300 lawmakers out there, but their outspokenness about how inequality in…

Christianity and Gun Control

By Sarah Posner

…-GA), the Chairman of the Second Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “domestic enemy of the Constitution” at a health care reform town hall meeting. November 9, 2010—U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida’s 22nd Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party supporters, “I am convinced…

Health Care Ruling Big Issue for Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…law permits taxpayer funding for abortion, has caused even an opponent of reproductive choice to lash out against an anti-choice group. Rep. Steve Driehaus, the Ohio Democrat who originally voted for the Stupak amendment and then incurred the wrath of the religious right by voting for the final bill, has sued the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List for defamation for claiming that he “voted for taxpayer-funded abortion.” Driehaus lost his sea…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…h will provide the opportunity for biblically-based Christians to exercise dominion by replacing existing humanistic institutions with biblical ones. In Honest Money, he wrote: First, the bankers and the politicians will continue to try to make the present system work. This will make the present system worse. Second, there will be a collapse in stages: inflation, then mass inflation, then price controls, then tyranny, and finally a worldwide defla…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…attack is not to be confused with taking vengeance, which is the exclusive domain of God,” citing Romans 12:19. That domain of God, he maintains, “has been delegated to the civil magistrate” who is “God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” Likewise, Titus, in his interview with RD, referred to this notion of legitimate civil uprising or resistance resting on the support of “lesser magistrates.” This concept derives f…

South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Called “Raghead”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur.” But, as the Free Times reports, Knotts wasn’t quite as repentant in the moments after uttering his slur. With a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face outside a Columbia bar, Republican S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts called Lexington Rep. Nikki Haley, an Indian-American Republican woman running for governor, a “raghead” several times while explaining how he believed she was hiding her true religi…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its 2007 Synthesis Report, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.” Additionally, the report said, “There is very high confidence that the net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming.” At its most s…