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Peace = Satan

War on Earth, Violence towards Men?

A homeowners’ association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan (emphasis added).

Some residents who have complained have children serving in [...]

Bush appoints anti-contraception nut as new family-planning chief

The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as “demeaning to women.”

Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman’s Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary [...]

from the Jesus and Barbie shall not fornicate dept.

The fundies have managed to pressure Toys for Tots into accepting 4000 of their Jesus dolls. Cause this is just what every poor kid dreams of getting on Christmas morning! But wait there’s more! It’s a talking Jesus doll complete with 6 verses of scripture like “John 3:3 - I tell you [...]

Proselytizing in Class

I’m a day late with this story, but it reminded me of something that happened when I was a student. A History teacher named David Paszkiewicz in New Jersey (who is also a Baptist minister) got caught proselytizing Christian fundamentalism to his students in class.

Instead of teaching them History, he was teaching [...]

Election Day Arrest

Abel Tomlinson, the person who made the speech on Morality and Liberalism at the Fayetteville March for Change before the election, was arrested on election day, apparently for repeating the same speech. There is a video of his arrest on youtube, but first here is Abel’s recount of what happened (from his website, buddhachristlove.blogspot.com):

UAPD [...]

Purity Ball Ad

ewww! via Pandagon

The irony of relativism

If everyone treated their religious beliefs the same way they do their sexual fantasies this would be a much better world. The problem is that a lot of the people in the world do not. They believe that it is their moral duty to impose their belief system on the entire world. [...]

Abstinence only corruption

Back in August I posted about the corruption in the faith-based initiative programs. Sunday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette there was an article on an abstinence-only group located in Fort Smith, AR called Tree of Life Preventive Health Maintenance Inc., the #1 abstinence promoter in the state. This company is completely entwined with [...]

Poem of the day

Everyone on the Religious Right needs to read this.

TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
Carl Sandburg

You come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about
Jesus.
Where do you get that stuff?
What do you know about Jesus?
Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of [...]

And you thought the Abramoff scandal was just about buying off politicians

Exactly how hostile to family values does the Republican party have to get before people start waking up?

Remember how just two years ago George Bush claimed he wanted to put a stop to human trafficking - i.e., women being forced into sexual slavery?

Then why was the Bush administration’s premiere advocate for stopping such sexual slavery [...]