This Amazing Fact comes to us from a professional politician first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1991, whose Web page describes him as holding bachelor degrees in history and philosophy from from Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, and an MA in humanities from California State University. Remarkable preparation, those, for rendering sweeping obstetrical judgments.
Posts under ‘Church and state’
D.C., church on collision course over gay rights
Washington, D.C.’s municipal government and Catholic Charities are having a showdown over the city’s intention to treat same-sex couples just as opposite-sex couples are treated. If no accommodation is reached, Catholic Charities is likely to sever its working relationship with the city, possibly to the detriment of the city’s have nots. The nation’s capital has [...]
Sniping from left predictable, wildly premature
“Some” on the left should quit trying to form another one of their time-tested circular firing squads and start acting as reality based as they’ve claimed to be throughout the New Dark Age of Bush.
Political padres, shut the hell up
What of any value to anyone have clerics John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, Lisante and others like them contributed to our presidential election? They’re egotistical loudmouths seeking 15 minutes of undeserved fame in ways and places where they have no legitimate business.
Illinois legislator doubles down on ignorance
“Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, `What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!’”
Huckabee flunks American Government 101
If there was any doubt about Mike Huckabee being at once one of the slickest politicians and, hands down, the most dangerous person seeking the presidency this year, he clinched his claim on both distinctions with one statement. . .
Faith speech makes Romney’s unsuitability clear
The “some” and “they” Romney refers to are the nonbelievers whose views and sensibilities obviously don’t count, where he’s concerned. Yet under our Constitution, these nonbelievers count every bit as much as the most pious Catholics, Protestants, Jews or the most devout Muslims. The Constitution’s “inalienable rights” belong to them along with everyone else.
Better it should be inward, Christian soldiers
“DECATUR, Ga. – The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.”
Southern Baptist mullah urges hate prayers
Not that he meant to, but the Rev. Wiley S. Drake has made himself exhibit A as to why separation of church and state — including ignoring crackpot clerics’ political advice — is so important.
‘American Theocracy’ details extremist threat from within
Our democracy, as most Americans have known and lived it, is under serious and increasingly effective assault from within. This has been going on, steadily gaining strength, for about a quarter century.
Pushing, pulling, eating away at our government and political system mostly just out of sight are highly politicized Christian fundamentalists. Of late they’ve won some political allies among Catholics and Jews, adding to their clout and the seriousness of the threat they pose.
These Christian fundamentalists and their allies co-own with big-money and corporate interests the national Republican Party as well as most state Republican parties. What makes them a threat is not their belief in God, in their respective churches and in traditional family values. The threat comes from their intention to make the tenets of their faith and all their associated beliefs into political policies affecting everyone, and into laws binding on everyone.
