The backers of the Manhattan Declaration, whose signees vow to disobey laws that grant discrimination protections to LGBT Americans, have filed a Supreme Court brief against the overturn of DOMA. Because…JESUS. The Manhattan Declaration reminds the Court of the critical role of believers in Jesus have had in America’s positive social achievement. It recounts advances because of Christianity through history …
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Janet Porter Has The Sadz
“Forcing acceptance of homosexuality. If there’s one thing that President Obama made clear in his second inaugural address, it’s this. To a nation dealing with high unemployment and debts that threaten to crush everyone, he is committed to pushing the homosexual agenda forward and is declaring war against those who refuse to accept and affirm it. After putting homosexuals who …
Read More »FRC Files Proposition 8 Brief
The Family Research Council, in partnership with the anti-gay Thomas More Society, has filed Supreme Court brief against the overturn of Proposition 8. As they did with their DOMA brief, they argue that Proposition 8 is not intended to discriminate against gay people. Even assuming, for purposes of disparate impact analysis, that sexual orientation is to be treated in the …
Read More »FRC Files DOMA Brief
With the Thomas More Society, the Family Research Council has filed a Supreme Court amicus brief against the overturn of DOMA. Among their many arguments is that DOMA is not intended to discriminate against gay people. Even assuming, for purposes of disparate impact analysis, that sexual orientation is to be treated in the same manner as race or gender and …
Read More »TRAILER: The Revisionaries
Tomorrow night PBS will air The Revisionaries, which examines the Texas Board Of Education and its campaign to insert Christianist dogma into public school textbooks. RELATED: Visit the PBS blog Independent Lens for “ten interesting lessons from creationist textbooks.“ They link the below clip as an “in a nutshell” recounting of what’s already being taught in some schools.
Read More »ARIZONA: Republicans Introduce Bill Demanding “So Help Me God” Loyalty Oath For High School Graduation
The above Arizona Republican representatives have introduced a bill requiring that public high school seniors swear loyalty to the Constitution and to God in order to graduate. The wording of the oath is familiar: I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear …
Read More »Christianists Attack Dear Abby
Beloved advice columnist Pauline Phillips, whose Dear Abby was the first place many of us read positive mentions of gay people, passed away last week at the age of 94. Today Christianist and anti-gay World Magazine republished a 2008 “study” which concludes that Phillips dispensed “dangerous advice” on the issue of sexual morality. The study only examined Dear Abby columns …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Michael Brown
“First, gay activists came out of the closet; Second, they demanded their ‘rights’; Third, they demanded that everyone recognize those ‘rights’; Fourth, they want to strip away the rights of those who oppose them; Fifth, they want to put those who oppose their ‘rights’ into the closet. I have often been ridiculed for laying out this progression, but it is …
Read More »History Lessons In Texas
The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has issued a new report on the continuing expansion of Christianist dogma into Texas public school lessons. A sampling of what they found: –Instructional material in two school districts teach that racial diversity today can be traced back to Noah’s sons, a long-discredited claim that has been a foundational component of some forms of …
Read More »Matt Barber: I’m Keeping My Guns
“No one’s taking my guns either. Period. And if Dianne Feinstein orders me from her lofty perch on the left-coast to retroactively register them with some federal autocracy, I think I might just forget I even have them. Tens of millions of law-abiding, God fearing Americans just like me and Dad, I suspect, feel the same way. I love guns. …
Read More »Perkins: Obama Wants To Shut Us Up
“As we learned yesterday, liberals are no longer satisfied by the church’s silence on homosexuality. They will accept nothing less than the active embrace and celebration of what the Bible calls sin–or use totalitarian tactics to get it. What was once outrage over Christian activism has been replaced by outrage over Christian association. The White House has declared that anyone …
Read More »Mat Staver On The Scott Lively Suit
“This lawsuit against Rev. Scott Lively is a gross attempt to use a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize, speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues. This suit should cause everyone to be concerned, because it a direct threat against freedom of speech. Like all American citizens, Rev. Lively enjoys a fundamental First Amendment right to …
Read More »INDIANA: State GOP Rep Intro’s Bill Mandating Lord’s Prayer In Schools
Indiana GOP state Rep. Dennis Kruse has introduced a bill that requires public schools to force students to recite The Lord’s Prayer. The chairman of the Senate education committee, who last year unsuccessfully sought the teaching of creationism in schools, now wants public schools to have the option of beginning each day with the Lord’s Prayer. Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, …
Read More »Crimes Against Humanity Case Against Scott Lively To Begin Monday
This Monday the case of Sexual Minorities Uganda Vs Scott Lively will begin in a Massachusetts federal court. The suit alleges that Lively committed crimes against humanity in his campaign urging Uganda to implement harsh persecutions of LGBT people. The case is the first-ever sexual orientation-related suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute, which is described as a “powerful legal …
Read More »WND’s Woman Of The Year
World Net Daily has named Michele Bachmann their “Woman Of The Year.” For her extraordinary dedication to America’s founding principles and steadfast defense of the Constitution, WND has named Rep. Michele Bachmann 2012 “Woman of the Year.” Bachmann is a gutsy, pro-life fiscal conservative who dared to vote against raising the debt ceiling. She’s a God-fearing, gun-loving advocate of tax …
Read More »Email Of The Day – Donald Wildmon
“What will religion look like in the year 2060? Conservative Christians will be treated as second class citizens, much like African Americans were prior to civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Family as we know it will be drastically changed with the state taking charge of the children beginning at birth. Marriage will include two, three, four or any number …
Read More »Hate Group Leader Bradlee Dean: Obama Planned Sandy Hook Shooting
“The Sandy Hook shooting occurred just days after Sen. Rand Paul sent out an alert that the U.N. was set to pass the final version of the Small Arms Treaty, supported by Obama the day after election. Part of the treaty bans the trade, sale and ownership of all semi-automatic weapons like the one Adam Lanza used to kill 20 …
Read More »Merry Christmas From Tony Perkins
Eugene Delgaudio Feels Abandoned
“Dear Joe, I’ve never felt so alone in the fight for the Family. It’s funny to think how this time of year I am surrounded by my family and friends, and yet I feel like I am the only one defending the American Family. To be honest with you, I don’t know if I can go on much longer. It …
Read More »Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver: Same-Sex Marriage Will Spark A Civil War
“This is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and to Christians around the country, then anything that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that …
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