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Crackpot sites are percolating with the rumor that discredited Christianist “historian” David Barton is plotting a run for the US Senate. According to multiple sources, last week a meeting occurred between Tea Party leaders and a representative for Barton. Sources report both sides left the meeting encouraged. Right now, speculation Barton might run is ‘legitimate.’ This is a major development. …

“I’ve gone on record before, and I’ll say it again: I think Romans 1:27 is one of the reasons that we’ll never find a complete cure for AIDS; and if we do there will be another disease pop up like this bacterial meningitis because the Bible says this, Romans 1:27 says ‘men committed shameful acts with other men, sexual acts, …

“The Declaration erects the moral standard by talking about the laws of nature and of nature’s god.  Marriage has always been defined not only as a law of nature – now, it’s not necessarily in nature, but they called it a natural law that you should be married to one man, one woman because that is what divine law says; …

“We’ve got to get to the point where tolerance is seen as a sin because we’re tolerating a lot stuff that destroys our families, that destroys our own character and we can’t tolerate that stuff.  We have to get back to the point where hate is a virtue, at least certain kinds of hate.  The fear of the Lord is …

This time, for once, he’s probably not lying.

Even though David Barton’s book of lying lies was actually brought down by a coalition of evangelicals and Christian historians, Scott Lively blames relatively gay-friendly Christian university professor Dr. Warren Throckmorton and “anti-Christ” gay blogs such as JMG. I have my own little conspiracy theory and it centers on David Barton’s emergence as a vocal opponent of the “gay rights” …

Not only did NPR savage Christian “historian” David Barton’s latest book of lies, today his publisher announced that they have suspended its printing and distribution. Casey Francis Harrell, Thomas Nelson’s director of corporate communications, told me the publishing house “was contacted by a number of people expressing concerns about [The Jefferson Lies].” The company began to evaluate the criticisms, Harrell …

“They [the Founding Fathers] didn’t know what the word ‘adolescent’ meant. And, by the way, I checked with Rabbi Lapin, he says that is not a word that appears in Hebrew because it’s not in the mind of God. God wasn’t into adolescence. He was in to having you become productive, having you be fruitful, having your produce. And so …

Participants on the online forum History News Network have rated wingnut liar David Barton’s book on Thomas Jefferson to be the “least credible history book in print.” After a week of voting by readers, David Barton’s “The Jefferson Lies” won with some 650 votes, narrowly edging the left-wing historian Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States,” which received 641 …

Right Wing Watch debunks that nonsense here and here.

The Alabama Educational Television Commission has fired two local PBS executives after they objected to the planned airing of a series by historical revisionist David Barton. Barton is known for claiming that there’s a biblical basis to every aspect of American law. AETC Commissioner Rodney Herring, an Opelika-based chiropractor, had provided the series to APT for broadcast consideration. Herring joined …