Tag Archives: Missouri

The blogosphere imploded today when Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) appeared on a talk show to declare that women who are “legitimately raped” do not get pregnant. And therefore abortion should be illegal in all cases. Akin’s name and “legitimate rape” are now top trending topics on Twitter. Even the vicious teabaggers at Twitchy are appalled. Akin is running to unseat …

Last week Missouri’s voters approved a “Right To Pray” referendum that includes, among many others things, the “protection” of public school students’ God-given right to refuse to be taught evolution. Amendment 2 “is a lawyer’s dream” because of its vagueness, says Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which tracks efforts …

Hate group leader Scott Lively, who is presently being sued for crimes against humanity, has issued a “Christian Red Alert” because Springfield, Missouri is considering a bill to protect LGBT residents from discrimination. The City of Springfield Missouri has announced it’s intention to “consider”an ordinance to give homosexuals extraordinary new powers to silence and punish Christian landlords and businesses through …

A Missouri judge has ordered the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City to turn over internal documents about sexual abuses by priests. The diocese had fought the disclosure of the documents, claiming they were protected by attorney-client privilege. Jackson County Circuit Judge John M. Torrence, who is overseeing a case against Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese, also said in a …

“Hollywood already has two Senate seats in California. Now they’re trying to buy a third one here in Missouri. The Hollywood-liberal-elites are trying to hijack this Senate Seat — and that’s no exaggeration! You see, my Democrat opponent, Claire McCaskill has a series of liberal celebrities who are funding her campaign. Check this list out: Danny DeVito. Susan Sarandon. Kate …

Butler County Republican Party co-chair Hardy Billington has published the above lie-filled ad in Poplar Bluff’s Daily American Republic in support of Missouri’s pending “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Billington, a Baptist deacon, is running for reelection to the Poplar Bluff school board. He crows about the changes he’s made during his tenure: Before I was president of the board, they …

Taking a page from the bigots in Tennessee, the Missouri House has advanced a bill that effectively outlaws any mention of homosexuality in public schools. The bill is aimed at thwarting anti-bullying measures and would also prevent the formation of Gay-Straight Alliance clubs. The bill reads: 170.370. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no instruction, material, or extracurricular activity …

Igor Volsky points us to the below chart, which was posted to the Facebook account of Missouri state Rep. Donna Lichtenegger, who characterizes gay marriage as “legalized perversion.” Looks like we have another, less pretty, Sally Kern on our hands.

A Christian group is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Because allowing men to drown instead of women and children was Godly. Oh, and the famed movie? Totally Marxist. “Regrettably, popular books and films such as James Cameron’s box-office smash have portrayed a false image of Marxist class-warfare as Titanic foundered, with the rich seeking to …

Score another ACLU victory in Missouri A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction banning the use of filtering software by the Camdenton R-III School District. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming it was deliberately restricting access to homosexual-themed websites while still allowing students to view what it describes as “anti-LGBT sites that …

The Alliance Defense Fund has filed suit in Missouri to force public schools to allow students to place anti-abortion posters on school walls. According to the ADF, if the school allows “political” speech like posters supporting the anti-bullying Day Of Silence, they must also allow anti-abortion posters. A lawsuit that has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Western …

Newt Gingrich’s campaign team failed to file the paperwork necessary to have his name appear on Missouri’s primary ballot in February. Does it matter? Maybe. Missouri’s primary is a “beauty contest,” meaning that no delegates will be awarded. The state Republican Party will hold caucuses in March for that purpose. However, Missouri is a major state, and the nonbinding contest …

Yet another teacher is in trouble for posting viciously anti-gay comments to Facebook. The school board is investigating, but Family Research Council head Tony Perkins says this is just another witchhunt by intolerant radical homofascists. First Amendment! More dead gay kids! Praise! Glory!

For the first time a Catholic bishop has been indicted for ignoring complaints that a priest under his authority was molesting children. The charge, outrageously, is a mere misdemeanor. The indictment of the bishop, Robert W. Finn, and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph by a county grand jury was announced on Friday. Each was charged with one misdemeanor count …

A public school board in Missouri has banned Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse Five because it “teaches ideas that are contrary to the Bible.” This action came after a protracted complaint campaign by local university “professor” Wesley Scroggins. Shortly before 9 p.m. Monday, the school board voted 4-0 — three members were absent — to keep Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” …

Earlier this month, Rep. Vicki Hartzler compared same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia. And prior to being elected to Congress, she headed Missouri’s successful 2004 constitutional ban on ban marriage equality. In the clip below, she tells a Missouri activist that he “shouldn’t feel bad” about her bigotry. After all, it’s been “the law of the land” for years now.(Tipped …

Before being elected to Congress, Hartzler headed the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri, which in 2004 backed the successful campaign to install a statewide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

Responding to complaints from LGBT activists, a St. Louis-area chamber of commerce has canceled a planned speech by Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy over his company’s affiliation with the Family Resource Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group. The decision to cancel Cathy’s March 18 presentation here was made after PROMO, a statewide organization that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, …