Obama administration values feel-good religionism over free speech

A good friend just sent me an article about an op-ed the talented Jonathan Turley wrote for USA Today (which is generally a little less talented, journalistically speaking, but that’s a different post). He discussed that the Obama administration helped pass the UN resolution we discussed in March which would recognize exceptions to free speech [...]

The Coming Obacalypse

Since National Health Care seems to be the topic of the moment, I thought I would weigh-in. Rae has already posted, her take on health care, so here’s mine.
Like Rae I don’t think National Health care is a Free Thought issue per se mostly because the merits of having a government-mandated/subsidized health care system really [...]

Pastor calls for followers to pray for Obama’s death

Notorious religious nutbar Rev. Wiley Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA is inserting himself into the news again. Well, that’s assuming you don’t find the phrase “Fox News” to be a non sequitor.
Drake is now calling for imprecatory prayers, calling upon God to visit death and misfortune, on President Obama. [...]

Memorial Day

Today is the day when most of us Americans get a day off from work. We get this day off in order to honor the veterans of our armed services although many of us just get to the lake if possible. We often take for granted in our daily lives the freedoms we have and [...]

Skepticism – You’re Doing It Wrong.

Are there people in your life whose skepticism switch seems to be jammed in reverse?
Take evolution, for example.  The evidence is nothing if not completely overwhelming.  We have libraries full of peer-reviewed scientific papers and museums full of a supporting fossil record.  The explanatory power of evolution – which, as a scientific theory, is its [...]

Congratulations, America…

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We’re taking a step in the right correct direction. Now, with a left-leaning house, a left-leaning Senate, and a left-leaning President, maybe those who are different from the midde-class, white, heterosexual Christians will get a chance to shine, or even live their life the way they want to.
We still have a long way to go. [...]

Is the Maranatha Chapel of Harlan, IN violating the tax code because they are certainly liars

via acdpblog
A sign of the time perhaps? Apparently the Maranatha Chapel in Harlan, Indiana is carrying the following message on their church sign.
“Do You Want a Muslim For Your President?”
Whoever (or is that whomever) could they be talking about? In all seriousness, many religious, non-profit and tax-exempt organizations have a lot of political activities. And we [...]

I need to declare a media moratorium…

…Because if I don’t, I sometimes accidentally see lackwits like this woman:

After I watched it, I really, really hoped it was some kind of parody. This idiot woman was so santimonious, so stupid, so unwilling to take any sort of personal responsibility for her actions, that she would judge her husband for voting for someone [...]

Unfortunately I get a chance to title my post, Pastor Disaster*

You know how you tell your kids, “Don’t do that or it will hurt” and then they do it… and it hurts. Please read as much I-told-you-so as possible.
If you haven’t heard, another pastor has taken the pulpit at Obama’s church and mocked Senator Clinton by pretending to cry and bemoan the fact that “there’s [...]

McCain rejects Hagee endorsement

So let me see if I can get this straight,
McCain & Hagee;
Catholic Church = The Whore of Babylon, McCain has no problem with that.
God-created Holocaust = Bring my people home, McCain has a problem with that
Obama & Wright;
Racially-divisive rhetoric = Black preacher’s message; Obama ok with it since he “didn’t hear it himself”.
AIDS = U.S. government [...]