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Being Christian Book Trailer Launch
After months of work, the Being Christian book trailer is finally live. Watch it and just tell me you don’t want to read the book!
Ever More Upchucks
Abortion Dominionists Against Women-Chuck: 42 abortion clinics have closed so far this year, eclipsing the 24 that closed during all of 2012. https://bit.ly/17hJ763 Won’t Go Back To the Alley-Chuck: Responding to Abortion Crackdowns, 100 Ob-Gyns Set to Urge Conservative Hospitals to Increase Abortions bit.ly/1aNA0z2 Education Or The Lack Thereof Sis-Boom-Bah-Chuck: Why worry if the school board is sued when you’re …
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The Week’s Most Upchuckable Headlines
Abortion Staver-Spew: How hideous of Liberty Counsel’s MattStaver to say: Legal Abortion Is An ‘Absolutely Atrocious Holocaust,’ Akin To Nazi Germany: bit.ly/19GLZyR Not So-Chuck: Results of Congressional ‘Fishing Expedition’ Show Abortion Is Already Highly Regulated, Overwhelmingly Safe https://bit.ly/172tfnR Church of the Current Day Crazies Gun Totin’ Preachman -Chuck: Meet The Creepy Texas Preacher Wandering Around Walmart With An Assault Rifle …
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The Week in Upchucks
Abortion Buckeye-Chuck I : Ohio Abortion Clinic Closes Amid Legislative Debate on Transfer Agreement Restrictions bit.ly/13TN8yy Buckeye-Chuck II: Ohio’s Kasich Signs Budget Restrictions on Abortion, Family Planning Funding bit.ly/1bpVH5W Buckeye-Chuck III: ‘Heartbeat’ abortion bill to make return in Ohio. The abortion measure died last year after the Senate’s GOP leader blocked it from a vote. He’s since retired due to …
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Being Christian Reviewed in Midwest Book Reviews
Featured as a Reader’s Choice book, Being Christian got some great press at Midwest Book Reviews: Painting the picture of a flawed human being giving into those flaws and exploring the impact that the religious right has in America today, “Being Christian” is a fine addition to literary fiction collections. Check out the full review here.
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The Weekly Upchuck
Abortion The World’s A Burnin’ and This Is What They Do-Chuck? In the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions related to reproductive health have come before state legislatures, more than half of them involving abortion restrictions. https://bit.ly/1956cOA Zealotry Upchucked: Congressional Reps Black, Vitter, Olson, and Smith Applaud GAO Decision to Investigate Planned Parenthood Funding. https://bit.ly/1c8pV0T Cucinelli Spews: “They say …
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God’s Foreign Policy: KC Boyd on Alternet
We’ve got a new piece on the dangers of Christian Zionism at Alternet: Christian Zionism has been around since the 1600s, when England’s deeply religious King James I was studying a book of bible commentary that suggested that the End of Days would take place in what was then Palestine. A pre-condition of the final battle of Armageddon, he read, …
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Chuck It On Up Chuck
Abortion Clearly Channeling Censorship-Chuck: Clear Channel Pulls Ads for Comprehensive Wichita Women’s Health Clinic, Claiming They Are “Indecent” https://bit.ly/17Pn2w5 Inside a Crisis Pregnancy Center-Chuck: Women are asked, “why are you giving yourself up sexually?” https://thebea.st/14ecuK2 Motorcycle Trash-Chuck: Governor McCrory’s has signed #SB353 (the omnibus abortion bill shoved into a motorcycle safety bill) into law. Condescending As Hell-Chuck: Rather than …
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Big Upchuckin’ Week
Abortion Next Up-Chuck: The Supreme’s Next Big Abortion Decision https://bit.ly/13p2lqo Nightmarin’ the Young-Chuck: Parents who visited the North Dakota State Fair last weekend were outraged to find their children had been given squishy toy fetuses without their permission. https://bit.ly/18Ak9Ad Back Alley Blues-Chuck: Abortions to end at Green Bay clinic. https://bit.ly/18BewSy N. C. Two-Step-Chuck: North Carolina governor signs Texas-style anti-abortion …
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Weekly Upchucks: Abortion, Education, Hagee, and More
Abortion Overtly Theocratic- Upchuck: Texas Lieutenant Governor sounds the gavel on Texas’s abortion-killing bill. Jaw-dropping. Watch and weep for the constitutional lines he crosses. https://bit.ly/12HgbQI Lady Liberty Weeps-Chuck: For all the joy among Texan anti-choicers, it is women who are the losers. Rather than being larger than life, these extremists have shown just how small they are. https://bit.ly/18nv7cg Back Alley-Chuck: …
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