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: The most important women’s center closure — in the 40 years of legalized abortion since Roe v. Wade — was made public when Planned Parenthood announced that it was shutting down its abortion facility in Bryan/College Station, Texas.
- Theocracy-Chuck: Texans on the march . . . https://bit.ly/12Mig2w
Education
- School-daze Upchuck: In Texas, there are those who think evolution should be dispensed with entirely. Students should be taught to reject evolution altogether and accept creationism. This year, when the Texas Board of Ed sits down to wrangle over what should be in the new science textbooks, Creationist theories will very much be in the mix. https://bit.ly/18jkl6Q
- Raising Dimmer Dummies-Chuck: That’s right. Home-school ‘em all the way and then see how we compete in the greater world. Sheesh. https://on.fb.me/17lBfAA
- Who Needz Skul-Chuck: ALEC puts forth Vouchers Program in 143 bills/ 43 states this year alone, as they work 2 to dismantle public ed. https://bit.ly/12LoBX8
- In the name of “States Rights”-Chuck: Eric Cantor is pushing hard for school vouchers much to the Christianists’ glee. Behind this push are Christianists who want students to learn dominion, creationism and the Bible and groups that stand to make money from for-profit education just as they now do from the for-profit prison “industry.” With no standards, no unions, low wages for teachers, etc., for-profit Christianists win big. https://bit.ly/18nv7cg
- Dumber Than Dumb-Chuck: Common Core Hurts Biblical Knowledge? Better put: Education hurts biblical belief. https://bit.ly/18sUpJv
- Dumbest Yet-Chuck: Utah: Where Kids Only Go to School If They Want to. https://thebea.st/17vequA
- Teach-‘em-Chuck: GOP candidate for Texas Governor, Abbot decries the fact that its PUBLIC schools don’t teach the Bible or guns. Wow. https://bit.ly/10cSS25
Elections
- They Eat Their Own-Chuck: Christianist challenges Lindsay Graham for not being conservative enough. https://bit.ly/YtfgCq
- Ban Textbooks, Bring Back the Bible-Chuck: Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in Iowa as featured speakers for conservative pastors organized by anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-Mormon, Christian-nation absolutist who has declared war on secularism and separation of church and state, as well as on Republicans who don’t embrace his vision of an America in which the Bible serves as “the principle textbook” for public education and a “Christian culture” has been “re-established. https://bit.ly/11WKGIu
- Rand Hurls: “I think the Republican Party base is people who go to church. If you poll people and ask them if they go to church, maybe 60 percent of them vote Republican.” https://yhoo.it/12PKnxD
- Lie Down With Dogs-Chuck: Social Conservatives’ Stern War GOP: You Can’t Win Without Us https://bit.ly/Yw8d0k
- Virginny’s Cuccinell-Chucks: Gubernatorial candidate sez, “I stand by my attacks on LGBT people as ‘soulless’ and ‘self-destructiv” https://bit.ly/12DYcfj
- No Can Do-Chuck: Virginians: A Vote for Ken Cuccinelli Is a Vote Against Oral Sex https://thebea.st/17vequA
Full Moon Tonight
- He So Gay-Chuck: Gary Bauer needs to step out of the closet every now and then to learn what it’s really like to be a minority. https://bit.ly/12uHtLp
- Witches In the Air-Chuck: Fear of Violent Attacks Stalls Ex-Gay Pride Event; Previously to Be Held at Family Research Council https://bit.ly/1dF9gh1
- New Yorkers Beware-Chuck: The city of Sodom has become a veritable magnet for start-up evangelical churches. Hang out at Irving Plaza near Union Square on Sundays – any time of day – and you’ll see believers lining up in wait. . . .6 services/Sunday. Dont like it here? No worries. There are 200 others. https://yhoo.it/15JruuM
- They’re Howlin’ Tonight-Chuck: Family Research Council guy says America now in era of ‘pagan sexuality’https://bit.ly/1dMt6qG
Hagee – In a League of His Own
- Check Your Facts-Chuck: Hagee sayeth Jesus had a bar mitzvah.(minute 11) No can be true. The earliest BM was in the 14th century, long after JC’s death. Love the sweater John. https://bit.ly/194Y3Zo
- Hard to Take-Chuck: Hagee explains Judaism in this video. He really needs to back down. Curious and curioser,the program concludes with an ad for his apocalyptic book, Jerusalem Countdown, foretelling the coming nuclear showdown over Israel. https://bit.ly/194Y3Zo
Hate – Plain and Simple
- Unreverant Reverend-Chuck: This man of the cloth ought be called out for the hate-mongering Dominionist FOX shill that he is. Consider these quotes:POB is “an American hating Socialist” who is “more in harmony with Muhammad than he is with Christ”Or this:”I do agree with Santorum that this is a ‘spiritual war’ and that ‘Satan is targeting the U.S.’ which is precisely why I believe Barack Obama was selected and elected. https://yhoo.it/12P8FIn
Legislation and Its Legislators
- Egads! Check Out These Stats-Chuck: 97% of climate scientists say climate change is real. 90% of GOP House and Senate leaders deny it. 77% of Republicans on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology deny climate change. https://bit.ly/16vv0rT
- Huck-Chuck: Huckabee petitions to defund Planned Parenthood. https://bit.ly/13mNzka
The Wolves Are Howling
- Michelle’s Don’t Need Marcus -Chuck: In perhaps the year’s best story: In trying to help Michelle with her migraines, Conservative Christian,sends her the wrong – er considering Marcus, maybe it’s the right – kind of pleasure machine.https://bit.ly/18mFmRy
- Tea Party Hurl: News Director Sez Women Aborting Rapist’s Baby Should Serve Same Time As Rapist!https://bit.ly/13eh73a
- Hoodies = Criminal-Chuck: From Pat Robertson’s mouth to the racists’ ears. https://bit.ly/1bFGuyy
- Senility-Chuck: Robertson Wonders If Obama Is A ‘Crypto-Muslim’ https://bit.ly/11TLqhD
- Check Your Calendar –Chuck: The Messianic Jews take out an ad in the NYTimes predicting the next, great end-of-the-world date.They don’t seem to learn how STUPID they look when the date passes. https://bit.ly/12HlXGy
- Chew-‘Em-Up-Chuck: Interesting. The right wing Christianists have John Boehner in their sights. https://www.facebook.com/OhioAccountabilityProject
- Tea Partiers Hurl: Immigration Is Like Breeding a Thoroughbred With a Donkey https://thebea.st/17vequA
Military
- Tell”Em-Chuck: The religious right has a skewed definition of religious freedom — and their interest lies only in preserving religious freedom for one very specific sectarian point of view. This is not what the Constitution calls for. https://huff.to/1bDv2n6
- Trumped Up-Chuck: The ‘Restore Military Religious Freedom,’ a trumped up name for the group who sees the US Military as their “mission field,” dissembles yet again in this piece for Breitbart. https://bit.ly/16FMMZo
- How not to protect religious freedom in the military. https://bit.ly/13mXgdQ
Pure Propaganda
- Jewish Fundamentalism-Chuck: Every bit as persuasive as Christian or Muslim. And its message, if taken, will set the Middle East on a course of mutual destruction. It is reminiscent of the scene in Cabaret where the Germans sing Tomorrow Belongs To Me. https://thebea.st/13h2WKX
- Pubs Against Women-Chuck: Virginia’s busiest Women’s Center is closing. https://bit.ly/1bDN4Wt
- WWJD-Chuck? North Carolina Lawmakers Ram Through Plan That Would Increase Taxes On Poor People https://bit.ly/12H2mla
- Backlash-Chuck: Come July 1 of next year, same-sex couples applying for a marriage license in Indiana will have committed a felony punishable by 18 months in prison an a $10,000 fine. https://bit.ly/131Gx4c
Antidotes
- Rhode Island Governor Vetoes ‘Choose Life’ License Plate https://bit.ly/13wMEsX
- Abortion bill hurting NC Republicans. https://bit.ly/1dBTqUp
- Wichita Abortion Clinic Continues the Fight for Reproductive Justice https://bit.ly/13WWfkn
