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Republican Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall claims that disabled children are God's punishment on women who aborted their first pregnancy.   Yeah, he really did. "The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically," he said. "Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children." "In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was...

In my opinion, there's no bigotry worse than bigotry cloaked in religion. More dangerous than the guys in the hoods and sheets are the snakes in 3-piece suits who stand behind pulpits claiming to be followers of Christ while spewing hate for their fellow man. Here is the latest in what is getting to be an increasingly long line of "pastors" who fit that description, Grant Swank, of the New Hope Church in Windham, Maine....

On Hardball last night Chris Matthews had Thomas Tobin, Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, to explain himself about banning Congressman Patrick Kennedy from taking communion.  Over the weekend, Kennedy, Teddy's son, revealed that the bishop had banned him and ordered priests to not serve him communion because he supports abortion rights for women.  Kennedy revealed the 3 year old bishop's order in a widening dispute he's having with the bishop over the church's opposition to...

From CBS News: Texas lawmakers wanted to make sure gay people couldn't get married. Instead, it seems, they may have made sure no one can. Here's what happened: In 2005, Texas voters and the state Legislature approved a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But the amendment included the following clause, which was reportedly designed to ban civil unions and domestic partnerships: "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or...

We've been watching the trend now for a couple of years.  The Republican Party, having lost its way as its leaders, drunk with power after controlling national politics and much of the media for over 10 years, began reaping the crop of hate and intolerance it had cynically sown to attain that power.  Moderates and thinking people fled, or were drummed out of the party, as the GOP became a mere shadow of its former...

We've got ourselves a new head of the GOP here in Texas - a Rick Perry supporter who makes Michael Steele look like a good leader.  As our friends over at Kiss My Big Blue Butt like to say, she's triple z crazzzy. From TFP Insider, some quotes from the new esteemed leader: - "Earlier this month, she compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler, suggesting that his speech to American students was "eerily like Hitler's youth movement."...

Warning: there is some random stuff in here, but it's based upon the research I've done and where it randomly took me at the time. I encourage you to think about things and let your critical thinking take you to places you've never been. Because we live in a world of naysayers, I have included links to the sites from which I have derived my information at the end of this piece. I challenge...

On September 29th on Countdown Eric Burns, president of Media Matters, said of Fox News, "This is no longer a news organization, this is a political organization." Case in point; here's Mike Huckabee on his own show on Fox, and also on Greta Van Susteren's propaganda hour, asking viewers to go to something called balancecutsave.com and sign a petition calling on Congress to "balance the budget, cut their spending, and save American families." Watch:<br />What...

Rachel Weiner of the Huffington Post reports today that a conservative group that calls themselves The Conservative Bible Project believe that "Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations" so they are re-translating. Upon first reading this story, I was reminded of the great Kevin Smith movie Dogma, where Jesus is repackaged as the Buddy Jesus (see photo above) to attract a younger crowd to Catholisism.  Sadly, these folks aren't joking.  The...

Over the weekend the Hilton Hotel in St. Louis was the site of what Firedoglake appropriately named "a pulsating black hole of stupidity" also known as the How to Take Back America conference, and the gang (pictured at left) was all there. "[Phyllis] Schlafly opened the event by saying she believes President Obama is "taking us into socialism."... She said of her organization, Eagle Forum, "fighting feminists is still our main object," arguing that feminism...