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Texas Toast: El Paso Church Loses Legal Case over Political Intervention

Texas Toast: El Paso Church Loses Legal Case over Political Intervention

An El Paso church’s brazen effort to remove the mayor and two members of the city council has been brought to a screeching halt.

Religious Right Hyperbole on Contraception Coverage Mandate goes into Overdrive

The extreme and hysterical arguments emanating from the Religious Right over the contraception mandate in insurance plans would continue to amuse if not for the fact that their pathetic arguments only trivialize actual cases of religious persecution.

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Today Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips emailed members an article from fellow activist Marcia Wood on the Arab Spring, explaining that Obama is a Muslim radical.

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Santorum and the ‘Green Dragon’: Faith-Based Attacks on Environmentalism Nothing New from the Religious Right

Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Santorum raised a lot of eyebrows this weekend when he attacked environmentalism as anti-Biblical and said that President Obama has a “phony theology” that sides with “radical environmentalists” over the Bible.

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While speaking at Oral Roberts University earlier this month, Rick Santorum argued that the left is bringing about “the death of reason.”

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Family Research Council vice president Rob Schwarzwalder yesterday called for a boycott of Starbucks and warned that the company may be endangering the country’s economic health by supporting marriage equality in Washington.

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The Media Research Center is once again attacking the show Glee for its portrayal of gay and bisexual characters. The MRC’s Paul Wilson, writing for the organization’s Culture and Media Institute, appears to consider any depiction…

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Hapless Hearing: Right Wing ‘War on Contraceptives’ Takes Centerplace in Congress

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday held a hearing on “religious liberty.” Only it’s not a hearing on religious liberty – it’s a hearing about giving powerful religious groups the right to impose their theology on anyone in sight.

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Attacking Religious Liberty? Churches Aren’t People

Conception compromise? Hardly. Legislation has been introduced in the Senate to allow any employer with a religious objection to deny contraceptive coverage, and Rick Santorum thinks nobody’s insurance should cover it.

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Next Up: The War on . . . Porn?

Just when you thought the Pander-Rama that is the GOP primary season couldn’t get any more ridiculous, three of the four Horsemen of the Idiocalypse have declared an unofficial War on Porn.

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