..not as I screw: Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), the former physician turned anti-abortion Tennessee Republican congressman, says he hadn’t given abortion as much thought as he “should have” when he supported his first wife’s decisions to have two abortions, and that he often used “very poor judgment” during his first marriage and the separation that […]
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Pat Robertson Warns Christians: Atheists Are Coming to Steal Christmas
It’s Pat: “Christmas all over again. The Grinch is trying to steal our holiday. It’s been so beautiful. The nation comes together. We sing Christmas carols, we give gifts to each other. We have lighted trees and it’s just a beautiful thing. Atheists don’t like our happiness. They don’t you to be happy. They want […]
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Ah! So THIS is What an Atheist Looks Like.
I’m an atheist… but I don’t make a big deal about it. I don’t go door-to-door handing out fliers inviting people to not worship with me or attend our semi-annual atheist potluck single-mingles. And while I don’t think it’s necessary to promote atheism as a “thing” (I actually think Christianity should join us in the […]
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O They Will Know We Are Christians…
…by the bizarre sects we found, the followers we dominate and manipulate, the wives we drug and encourage our followers to rape, and the way we attempt to get away with murder by convincing our followers to kill our wives and stage murder scenes to look like suicides. Three days later, investigators say, 23-year-old Micah […]
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Christian Right: “How come nobody wikes us? All we wanna do is persecute gay famblies and force women to have wape babies. And nobody wikes us! Wah!”
A delicious, page-one story in Saturday’s NYT: Christian conservatives, for more than two decades a pivotal force in American politics, are grappling with Election Day results that repudiated their influence and suggested that the cultural tide—especially on gay issues—has shifted against them…. It is not as though they did not put up a fight; they […]
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That Had to Hurt
Who got a bigger percentage of the Mormon vote: George W. Bush or Willard M. Romney? Ouch.
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Today in Faith-Based Voting
1. The Romney Mega Prayer uses SCIENCE to convince evangelicals to pray for a Romney victory tomorrow. I love this chart: Let’s see Nate Silver try to debunk this! 2. Meanwhile, in other faiths, Peruvian shamans have made their predictions: The 12 medicine men and women in traditional Andean dress gathered Monday at the top […]
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And I Was Just About to Drop to One Knee and Thank God…
USAToday: Dropping to a knee like Tim Tebow might cost you now. The New York Jets backup quarterback has officially trademarked “Tebowing,” the move in which he goes down on one knee and holds a clenched fist against his forehead while praying during games. After Tebow led the Denver Broncos to a series of fourth-quarter […]
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JesusWeen?
Somebody forgot to swing by Urban Dictionary before announcing their attempt to redefine Halloween.
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“Jesus and the Huge Asshole”
Peter LaBarbera is a conservative Christian, an anti-gay activist, and someone I follow on Twitter. This tweet of Peter’s inspired me to write a new play—just my second—and it’s after the jump. JESUS AND THE HUGE ASSHOLEA new play by Dan Savage Curtain. Jesus Christ is sitting in a garden in quite contemplation. One of […]
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Hallelujah! We’re Less Religious than Ever!
I mentioned the new Pew Center report on religion in Good Morning News, but it’s so exciting that I want to post about it again. The report, titled Nones on the Rise (not to be confused with forthcoming Whoopi Goldberg-Vin Diesel action flick set in a convent, Nuns on the Rise) charts the decline of […]
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NOM Urges You to “Vote Catholic”
NOM’s BDOT—”biggest douche on Twitter”—wants you to “vote Catholic.” NOM’s BDOT apparently isn’t looking at the polls: President Obama’s support among Catholic voters has surged since June, according to a new poll, despite a summer that included the Catholic bishops’ religious freedom campaign and the naming of Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, as the GOP’s […]