I know it’s shooting shitheads in a barrel, but this is too good to pass up. Here is a teabagger explaining why legislation is necessary to force school children to sing Christmas carols (via HuffPo). “Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas,” said Erin Ryan, president of the Redding Tea Party Patriots. “That’s why we [...]

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From Jeff Sharlet’s Salon article on Bart Stupak and Joseph Pitt’s house-mates: In its internal documents, the Family refers to itself as an “invisible organization” and the “prayer cells” into which it organizes politicians as “invisible ‘believing groups.’” The connotations run wild: part Manson Family, part Al-Qaeda, part Illuminati, part Scientology. I try not to [...]

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Don’t express anything; someone might get offended. Wear a “positive costume” or don’t dress up (but don’t NOT wear anything at all or the SWAT team will take you down); but definitely do not wear a scary or creepy costume on Halloween, cuz someone might get scared or take offense or get their religious panties [...]

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QScribe over at Pam’s House Blend takes on charges that criticism of Christianity and its role in homophobia is “uncivil.” Whether people want to admit it or not, the way Fred Phelps and Benedict XVI talk about [lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered] is consistent with the way we’ve been treated by the Christian church for [...]

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The Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear a case brought by a student Bible study group against their school district, which refused to charter them as a school club. The school refused to let the group be chartered as a school club. They cited the group’s name, the fact that students would have to pledge [...]

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