As you may know, many on the right are upset that a mosque is being built within a couple of blocks of Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan. The thinking goes that Islamic terrorists were responsible for 9/11, therefore all of the religion of Islam is bad and evil, therefore mosques are evil. With such stupid logic as that, it's not … Read More
Religious Nutjobs Of The Day
From Newsweek, presented without comment: A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research … Read More
Adventures in Homeschooling
In Paradise (California): Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz face one count of murder, one count of torture and one count of child abuse. The torture count alleges that the parents beat their 11-year-old adopted daughter so severely she ended up in the hospital with kidney failure. The child abuse charge is for bruising authorities reportedly found on the couple's 10-year-old biological … Read More
Who Would Jesus Turn Down?
The Catholic Church keeps digging a hole for itself: BOSTON — A Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts has withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was "in discord" with church teachings, according to one of the boys' mothers. It's at least the second time in recent months that students have not been allowed to … Read More
Only In Alabama
In the Republican primaries for Alabama governor, the top Republican candidates are having a battle to show voters who is the more bonafide creationist. It all started with this attack ad: Ironically, the group behind that ad is called the True Conservative PAC, a political group that gets most of its money from the teachers' union — or, more accurately, … Read More
Alabama Thinking Hits Connecticut
Another story about teach Darwin in public schools. It's not unusual to see this in a red state, but Connecticut? Mark Tangarone, who teaches third, fourth, and fifth grade students in the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program at Weston Intermediate School, said he is retiring at the end of the current school year because of a clash with the school … Read More
Hallucinogenic Man Finds Lost Girl
We've heard it before. A girl goes missing. An Amber Alert is sent out. So many times — sometimes months or years later — it ends with a body somewhere. We all know how it typically goes. This story had a happy ending. The missing girl, Nadia Bloom (age 11), a Florida native with slight autism, was found. So, you … Read More
WS Journal Letter To The Editor Of The Day
Uphold Scripture I completely agree with the writer of the letter "YMCA's purpose" (April 2) that the "C" in YMCA stands for Christian and the YMCA must uphold Scripture, which is God's law, and our Christian faith, by denying family memberships to gay and lesbian couples (Leviticus 20:13). But the problems at the YMCA do not stop there. Yesterday I … Read More
Voting On The Sabbath
Steve King and Glenn Back are outraged: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.' KING: They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God. […] BECK: You couldn't have said it better. Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and … Read More
How The Christian Nation Looks Out For Women
A case study from Bristol, Virginia: Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger’s drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: “Women & Girls” it said across the top. “Even though nothing is showing, you’re … Read More
Punditry Of The Day
From Bryan Fischer at Renew America, weighing in on the Seaworld incident: If the counsel of the Judeo-Christian tradition had been followed, Tillikum would have been put out of everyone's misery back in 1991 and would not have had the opportunity to claim two more human lives. Says the ancient civil code of Israel, "When an ox gores a man … Read More
Elton John’s Theology
Sir Elton: "I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems" Hey, I'm a rather liberal open-minded guy, but even I don't buy that Jesus was gay.
Federal Judge Rules Forsyth County Prayers Are Unconstitutional
And indeed, they are unconstitutional: Federal District Court Judge James A. Beaty this morning ruled that Forsyth County is violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing prayers with sectarian references before meetings of the county board of commissioners. Beaty ordered the county to stop allowing prayers under its current policy, which had come under fire from those who said that the … Read More
STFU, Pat Robertson
After the 9/11 attacks, Robertson said liberal civil liberties groups and homosexuals were at least partly reponsible for the terror strikes that leveled New York's twin towers. After Hurricane Katrina, Robertson again blamed Americans for invoking God's wrath. Now, he's at it again, claiming that the catastrophe in Haiti was brought on by the Haitians themselves for "making a … Read More
Hume Says He Wasn’t Prosyletizing Last Weekend…or Now
Politico's Mike Calderone: Fox's Brit Hume has taken some heat since advising Tiger Woods yesterday [Sunday] to embrace Christianity as a way to cope with his problems, while knocking another religion in the process. "He's said to be a Buddhist," Hume said on Fox News Sunday. "I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by … Read More