Fundies

So sayeth the crackpots at Focus on the Family.

Last night, Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery and Stuart Shepard took time out from their busy schedules attacking Barack Obama’s faith and praying for “rain of biblical proportions” to ruin his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention to sit down for a webcast with Bishop Harry Jackson, himself taking a break from running his bogus grassroots energy front group to discuss the upcoming election. [Read more ...]

Perfect turnspeak. The fundies are portrayed as the victims who do not have the right to define marriage. The Mass. law in no way, whatsoever, affects anyone's right to define marriage as they choose. That's the whole point! Otherwise, only these fundies have the right to impose their definition of marriage on everyone else.

Citizenlink quotes Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, in its report on the [Read more ...]

For two hours earlier this week, pastors gathered at more than 200 sites throughout California, Arizona, and Florida to be exhorted by national Religious Right leaders like Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, Maggie Gallagher, and Chuck Colson and others to hold nothing back in their efforts to fight against marriage equality.  The People For the American Way Foundation today released a memo [PDF] chronicling the call and outlining the Right’s plans for the weeks ahead: [Read more ...]

Behold the mighty army of the future. These children are being victimized to advance an agenda that includes prejudice and ignorance. What is most abhorrent about this indoctrination is not that these kids are being compelled into embracing Creationism. Rather, it is the promotion of the idea that science, and empirical evidence, are subordinate to scripture. These children are essentially being "educated" not to be critical thinkers Their natural gift of intellectual curiosity is being squandered so that they may be the holy warriors of the future. [Read more ...]

Diane and Phil Magnan of Biblical Family Advocates. We’re just getting back from a trip that offers more evidence why homosexuality is wrong and harmful to children.

How about 20 reasons why the Magnans and Little Peter LaBarberra are crackpots?

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Ever since Republicans were thumped in the 2006 election, the Right has been telling anyone who will listen that the GOP’s woes can be attributed to the fact that Republicans have been insufficiently faithful to the Religious Right’s agenda.  Since then, the GOP’s fortunes have continued to fade and so desperate are they to stop the bleeding heading into November that they’ve adopted a nearly unprecedented strategy of distancing themselves from their right-wing base:  [Read more ...]