K. C. Boyd, is the author of Being Christian - A Novel,: A black comedy guaranteed to take you on a wild and frightening ride deep into the dark side of the religious right. It is available on Amazon in multiple formats.
She is the go-to blogger for religion, hypocrisy, and all things church v. state. You can read her earlier posts on The Political Carnival here and more about who she is on her own website here
The Weekly Upchuck March 22, 2015
Abortion, Contraception And Other Women’s Issues
- #Outrage Iowa House Passes Forced Abortion Counseling Bill
- #WomenAgainstBackAlleyAbortion It took five organizations for this woman to get the abortion she needed because a one broken system stood in her way.
- #BigSkyBarf Montana House Follows Idaho Passing Telemedicine Abortion Ban
- #HideouserAndHideouser Arkansas Rep. Harris Wants to Make It Harder for Teen Rape Survivors to Get Abortions
- #MachoMachoPig Rick Perry’s New Campaign Hire Thinks God Doesn’t Want Women to Be Leaders
Creationism
- #JesusWILLSave Ken-the-Ham says don’t worry about an ‘asteroid apocalypse’ on Earth because God already has a plan
- #GodForbid Ark Encounter Seeks Injunction against State Officials
- #InTheLandOfDick Anti-Choice Montana Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Fetal Anesthesia
- # UhOh@aigkenham Researchers Discover Enormous Ancient Crocodile That Walked Upright
Education
- #FoaminAnFrothin Rick ‘Frothy’ Santorum’s Plan To Save America: Putting Bibles Back In Schools
- #ScrubADubDub Corporations and the Religious Right on their way to drown education in the bathtub. On our watch.
- #WhenSatansYourTeacher The class that was scared of biology. ‘They thought it was linked to the Devil’
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- #RightWingPukeOff ‘Secular Humanist Caliphate’ & ‘Militant Homofascism’ Taking Over America
- #WorldAccordingToBryBry Fischer: Discrimination Against Homosexuality Is Not Discrimination Against People
- #ChanginTheRulesMidGame “Prayer break” in NYC publicly funded pre-K “an end run around the separation of church and state.”
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- #JokeOfTheDay Roy Moore’s son blames his latest drug arrest on liberal plot to ‘destroy’ his family
If Media’s The Message
- #BrookingNoDissent David Brooks, religious clown: Debunking phony Godsplaining from the New York Times’ laziest columnist
- #TheGreatestScamOnEarth Fox financial guru says Jesus owns his mansion: Rich Christians just ‘manage’ God’s wealth
- #IncestualLonging Watching the Duggars teach their daughter to kiss will make you want to climb out of your own skin
Israel, End Times And Hagee
- #TruthWillOut Netanyahu “As long as Likud is in charge, there will be no more concessions and no more withdrawals.”
- #ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Foreign minister & extremist madman, calls for beheading Arabs and the GOP and US press remain mum
- #PoliticalHeftInAction CUFI members have sent more than 70k emails to their senators supporting stronger Iran sanctions
- #NotOurElectionTrent Trent Franks: (R-AZ) ‘All Future Generations Will Suffer’ If Obama Causes Netanyahu’s Defeat
- #ReadySetApocalypse Friday’s solar eclipse will be the beginning of the end of the world
- BackDoorApocalypsy The ever-evil John Hagee presses uncommitted Dems on Iran bill.
- #CantMakeItUp Hagee steals a pastor’s End Times research for his ‘bestseller’ & scandal erupts
- #TheHeartOfItAll Jerusalem at boiling point of polarisation and violence
Politics Nation
- #SimplyFoaming RIck aka ‘Frothy’ Santorum, tells far-right crowd it’s up to them to get Bibles back in schools to save America
- #USOfJesus David Lane Wants Religious Right ‘Army’ To Pick Next President
- #AmericanAyatollah Meet David Lane: The Anti-Gay, Christian-Nation Extremist Of The RNC
- #FabricateAllYouLikeFrothyYoullNeverGrabTheBigRing Rick Santorum: Obama ‘Intentionally’ Allowing Evil To ‘Prosper Around The World’
- #ErpNoThanks From The Pulpit To The White House, Huckajesus Seeks To Become America’s Pastor In Chief
- #FlimFlamScammery Right Winger Erick Erickson Rips Huckajesus For Pitching Products Like The “Diabetes Solution” That His Site Cashed In On
- ItsllAboutThatBase The Jebster pandering away.
- #JebstersFollies Not to forget Terri Schiavo on life support, as well as less well-known, and also unsuccessful, efforts to appoint a guardian for the fetus of a developmentally disabled rape victim and to prevent a 13-year-old girl from having an abortion
- #AveACup Ted Cruz: The Tea Party’s Doomsday Prophet
- #FrothyFoments Rick Santorum tells woman who thinks Obama almost nuked Charleston, SC that Obama is a dangerous tyrant
- #HuckaSpew Obama has “a great sense of identity with/empathy for many of the other Middle Eastern nations.
- #FoldingToTheCrazies The Jebster Implicitly Endorses GA Bill that Wud Legalize Discrimination Against Gays.
Religion Gone Bad, Gone Mad
- #ThouMoiAndJesus When Did Biblical Marriage Get to Be a Thing?
- #JesusSoaks San Francisco Catholic church installs watering system to drench homeless people as they sleep
- #PayNoAttentionToTheManBehindTheCurtainThe Real Agenda Behind ‘Religious Liberty’ Bills
- #ShameWorks San Francisco cathedral will stop dousing sleeping homeless people with water
Same Sex Issues
- #ButWon’tTheyConvertTheChildren? San Fran’s Largest Evangelical Megachurch to Allow Non-Celibate Homosexuals to Be Members
- #BecauseEveryConservativeNeedsAnExistentialThreat Rise Of #LGBT Rights Is An Existential Threat To Conservative Religious Groups
- #InvokingTheHWord Peter LaBarbera: Gays Following Hitler In ‘Recruiting’ Children
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #GetWithTheProgram Virginia city official says God ended slavery: Jesus never told anyone to create a diversity commission
- #SamSamSam Gov. Sam Brownback: Forcing women to have babies is part of ‘pro-economic growth agenda’ in Kansas
- #DripDripDrip GOP-Controlled Florida Committee Approves Bill Imposing a Mandatory Delay for Abortions
- #RulingNow Forbes(R-VA) & Lankford (R-OK): Christian businesses should have more rights than secular companies like Chipotle
- #OrwellRising Cruz, Lankford at it again, beating the faux religious persecution drum.
- #FauxsTheWord Indiana House panel OKs faux religious freedom bill
- #KlinkKlankPoop GOP lawmaker Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to impeach Obama over “anti-Semitic” treatment of Netanyahu, LGBT rights
- #EatingAwayAtTheEdges Meanwhile, they keep at it stateside: Michigan House OKs bills on faith-based adoption refusal
- #CruzifyingLiberalismTed Cruz Moves to Block DC Laws on Gay Rights, Abortion
- #TexasTwaddle Texas Lawmakers File Record Number of Anti-LGBT Bills
- #FoodForHate While clearly not feasible, Cali’s Atty Gen will most likely have to circulate this ‘Shoot the gays’ initiative
Scandals And Scams
- #TieMeKangarooDownBoy Four senior staff at Melbourne Chabad school resign amid molestation scandal fallout
- #CrazyEvil Snake-handling pastor arrested after domestic disturbance
- #WhenReligionKills Faith-Based Medicine Is Snake Oil
- #HuckajesusHawksHealing What Christers DON’T know about Huckajesus: Huckabee’s Diabetes Snake Oil Pays For His Campaign While Killing People
- #ItsOffToTheRapist Arkansas Republican leaves leadership posts after reports on his ‘rehoming’ daughters to rapist
- #SortaLovinIt Cross-dressing’ priest who ‘dealt high-grade crystal meth and owned a sex shop’ asks for leniency
- #OffToTheKlink Church swindler Ephren Taylor headed to federal prison for 19 years
- #BareNecessities Creflo Dollar’s Gulfstream for God?
Science Or Not
- #WileyAsDirt Rick Wiles: Homosexuality And Abortion Rights Caused California Drought
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #MoorePoop Radical Anti-Choice Group Heads To Alabama To Support ‘Poet, Warrior, Statesman’ Roy Moore
Theocracy Rising
- #NoPaulRevereHe Mat Staver: “A collision of unprecedented magnitude” coming between gay rights and Christianity
- #DoofusAlert FOX News’ Steve Doocy & Anti-Gay Christian Pastor Think “Have A Blessed Day” Air Force Greeting Is Awesome
- #CrusaderMentality USAF commanders told to “send it up the chain of command” when they get a complaint from Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s Mikey Weinstein.
Antidotes
- New Mexico Senate Committee Blocks Two Anti-Choice Bills
- In the ‘MadetheirOwnBed’ category, two gay alums won’t leave their millions to the University of Alabama because of the state’s war on same-sex marriage
- Elton John, Ricky Martin Call for Dolce & Gabbana Boycott, Designers Respond
- LDS leader says Mormons are free to back gay marriage on social media—w/o risk of losing church privileges.
- Ireland’s Big Gay Turnaround
- Largest Presbyterian Denomination Gives Final Approval for Same-Sex Marriage
- Larry Wilmore destroys ‘prosperity gospel’ megachurches for turning Jesus into a money-making scam
- After learning of Facebook Warren Jeffs’ Followers Fleeing Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ LDS In Droves.
- Four States That Are Actually Working To Protect Abortion Rights
- Navy Debunks Fox News’ Defense Of Anti-Gay Chaplain