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Another Upchuckable Week: The place where religion meets your rights

Posted by GottaLaff

· Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 12:37 pm

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Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts.

A Monday Morning of Upchucks

Church

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Upchuck: Head of Brazil’s Assembly of God of the Latter Days Church justifies rape, claiming exorcism. http://aje.me/17MONpt
Backdoor Upchuck: Hospitals merging with Catholic institutions can do what laws cannot and that is to prevent abortion. http://nyti.ms/11x9yGY
Easily Led Upchuck: 54% of Protestant pastors support Young Earth Creationism (in a poll commissioned by Evangelicals http://bit.ly/11zdmr4
God’s Divine Upchuck: Scaring young women through God, Pastor sez the new strain of gonorrhea aka, the “sex superbug” is divine punishment for sexual immorality. http://bit.ly/17qQPhr
Tell Us Something New New Upchuck: A Chicago suburb community church volunteer is charged with sexual abuse. http://bit.ly/19yj8qI

Education

Gideon’s Upchuck: Dispute over Bible distribution in Tennessee’s Hamilton County public schools. http://bit.ly/ZVQKOI
Congressional Jesus Upchuck: House votes to cut $2.5B in Food Stamps after biblical/Jesus debate. http://bit.ly/11N47DZ
Drown ‘Em In the Bathtub Upchuck: Mike Pence puts Common Core, seen as “government propaganda” by Christian crazies, on hold. In Indiana. http://bit.ly/14hHeF3

Federal Government

1^st Amendment Upchuck: “Jesus is calling our country.” Great summary of the National Day of Prayer. http://bit.ly/106VM7j

Elections

Gubernatorial Upchuck: Ken Cuccinelli supports LGBT discrimination, attacks climate science, was called “the most overtly partisan attorney general in Virginia’s history” by WAPO, and . . . thinks Justice Antonin Scalia is too liberal, is running to be governor of Virginia. http://bit.ly/WNuVM0

Military

Family-Friendly Upchuck: Family Research Council continues its scare tactics to fundraise on the back of Mikey Weinstein. http://bit.ly/165Dewd
Government Paid Missionary Upchuck: Designed to win and train the military for Jesus Christ. http://bit.ly/OOhGdX
Spin Me ‘Round Upchuck: 59 Congress members demand Hagel answer to Breitbart.com’s version of black is white. http://bit.ly/19jgRQ7
Out of Control Upchuck: The moment Lawrence Wilkerson speaks authoritatively about the dangerous religious situation in the military, Tony Perkins comes out with this vomit. http://bit.ly/18JbJXZ
Me Fears MRRF Has Something Upchuck? Tony Perkins’s FRC takes the time to list Mikey Weinstein’s accomplishments, According to Perkins, we are indeed in a holy war. http://bit.ly/10Yo17s
Persecution Complex Upchuck: John Fleming (R-LA) calls Mikey Weinstein an anti-Christian extremist on the floor of the U.S. House. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4451421

Politics

Nut-Job Upchuck: Steve Stockman (R-TX) sez “Democrats worship abortion with same fervor the Canaanites worshipped Molech.” http://huff.to/19nJStT
Voices In Her Head Upchuck: Campaign posters for mayoral candidate Anna Pierre tout that her bid in North Miami is endorsed by Jesus Christ. http://bit.ly/13vmWcu

States

Wrong Again Upchuck: Tennessee sheriff defends Ten Commandments display in jail lobby calling it a document “that all laws are derived from in this country. http://bit.ly/14g5PdC
Try Till it Sticks Upchuck: Ohio House Republicans attach language revision to budget to defund Planned Parenthood. http://bit.ly/15tdvfY
Pandering Upchuck: New Jersey’s Chris Christie wants to fund religious education at the college level. http://bit.ly/YwcZtr
Christmas Wars Upchuck: Here it is May and the crazies are feeding the troops with early Xmas persecution. http://bit.ly/YFh0vE
Coat Hanger Upchuck: Denying poor women safe abortion and effective birth control. http://bit.ly/12jVzPV
Texas-Style Family Planning Upchuck: Perry takes away family planning funding and gives the money to crisis pregnancy centers. http://bit.ly/12jVzPV

Novelist K.C. Boyd is the author of Being Christian: A Novel, a steamy, pulp-fiction of a read.According to Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, “Boyd created a story so riveting that not only could I not put it down, but upon finishing it, I found myself, like an addict, craving more.

Here’s the link.

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Categories : Politics

Tags : abortion rights, christian fundamentalists, civil rights, creationism, education, equal rights, gay rights, gop fail, Islamophobia, K.C. Boyd, religion, reproductive rights, separation of church and state, U.S. military, War on Women, womens rights

Another Upchuckable Week: The place where religion meets your rights

Posted by GottaLaff

· Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:08 am

· 1 Comment

Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts. We’re only posting part of this one, but you can link over to read the rest here.

Another Upchuckable Week - the place where religion meets your rights – by K. C. Boyd

The Weekly Upchuck

Church:

A Day in the Life of the Family Values Gang Upchuck: Ohio youth pastor accused of sex with teen  in church-owned house. ow.ly/kEGMK
Seditious Upchuck: Right wing propaganda machine incites an ignorant public. ow.ly/kIhxK
Taliban-like Upchuck: Houston mega-pastor teaches his manly men how to get the most out of their biblically obedient women. ow.ly/kIhD8

Education

Taliban-like Upchuckable Redux: Women, we’ll teach you who’s boss. http://bit.ly/147Q34j
Dominionism Meets Corporatism Meets ALEC Upchuck: Yikes. This is big . . . this is scary. Read please. http://bit.ly/15wFJaT
Education Is Highly Overrated Upchuck: T-Rex Ted (Cruz) Sets His Sites on education. http://bit.ly/16zBcDK

Islamaphobia

Klan-like Upchuck: Greeting card turns “Muslim” doll into a “Terrorist.” http://bit.ly/Ytz2mF
The Tie That Binds Upchuck: Islamophobia is one of the few things left to unify the GOP. http://bit.ly/11pKRMv

Military

Lie It Often, Lie It Loud Upchuck: Bad-boy Mikey’s a-tryin’ to criminalize religion in the trenches. http://bit.ly/16IjiPt
Christian Nation Upchuck: Yadda, yadda. http://bit.ly/15Qfig9
1984 Upchuck: Orwell couldn’t do name ‘em better himself. http://bit.ly/17lfi7M

Politics

God Luvs Guns Upchuck: Santorum loves him some NRA. http://bit.ly/18iLO9o
Jeezus Saves Upchuck: As one of Jesus’ legitimate “Chosen,” Mark Sanford is risen. http://bit.ly/190kmuI
Prime(ary)-Time Upchuck: The National Organization for Marriage declares it’s a no-go for Portman in ’16. http://bit.ly/10GB2lR

Same Sex Marriage

Sodom Meets Gomorrah Upchuck: Homosexual activists go after the “low hanging fruit,” no pun on their part intended. http://bit.ly/16nPPdE

States

Ten-Gallon Upchuck: BSA Texas Council votes to continue ban on gay members. Rick-the-Perry stands with them. http://bit.ly/10GB2lR

Video- Meet The Press: Watch Joy Ann Reid Valiantly Fight Against The Forces Of Stupid

Posted by Paddy

· Monday, May 6th, 2013 at 7:30 am

· 2 Comments

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Seriously, could Lowry and Gingrich been any more dismissive and snide? Gregory is just his tooly self, and you can actually see HFJR’s brain clicking to make sure he doesn’t offend his “benefactors”… either that or he’s stoned. Take a minute and watch this with no sound. Other than a brief, well deserved eye roll from Joy Ann, Newty and Richy seem to be competing in a Facial Olympics Condescension event.

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Categories : Politics

Tags : david gregory, harold ford jr, Joy Ann Reid, Meet the Press, Newt Gingrich, Rich Lowry, separation of church and state, video

Video- Fox Falsely Claims Obama Administration Leading “Christian Cleansing” Of Military

Posted by Paddy

· Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 6:30 am

· 1 Comment

Can’t type well enough to really go after this bull. Expect some serious rants when I become two fisted again. Via.

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Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : Christian evangelists, crazy christians, fox news, infiltration, lies, LIES LIES LIES, military, sean hannity, separation of church and state, video

Friend of #TPC La. teen science activist Zack Kopplin to be on Friday’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”

Posted by GottaLaff

· Thursday, April 4th, 2013 at 3:52 pm

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My now-nineteen-year-old Louisiana pal Zack Kopplin is still fighting creationism law, and yes, Zack (@ZackKopplin and @RepealTheSEA) is one remarkable teen. Our previous posts by and about Zack here. His mission is to just say NO to creationist vouchers. Well, not just say no, he’s an activist after all.

In fact, he has now become a leader in the fight to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, which allows creationism to be taught in public schools.

And if all that isn’t enough, he’s about to be on Real Time! He told me about this appearance a few days ago, and I nearly forgot, but that’s okay. We DVR it every week.

Here’s the press release:

Louisiana Science Activist Zack Kopplin Is a Guest on “Real Time
with Bill Maher”

Who: Bill Maher, Zack Kopplin, Sebastian Junger, Abby Huntsman, Senator Bernie Sanders, Stephen Moore

What: Zack Kopplin, a Louisiana native and Rice University sophomore who, as a high school student, launched a campaign to repeal Louisiana’s creationism law, will be interviewed as the mid-show guest and panelist on this week’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Last year, Kopplin’s research on hundreds of creationist voucher schools generated international attention. Kopplin has been named the first-ever “Troublemaker of the Year.”

He is also a recipient of the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award and National Center for Science Education’s Friend of Darwin Award.

His activism has been previously featured on “Moyers and Company,” “Viewpoint with John Fugelsang,” and “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” Kopplin was highlighted as a “Footsoldier” on “The Melissa Harris-Perry Show.”

Kopplin is organizing a movement calling for a Second Giant Leap for humankind, which will be achieved by increasing science funding and teaching evidence based- science.

When: Tomorrow, Friday, April 5, 2013

Where: HBO

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Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : creationism, education, intelligent design, Louisiana, public schools, Real Time with Bill Maher, separation of church and state, teenager, Zack Kopplin

Bobby Jindal believes slavery was just a “choice”

Posted by GottaLaff

· Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 11:54 am

· 4 Comments

According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, equal opportunity is so important that when it comes to their children’s education, parents need a choice! Just like slaves did back in the day! Because, see, slavery was a choice. Umwhat?

Crazy Crawfish:

[U]nder Jindal’s guidance, Louisiana is encouraging voucher schools to open up and teach that slavery was just a choice, and not an entirely bad one.

“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press

This is just one of the “facts” being taught in voucher schools supported by taxes paid by everyone. Jindal seems to believe the greater sin is to curtail choice, than it is to allow the promotion of the idea that slavery wasn’t really that big of a deal, that if not for the actions of a few slave holders that beat and mistreated their slaves, slavery was generally a good thing.

Jindal’s voucher school supporters believe that owning people, another ace of people, was actually much ado about nothing. Sure, many slaves were raped, tortured, murdered and forced to work under in the burning sun every day until they died, their children sold and traded like pieces of furniture, and adults bred like animals to produce good livestock to be enslaved or sold to others. . . but for the most part it was a good deal and if not for a few miscreants that mistreated their slaves it might well be a great idea to employ today.

Poor slavery! Always getting dissed as if it were a bad thing! What’s a parent to do?

Easy peasy! Just send the kiddies to places that teach otherwise and tell everyone else to stop messing with all those nice, wholesome, private voucher schools that you choose to choose. Public school with those icky unionized teachers who stick to– ew!– truth and accuracy are clearly inferior to the fine educators at the let-us-count-the-ways more desirable private institutions.

So make sure our young ‘uns learn from the best (and by best he means unregulated). Tell them they should be proud of our history of humans owning other humans! Life was so much better back then! After all, slaves were only beaten and raped once in awhile, and being separated from their families and moved around like chess pieces couldn’t have been all that bad. Hey, they got room and board, didn’t they?

And don’t get me started on their freedom to teach how swell the KKK is.

How libertyish and patriotic of them to allow kids to be pro-choice haters.

Please read the entire piece here.

And while you’re at it, check out my teen pal Zack Kopplin’s relentless efforts to fight creationism lessons in schools. He’s been making a name for himself for awhile now, trying to get America to just say NO to creationist vouchers. He’ll be appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher next Friday.

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Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : Bobby Jindal, creationism, education, gop revisionism, intelligent design, Louisiana, no seriously WTF???, public schools, revisionist history, separation of church and state, slavery, teenager, U.S. Constitution, Zack Kopplin

District judge: Texas school finance system violates state constitution; public schools not adequately funded

Posted by GottaLaff

· Monday, February 4th, 2013 at 5:08 pm

· 1 Comment

Via Philly.com

Texas school districts have endured rapid population growth and deep budget cuts; they are not adequately funded. Imagine that.

(Reuters) - Texas’ school finance system violates the state constitution, a state district judge ruled on Monday… [T]he state has not adequately funded public education or resolved inequities among districts.

Now if only something could be done about separating church from state.

In fact, my now-nineteen-year-old Louisiana pal Zack Kopplin is still fighting creationism law. Our previous posts by and about Zack here. His mission is to do away with creationist vouchers, including in Texas.

Houston Chronicle:

Now Kopplin, a history major who is taking a full course load this semester, is preparing to fight state Sen. Dan Patrick’s effort to allow school vouchers in Texas. Patrick, R-Houston, is a strong supporter of school vouchers, which would allow tax money to flow to private and religious schools.

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Tags : court ruling, creationism, education, high school, intelligent design, public schools, separation of church and state, teenager, texas, U.S. Constitution, vouchers, Zack Kopplin

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