Billboards and Prooftexting abortion
I pass this billboard at least three or four times a week: “Thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb,” it reads, from the Revised Standard Version translation of Psalm 139, 13th verse. It makes me angry almost every…
What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Wanted – The Daily Show
On Monday night, The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent” talked about people misappropriating Dr. King’s name and legacy for their political agendas. After my post yesterday (especially the update to that post), it just seemed too perfect. Partial transcript LARRY…
Bill O’Reilly and the fight to secularize Christianity
Last week, Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly insisted that Christianity was not, in fact, a religion, but rather a philosophy. That prompted this righteously funny, indignant response from Jon Stewart: In his bluntness, I think O’Reilly clumsily pulled back the…
Juxtaposition: Joe Donnelly for Senate
Joe Donnelly, currently serving as the Representative for Indiana’s 2nd District, is unopposed for the party’s nomination for US Senate. He’ll be facing the winner of the Mourdock-Lugar primary race and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning in the general election. On…
Trent Franks admits his bill is about more than racially-based abortions
Arizona Republican Trent Franks has been making the rounds to build support for his bill to ban the nonexistent problem of racially-based abortions. On the Concerned Women for America radio program, Franks admitted his bill is just part of an…
Indiana Republicans sign on to “Black Genocide” bill
Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, is probably most famous for his groundbreaking historical theory that black Americans were better off under slavery. But this week, Franks re-introduced his conspiracy theory anti-abortion bill, the grandiosely-named “Susan B. Anthony and…
