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Appeals court nixes legal maneuver to force Schwarzenegger and Brown to defend Prop H8

Bad news for the anti-gays at the Pacific Justice Institute. On Monday, the Christian legal goons attempted to sue the Governor and Attorney General of California, and, thereby, force them to defend California’s heinous 2008 ballot initiative, Proposition 8. The Associated Press’ Lisa Leff has that story. Fast forward to today, and, without explanation, the [...]

Keith Olbermann and Jeremy Scahill decimate Dubya and the neo-cons

Keith Olbermann mops the floor with former President George W Bush (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) A picture is worth a thousand words. So are these two words: George W Bush’s Mission Accomplished speech was delivered on 1 May 2003 (photo: AP via Wikipedia) (tip: Digby, Hullabaloo)

Newt Gingrich still doesn’t get that religious liberties are for all Americans

I’m not really sure who comes across as the more desperate character: former congressman Newt Gingrich or his personal Igor, Pastor Jim Garlow, who is currently running Newt’s Renewing American Leadership. Gingrich Wants Ground Zero Declared a National Battlefiled Memorial to Stop Park 51 Right Wing Watch Gingrich came on to discuss his recent column [...]

Stephen Hawking: God did not create the Universe

This ought to put an appreciable twist in the theists’ knickers. Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe BBC News There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new [...]

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Glee’s Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) from Rolling Stone’s series on TV’s Best Characters and Most Memorable Scene-Stealers (photo: Rolling Stone)

God Delusioned: Molotov Mitchell

“A handful of pencil-necked, metrosexual socialists in Washington can’t possibly defeat a nation of red-blooded, God-fearing patriots. … The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well in Honduras — especially in Honduras, where their Marxist just tried to tamper with their constitution, and guess what happened? The Honduran military took that socialist dictator wannabe [...]

The Quotable Dan Savage

“Let me be clear: I don’t want the GOP to pick up gay votes and I have no intention of voting Republican myself. Ever, ever, ever. But if Dems are worried about gay and lesbian progressives sitting out this election and the GOP managing to pick up the votes gay conservatives idiots, well, here’s how [...]

Keith Olbermann slams Ground Zero attention grab by Christian pastor

Christian pastor’s Ground Zero stunt garners negative attention (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) An infinitesimally small amount of negative media coverage of his attempt at garnering headlines, sent Pastor Bill Keller into make believe, full metal Poor Oppressed Christian™ mode: Press Supports Mosque but Condemns 9-11 Christian Center ~ Christian Newswire ST PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. [...]

Christ appears on a pole in Louisiana and other unrelated silliness

They seek him here, they see him there, the fundies see him everywhere … (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Gasp. I have absolutely nothing to add.

‘Focusing on the bully’ means focusing on Focus on the Family

AC360 – Focus On The Family: Anti-Bullying Efforts Promotes Homosexuality In Kids (video: Anderson Cooper’s AC360º via SuchIsLifeVideos at YouTube) Imagine the passionate arguments that Focus on the Family’s Candi Cushman would be making if it were, instead, Christian children who were being ruthlessly and brutally bullied. They’d probably be the usual Poor Oppressed Christians™ [...]

‘Vogue’ flash mob hits Sydney

Say Cheese! Glee ‘Vogue’ Flash Mob At Sydney QVB (video: RockYourBox at YouTube) This world needs two things: more gay kiss-ins and more flash mobs. Click here to watch lots more of each.

Jeff Sharlet talks Ugandan anti-gay genocide with NPR’s Fresh Air

NPR has a piece up on Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, who talks about his encounter with the author of Uganda’s infamous exterminate-the-gays bill, Christian MP David Bahati: “Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that [...]

Matt Baume’s brilliant takedown of NOM’s Prop H8 lies

Takedown of NOM’s Lies About Prop 8 (video: stop8org at YouTube) Well done, Matt. Over at http://stop8.org, we see a lot of silly claims about Prop 8, but the new radio ad put out by the National Organization for Marriage last week is just out-and-out deceitful. It’s packed full of lies and misrepresentations, so we [...]

Alveda King thinks the founders placed ‘In God We Trust’ on American money

No, Alveda King, Our Founders Did Not Put “God” On Our Money (video: ChrisRodda2 at YouTube) “They [the founders] had enough sense to put on the back of that money ‘In God We Trust.’ You can’t eat a piece of bread in America without remembering that you have to trust God to get it.” — [...]

Vandals hit yet another atheist billboard

Can anyone explain why this message so intimidates the theists? (photo: The Freedom from religion Foundation) Well, quelle frickin’ surprise! The bigots are at it again. A Watertown, Wisconsin billboard placed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation has been hit by vandals with yellow paint — probably extracted from whatever’s left of their spines. Here’s [...]