Tag The Vatican

NOM: ‘GOP elites try to throw marriage under the bus’

Apparently, the National Organization for Marriage just got the memo. The common sense end of the GOP is about to throw the gay-hating, Bible-banging nutters who hijacked their party under the bus. But don’t pop that cork quite yet. As does anything that issues forth from Queen Maggie and her personal Igor, Brian Brown, this [...]

BBC: The Catholic Church covered up 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland

Catholic Church and UK Colluded in Northern Ireland Bomb Cover-Up (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) What exactly is it going to take to get the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church arrested and frog marched up to Den Haag to be put on trial for their incessant and ruthless crimes against humanity? Catholic Church [...]

Meet the NOMmies

DC- Rowdy NOM religious fanatics (video: NOMTourTracker.com at YouTube) They’re just simple down home folks like you and me, only some of them want folks like you and me executed or denied or deprived of our civil rights. Here are a few fans and followers of the National Organization for Marriage’s fabulous, if poorly attended, [...]

Divine protection?

Divine Protection (video: The Thinking Atheist at YouTube) The Thinking Atheist: Believers worldwide thank God for His divine hand of protection in their lives. In this video, we examine several recent cases where God’s intervention was desperately needed. Actually, due to the notorious unreliability of the invisible sky fairy, the Vicar of Christ On Earth [...]

God Delusioned: Brian Brown

“Once again, voters have sent a message to politicians that supporting gay marriage is a career-ending move. We sent two district-wide mailings and paid for a newspaper ad to make sure that voters in this district knew their [Minnesota] state Senator wanted to legalize gay marriage. As a result, Senator Koering was trounced. “NOM has [...]

Pat Condell: The faith of idiots

Too lazy and stupid to think for yourself? Welcome to Jesus country (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. On the other hand, perhaps I’m just a tad prejudiced after several days of listening to whatever was left of the extreme Christian reich’s brains splattering against the ceiling in response to Judge [...]

VICTORY FOR EQUALITY ~ Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional, overturned

Details and reactions are being added as they come in … Tonight! Summer’s here and so’s equality. The time is right for dancing in the streets. Day of Decision II in San Diego: There will be a march and town hall meeting tonight in San Diego: We’ll march at 6:00 pm from Sixth & University [...]

The Quotable Anne Rice

“I didn’t anticipate at the beginning that the U.S. bishops were going to come out against same-sex marriage. That they were actually going to donate money to defeat the civil rights of homosexuals in the secular society. … When that broke in the news, I felt an intense pressure. And I am a person who [...]

Free Thinking: Lawrence M Krauss

“Surprisingly, the strongest reticence to speak out often comes from those who should be most worried about silence. Last May I attended a conference on science and public policy at which a representative of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a keynote address. When I questioned how he reconciled his own reasonable views about [...]

Alliance Defense Fundies: Prey to keep California’s gays second-class citizens

Prey to keep California’s gays second-class citizens (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Judge Walker’s decision in the federal trial — Perry v Schwarzenegger — on the constitutionality of California’s Prop 8 is expected this afternoon, and the Christian cons have, consequently, kicked their faith-biased hatred for gay people up a notch. Who’d have thought that was [...]

Chile could be the next South American country to enact marriage equality

Excellent news: Chile could be on-deck for marriage equality. “‘This is a project that I will present … and I am also calling on the Church to be more welcoming, and I say that as part of the Church,’ the senator said, responding to remarks from Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz who described the same-sex [...]

Free Thinking: Sam Harris

‎”I’ve read the books. God is not a moderate. There’s no place in the books where God says, ‘You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books [of [...]

Pat Condell: Freedom is my religion

A response to politically correct atheists (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) Condell responds to his politically correct critics, including his fellow atheists. Find all of Pat Condell’s videos at his YouTube channel, and get your hands on a copy of Condell’s bound transcripts in Pat Condell – Godless and Free, at the link.

Free Thinking: Roger Herft

“Any statement which portrays the Christian faith as having some type of exclusivity to be the sole arbiter on matters of moral integrity and just policy-making are unhelpful and untrue. “Christians need to remind themselves that those who do not profess the Christian faith are still capable of adopting an ethical and moral framework which [...]

Spain is losing its religion, and quickly

Spain is a model of what happens when you further liberalize women’s rights, institute marriage equality, and tell the Vatican’s propagandists to butt out of school classrooms and secular life. The country wakes up: “About 25 percent of all Spaniards now claim to be atheists or without a religion, compared to 17 percent in 2002, [...]