We all know how exasperated the religious right has become in recent weeks. Tony Perkins has been celebrating the NJ ruling re-affirming what he has called a serious attack on his religious freedom — because he believes the decision can be exploited politically — and James Dobson has been using his daily radio show to […]

Jon Stewart is incredibly smart, quick witted, and powerful — especially when he is committed to the topic at hand.
Check out his –impressively civilized — discussion with Bill Bennett on gay marriage. It’s tough to be Bill.

Last week, the C-4 arm of Dobson’s Focus on the Family sent a very aggressive email to Maryland members regarding the state’s heated senate race. Rest assured the religious right, with their money and resources, are putting everything they release these days under the eyes of a team of expensive lawyers. However, while the text […]

Monday morning news round up….
Talk about scary. Ever wonder how the religious right celebrates Halloween? They never miss an opportunity to exploit fear.
Richard Dawkins was in Kansas this month, urging science teachers to keep up the good fight: “I.D. is granted immunity from the rigorous standards of science,” he said. Those gaps in theories are […]

Religious right leaders are reportedly now celebrating the NJ decision, believing it will ignite their base. Um, so now they are admitting that their divisive agenda is political — they’re happy that what they have called the biggest threat to religious freedom in America today is being furthered because now they can cash in on […]

The religious right is attempting to use yesterday’s decision by New Jersey’s Supreme Court to rally their (estranged?) supporters — ala 2004.
Tony Perkins: “Today’s decision should give momentum to the eight states with marriage protection amendments on the November ballot. It should be clear to every voter that these elections count!”
James Dobson: “We only hope […]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is stepping up the scrutiny on the use of churches for political organizing and — ultimately — electoral victories. A complaint filed this week targets Kansas, and a memo that was leaked urging staffers of a candidate for Attourney General of the state to use churches to […]

The Supreme Court of New Jersey just ruled that “equal rights” actually means equal rights:
The State Supreme Court in New Jersey said today that under equal protection guarantees of the state constitution, same-sex couples “must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes.”
But […]

From the New York Times:
TRENTON, Oct. 24 — The New Jersey Supreme Court will release its long-awaited ruling on Wednesday on whether the state must allow gay couples the full legal right to marry, court officials said on Tuesday.
Massachusetts is the only state to recognize a constitutional right to gay marriage.
The case has drawn national […]

Chuck Norris (yes, that Chuck Norris) has acquired a weekly column at WorldNetDaily — the conservative, religious right affiliated website.
Check out this tidbit from Chuck’s post this week, where he responds to “Alleged Chuck Norris Facts“:
Alleged Chuck Norris Fact: “There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to […]

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Also, the religious right is getting stir crazy as they continue to try to influence the upcoming elections. […]

Check out this press release Focus on the Family circulated this morning.
Dr. James Dobson Urges Values Voters to Turn Out Nov. 7
Focus chairman says much at stake for U.S. if liberals win
Contact Paul Hetrick, 719-531-3336, press@family.org; Sonja Swiatkiewicz, 719-548-4570, culturalissues@family.org; both with Focus on the Family
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Oct. 24 /Standard […]

From a piece he has posted entitled Why There Almost Certainly Is No God:
America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, […]

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Rev White’s new book, Religion Gone Bad, has some very interesting insights on the religious right leadership including two chapters on a secret 1994 meeting where the religious right focused on cementing their anti-homosexual campaign.
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