Just in time for this weekend’s Super Bowl pitting the Indianapolis Colts against the Chicago Bears, the Indiana Family Institute, an anti-gay organization openly connected to Focus on the Family, has announced a fundraising dinner in March featuring and honoring Indianapolis Colt’s coach Tony Dungy.
As with similar groups in states across the country, […]

Crooks and Liars has a posted a terrifying six minute clip from Alexandra Pelosi’s new documentary, Friends of God. The clip focuses on the creation movement and highlights yet again the aggressive tactics creationists employ when it comes to “teaching” (a.k.a. indoctrinating) children.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Among the featured speakers in the clip is Ken Ham. Ham […]

Ted Haggard’s long time male escort, Mike Jones, visited Haggard’s old stomping grounds — New Life Church — this weekend.
Jones was welcomed with open arms, and thanked by the congregation:
“A couple of ladies cried when they were touching me,” Jones said. “I was thanked for exposing the church, for helping Ted Haggard. A […]

Have a great weekend. Did any catch Alexandra Pelosi’s new documentary Friends of God on HBO last night?
They’ll be running it for the next month. You can find out when here.
Update: Focus on the Family released a statement today condemning Pelosi’s documentary. This is not really news nor is it unexpected. The statement, however, is […]

Looks like our public awareness campaign to expose the religious right’s recently released video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, was a success.
You’ll remember that our efforts garnered a great deal of national media attention:

Front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle;
Stories on CNN’s American Morning, ABC World News, and Canadian TV;
A live debate with religious […]

Tony Perkins has posted a response to last night’s State of the Union address on YouTube. Judging by the 177 low number of views, his message is clearly resonating with the American people. He’s pretty upset. Must be the fact that the President didn’t directly refer to gay Americans as immoral sinners, or it could […]

This morning, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins published an open letter to President Bush.
The letter, which comes a few hours before the President’s State of the Union address and amid his sinking popularity among the American people, yet again urges the President to continue business as usual — and keep the religious right […]

Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has a new documentary featuring former NAE head Ted Haggard talking about the incredible sex lives of evangelicals.
From ABC News:
Much has been made of America’s so-called religious divide, but few of the discussions and debates resemble Alexandra Pelosi’s new film, “Friends of God.”
The HBO documentary […]

From today’s Washington Post:
In prepared Senate testimony, Story Landis, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and interim chair of the agency’s stem cell task force, closely mirrored previous testimony from other NIH officials, who have for years been careful not to criticize the Bush policy directly, even though that policy […]

Two fantastic articles from AlterNet to get you started:

As Bush’s War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse, By Sarah Posner.
The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair, By — newly appointed DefCon Advisory Board Member — Chris Hedges!

Yuval Levin, the former executive director of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics, has published an op-ed on stem cell research in today’s New York Times. In the piece, entitled A Middle Ground for Stem Cells, Levin makes a number of questionable remarks stated as though they are indisputable facts.
Initially, Levin uses the piece to […]

It’s official, the long awaited Creation Museum will open its doors this coming Memorial Day weekend.
For those who are unaware, the Creation Museum is the religious right’s most recent attempt to display their distaste for the field of science. According to Reuters:
The $27 million project, which also includes a planetarium, a special-effects theater, nature […]

Michael J. Fox will attend next week’s State of the Union Address. The former actor and leading stem cell advocate will be joining Rep. Jim Langevin, a champion of the issue and a potential stem cell patient himself.
ThinkProgress has the scoop.
This is fantastic news and will bring this issue into the stories surrounding the address […]

The McCain camp must be in a tizzy. All that hard work to win the favor of the religious right, only to have the Godfather of the movement state that he “would not vote for McCain under any circumstances.”
Watch CNN’s piece on the issue here.

James Dobson has the ear of someone in the upper ranks of the Fox News Network. We saw this last March, when, within hours of the launch of DefCon’s campaign exposing the hypocritical ties between religious right leaders and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Dobson had a featured segment on the O’Reilly Factor.
This past Friday, on […]