It’s Friday…what’s going on out there?

DefCon friend Max Blumenthal has released a video recorded during his trip to the Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit. For those unaware, Christians United for Israel is the epitome of the religious right’s pro-rapture movement. It is led by mega-pastor John Hagee, and enjoys political support from Tom Delay, Rick Santorum, and Sen. […]

Another week, another scandal involving prostitution and the Religious Right. This time it was Coy C. Privette, who was, until he went down in flames, president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina political lobbying group that “represents conservative evangelicals from 15 Christian denominations in the Tar Heel State that cooperatively address the […]

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Don McLeroy to head the State Board of Education. Unfortunately for Texas schoolchildren, McLeroy has, for years, fought against the teaching of fact-based science in public schools, instead casting vote after vote in favor of his religious ideology. According to a recent Austin American-Statesman editorial: […]

It’s Friday…you know what that means! What’s going on out there?

In response to recent criticisms around the revelations that the Bush administration silenced Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona around key health issues, the religious right has a solution….just eliminate the Surgeon General position. Apparently, if a political position cannot be guaranteed to shut up and do the will of the RR then it’s not […]

This has little to do with the anti-science crusaders we are fighting — the man behind this book doesn’t seem to have major influence over our political leaders etc — but it is very interesting.
From the New York Times:
In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools has largely been […]

In what can only be described as the height of intolerance, yesterday three members of the religious right took it upon themselves to disrupt a prayer (leading to their eventual arrest) being given by a Hindu priest in the Senate gallery. Read all about it in The Hill, or watch the video below. […]

Wow. As if Tony Perkins’ close affiliation with Vitter wasn’t enough, it now turns out that Jack Burkman — a former lobbyist for the Family Research Council — appears to also be on the DC Madam’s list.
From ThinkProgress, emphasis is mine:
Conservative pundit on DC Madam list.
The phone number of Jack Burkman, a conservative pundit and […]

It’s Friday! What’s going on out there?

Panda’s Thumb has the full story.
From their post:
My colleague, Michael Grant of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, was one of the victims of the recent harassment, reported by Steve Reuland here. Professor Grant tells me that he has “been receiving these histrionic emails and books and packages for a year; he even comes into […]

Over the last week you may have noticed posts from a new face, Eliza. Eliza will be joining me as a regular poster on DefConBlog.org, ensuring that we stay on top of any and all of the religious right’s intolerant campaigns to impose their ideology on all Americans and of course their incredible hypocrisy.
Check out […]

When revelations surfaced this week about Louisiana Senator David Vitter’s (repeated) use of prostitutes, one of the first to come to his defense was none other than Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who both defended Vitter in an AP article, and followed up with a blog posting where he said:
The American people have shown […]

In Tuesday’s Citizenlink email from Focus on the Family, Dobson & Co. distributed a new video apparently produced in response to the Global Warming focused Live Earth events last weekend.
The video is full of the usual climate change skeptic talking points — and even has a nod to intelligent design at the end. This […]

Today’s Washington Post carries a story about the Bush Administration’s silencing of former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona over key health issues.
From the Post:

Former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona yesterday accused the Bush administration of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues, becoming the most prominent voice among several current and former federal science officials […]