Please welcome back regular guest contributor, author of Being Christian – a racy novel that explores the dark underbelly of the right-wing Christian world – and the go-to blogger on shocking religion news, hypocrisy, and all things church v. state (weekly upchucks), KC Boyd.
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Your Weekly Upchucks: The place where religion meets your rights
– by KC Boyd
Abortion, Contraception And Other Women’s Issues
- Ted Cruz Promises to ‘Sign Any Legislation’ That Opposes Abortion
- Louisiana Abortion Clinic Closes as GOP Anti-Choice Attacks Persist
- Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs bill that defunds Planned Parenthood
- Anti-Choice Kentucky Governor Launches Legal Assault on Planned Parenthood
- Washington Post Editorial Board Slams GOP’s “Planned Parenthood Witch Hunt”
- An Historic Attempt To Kill Roe v. Wade May Backfire Spectacularly On The Anti-Choice Right
- In Response To Zika, Brazil Moves To Restrict Abortion Even More
- Trump, on Planned Parenthood: “I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion.”
- A new generation of women teaching women to be submissive babymakers for Jesus.”
- Ted Cruz Uses Fox News Town Hall To Say He Would Pardon CMP’s David Daleiden And Investigate Planned Parenthood
- Cruz ” If I’m elected President, on the first day in office, I will instruct the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood and to prosecute any and all criminal violations.I will welcome the opportunity to defund this life-ending organization from the Oval Office.”
- How TRAP Laws Are Closing Abortion Clinics Nationwide
- FRC prays that the Senate will block anyone President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court:
Education – – Or Not
- Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism
- South Carolina Legislators Propose Bill to Put “In God We Trust” Sign in Every Public School
- Cruz “School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. I will work to eliminate the Department of Education.”
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- Cruz, Carson To Attend Right-Wing Media Convention Featuring Anti-LGBT, Anti-Muslim Extremists/Hategroups
- The Real Origins of the Religious Right
- They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- Crazy Alert: End Times Pastor’s Unhinged Conspiracy “Proves” Obama Killed Scalia
- New Hampshire Rep: “The Pope is the Antichrist?”
If Media’s The Message
Washington Post Cited Bogus “Post-Abortion Syndrome” Myth Without Saying It’s Been Discredited
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- Police to probe extremist leader for calling Christians ‘Vampires.’
Politics Nation
- Cruz lost a chunk of his evangelical “base” to Trump
- Trump: “I am a good Christian, I really am, and I think the Evangelicals saw that.”
- Trump is arguably the candidate most resembling a televangelist.
- Political Power of Roman Catholic Bishops
- Cruz fires top spokesman after he falsely accused Rubio of mocking the Bible to Cruz’s father
- Huckabee’s Daughter Joins Trump Team
Religion Gone Bad Gone Mad
- “Penis Homes” Megachurch Pastor Mark Driscoll Finds A New Flock
- St. Louis archbishop urges cutting ties with Girl Scouts
- Why Are Evangelicals Supporting The Unrepentant Donald Trump?
- By Displacing Cruz, Donald Trump Is Disrupting The Religious Right’s Christian-America Dreams
- Rafael Cruz: Evangelicals Who Support Trump Aren’t Real Evangelicals
Scandal
- Houseparents get up to 30 years for sexually abusing girls at Christian Children’s Ranch
- Church pastor and his wife allegedly forced teens to be sex slaves
- Everybody knew’: Neighbors not shocked after Ohio pastor charged with raping parishioners
- Christian ministers manipulate bestseller lists for financial gain
- Ted Cruz Blocks Emergency Relief To Flint But Demanded Aid For Texas
Supremes And Lower Court
- Fifth Circuit Rules Louisiana Clinic Closure Law Can Take Effect, Raising Stakes in Supreme Court Fight
- This Court Just Gave A Catholic Church Its Blessing To Discriminate Against Gay People
Theocracy Rising
- Ted Cruz’s campaign is fueled by a dominionist vision for America
- 57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion
- The GOP Is In The Middle Of A Holy War, But Voters Might Not Care
- Ted Cruz is the First Openly Reconstructionist/Theocracy Candidate to Run for President
