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.
You can link over to the official KC Boyd site here for the rest of this post. It’s well worth a look, because I left out a ton of great upchuckable stuff, including antidotes! These are but a few of her weekly “where religion meets your rights” collection:
Your Weekly Upchucks: The place where religion meets your rights
– by KC Boyd
Abortion, Contraception And Women
- BuckeyesAgainstWomen: Abortion Restrictions Complicate Access For Ohio Women
- #TheyreComingForYourUterus: Minnesota’s Birth Control Coverage Protections Would Include Religious Exemption
- #Drip, Drip, Drip: New Mexico Republicans Push Anti-Choice Bills Through House Committees
- #TheBarsTooHigh: Ohio Abortion Providers Now Required to Do Fetal Test That Doesn’t Exist
- #WalkeringTheTalk: Scott Walker Says He Would Sign Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks
Creationism
- #EggOnHamsFace: Scientists unearth jawbone of one of the very first humans. Sorry, creationists, it’s way more than 10k years old
Education
- #ABleakBleakFuture: Koch Mandates to Cut Education Spending Spread Like a Cancer
- #FoundationalUpchuck: At ALEC’s behest,Texas Senate Leaders Lay Out Plan to Destroy Public Education
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- #SheReallySaidThis: Radio host: Black lawmakers should be ‘hanging from a noose’ for boycotting Netanyahu’s speech
- #Frank-ly’sDrippingWithHate: Franklin Graham: Muslims Who ‘Hate Israel And Hate Christians’ Run The White House
- #BirtherBrigade: A recent University of California poll found that 54 percent of Republicans think Obama is Muslim.
Fifty Shades Of Hypocrisy And Lying Propaganda
- #It’sHerPartyAndShe’llCryIfSheWantsTo: Dana Loesch leads religion pity party at CPAC: ‘It’s time to make Christians a protected class’
- #FamilyValuesLivinLarge: 5-time-married TX lawmaker scrawls complaint against judge who allowed same-sex marriage
- #ChristianZionistHypocrisy: Israel’s abortion law now among world’s most liberal
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- #TheProblemWithVegetarians: Pat Robertson: People Who Are Addicted To Drugs Are ‘Enslaved By Vegetables’
If Media Is The Message
- #Sigh.Yawn: Bill O’Reilly’s Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along
- #AndTheyPrintedIt: USA Today Columnist Cal Thomas: Gay Marriage Is A Sign of the ‘End Times’
Israel, End Times Politics And John Hagee
- #LovinZion: More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people
APAC Of Lies:
- #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: “Israel’s prime minister is in Washington to build American support, bolster his re-election campaign, and (clandestinely) push for war on Iran.”
- #HeightOfIrony: Fundamentalist/extremist John Hagee calling for a united religious front against extremism.
Politics Nation
- #CarsonallyDisabled: Ben Carson: Religion is needed to interpret science because ‘maybe it’s just propaganda’
- #AndSoWeAllLose: Anti-science becomes purely ideological for Republicans
- #DarkHorseCourtingBacker: Washington’s first official 2016 fundraiser, starring Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Adelson
Religion Gone Bad
- #DoesntWorkThereDoesntWorkHere: Study Confirms That Abstinence Education Has Utterly Failed At Preventing AIDS In Africa
- #ChristianVolunteerArmyAnyone? New Player in the ISIS War: Christian Gazillionaire Foster Friess
Same Sex Issues
- #VaccinateHisMouth: David Barton: The Bible Says There Will Never Be A Vaccine For HIV Because AIDS Is The Penalty For Homosexuality
- #NextUp:Gomorrah? California lawyer files papers for ‘Sodomite Suppression Act’ to save state from ‘God’s just wrath’
- #HatingInJesus’Name: Franklin Graham and evangelicals freak out over proposals barring LGBT discrimination in Charlotte
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #RoadTrippingWithJesus? 6 Batsh*t Crazy Right-Wing GOP State Bills
- #SouthernDiscomfort: North Carolina Republicans empower magistrates to refuse to marry blacks, Jews, gays
Scandal
- #GoodChristianMan: Republican lawmaker who runs a Christian pre-school gave up adopted 6-year-old to a known sexual predator who then raped her.
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #Moore-o-phobic: Alabama Supreme Court Orders Judges to Stop Gay Marriages
- #HereWeGoScrotus: U.S. Supreme Court to hear Ohio same-sex marriage case on April 28 as local officials submit brief
