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 Other Women’s Issues
- #MiscarriageAsCrime “Years of investment in rightwing think tanks in Indiana is bearing fruit. It is manifested in legislation that criminalizes abortion and allows religion to be used as an excuse for discrimination in stores, restaurants, and other commercial services.”
- #HydeFromIgnorance ‘Reach’ of Anti-Choice Hyde Amendment May Get Wider
- #AFingerInTheDike 235 Anti-Choice Bills Proposed in State Legislatures Since January
- #HerosThe crusade against abortion is backing OB-GYNs into a corner and some are leaving the field to devote themselves to abortion
Creationism
- #Busted Creationist Eric Hovind Preached Creationism at a Georgia Public School This Week and We Have Proof
Education
- #CommandmentBusters Atheists Attend School’s “Good News Club” Meeting & Find Out Christian Organizers Lied to District About Curriculum
- #ABCsOfJesus The Religious Right’s Home School Fraud
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- #HateIsRisen Rafael Cruz warns gay rights will throw pastors in prison, undermine freedom
- #HateKnowsNoBounds Mat Staver: Gays Just Like Hamas Terrorists
Fifty Shades Of Propaganda And Other Such Lying Hypocrisy
- #TheGospelAccordingToSin Go ahead: lie/rape/steal/murder. . . doesn’t matter how you live life on this earth. All is forgiven as long as you accept Jesus as Savior.
- #GoAheadANdMakeMyDay GOP ‘Abstinence-Only’ Crusader’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant & It Serves Him Right
If Media’s The Message
- #WhatDoesntBigGayDo? Bryan Fischer: Co-Pilot’s Alleged Homosexuality May Explain German Plane Crash
- #FieOhHater Anti-gay hate group spokesperson Sandy Rios is NOW on MSNBC’s Hardball. Thanks for giving her credibility and a platform.
- #???? Bill O’Reilly calls Born-Again Christianity ‘disturbing,’ compares to Islamist extremists
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- #GrandOleChristocracy The fear of public disagreement with an Israeli government isn’t just the product of lobbying by groups that claim to represent American Jews. The theocrats’ takeover of the Republican Party is at least as significant.
Lies, Hypocrisy and Other such Propaganda
- #Busted! Homophobic’ Southern States Watch More Gay Porn Than Other States
Politics Nation
- #TheMeaningOfIs Liberty University now claims Sen. Ted Cruz’s candidacy announcement…wasn’t a candidacy announcement
- #TheWorldAccordingToRand According to Paul, there is absolutely a place for religion in government, there just isn’t a place for government in religion.
- #CarsonallyOutOfStep Ben Carson Says It’s ‘Vital’ to Support Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law
- #SupportedItBeforeHeDidnt Jebya strongly supports Religious Freedom Restoration Act
- #AllAboutThatBase Rand: I Don’t Believe in ‘Gay Rights’
- #ComeHellOrHighWater Katie bar the door, he was gonna do this. Pence and the Indiana Legislature were warned by 30 expert law professors
- #JebyasCred If You Liked the Handling of the Terri Schiavo Case, You’ll Love President Jeb Bush
- #WhatABunch 2016 GOP HOPEFULS LINE UP TO DEFEND INDIANA’S DISCRIMINATORY ‘RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’ LAW
- #HuckALoogie Mike Huckabee Accuses Businesses Of Caving To ‘Militant Gay Community’
Religion Gone Bad, Gone Mad
- #BecauseJesus Why Do Right Wing Christian Families Think They “Own” Their Children?
- #BuhBye Indiana will lose Disciples of Christ convention over religious freedom law
Same Sex Issues
- #GoBarlesCharkley Charles Barkley Wants NCAA To Pull Final Four From Indiana Over Anti-Gay Bill
- #NeverMindIndiana The Legislative Assault on LGBT Texans Is Even Worse
- #FeticideInIndiana HOW INDIANA IS MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO JAIL WOMEN FOR HAVING ABORTIONS
- #IndeedCriminal Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #EtTuNC? North Carolina Legislators Consider ‘Fetal Harm’ Bill Criminalizing Pregnancy
- #NickingAway HOW INDIANA’S NEW RFRA EXPANDS THE FEDERAL RFRA
- #ButHeyItsNotDIscrimination Fun fact: Gov. Pence used to be a board member with the IFI, Indiana’s big anti-LGBT org.
- #SafeZones Where the LGBT community is explicitly protected from discrimination, in 3 maps
Scandal
- #FamilyValuesPastor WI Lutheran Pastor Resigns After Sending Rape Threat To Local Blogger
- #SayWhat? Anti-gay “pastor” charged with stealing $150K…blames gays. No, really.
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #BroughtToYouByIndiana Indiana Convicts Its First Pregnant Person of ‘Feticide’
- #DeWhine Ohio attorney general: Gays already have too much power — that’s why they can’t get married
- #SlinkingOff After Being Stripped Of A Committee Assignment, Klingenschmitt Suspends His ‘Pray In Jesus Name’ Show
Theocracy Rising
- #ContraryToWhatTHEYSay How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The 50s Religious Revival
- #MoreTHanNPR Evangelical Liberty University received half a billion dollars in federal aid money
