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
- “Many hospitals don’t provide abortion training because the legislature says, ‘We’ll defund you if you do’
- At Least 100,000 Texas Women Have Attempted to Self-Induce Abortion
- Louisiana’s Race to the Bottom: State Gubernatorial Candidates Both Oppose Abortion
- Kentucky’s Last Full-Time Abortion Clinic Vandalized Twice in One Month
- Regent University Hosts Second “Presidential Candidate Forum” with John Kasich
- Gov. John Kasich’s aides helped craft abortion restrictions
- Ohio Republicans Vote to Defund Planned Parenthood
- Anti-Choice Activists Target Bank of America for Matching Employees’ Planned Parenthood Donations
- There’s Now One Abortion Provider for Every Million Wisconsin Women
Education
- NC School Bans All Clubs to Prevent GSA from Forming
- Texas Board of Education Refuses To Allow Professors To Fact-Check Textbooks
- Bible, Not Gays, is All the Diversity School Needs, Say Parents
- SBOE Sends a Message: Texas Doesn’t Need Any Stinkin’ Qualifications for Our Textbook Reviewers!
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- Huckabee suggests putting refugees at Mizzou.
- Pamela Geller wants Obama “brought up on charges” if the US accepts any more Syrian refugees
- Christian Pastor slams Paris victims: ‘If you attend a death metal concert, you deserve to get killed’
- The right responds to Paris with Bible-thumping, scientific illiteracy, frat boy antics
- Trump crosses the Nazi line: Maybe Muslims should wear special ID badges
- Kevin Swanson: Paris Massacre Was ‘A Message From (His Gay-Executing) God’
- Mike Huckabee says Obama will make us memorize the Koran after Mali terrorist attack
- Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be ‘Inspired’ — Not Just Mosques
If Media Is The Message
- Following Paris Attacks, Right-Wing Media Echo GOP Call To Accept Only Christian Refugees
- Joy Behar leaves Kirk Cameron’s sister dumbstruck by asking her to defend creationism
- Steve Deace Cites Anti-Semitic Propaganda Video To Claim Muslim Refugees Have “Brutal Intentions”
- Pat Robertson: Jesus Would Think Twice About Helping Syrian Refugees
- Fox News’ Hater Pastor Robert Jeffress Says Christian Terrorism ‘Almost’ Non-Existent
- Columnist: US should ‘bomb Mecca off the face of the earth’ to show Muslims ‘our God is more powerful’
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- Netanyahu Approves 454 New Housing Units Beyond Green Line
Lies, Hypocrisy and Other Propaganda
- Texas Gov Abbott Says he Knows for Fact that Syrians Have Crossed into U.S. from Mexican & CANADIAN Border.
- How the Israeli Right-wing’s Effort to Link Palestinians to ISIS Backfired
- Indiana Gov Says His “Heart Goes Out” To Syrian Families He Kicked Out of State
Politicos
- Indiana GOP bill on LGBT rights has religious exemptions
- Syrian Family Blocked From Entering Indiana
- House Science Chair Lamar Smith Goes After NOAA’s Climate Findings
- Senior House GOP aide: If Dems oppose Syrian refugee bill “we’ll crucify them”
- Tennessee Lawmaker Calls For National Guard To Round Up Syrian Refugees
Politics Nation
- Ted Cruz and the Anti-Gay Pastor
- Rubio spouts a“clash of civilizations” rhetoric that encourages the exact kind of overreaction ISIS seems to desire.
- DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL SHUT DOWN MOSQUES IF PRESIDENT
- Sarah Palin: God will tell me to run for office when America is ‘ready for someone going rogue’
- Huckabee: Obama Wants to ‘Protect The Reputation Of A Radical Religion’ More Than The US
- Ginni Thomas Endorses Ted Cruz
- Trump Says He Would ‘Strongly Consider’ Shutting Down Mosques In The U.S.
- Lindsey Graham shuts down John Kasich’s plan to promote ‘Judeo-Christian values’ in the Middle East: ‘I think that was the Crusades’
- Mike Huckabee says he “appreciated the opportunity” to speak at radical anti-gay conference
- Ben Carson Calls for Prohibiting Religious Hate Speech, Irony Meter Goes Wild
- Ted Cruz and the Anti-Gay Pastor
Religion Gone Bad Gone Mad
- Bible vs Quran—Test Your Knowledge of Who Deserves Death in Which Religion
- President Obama: Republican “Religious Test” Is Not American. It’s Shameful.
- They want a clash of civilizations: After Paris, we need grown-ups, not apocalyptic warriors
- Bristol Palin Is Everything Wrong With ‘Purity Culture’
- Six Keys To Understanding ISIS’s Barbarism, Apocalyptic Vision and Desire for an End Times Battle In Syria. The presidential candidates don’t know want they are dealing with.
- Christians, don’t forget that we too have killed in God’s name
- The New Republican War On Religious Freedom
- Tony Perkins says the South is probably safe from terrorist attacks because “more of the citizens are armed”
- Kasich Proposes Gov’t Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values Around the World
- Christian Business Shut Down Over Gay Marriage Is Now a Church
- To so called ‘Religious Freedom’ advocates, the “phrase has become a catchall for tactical goals of seeking exemptions from the law on religious grounds
Scandals, Scams And Crimes
- Former Alabama pastor gets 15 years for sexually abusing girls
- Cult leader ‘used mind control to rape follower’
- Pastor charged with trafficking in police sting operation
- Rabbi’s sex demands: Is Kabbalah a drug-crazed cult?
- JOSH DUGGAR BEING SUED BY PORN STAR FOR ASSAULT
- In ongoing scandal news, City Harvest Church Pastor Kong Hee Accused of Using Prosperity Gospel To Scam Its Members
Supremes And Lower Courts
- Scalia questions logic behind gay rights protection
- Make no mistake: A new Supreme Court case could eliminate legal abortion in most or all red states
- “The true injustice is that abortion rights and access is even up for debate”
Theocracy Rising
- Crusader Image a ‘Propaganda Bonanza’ for Jihadists: Watchdog Group
- Ben Carson to Liberty University: Christian Values Needed for America’s Survival as Pinnacle Nation
- Catholic hospital system says it can deny women emergency care on religious grounds
