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
- Kentucky’s Senate Republicans Advance Forced Ultrasound Bill
- Catholic Leaders Say Zika Doesn’t Change Ban on Contraception
- Anti-Choice Groups: Block All Obama Supreme Court Nominees
- Jeb Bush: defund Planned Parenthood, redirect money to crisis pregnancy centers that lie to clients
- Desperate Women In Zika-Infected Countries Are Begging For Abortion Pills
- Indiana Republicans Push Abortion Ban for Fetal Anomalies
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Bills to De-Fund Planned Parenthood, Takes Away $8 Million
- Abortion ban linked to dangerous miscarriages at Michigan Catholic hospital, report claims
- Pope Francis suggests women can use contraception if they are at risk of contracting Zika virus
- The Right’s Answer to Gutting Planned Parenthood? Elementary Schools, Homeless Shelters, Jails
- Want An Ultrasound? Visit a Crisis Pregnancy Center, Idaho Republicans Say
- One Hospital in Cincinnati Gave Vulnerable Women an Option. Now It’s Gone.
- GOP Kentucky governor slaps new Planned Parenthood facility with a lawsuit
- Arizona Republicans Advance Anti-Choice Onslaught
- Ted Cruz Levels the One Right-Wing Attack That Could Really Damage Trump His sketchy record on abortion might hurt him in upcoming primaries.
- The War Against Planned Parenthood Is Advancing
Education
- The education mess in Ohio under Gov. John Kasich
- An Idaho Senate panel just approved a bill to let public teachers use the Bible to teach biology and geology
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- Ben Carson: Muslims Must Be ‘Schizophrenic’ If They Love America
- 29% of South Carolina Republicans “wish the South had won” the Civil War and 10% agree “Whites are a superior race”
- Facebook Executive To Headline Anti-LGBT Religious Conference
- Yes, South Dakota’s Anti-Transgender Bill Really Is That Bad
- Kim Davis marriage license bill clears Kentucky Senate
- Ted Cruz Super PAC Defends Confederate Flag As ‘Our Flag’ In South Carolina Robocall
- Trump Approvingly Recounts Urban Legend of US General Who Had Muslims Shot With Bullets Dipped in Pig’s Blood
Fifty Shades Of Lying Propaganda And Other Hypocrisies
- Cruz: ‘Disastrous’ Marriage Equality Ruling Led To ‘Persecution’ That’s ‘Unprecedented’
- Trump, who questioned Obama, Cruz and Carson’s faith, says “no leader” would ever question someone’s faith
- Log Cabin Republicans Accepted as CPAC Sponsor
- Ted Cruz to skip Antonin Scalia funeral after attacking Obama for doing the same
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- It’s Mary Lou! She believes Obama was a homosexual prostitute & she’s running for TX Board of Ed
If Media’s The Message
- Glenn Beck claims Fox told him not to push prayer because it takes God’s attention off of war
- Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief detained for ‘incitement’
- Glenn Beck: God Allowed Scalia To Die In Order To Highlight The Importance Of Electing Ted Cruz
- Mark Levin warns that the “survival of the Republican Party” hinges on blocking Obama SCOTUS pick
- Rafael Cruz joins Pat Robertson to rail against Satanic gay marriage, gun reform leading to dictatorship and murder
- Mary Matalin and James Carville say Ted Cruz will be Republican nominee for President
- Christian Television Leader TBN Partners With Leading Pro-Israel Organization CUFI in Hard-Hitting New Weekly News Program, “The Watchman
- Rush Limbaugh Rips Pope Francis For Saying Donald Trump Is “Not Christian”
- Bryan Fischer Says ‘God Took Antonin Scalia Home’ To Make SCOTUS The Central Issue In The Election
- Ted Cruz suggests Phil Robertson for U.N. ambassador
- Fox Contributor: Pope Francis “Needs To Ask Donald Trump’s Forgiveness” For Implying Trump Is Not A Christian
- ‘Duck Dynasty’ star goes on crazed 13-minute Bible-thumping rant at Ted Cruz rally
- Ted Cruz: Phil Robertson ‘Terrifies’ People Because He ‘Speaks With Joy’
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- Thanks to Zionists and Christian Zionists, 1,800 new settlement housing units started getting built in 2015. What settlement freeze?
- Alex The Lunatic Jones: Obama killed Scalia and now “all Hell is about to break loose”; “this is the beginning of the final war”
- Rafael Cruz: Satan Will Destroy America If President Obama Gets To Make SCOTUS Appointment
- John Hagee Says America ‘Will Be Lost Forever And Immediately’ If Obama Is Allowed To Replace Justice Scalia
- Cruz-loving End Times pastor uses numerology to prove Obama sacrificed Scalia in pagan ritual
- Cruz-loving End Times pastor uses numerology to prove Obama sacrificed Scalia in pagan ritual
- I Went to Church With Ted Cruz: He is Building an Army of Young Christian Voters
Politics Nation
- Prominent Scammer/Televangelist Says He Will Endorse Donald Trump
- Ted Cruz campaigns with Christian-nation extremist David Lane in South Carolina
- When he finished cleaning his navel, Huckabee endorsed anti-gay activist Janet Porter in her bid for a seat in the Ohio state senate
- John Kasich Proposes Federal Agency To “Push Christianity” On the Middle East
- Cruz Staffer: “Separation of Church and State is a Myth”
- Donald Trump: ‘Trust Me’ To Overturn The ‘Shocking’ Gay Marriage Decision
- Pope’s comments could help Trump with evangelicals
- Donald Trump Is Jealous of the Pope
- Trump Reeling After Religious Leaders Condemn His Attack On Pope Francis
- Megachurch pastor tells ‘confused’ Pope to beg forgiveness from ‘martyr’ Donald Trump
Religion Gone Bad Gone Mad
- Christian conservatives push child marriage with creepy meme comparing girls to apples
- Rabbi berates Arizona town council members over Christian prayer — then gets booted out
- Idaho lawmakers to consider faith healing bill
- Palestinian and Israeli mothers’ tears are the same.
- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback tells religious freedom rally participants to keep up the fight
- Dr. James Dobson: “I know Ted. He’s a Christian family man of the utmost integrity.”
- Trump Supporter on CNN: Evangelicals Don’t Want to Hear From ‘Foreigner’ Pope
- The future of the religious right? Cruz and Rubio have very different ideas
Scandal
- The Sex Scandal That Devastated a Suburban Maryland Megachurch
- Israel: Rabbi Pinto, guru to the rich and famous, heads to jail with hundreds of followers
- TV preacher who is sexually aroused by money endorses ‘warrior spirit’ Donald Trump
- Sheldon Adelson Bets It All. Is dirty money spent by corrupt Chinese officials at Macau casinos flowing into our elections, at least indirectly?
- Missouri Republican and staunch foe of abortion rights abruptly resigned Wednesday, and is now embroiled in a scandal amid allegations that he had an extramarital affair.
- More women sue home-schooling guru Bill Gothard for sexual harassment
- Teen victims say Duggar pastor preyed on rape survivors who sought his help: ‘It’s just evil’
Science – – Or Not
- House GOP Marches Ahead With Fetal Tissue Research Investigations
- Texas Anti-Abortion Politicians Attack Researchers Who Report Inconvenient Facts
Supremes And Lower Courts
- Scalia was SCOTUS’s clearest advocate for an accommodationist view of church-state relations
- Scalia “Bludgeoned” the Constitution That Gave Us Desegregation, Women’s Rights
- Justice Scalia’s terrible religious legacy
- Justice Scalia’s final year highlighted his views on religion and the First Amendment
- Parents Can Move Ahead With Claims Their Daughters Were Lured Into Religious Cult At School
- Conservative pundit says GOP should block all Democratic judicial nominees in perpetuity
Theocracy Rising
- Ted Cruz is anointed by God to help Christians in their effort to “go to the marketplace and occupy the land … and take dominion” over it. This “end-time transfer of wealth” will relieve Christians of all financial woes, allowing true believers to ascend to a position of political and cultural power in which they can build a Christian civilization. When this Christian nation is in place (or back in place), Jesus will return
- Conservative President May Mean More God-Friendly Military
- The U.S. Military and Religion
- Definition of Chutzpah: Franklin Graham, Son Of Moral Majority Founder Tells Pope To Keep Out Of Politics
- How One of the Most Extreme Groups Within the Religious Right Is Remaking the GOP Race for the Presidency
- Walk carefully toward new ‘religious freedom’ laws
If you control their religion …
… you control their souls …
The Republican Party has only one objective — giving money to the super-rich, thereby creating a ruling class in American politics. Since this is not a platform that can be admitted or run on, they need a public policy that will attract voters, and blind them to the fact that they’re being taken to the cleaners. They have found that populist agenda in Christianity. Their constant moaning that Christianity is under attack in abortion, education, law, politics and foreign policy has created, or at least energized, the voters they need to control American politics. So we are treated to the spectacle of Republican presidential candidates each claiming to be more godly than their opponents, while they have almost nothing to say about the real issues we face.
The other day Rubio exposed the Cruz campaign for lying about his religiosity, claiming he’d said that the Bible contained no answers, while he had really said that it contained all the answers. This is the kind of idiocy Republicans will reduce us to, if Republicans get their way.
Yep. They’ve always loved them the wedge issues. Meantime they screwed over religious voters http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/581/Were-Evangelicals-Played-For-Suckers.aspx