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
- Florida GOP redefines pregnancy trimesters, adds laundry list of abortion restrictions
- The Weird, Offensive Argument At The Heart Of The Supreme Court Case Against Birth Control
- Is Anyone Enforcing California’s Crisis Pregnancy Center Regulations?
- South Carolina’s Nikki Haley: I’ll Sign Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
- Colorado Hospital Illegally Refused Sterilization Procedure, Pro-Choice Group Charges
Education – – Or Not
- These Christian teachers want to bring Jesus into public schools
- W.Va. Schools Consider Creationism And Evolution Scientific Equals
- Bible class could be added to public school curriculum in Kentucky
- Evolution’ disclaimer to remain in Alabama textbooks
- Tenn. GOP bill would strip $100,000 from school diversity to fund ‘In God We Trust’ stickers
- Gordon Klingenschmitt Praises School Board For Standing Up To Evil, Sinful, Demonically Inspired Federal Judge
- Kentucky Public School Takes a Field Trip to the Creation Museum
- Religious schools that refuse to teach history & science are failing children & society
Fifty Shades Of Hate And Discrimination
- Trump Youth Plaster Slurs, Swastika And ‘Trump’ On College Chapel Walls
- Cruz-Aligned Pastor: Execute Girl Scout Leaders For ‘Promoting Homosexuality’
- Peter LaBarbera is outraged at the Kiss Cam: “I saw — I think it was a hockey game — where they had the kissing cam, and it was two guys kissing. And our kids are there. Do we want our sons and daughters to think it’s okay for two people of the same sex to kiss? It’s not okay! It’s immoral! It’s wrong!”
- Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Protecting People of Faith From Having to Serve Same-Sex Couples
- Ted Cruz’s touts endorsement from far-right activist who urged Sen. Rob Portman’s son to seek ex-gay therapy
- David Duke says Donald Trump will save “the European-American majority” from being “wiped out”
- ‘Religious liberty’ bill passes Georgia Legislature
- In A Move To End Gay Marriages, Alabama Senate Eliminates Marriage Licenses For Everyone!
- Ted Cruz advisor and serial Islamophobe, Frank Gaffney, claims that Liberal Jews work with Islamists.
- Gay Atlanta couple hospitalized after man attacks them with scalding water in their sleep.
- Ted Cruz aide Frank Gaffney said John McCain and John Boehner have been “parroting the Muslim Brotherhood line”
- Trump’s White Nationalist Backers Attack Merrick Garland For Being Jewish
- Nine Hate Mongers (Besides Trump) Who Will Be Honored Guests at the AIPAC Summit
If Media’s The Message
- Joel Osteen: Trump Is An Incredible Communicator & A Good Man
- Glenn Beck Says John Kasich Is A ‘Son Of A Bitch’ Who Is Going To ‘Possibly Destroy The Republic’
- Ted Cruz outdoes Trump — adds Muslim-hating ‘birther’ conspiracy theorist to his foreign policy team
- Conservative groups hire the “Swift Boat” PR firm to attack Merrick Garlan
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- Ted Cruz Today, the Rapture Tomorrow
- Conservative Author Threatens Anti-Trump Protesters: “Our Side Has Guns … Behave Yourselves”
- Money Laundering Keeps ultra-Orthodox Families Afloat
Politics Nation
- How Donald Trump sparked an unprecedented crisis among Jewish Republicans
- Carson Endorses the Demagogue
- As Demographics Shift, GOP Needs More Racists to Win Presidential Election
- Sarah Palin slams ‘punk-ass little thuggery stuff’ from anti-Trump protesters
- Jerry Falwell Jr. Compares Trump to Bible’s King David, ‘a Man After God’s Own Heart
- Ben Carson’s Buyer’s Remorse: Trump Offered Me A Job
- Rabbis organize boycott of Trump’s speech to AIPAC.
- Marco Rubio: ‘It Was Not God’s Plan That I Be President;’ God Is ‘Perfect and Makes No Mistakes’
- Donald Trump ‘Checks All the Boxes’ on Abortion, Marriage, Religious Liberty, Ralph Reed Says
Religion Gone Mad Gone Bad
- Anti-Gay Religious Leaders Pray for Legal Right to Discriminate Against LGBT People
- THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: STILL NOT DEAD
- Marco Rubio Suspends Presidential Campaign, Attributes Loss To God
- Okla. pastor warns GOP plan to give taxpayer dollars to Christians could lead to persecution of non-believers
- FRC prays (preys) that Senate Republicans will block the nomination of Merrick Garland
- Televangelist: Donald Trump Will Save Us From Antichrist
- Franklin Graham on Violence at Trump’s Chicago Rally: America Is Spiritually, Morally Broken
- AIPAC Speaker: Obama Can’t Be the Anti-Christ “Because He’s Not a Jew”
- With enough votes to override a veto, Georgia’s Governor Deal governor cites Jesus in signaling ‘religious freedom’ bill opposition
- ‘Religious liberty’ bill jeopardizes Atlanta Super Bowl bid
- The Pope Has Some Bad News For The Ambassador Who Set Him Up With Kim Davis bad-news-for-the-ambassador-who-set-him-up-with-kim-davis/
Scandal
- Top French Cardinal Hid Scouts Pedophile Scandal
- Mass. Catholic school apologizes for anti-Semitic chant
- Another day, another douchebag raping for Jesus: Gun-loving church youth mentor accused of creating horrifying ‘sex attic’ to abuse young boys
- Youth ministry leader confessed to touching girl, senior pastor says
- Mysterious Ted Cruz Super PAC Donors Tied To Company Accused Of Stealing Seniors’ Social Security
- Trump’s Pastor Friends Have One Thing In Common: They’re All Rich
- FBI raids Orthodox Jewish schools’ vendors in corruption probe
- Accused of using his position as pastor to seduce women in his congregation to have sex with him, Billy Graham’s grandson and Former Pastor of Coral Ridge Mega-Church has been fired from his new position at Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Winter Springs, Fla.
- Texas lawmaker billed taxpayers for trip to Oklahoma to get pain-relieving ‘Jesus shot’
- FBI agents and local police have raided several ultra-Orthodox schools for possible government fraud.
- Bill Gothard’s Former Institute Loses ECFA Accreditation over Governance . . and maybe a little pedophilia too.
- Pay-to-Pray Scam: Christian Prayer Center Must Refund $7 Million
- 3 Franciscan friars arraigned in Pennsylvania in child endangerment case
Science – – Or Not
- Texas man’s discovery of Noah’s flood fossils in front yard ‘confirmed’ sight-unseen by biblical scholar
Theocracy Rising
- This Is Where Right-Wing Radicalism Is Festering: While the Nation Watches the Presidential Race, There Are Scary Things Happening at State Legislatures
- Ted Cruz’s MI Co-Chair Wants to Ban Homosexuality
- Pastor Mark Burns, warming up Trump crowd, says of Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish: “Bernie got to get saved. He’s got to get Jesus.”
- Oklahoma House Repeals Church State Separation
- Meet the Hit-Squad ‘Holy Warrior’ Campaigning for Ted Cruz
- In a backlash to the Obergefell decision, Bill Would Take Alabama out of Marriage License Business
- Continuing to court and give respectability to the theocratic base, Tony Perkins Named to Republican Platform Committee
- Religious freedom group asks Veterans Administration to remove Bible from Youngstown facility after success in Akron
- Gov. Brownback may sign Kansas law allowing college religious groups to restrict membership
- Only Christians Are Real Americans.
- Gov. Rick Scott signed the Pastor Protection Act into law
- Mitt Romney says he now supports the one candidate who believes “gays are waging jihad on America”
- Indiana state trooper pulls woman over and asks ‘do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?’
