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’s Issues
- #TheLiesTheyTell Two years of state inspections at all 18 VA abortion care providers show zero patients harmed in 50,000 abortions.
- #Dire Tracking Texas Abortion Access
- #ElectionsMatter The Fifth Circuit Just Stuck A Knife In Roe v. Wade
- #CorporateReligion Texas fracking titans bankroll antichoice curriculum
- #TodayInAmerica Woman Charged With Murder For Taking The Abortion Pill Could Face The Death Penalty
Education
- #Nope An Indiana school district told a student to ‘get along’ with his coaches when he objected to Christian prayers
- #FastTrackToDoom: Idaho Republicans: Public schools should use the Bible as a science and law textbook
- #MuchIsTheMatterWithKansas Creationist Group: Kansas Schools Are Indoctrinating Students into Atheism by Teaching Them ‘Science’
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- #BrainLeak Pat Robertson: Comfort grieving mom by saying God stopped her dead baby from becoming next Hitler
- #BuhByeSeeYaWouldntWannaBeYa Utah Politician Won’t Eat Until The State Bans Same Sex Marriage
If Media’s The Message
- #ManipulativeKaKa Racist anti-choice billboards now targeting Black communities in #Atlanta
- #ConflatingInsanity Radio host Michael Savage: gay U.S. soldiers and ISIS terrorists are really “two sides of a coin”
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- #SingHallelujah Megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie Says Rapture Next Event on End Times Prophetic Calendar
- #RippedFromTheGoodBook End Timer predicts that Russia Will Invade US As God’s Judgment ‘For Becoming A Land Of Sodomites’
- #YawnSigh End Times alert: Franklin Graham blames Last Days on gays and Obama, Cal. GOPer blames drought on abortion rights
LGBTQ
- #SchadenfreudeRulesTheDay Franklin Graham Drops Bank Over LGBT Rights Stance, Joins Bank That’s Sponsoring A Pride Event
- #MichiganBlue Michigan GOP lawmakers send antigay ‘religious refusal’ adoption bills to Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk
- #TalibanY’All Pastors Pledge Civil Disobedience If Supreme Court Redefines Marriage
Lies And Propaganda
- #ElectionThiefInChief Ken Blackwell: Response To Gay Marriage Decision On Par With 9-11, Civil War
- #GodsBattlefield The inescapable paradox of American Christian fundamentalismast:
- #MileysBugUpKensArse Ken Ham in a snit over ‘Sexual Perversion’ After Pop Star Calls Belief in Noah’s Ark ‘Insane’
Military – Crusaders In Our Midst
- #OopsTheyDidItAgain Chaplain violated Army rule in promoting book
- #OopsHeDidItAgain Pat Robertson Calls Mikey Weinstein “One Little Jewish Guy” … AGAIN
Politics Nation
- #EatingTheirOwn Fox host hammers Santorum for trying to muzzle the pope on climate change To what purpose? Must be to elevate whoever they think has the best chance against Hillary.
- #LetTheGamesBegin Lindsey Graham: The GOP Tent Is Big Enough For Caitlyn Jenner
- #WhereDidOurLoveGo? Huckabee Camp Says Removal of Duggars From Website Was Planned; ‘It Will Be Up to Them’ If They Join Campaign Trail
- #GeezLouise Huckabee Stands By ‘Commonsense’ Transgender Locker Room Joke
- #OnTheRag Scott Walker says he’d consider a constitutional amendment allowing states to ban same-sex marriage
- #WhoLetTheAirOutOfFrothysFroth? Rick Santorum finds only one voter waiting at Iowa campaign event, warns her about gay marriage
- #NeedsToBeOuted Lindsey Graham Says He’ll Have A ‘Rotating First Lady’ If Elected President
- #PanderWhore Jebya clarifies remarks on stigma attached to kids born out of wedlock.
Religion Gone Mad Gone Bad
- #Hatearoos Only 1 group of Americans has become less accepting of homosexuality in the past 2 years & you can guess who they are.
- #WhenCherryPickingWontWork Catholic League president: Pope wrong on climate change because God never said ‘air pollution is intrinsically evil’
- #InTheMinutes How big business invented the theology of ‘Christian Libertarianism’ and the Gospel of free markets
- #GoWIthGod ‘Marriage is simply too important:’ Christian couple vows to divorce if gays allowed to wed
- #BecauseTheirOwnSuck Perverted Republicans Obsessed With Your Sex Life
- #BulletsForJesus Gun lovers invade church to heckle Chicago priest speaking out against gun violence
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #SCROTALWorries Sen. Mike Lee says SCOTUS marriage decision could disrupt entire “constitutional order”
- #KingsASickPuppy Steve King On Sex Abuse Scandal: ‘The Only Victim Here Is Denny Hastert’
- #CryUsARiver North Carolina Lt. Gov. says the only people facing marriage discrimination are Christians
- #This.Happened. Marco Rubio And Five Members Of Congress Voted For Florida’s ‘Scarlet Letter’ Adoption Bill
Scandal
- #PraiseJesus Duggars’ 15 minutes is over: They’re ‘on life support and the plug is going to be pulled’
- #PlainUpchuckery 5 Most Appalling “Christian” Defenses of Duggars
- #FiftyShadesOfHypocrisy Looking at Dennis Hastert’s Secret Gay ‘Misconduct’ in Light of His Terrible Voting Record on Gay Rights
- #TailBetweenHisLegs Josh Duggar Moving Back to Arkansas, Hires Kate Gosselin’s Bodyguard
- #LinkedInSin The Duggar PR Crisis Is Being Handled by Huckabee’s Political Adviser
- #WhenAbuseIsTheNorm “Like Duggar girls, I wasn’t aware I was being abused… I didn’t understand what was happening”
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #ClassAct Mike Huckabee faces class-action suit over robo-calls promoting cheesy Christian propaganda flick
- #TragicallyTrue Strange Practices Of Ex-Gay Therapy Revealed In Trial Testimony
- #ReligiousFreedomToBreakTheLaw North Carolina’s Magistrates Now Can Legally Ignore Marriage Laws
Theocracy Rising
- #TheJeezusGuys A new political party promises to revive Utah’s theocratic past, and rejects separation of church and state
- #WhatMeWorry? 57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion
- #SucksToBeUs Dorothy is Wrong – We ARE in Kansas – And it Sucks