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
- #WarOnWomen So Far, 2015 Is On Pace to Set Abortion Restriction Records
- #DripDripDrip Nevada Assembly Passes Parental Notification Bill
- #MrsStupidStepsOut Tennessee lawmaker tables abortion bill exceptions because rape and incest are ‘not verifiable’
- #UpToTheRWGov Tennessee legislature passes sweeping abortion restrictions
Education
- #ABCsOfTheocracyThe Texas Legislature gave preliminary approval to a reckless and unaccountable voucher scheme that provides tax breaks for wealthy interests that take funds from public education in order to subsidize private and religious schools.
- #WhoNeedsHigherEdWhenYouveGotTheBible? 20 cash-starved public colleges drafting bankruptcy plans thanks to Bobby Jindal’s budget
Fifty Shades Of Hate
- #SpewingSpew Christian Pastor Preaches For Death Of Obama And Calls His Mother A Whore
- #TaughtToHate Pittsburgh high schoolers under fire for ‘Anti-Gay Day’ with ‘lynch list’ targeting pro-LGBT students
- #GellersStellarHateBomb ‘Killing Jews is Worship’ posters will soon appear on NYC subways and buses brought To You By One Of New York’s Most Appalling Jewish Zionists
Fifty Shades Of Lying Propaganda
- #LiesFromThePitOfHell Reversing the Abortion Pill
If Media’s The Message
- #MazelTov Friendly Tip from the lovely Bryan Fischer: Tell A Gay Couple They Are Going To Hell On Their Wedding Day
- #SuexuallyHungup Fox Host: To Stop Terror Recruitment, We Need A “More Robust, Manly, Not Feminized Version Of Christianity”
Israel, End Times And Hagee
- #TheSettlersAreRestless Israeli settlers torch Christian school in Jerusalem
- #CrazyEyesSpews Bachmann: Rapture Imminent Thanks To Gay Marriage & Barack Obama
- #TommyTwaddle Tom Tancredo: Obama Might Launch Attack On Israel
- #SameOldSaw John Hagee is preparing for the end of the world (again) because of his “blood moon” lunac,y claiming they signal End Times could be beginning.
Politics Nation
- #DaringTheBase Rubio: “Sexual Preference Is Something That People Are Born With”
- #PrezidentialTimber Rubio’s megachurch is a hotbed of “demonology and exorcism, Young Earth creationism, and denial of evolution
- #HuckAHurl Don’t underestimate the Christer voting bloc: Mike Huckabee Would Be a More Important Candidate Than You Might Think
- #NoSheDoesn’t Ohio Gov. Kasich pondering whether God wants him to run for president.
Religion Gone Bad Gone Mad
- #Duh RELIGIOUS FANATICISM IS A HUGE FACTOR IN AMERICANS’ SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
- #MaleHeadshipRearsItsUglyHead.PunIntended How To Make Your Wife Submit To Your Authority’: Christian Blog Teaches Men To Dominate Their Wives
- #FundedByCitizensUnited Marco Rubio takes lead in Sheldon Adelson primary
Same Sex Issues
- #BelieveTheScience Conversion Therapy has been discredited across the board by all reputable practitioners/researchers/ professional organizations
- #LovesGaysPsych Remember the Ted Cruz who cozied up to the wealthy NYC GOP gays just the other evening? Well, that same Ted Cruz, with the aid of a supposed 145,000 pastors, many with enormous followings, several Evangelical and pro-marriage groups, is leading a nationwide and very homophobic effort to stop SSM.
- #GodHelpUsAll Huckajesus Defends Ex-Gay Therapy, Warns Gay Rights Will Outlaw Christianity: ‘God Help Us All
- #WIFSWhatIsFrothySmoking? Santorum: Not Allowing Christians To Discriminate Is ‘A Violation Of The Establishment Clause’
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #TheBlackManSpeaketh EW Jackson: Slavery In America Wasn’t A ‘Racial Issue’
- #ANewLow? Congressional Republicans voted to overturn a new law that would protect women in Washington, D.C., from being fired due to their reproductive health-care choices.
- #InBedWithHomophobes Rep. Steve King Introduces Court-Stripping Bill Written By Radical Anti-Gay Activists
- #TarInHerHeels NC female State Rep compares women’s bodies to real estate as House passes longest abortion wait in country
- #ButHeWouldntMindIfHisDaughterWasGay Living In His Own Reality, Cruz Files Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same-Sex Marriage (See Antidote)
Scandals And Other Sick In The Head Behavior In The Name Of God
- #MenAndTheirGodhead Nevada Man Believed Child Porn Was Legal Because ‘He Was God’
- #DailyOccurence Anti-Gay Arkansas Pastor Is A Convicted Serial Rapist
Science Or Not
- #ComeAgain? Koch-backed Heartland Institute sending ‘real scientists’ to school Pope Francis about ‘Biblical duty’ to pollute
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #SCROTALOmen? Supreme Court halts birth-control mandate for more groups
- #SCROTALLYYours In Justice Kennedy’s view, the state has apparently endless constitutional power to regulate abortion
- #SubSCROTAL In Marriage Equality Cases, Conservatives Argue Discrimination Is a First Amendment Right
Theocracy Rising
- #WhatMeWorry? Evangelical Christians make up 49% of Republicans and Republican-leaners, according to a Pew 2014 Poll consisting of 10,000 interviews
- #WorriedYet? Rural Georgia city council votes to fly ‘Christian flag’ at City Hall over objections by its own attorney
- #ReligiousUnFreedom “Fundamentalist Christian Navy Chaplain Bans Religions He Doesn’t Like.”
Wow, this weeks upchuck list looks pretty long! I’m not sure if I’m going to find a lot of laffs here though. The fundamentalist nuts seem to gain more the crazier they get!
I still have to get around to last weeks list. I was feeling a little queezy when I checked your tab, and the last thing I wanted to see was “upchucks;” then I forgot to check back later.
And I only list SOME of them. Gotta follow the link for the entire list, including Antidotes.
I don’t get how, at a time when membership of most of these fundie evangelical churches is dropping, they still seem to be growing in money and political power!
Thanks for all your work keeping us informed about what the theocrats are up to these days….I hope some of the antidotes are at least as effective as Raid or other bug sprays. It’s becoming an infestation that afflicts us in Canada to a lesser/though increasing level….at least until we get our Conservative Government out of Ottawa! *I retweeted a post from Cdn. polling site – threehundredeight.com which shows the Tories trending downward….in spite of out of season political ads all over TV.
This is likely why the Tories have delayed calling an election till fall, in a last desperate attempt to cling to power. More and more people want them out and don’t care which of the two opposition parties takes their place! With them out of power, we’ll get a break from crazy fundamentalist influence in government….except out west in their main spawning ground – Alberta of course.