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 much-needed antidotes (scroll down to the end of KC’s post) or any links that failed to show up here. Welcome to KC’s 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
- Kansas Planned Parenthood Investigation Found No Wrongdoing, Governor Still Wants to Cut Funding
- Reminder To Fox: Martin Luther King Jr. Praised Planned Parenthood
- California nurses get course credit for learning “abortion reversal” is medical fact
- California Lawmaker Takes Aim at Anti-Choice Misinformation in Nurse Courses
- Texas Law Brought Surge in Self-Induced Abortions
- Carly Fiorina Steals Kindergartners For Unhinged Anti-Abortion Event
- Aggressive Anti-Abortion Protesters Force D.C. School To Close For 2 Days
- Kentucky Senate Approves Forced In-Person Counseling for Abortion Patients
- As Anti-Abortion Groups Gather in D.C., A New High Profile For A Radical Movement
- Who cares whether or not Christie once made a small donation to Planned Parenthood? He’s an anti-choice extremist.
- Jeb Bush: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed To Teach Them A Lesson
- House GOP Seeks Names Of Medical Students, Could Endanger Abortion Patient Information
Education
- What Ohio Gov. John Kasich is doing to public education in his state
- State lawmaker in WA asks visiting teens if they’re virgins
- The Witch-Hunts & Paranoia at Gordon Wheaton (and other Evangelical Schools) Spells Disaster For Christian Education
- Colorado school district pushes Christian ‘purity’ training for 11-year-old girls to find future husbands
- Rafael Cruz: Public Education Is A Communist Plot
- Conservative Christians Are on a Mission in Public Schools
Fifty Shades Of Hate And Other Ugly
- Franklin Graham Warns Christians To Keep Gays Away From Their Kids And Churches
- Netanyahu aide calls US ambassador ‘little Jew boy’ in escalating controversy
- Washington State Lawmakers: Transgender People’s Bodies Are ‘Security Concerns’
- Unhinged Hate from Texas Gov. Abbott’s ‘Blood Brother’ Ted Nugent
- Tony Perkins “I have offered suggestions to every presidential candidate who has asked, including Donald Trump”
Fifty Shades Of Lies, Hypocrisy And Propaganda
- Trump: “I have so many friends from Israel. I have won so many awards from Israel.”
- Tony Perkins says Ronald Reagan would have never negotiated with Iran! (Except for that Iran-Contra thing)
- Anti-Cruz Ad: He Doesn’t Tithe; Also a Huge Liar and a Phony
If Media’s The Message
- Hollywood Goes Full-On Devil Worship
- The GOP’s Obama dogwhistles are out of control: How Trump, Christie & Cruz have sunk our discourse to new lows
- Fox’s Meghan McCain: Ted Cruz is ‘the thinking man’s Donald Trump’ because he can quote the Bible better
- Rick Scarborough The Insane Says Comedians Are Coming For The Church
- CNN Invites Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins To Comment on Sarah Palin’s Endorsement Of Donald Trump
- Christian media leader makes the case for Cruz and encourages Pentecostals to turn out and vote
- Ted Cruz touts endorsement from church founder who claims Oprah is the forerunner of the Antichrist
- More positive press for the anti-science Ark Encounter
- Ever the persecuted, Ken Ham: New CBS TV Show Mocks Christianity
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- Millions of Evangelical Christians Want to Start World War III … to Speed Up the Second Coming
- How The American Religious Right Is Making The Middle East Peace Process Impossible
- Which, if any, of the presidential candidates understand Apocalyptic Islam asks this Messianic End Times-er.
- Unrequited Christian Zionist Love? Israel arrests two Jewish teens for Jerusalem monastery vandalism
- THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US, TED CRUZ ENDORSEMENT EDITION
Politics Nation
- Cruz mega-donors’ path to ‘kingdom building’
- Trump Gave An MLK Day Speech At Liberty U That Ignored MLK
- The Gospel According to Trump
- Evangelicals See Donald Trump as Man of Conviction, if Not Faith
- ‘I will protect Christians,’ Donald Trump tells students at Liberty University
- Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson try to court anti-gay extremists
- Cruz Touts Endorsements From Anti-Feminist Eagle Forum
- Falwell Jr.: Donald Trump Like Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr. And Jerry Falwell
- Trump’s Pastor: ‘Anchor Baby’ Rubio May Not Be Eligible For Presidency
- Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump with a ‘hallelujah’ aimed at evangelical voters
- Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson Endorses Ted Cruz
- Reeling from Palin’s Donald Trump endorsement, Ted Cruz digs up … Glenn Beck
- Former Head of Moral Majority Lashes Out at Jerry FalwellJr for Trump near-endorsement
- Palin wasn’t “drunk” and her Trump speech wasn’t “stupid”: She’s playing right into the heart of twisted Republican politics
- Religious Right Bails On Huckabee, Now He’s Going Insane
- Proud ISIS Recruiter Rick Santorum, aka Frothy: “There’s only been one presidential candidate featured in ISIS magazine…my picture was in it.”
Religion Gone Mad Gone Bad
- Sex Abuse & Gay Conversion Therapy: The Dark Past of Justin Bieber’s Megachurch Hillsong
- Anglicans Demote Episcopalians as Global Christianity Gets More Polarized
- Trump’s tribalist (rather than theological) view of Christianity
- Falwell: “In my opinion, Donald Trump leads a life of loving and helping others, as Jesus taught.”
- “Prophet” in Lagos sets member ablaze in church
- Shamed, this Pakistani boy accused of blasphemy cut off his hand
- Frothy on Immigration: Deporting Immigrants Is A ‘Blessing’ For Their Countries
- In Robocall, Pastor Promises Hell if You Don’t Join Church
- Ted Cruz’s campaign is handing out bottled water in Flint — but only to anti-abortion groups
- “A disturbing number of people were being evangelized by the very (therapists) professionals they turned to for help.”
- Texas man accidentally shoots his own foot at a church
- Jehovah’s Witness sues Michigan school district over Valentine’s Day party
Scandal
Chester County, PA Pastor Wanted On Rape Charges Arrested In New Jersey
- Let ’em die: Idaho Republican sees no reason to require faith-healing parents to seek medical treatment for dying kids
- Long-shot ‘Christian Party’ presidential candidate who wants to ban gays from TV arrested for stalking ex-wife
- ‘Porn Epidemic’ is ‘Sweeping the Church’ says Evangelical Leader
- Kansas State Senator cannot control his lustful thoughts.
Science Or Not
- Noah’s Ark Rises In Kentucky
- Ken Ham whines because Newsweek reporter refers to his operation as a “circus.”
- Minnesota GOP Primed to Attack Fetal Tissue Research
Supremes And Lower Courts
- SCOTUS refuses to review extreme Arkansas ban on abortion at 12 weeks, keeping it permanently blocked!
- Atheist seeks removal of ‘God’ from US currency — again
- Religious freedom arguments used to weaponize the First Amendment
- Tennessee Lawmakers Attempt To Nullify Supreme Court Decision Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
- Court Rules Catholic Hospital Can Refuse Reproductive Health Care
Theocracy Rising
- This is the religious right’s radical new plan: The very real efforts to create an American theocracy in plain sight
- When Trump finishes talk at Liberty U, voter registration tables await students.
- Denver Archbishop: Shun Candidates Supporting Planned Parenthood
- Atheist Asks Marco Rubio Whether He’s Running To Be ‘Pastor-In-Chief’
- Gary Cass Explains That Only Christian Men Are Qualified For Political Office
- NEBRASKA ADOPTION BILL WOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST LGBT PARENTS
- Ted Cruz: ‘I’m a Christian first, American second.’ Imagine if Muslim or Jewish politician said that
- Air Force Commander’s #1 Priority For His Troops: “Be Devoted Christians First and Foremost”
- RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH BLAMES GAYS FOR ISIS; ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST’ SWORN IN ASGUATEMALA’S PRESIDENT
- 5 Reasons Ted Cruz Is Even More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
I want to gag, and I only got thru the first two. Have to go thru them gradually, my brain can only take so much at a time. Lord help us, save us from these people who assume they are religious, please
Aren’t they… special?