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
- #ItCanHappenHere: Abortion Bans Are Putting Women Behind Bars
- #SomethingsRottenAtYourLocalPCC: The Epidemic of Lying at Crisis Pregnancy Centers Exposes the Moral Rot in the Anti-Choice Movement
- #There’sStupid,ThenTheresEvilStupid: Partially funded by your tax dollars. ‘Crisis Pregnancy Center’ Tells Woman Her IUD Was A Baby
Education
- #ChristianHigherLearning? Football players wear KKK robes during team-building event at Illinois evangelical college
- #Wondrin’WhereMightThisLead: Kansas bill would criminalize teachers for providing certain material to students
Fifty Shades of Hate
- #FranklyPuking: Franklin Graham Says That Obama’s Mother ‘Must Have Been A Muslim’
- #BrotherlyHateInPhilly: Transit ads linking Nazism and Islam may soon run in Philadelphia
Fifty Shades Of Lying Propaganda
- #Word-Smith-ingJoe: The Mormon Church’s Gay Rights Charade – Provisional support of certain LGBT legal protections—with conditions.
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
- #BryBryLePuke: Bryan Fischer: Homosexuality Causes Blindness
If Media’s The Message
- #SpoilerAlert: America is NOT a Christian nation.
- #DrHydeIPresume? Op-ed In the New Jersey Star Ledger: Tom Cotton ‘is a Neocon monstrosity out of central casting’
- #AbusingMLK: Alveda King, The Fox News Contributor Who Blames Natural Disasters On Gay Marriage
Israel, End Times And John Hagee
- #CanYouSaySelf-FulfillingProphecy? Evangelicals & ISIS Feel Fine About the End of the World
- #Bringin’ItOn: GOP Senator Dismisses Diplomacy With Iran Over Nuclear Program, Suggests War Instead Of Diplomacy
- #FollowTheMoney: “2014: Tom Cotton gets $1M from Kristol’s neocon Emergency Cmtee for Israel; repays debt with Iran letter”
- #WherePoliticsMoney&EndTimesMeet: Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’
- #AndFatherErupts: John Hagee: Netanyahu’s Speech To Congress Was God’s Warning To America To Stand With Israel Or Face Judgment
Politics Nation
- #ThatDuhMoment: Huckajesus Asked To Provide Example Of Negative Impact Of Marriage Equality, Draws A Blank
- #JesusJebThatWasQuick: Jeb jumps aboard the pandering train. So much for bucking the crazies.
- #ExcuuuuseHim: Whining Rand Paul Says Gay Marriage ‘Offends’ Him.
- #WalkeringTHeWalk: LOOKING FOR WALKER TO “DO NOTHING” (BUT CARRY A BIG RELIGIOUS STICK) IN 2016 ELECTION
- #CruzingToInfamy: Ted Cruz Touts Anti-Gay Bona Fides To Extremist Group
- #InTheValleyOfJordan(Sekulow): Team Jeb Bush’s Liaison to the Religious Right Is Islamophobic, Opposed to Marriage Equality and Vigorously Anti-Abortion
Religion Gone Bad
- #HomelessButGay: Christian university shuts down bake sale benefiting homeless LGBT youth
- #BecauseFreedom: Catholic Church Claims It Can Refuse To Pay Victims Of Sex Abuse Because Of Religious Freedom
Same Sex Issues
- #GodsCurse: Catholic bishop: Being born gay isn’t what God intended — it’s like Down’s syndrome
- #NoGeorgiaPeach: Following ARK & ALA, Georgia’s Anti-Gay ‘Right to Discriminate’ Bill Has Passed the Senate
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
- #KlinkKlankKlunk: Colorado Lawmaker ‘Very Proud’ of South Dakota Legislator Who Compared Planned Parenthood to ISIS
- #CaughtYa! GOP Sneaks Anti-Abortion Language Into Bipartisan Human Trafficking Bill
Scandal
- #Ain’tHeMoral? US judge orders Sands Hotel to hand over documents proving Sheldon Adelson used “prostitution strategy” for Macau resort
- #HeReallySaidThis; Arkansas Republican gave adopted girls to rapist because they were ‘possessed by demons’
Science – Or Not
- “Climate change is not a religion. It is not a belief system. It’s a science fact.” EPA’s Gina McCarthy
Supremes And Lower Courts
- #SCROTAL Upchuck: Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Obamacare contraception mandate
Theocracy Rising
- #Ludicrous: Senate GOP invites Tony Perkins, defender of Uganda anti-gay bill, to testify at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing tomorrow on “protecting religious freedom abroad.”
- #GodStillWhispersInHisEar: George W Bush makes a surprise, silent appearance at Liberty Counsel’s The Awakening conference