“Civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells about officials distributing ‘In God We Trust’ posters in Texas schools after a state law took effect requiring public campuses to display any donated items bearing that phrase,” the Guardian reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 [...]
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Seattle Pacific U. sues for right to discriminate against gays
Seattle Pacific University, a private Christian college, sued the Washington attorney general on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, to halt an investigation of its hiring practices. SPU doesn’t hire LGBQT faculty or staff. In May, its trustees reaffirmed that policy, triggering protests by faculty and [...]
Prominent Christian nationalist says Jews aren’t welcome in GOP
Andrew Torba (photo, left), an alt-right social media figure, argues Jews must be excluded from the conservative movement. “We don’t want people who are Jewish,” he said. “This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country.” Actuall[...]
Objective Truth v. Subjective Belief
This is the battle of the new century, and it’s not going well for the good guys. It feels like 1940, struggling to hold the beachheads in England and Dunkirk (but, as you’ll recall, the good guys won that one; the lesson being to never give up the good fight, no matter how dark the [&he[...]
Will the Supreme Court destroy the rule of law?
The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority appears to be as reckless as the president who appointed them. In just the last 10 days, “the court has gutted limits on gun possession, severely weakened the wall between church and state, and taken away a right that has existed for nearly 5[...]
How abortion mixes church and state
Catholic doctrine insists if an abnormal fetus will kill its mother, and it’s “it or her,” both must die. That’s because, in the Pope’s thinking (and in the Church, nobody else’s thinking counts), the fetus is “absolutely innocent” whereas the mother i[...]
The GOP’s plan to prevent mass shootings
More prayer. Their one-page legislative program is reproduced below. This post is short because there’s nothing else to report from their side of the aisle. For a sampling of Republican lawmakers’ anguished tweets following the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre go here. Finally, to those wh[...]
Possessed by demons
Greg Locke (see rap sheet here), pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Juliet, Tennessee, claims, “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation.” He says “if you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church. You can get out. You get out, you demon ̷[...]
GOP candidate wants Dr. Fauci shot
John R. Bennett, an Oklahoma pastor (photo, left; bio here), told a cheering crowd of Republicans that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be shot. Bennett previously has said Hillary Clinton should be shot, and has called Oklahoma state agencies “terrorists” simply for pointing out that budget cut[...]
Treating LGBQT people like humans isn’t a “political issue”
“A gay Ohio substitute teacher was fired last week after handing out Pride bracelets to high school students, the latest example of LGBTQ discussion in schools sparking controversy amid heated debates in school boards and states around the country,” CNN reported on Friday, April 1, 2022 [...]