Christian Right

Bobby Franklin on the tornado victims’ idolatry.

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be debated in Parliament today and voted on tomorrow, Wednesday May 11. The bill, thought by many to have been shelved, had in fact remained before a committee of Uganda’s parliament. There were hearings on the legislation, known in some quarters as the “kill the gays” bill, last Friday, May 6.

I think some outsiders still think American Judaism is divided into Reform, Conservative Orthodox. In recent decades, it has become much more pluralistic, with several additional groups that could be seen as fledgling denominations and many others that are floating somewhere between institutional categories. On the other hand, some insiders believe that the American Jewish religious denominational structure has collapsed.

During my lecture I faced a standing room crowd of heretics, fence sitters, curiosity seekers, and true believers bracing for a circus sideshow. Traveling across America to speak on freethought and abolitionism during the 19th century, white feminist atheist Ernestine Rose was smeared as being a “thousand times below a prostitute.”

His approach damages scholarship and democracy.

They claim Obama isn’t a “natural born citizen” because of his “divided loyalties.”

The Discovery Institute believes so, at least.

Glenn Beck’s favorite “historian” gets kid-glove treatment in the paper of record.

House will vote on H.R. 3 tomorrow.

How the Tea Party favorite diverges from Republican orthodoxy.