I have no clue how this man is a State anything, even if that state is Virginia. On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at a press conference against state funding for Planned Parenthood. He blasted the organization for supporting a women’s right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had …
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They Got a Crazy Way of Loving There
Here’s a little break from the convention news: Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn today became the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official convicted during the church’s decades-long child sexual abuse scandal. Following a short non-jury trial, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge John Torrence convicted Finn of one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspicions of child abuse …
Key Founding “Family Values” Leader Joins the Choir Invisible
From the NYTimes: Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Self-Proclaimed Messiah Who Built Religious Movement, Dies at 92 … Mr. Moon courted world leaders, financed newspapers and founded numerous innocuously named civic organizations. To his critics, he pursued those activities mainly to lend legitimacy to his movement, known as the Unification Church, although his methods were sometimes …
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The Missouri Castrati
Too funny: U.S. Senator Roy Blunt called U.S. Representative Todd Akin’s recent statements “totally unacceptable” and issued the following joint statement together with former Missouri U.S. Senators John Ashcroft, Kit Bond, John Danforth, and Jim Talent calling for Akin to step aside: “We do not believe it serves the national interest for Congressman Todd Akin …
A Bigot Gets His Comeuppance
You all remember Andrew Shirvell, right? He was the out of control rightwing nutjob assistant Attorney General in Michigan who spent months defaming the student body President of the Universit of Michigan before being fired in disgrace. Looks like he has now had his day in court: A federal court jury in Detroit has awarded …
Open Minds, Closed Hearts
Ahh Kentucky. And people wonder why the state’s aggregate IQ drops by a measurable amount when I cross the Ohio River to go to work in the mornings. Stories like this just depress me. Kentucky’s Senate Republicans pushed successfully in 2009 to tie the state’s testing program to national education standards, but three years later, …
The Religion of Peace
Charming: Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan say that there was nothing they could do after Bible-preaching protesters threatened to rape and murder pro-LGBT activists at a “Gay Day” event over the weekend. In a video posted to YouTube, several protesters with Bibles can be seen shouting at a woman celebrating in the inaugural “Gay Day” …