If my memory is correct, this is the first time a newspaper has openly called out and detailed the right wing religious grift machine: Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has chosen to prolong her moment in the limelight by defying a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to legally qualifed people who apply for …
Religious Nuts 2
You’ll Have To Pry These Marriage Licenses Out Of My Cold, Dead Laser Printer
Meanwhile, the saga of the quixotic enigma that is the Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk’s Office continues. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to resume issuing marriage licenses despite her religious objection to same-sex marriage, but Davis quickly filed an appeal and continued her refusal to issue licenses. Davis will ask …
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He puts the “Rube” in Rubio
FL senator and presidential aspirant Marco Rubio routinely evades questions about why his home city of Miami is drowning by citing the fact that he is not a scientist. So I was mildly surprised during the recent GOP presidential debate when he justified his anti-abortion extremism by announcing with a flourish that his position is …
Mind Your Own Damned Business II (Rant + Open Thread)
I’m going to relate a personal story because, why the hell not? It took place quite a long time ago, during the second term of the Clinton administration, probably well before some of you crazy kids were even born. The mister and I found out we were going to have a baby, and damn, we …
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Mind Your Own Damned Business
ACLU 1, Godbothering panty sniffers 0: A federal court of appeals ruled today that religiously affiliated nonprofit employers can’t block their employees’ health care coverage for contraceptives. The ruling finds that the plaintiffs, which include Catholic health care systems and Catholic high schools, are not burdened by having to formally object to covering contraceptives for …
About Those High-Pitched Squeals You Heard Yesterday…
If you haven’t already, check out President Obama’s speech on the Iran nuke deal. He makes a convincing argument for supporting the agreement and provides a plausible overview of what will happen if Congress doesn’t approve it. Come for the well-reasoned summation, but stay to hear PBO strip the bark off the always-wrong neocons. Here’s …
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Terror Attack in Jerusalem
The psycho homophobe pictured below stabbed a bunch of people at a Jerusalem gay pride parade today: The photos were taken by an AP reporter. More can be seen here if you’ve got the stomach for it, and it looks like some of the victims are badly injured. Hopefully all will survive the attack, but …