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Robertson Says Wife of Cheating Husband Should be Grateful

May 16, 2013 at 9:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Responding to a question from a viewer concerned about her cheating husband, Pat Robertson said that married men “have a tendency to wander” and it is the spurned wife’s job “to focus on the positive and make sure the home is so enticing, he doesn’t want to stray,” the Huffington Post reports.

Said Robertson: “Does he provide a home for you to live in. Does he provide food for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the children… Is he handsome?”

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Quote of the Day

May 11, 2013 at 7:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Our nation has seen judgment not once but twice on September 11 and that’s why we’re going to have ‘9-11 Pray’ on that day. Is there anything better that we can do on that day rather than to humble ourselves and to pray to an almighty God?”

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by Huffington Post, promoting a day of prayer on September 11.

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Lawmaker Links Islamic Prayer to Terrorism

April 11, 2013 at 10:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In an email exchange with a constituent, North Carolina state Rep. Michele Presnell (R) was asked if she was comfortable with a prayer to Allah before a legislative meeting, the Raleigh News and Observer reports.

Her response: “No, I do not condone terrorism.”

Interestingly, Presnell is a co-sponsor of a resolution asserting that North Carolina can establish a state religion.

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Bonus Quote of the Day

April 10, 2013 at 12:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Frankly to tell you the truth some in the evangelical Christian movement I think have appeared too eager for war.”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in an interview with David Brody.

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College Student Schools an Economist in Economics

April 8, 2013 at 4:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

College student Zach Kopplin, who has been fighting against the teaching of creationism in public schools, smacked down economist Stephen Moore on Real Time with Bill Maher.

It’s definitely worth watching.

[Read more…]

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Lawmakers Want State Religion in North Carolina

April 3, 2013 at 9:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a bill to allow the state “to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide,” WRAL-TV reports.

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Minister Blasts the Religious Right at Easter Service

March 31, 2013 at 3:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“With President Obama and his family in the pews for Easter Sunday worship, the Rev. Luis Leon at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington’s Lafayette Square took the opportunity to take a shot at political conservatives, arguing from the pulpit that some conservative positions are holding people back,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Leon: “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border.”

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Religious Right Snubbed by RNC Report

March 20, 2013 at 8:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

McKay Coppins: “Some leaders of the religious right are openly worried this week after a sprawling 98-page report released by the Republican National Committee on how the party can rebuild after its 2012 implosion made no mention of the GOP’s historic alliance with grassroots Christian ‘value voters.'”

“Specifically, the word ‘Christian’ does not appear once in the party’s 50,000-word blueprint for renewed electoral success. Nor does the word ‘church.’ Abortion and marriage, the two issues that most animate social conservatives, are nowhere to be found. There is nothing about the need to protect religious liberty, or promote Judeo-Christian values in society. And the few fleeting suggestions that the party coordinate with ‘faith-based communities’ — mostly in the context of minority outreach — receive roughly as much space as the need to become more “inclusive” of gays.”

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

March 17, 2013 at 1:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“You may not be interested in Islamism, but Islamism is interested in you… The vast majority of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims adhere to a view of their religion that agrees on the need to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on the world.”

Former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey, quoted by Salon, speaking on a CPAC panel.

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Palin’s Next Book

March 13, 2013 at 2:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sarah Palin is writing a her next book about Christmas, the AP reports.

The former Alaska governor has a deal with HarperCollins for A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas and will criticize the “over-commercialism” and “homogenization” of the holiday and call for a renewed emphasis on the religious importance.

Andrew Sullivan: “Well, if anyone’s an expert on miraculous births…”

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Mississippi is the Most Religious State

February 13, 2013 at 10:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

A Gallup analysis finds Mississippi remained the most religious state in the union in 2012, with
58% of its residents classified as very religious.

At the other end of
the spectrum, Vermont remained the least religious state, with 19% of
its residents classified as very religious.

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Church Used Cemetery Money to Pay Sex Abuse Settlement

February 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Under his leadership in 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles quietly appropriated $115 million from a cemetery maintenance fund and used it to help pay a landmark settlement with molestation victims.”

“The church did not inform relatives of the deceased that it had taken the money, which amounted to 88% of the fund. Families of those buried in church-owned cemeteries and interred in its mausoleums have contributed to a dedicated account for the perpetual care of graves, crypts and grounds since the 1890s.”

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

January 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Of course, almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa — just white
left-wingers who try to shove this down black people’s throats in an
effort to divide Americans.”

— Wisconsin state Rep. Glenn Grothman (R), quoted by Gawker.

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Huckabee Blames Shooting on Removing God from Schools

December 14, 2012 at 5:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Mike Huckabee told Fox News that today’s deadly massacre in an elementary school in Connecticut was due to the lack religion in public schools.

Said Huckabee: “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a palce where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability?”

[Read more…]

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Quote of the Day

November 24, 2012 at 12:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It’s, well, Christmas all over again. The Grinch is trying to steal our holiday. It’s been so beautiful, the nation comes together, we sing Christmas carols, we give gifts to each other, we have lighted trees, and it’s just a beautiful thing. Atheists don’t like our happiness, they don’t want you to be happy, they want you to be miserable. They’re miserable, so they want you to be miserable. So they want to steal your holiday away from you.”

— Pat Robertson, on The 700 Club, gearing up for another War on Christmas.

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Do Women Like Porn?

November 9, 2012 at 11:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In a priceless moment on his television show, Pat Robertson asks his female co-host if she likes pornography.

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Quote of the Day

October 6, 2012 at 6:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.”

— Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Are Democrats Anti-Mormon?

April 24, 2012 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A recent Gallup poll found that 27% of Democrats would not vote for a Mormon under any circumstances, versus 18% of Republicans.

Peter Beinhart: “One reason Democrats may be more anti-Mormon than Republicans is that Democrats, on average, are more secular. Devout Protestants, Catholics, and Jews may be more tolerant of Mormonism because they understand from firsthand experience the comfort and strength that religious commitment brings. Many secular Democrats, by contrast, may start with the assumption that religious orthodoxy produces irrationality and intolerance… Democrats may exhibit greater suspicion of Mormonism, in other words, because they exhibit greater suspicion of all organized religion. It’s just that anti-Mormonism is still socially acceptable enough to confess to a pollster.”

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