K. C. Boyd, is the author of Being Christian - A Novel,: A black comedy guaranteed to take you on a wild and frightening ride deep into the dark side of the religious right. It is available on Amazon in multiple formats.
She is the go-to blogger for religion, hypocrisy, and all things church v. state. You can read her earlier posts on The Political Carnival here and more about who she is on her own website here
The Weekly Upchuck April 12, 2015
Abortion, Contraception And Other Women’s Issues
#WhatsTheMatterWIthBrownback? Governor Brownback signs bill banning D & E abortion procedure, labeling it ‘dismemberment’
#MaleHeadshipIsShowing Florida pastor rants: God wants men to rule women — but men can’t rejoice without being sued
#MedicalDeEducation Medical education is under attack. Abortion Opponents Are Quietly Going After One Of The Top Medical Schools In The Country
#BlowinInTheWind Which Rand Paul is running for President? The one who wants to make abortion & IVF illegal?
#WhatHappensInKansasDoesntStayInKansas Updated: Why Kansas’ abortion ban #SB95, signed into law today, is so dangerous
#OnYourDime Millions in taxpayer money is going to centers that lie to women about contraception and abortion
#Criminal Just like Arizona, Arkansas Will Force Doctors To Tell Women Abortions Can Be “Reversed”
#LiesFromThePitOfHell The ‘Science’ Behind Arizona’s Mandatory ‘Abortion Reversal’ Advice (see above Upchuck)
#AmericanTaliban The New Extremes Of The Anti-Abortion Movement
#FirstDoNoHarm To Rand Paul, Abortion Access For Rape Victims Isn’t Worth Talking About
#BayouBlunder The real religious freedom fight is about to begin — in Louisiana Assault on Pregnant Woman Could Lead to Anti-Choice Legislation
#BecauseKansas Abortion in Kansas “harder to get than at any time since before Roe v. Wade
#N’OkieDokkie Oklahoma Could Soon Have Abortion Waiting Period That Is Among the Nation’s Longest
#BamaBlues Alabama Lawmaker Introduces Six-Week Abortion Ban
#WomensSuffrage What happens when there is no one skilled enough to do a D & E
Creationism
#ForThoseWhoThinkYoungEarth Pepsi’s Creation Museum Ad Results In Boycotts
#HamChuck Ken Ham Says Life-Size Noah’s Ark on Track to Open in 2016
Education
#SomePeach Georgia teacher tells students their parents aren’t Christians if they voted for Obama. Her husband is on the school board, so it’s no big deal…
#Can’tMakeItUp North Carolina Republicans: Schools Should Stop Teaching Emergency Contraception
WTFChuck? Florida taxpayer-funded school: ‘Awesome God’ wanted lesbian teacher fired for ‘lifestyle choices’
#SeeJaneRead Humanist Group and ACLU Slam Oklahoma School Officials After Teacher Distributes Bibles in Class
Israel , End Times And John Hagee
#SuckItHageeMonster John Hagee Winds Up Debunking His Own ‘Blood Moons’ Theory
#FaustianBargain Why Is Pro-Israel Group at Rutgers Partnering with CUFI, a Fundamentalist Christian Organization?
#PerkyPuke Tony Perkins: Netanyahu Defeat Could Have Ushered In The End Times
#NotSoHiddenAgenda American Family Association (the group that recently took the GOP to Israel) Posts then Removes Explicit Theocratic Aspirations
#CottoningKaKa Tom Cotton Received More Than $1 Million From Israel Lobby
#LikeOilToFire Israel bids to open synagogue on Al-Aqsa grounds
Fifty Shades Of Stark Raving Mad
#MadHatter Pat Robertson will never change his mind about gay marriage until someone proves that anal sex can lead to pregnancy
#TheLoonsA’Howlin’ Pat Robertson: Forbid soccer on Sundays and God will make your kids rich like Chick-fil-A
#Bry-Bry Puke-Puke Bryan Fischer: President Obama Animated By The Same ‘Spirit And Energy’ As The Antichrist
If Media’s The Message
#ReallyChuck? TV host: Lacking scientific proof, ‘I don’t believe in gay people, I don’t believe there is such a thing’
#OrThis Christian TV Host: Being Gay is No Different than Being a Rapist
#TheSpewGoesOn Hannity Pal Mark Steyn: I Don’t Think Obama Is A Christian
#GoodLuckWIthThat ‘Left Behind’ — which received 2 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — seeks crowdfunding for a sequel
Politics Nation
#JesusIsADemocrat You Cannot Be a Republican and a Christian
#PanderingMan Jebya’s so-called refusal to bend to the demands of people whose views he does not share demonstrates that he is running a different type of race.
So why’d he champion Mike Pence’s ill-fated ‘Religious Freedom’ bill (even if he flipped his flop afterwards)?
And why did he hire Jordan Sekulow as Christer Panderer-In-Chief?
#NotWhatTheFoundingFathersPlanned Iowa pastors play influential role in 2016 presidential race
#BringItOn Bobby Jindal Says Duck Dynasty Star Willie Robertson Would Be a ‘Great Running Mate’
#FoamingAtTheMouth Frothy, aka Rick Santorum, Quotes ‘God Hates Fags’ Slogan While Discussing Indiana Law
#GoodForSay20PercentOfElectorate Pastor Who Spoke At Rand Launch: We Don’t Yet Know Obama’s ‘Real Religion’
#CruzingForMoore With Court-Stripping Scheme, Ted Cruz Embraces Roy Moore School Of Constitutional Law
#CallingTheIRS Wisconsin Preacher Tells Members How To Vote
#Who’sPanderringNow? Rand Paul gives the abortion answer that social conservatives have wanted.
#TellItBrother Iowa voter says GOP booted him for calling Ted Cruz extreme: ‘They just want to preach the Gospel’
#BeyondTheWatersEdge Jean Marie Le Pen steps off edge &daughter Marine opposes his election candidacy. Political expediency or reasonable decency? TBD
#DiceyDeacey Steve Deace: The most powerful Republican advocate you’ve never heard of:
#AfraidOfTheNutters Pence cancels NRA speech
#SecretWeapon Five Things To Know About Iowa GOP Kingmaker Bob Vander Plaats
#FrothyFibs Rick Santorum: Separation Of Church And State A Communist Idea, Not An American One
#LiesHisMotherTaughtHim Rick Santorum: Media ‘perversion’ of Indiana law was rammed ‘down the public’s throat’
#QuackADoodleDoo Ted Cruz tells Iowa group that gays are waging ‘jihad’ against Christians
Religion Gone Bad, Gone Mad
#AlmsForTheHaters $840K raised for Indiana pizzeria that backed religious law.
ExtremistByAnyOtherName Army of God? Here are 6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups you never hear about
#WeddingBellBlues WHY THE ONGOING RFRA BATTLE IS ABOUT FAR MORE THAN WEDDING CAKES
#WhoGivesAFlyingFrick? Duggar baby named Israel. Imagine this headline when he’s of drinking age: “Israel gets bombed”
#CapitalistNation PREACHER CHARGES $10 TO ENTER CHURCH ON EASTER SUNDAY
#LittleKnownFact Robert Reich: Colleges, churches and non-profits are doing the wealthy’s dirty work
#LessThanLoving Tennessee bill allows Christian counselors to reject suicidal LGBT students
#WhatDoTheyShare? Indiana, Russia & France highlight the dangers of allowing the irrationality of religious faith to dominate the world
#CharterAPlane Aboard Flights, Conflicts Over Seat Assignments and Religion
#LetDadDie Scientology Cult Leader David Miscavige Spent $10K a Week Spying on His Elderly Father
#HateKills Another Transgender Teen, Who Revealed Honest Tales of Bullying, Takes Own Life
#BuckeyeBlunder Ohio House bill would allow officiants to refuse to marry gay couples
#DoMoreHarm When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
Same Sex Issues
#LittleBobbysBlunder Extreme ‘Religious Liberty’ Bill Could Make Louisiana The Next Indiana – - Even Worse.
#SouthernDiscomfort Why North Carolina’s “Religious Freedom” Bill Is Even Worse Than Indiana’s
#TheDamageDone My Conservative Christian Nightmare: I Spent 16 Years in an Abusive Religious Sect
T-BoyASpewin’ Tony Perkins: God Tells Us Who We Should (or Shouldn’t) Marry (God must have forgot to tell Tony’s wife! )
#NeverForget Jebya on Terry Schiavo: “I regret that she was starved to death when she had loving parents who wanted to take care of her
#LookinForABadBromance GOP pops poison pill. Bush, Cruz and Rubio look craven on ‘religious freedom.’
#ShowMeHate Missouri Voters Repeal LGBT Anti-Discrimination Law
#WeWillWeWillOutlastYou Religious Right” Endgame After Losing The LGBT Fight: “America is a flash in the historical pan. Christianity is not. We will outlast you.”
Same Sex Issues
#NoQuietDeath LGBT battle far from over as ‘religious freedom’ bills multiply across the US
#SoSpeakethTheRoach Tom DeLay: Christians Must Fight For The Right To Discriminate ‘With Every Ounce Of Our Being’
#BoycottHate Why the fix to Indiana’s RFRA bill doesn’t go far enough”
#ZutAlors! Did The Pentagon Gay-Bomb America?
#TheCure FRC Spokesman: Homosexuality A Result Of Sexual Abuse, Can Be ‘Overcome’
Sausage Makers And Their Sausage
#FamilyValues Missouri Republicans try to block people on food stamps from eating well
#LittleBobbyHasAHissy Bobby Jindal Uncomfortable With Laws Banning LGBT Discrimination
#ForFreaksSake Florida Lawmaker Reversed Adoption Bill Vote Because ‘I Simply Can’t Affirm Homosexuality’
#TheyGetWhoTheyVoteFor GOP Illinois governor wants to cut HIV program, Autism program and some Medicaid coverage
#MrGeertComeToWashington Steve King & Louie Gohmert Invite Notorious Islamophobe Who Wants To Ban The Qur’an To Address Members Of Congress
Scandal
#PastorCorleone Iowa bishop issues oddly detailed death threat from pulpit — but he won’t reveal target
#HypocriticOathers ‘Family Values’ hypocrisy on show again: Former South Carolina GOP Director & Infamous Twitter Troll Arrested for Domestic Violence
#PriestlyHookups If only there was an online hookup site especially for gay priests: Sexual corruption in the Catholic Church.
#CommandmentBlaster ‘Pastor’ pleads guilty to 22 counts including kidnapping, forced human labor, violent crime
#ArmedCrazyChristianWalmart Crazy video shows armed Christian musicians brawling with police in fight that left one dead
#CactileScam Tucson Faith Christian resigns from oversight group amid questions
Supremes And Lower Courts
#FatLadyAintSung WHY THE ONGOING RFRA BATTLE IS ABOUT FAR MORE THAN WEDDING CAKES
#CruzingScrotally Ted Cruz Threatens To Take Away The Supreme Court’s Power To Decide Marriage Equality Cases
#GayMarriageIsComingGayMarriageIsComing! Dobson warns there could be another Civil War if SCOTUS strikes down bans on gay marriage
#HobbyHurl Theocracy Versus Democracy. How the reckless Hobby Lobby decision has excited the imagination of the right wing.
#EtcEtcEtc The Next Wave of Contraceptive Challenges Hits the Appellate Courts
#HuckajesusHurls In SCOTUS brief, Mike Huckabee support group insists homosexuality is ‘significant public health
Theocracy Rising
#WayPastAbsurd House, Senate committees pass bill to make Bible Tennessee’s official book.
Antidotes
Larry Wilmore tackles America’s big money megachurches and the pastor who wanted $65m private jet on The Nightly Show
The Christian Right May Never Recover From Indiana
Anti-Abortion Group’s Effort To Defund Family Planning Clinics Backfires Spectacularly
Zach Braff And Donald Faison Will Make Pizzas For Your Gay Wedding In Indiana
Obama Jabs ‘Less-Than-Loving’ Christians At Prayer Breakfast
Obama to Call for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth
Thomas Jefferson vs. the Bible: What America’s founding father really thought about religion
Most Americans side with gays in religious freedom disputes -Reuters/Ipsos poll
New Orleans convention bureau comes out against Louisiana religious freedom bill
Fighting hate with love: Pizza4Equality campaign has raised over $100,000 for homeless LGBT youth so far
California Bill to Abolish Belief Exemptions to Vaccines Moves Forward
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