Darwin Is The Devil

Americablog: In the “HGTV is thanking their lucky stars” category, religious right wondertwins Jason and David Benham, sons of anti-abortion firebrand Flip Benham, wrote on their blog earlier this month that evolution is “Satan’s toehold” in America’s schools.

Ok, look, we know conservatives can’t stand science, but when you start calling it Satan’s work you need to be immediately and completely removed from the world of people anybody takes seriously (and also, you should probably get back on your medications.)

Ayatollah Cuccinelli?

Think Progress:  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), his party’s nominee in this November’s gubernatorial election, unveiled a 12-point education plan Tuesday. Among his proposals: Virginia should amend its constitution to allow public funding for religious education.

Hey, Ken, we here in America have something called separation of church and state.  If you don't like it, get the hell out of the country.  Leave.  Move to Iran.  You can live in a place where they're not interested in such ideals.

State Religion

Think Progress: The Constitution “does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional” according to a resolution sponsored by North Carolina House Majority Leader Edgar Starnes (R) and ten of his fellow Republicans — a statement that puts them at odds with over 200 years of constitutional law. In light of this novel reading of the Constitution, Starnes and his allies also claim that North Carolina is free to ignore the Constitution’s ban on government endorsement of religion:

SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.
SECTION 2. The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the State of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the State from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.

Let's put aside for a moment the fact the Republicans are again spitting all over the constitution by ignoring the supremecy clause.  Let's also ignore for now that conservatives already betrayed the country in the civil war, using states rights (to keep slavery) as the justification for their treason.  Let's just say for now that if Republicans want to live in a theocracy they should move to a country that has one.  We suggest Iran. 

Fake, Rich, Fat, Christian

Huffington Post:  Saddleback Church founder and author Rick Warren, who once praised President Barack Obama's "courage" for inviting the conservative pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration and hailed the president's "commitment to model civility," has drastically changed his tone on the man who helped make the evangelical pastor a familiar name to many Americans.

Obama is "absolutely" unfriendly to religion and his administration's policies have "intentionally infringed upon religious liberties," Warren said in an interview Wednesday.

Nice of him to take a break from fleecing his flock to slam the President.   This well fed huckster has racked up an estimated net worth of 25 million dollars claiming to speak for God.  His corruption and love of money infringes on true Christianity far more than any made up construct that says Obama is hostile to religion. 

When Religion Becomes a Problem

Former executives from Bain Capital, a company founded by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, have been accused of firing six out of seven members of a management team for not belonging to the Mormon church.

It's time to take a closer look at Willard Romney and his religion. It's illegal for companies to behave this way, but if some do it's not fatal. When the government behaves this way, democracy is dead.

Party Of God

TPM: Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary ballot, they ask that you pledge that you’ve never ever had pre-marital sex — and that you will never ever look at porn again.

What is this, Iran? We suppose people call them the American Taliban for a reason. This is your Republican party. And they don't belong anywhere near public service (at least not in this country).

The Earth Is Only 5000 Years Old

Des Moines Register:

Discussing controversial classroom subjects such as evolution and global warming, Santorum said he has suggested that “science should get out of politics” and he is opposed to teaching that provides a “politically correct perspective.”

Ricky wants religion in politics but not science. So he's obviously nuts, and more than a little dangerous. We don't need to point that out. What is worth saying however, is his this view is held by a large part of the Republican base. If that's not you, and you're thinking of voting GOP, best first consider the company you keep.

Burn In Hell

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeting: "Unreal that Obama doesn't mention God in Thanksgiving message. Militant atheist. To whom does he think we are giving thanks?"

OK, number one, better Democrats don't mention God but actually show compassion and love than Republicans go around talking about God and Jesus all the time while they only look out for the rich, start horrific, dishonest wars, and sell out God's great green earth to their industrial polluter cronies. They really should worry about their own soul.

Number two, Ben Shapiro is a Jew. The base of the Republican party is conservative Christian. This means they believe Shapiro deserves to burn in the lake of fire for all eternity because of his religious beliefs. When push come to shove they'll burn him at the stake. So instead of worrying about if Obama mentioned God or not in a speech, he should consider the company he keeps.

God Complex

Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain says that God told him to run for president, National Journal reports.

We post this not to hit Herman Cain. On the contrary, we sincerely hope beyond hope he would be the GOP nominee. But it does say something about the Republican party that this kind of delusion plays well with the base. Voters who are not bat-shit-crazy would do well to keep that in mind next November.

Back To The USSR

A group of Republican state senators have proposed a bill that would make the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory for every public school student in Michigan.

Republican state Sen. Roger Kahn’s SB 637 would also require schools to purchase a flag for every classroom.

“THE BOARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY SHALL ENSURE THAT EACH PUPIL IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL IT OPERATES IS REQUIRED TO RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES EACH SCHOOL DAY,” the bill says.

Ok, wow, talk about indoctrination. Forget for a minute about the unconstitutionality of making somebody chant they believe in God with public money. These Republicans would have done well in the Soviet Union where all citizens had to pledge allegiance to the state. Even more crazy to force kids to do it. These people really don't belong in a secular, democratic government. They should resign.

Party of God

Last week GOP Rep Todd Akin said ".. at the heart of Liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God." His communication director Steve Taylor subsequently went on to tell the Post-Dispatch that Akin was commenting on a difference between the two ideas: while conservatives believe rights come from God, liberals think they come from the government. Taylor said Akin was not referring to any individual’s beliefs, only the “defining principles of two political ideologies.”

Putting aside the serious mental illness this guy exhibits by trying to speak for God, we have a separation between church and state. Anybody who believes our legal rights come from God should be disqualified from holding public office.

Next Up, The Laws Of Physics

Think Progress: Eighty six years after the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial opened Tennessee classrooms to the teaching of evolution, the state House is trying to slam the door shut again. Tennessee’s House Education Committee approved a bill Tuesday in the name of “academic freedom,” but in reality, it is a thinly veiled attempt to curtail the teaching of evolution. House Speaker Emeritus Jimmy Naifeh (D) has even taken to calling it “the monkey bill.” From the bill’s summary:

This bill prohibits the state board of education and any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or principal or administrator from prohibiting any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught, such as evolution and global warming.

Should this bill pass, Tennessee teachers will have official sanction to teach about evolutionary “controversies” that simply do not exist. Furthermore, it will allow teachers to teach pseudo-scientific ideas — such as creationism or intelligent design — as legitimate scientific theories comparable to evolution.

The neanderthals in the GOP are proof enough of evolution. Our children should be taught about the crusades, not subjected to them.

Qualified To Teach Sunday School

Sen Jim Demint (R-SC): Gays and unmarried women should not teach in public schools.

We can't think of any rational reason why that should be case. We can however think of some great reasons Republicans should not be allowed to teach kids at all: they're anti-science, have no respect for the Socratic method, and for the most part would like to see our science text books replaced with the bible. To be fair however, they may indeed be qualified to teach Sunday school.

The Inquisitors

It was revealed Monday that a former O'Donnell (R-DE) aide once wrote that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.

Jon Moseley told TPMuckraker's Ryan J. Reilly that he still holds those beliefs.

"Yes, actually, I do," Jonathan Moseley told TPM on Monday when asked if he still believes that Obama secretly practiced the Islamic faith.

"The reason being that becoming a Christian is more than simply rooting for a football team," Moseley said. "There's an actual conversion that takes place. And I don't think we've ever seen evidence that he ever converted."

It disturbing this crowd spends so much time and energy running their mini Inquisition. They really don't belong in a secular government.

Bring It On

A U.S. district court today halted the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, saying it involves the destruction of human embryos, potentially re-igniting a longtime cultural hot button issue just in time for the fall elections.

Brand the GOP as dangerously anti-science, cruelly anti-cure, and needlessly wasteful (as the embryos would just be destroyed anyway). Ask them if they were in a burning room and could save only one person or one petri dish containing 6 stem cell embryos about to be discarded, which would they save? Put sick people up on the screen and tell the American people who is holding us back from the cure. Time to toughen up. The election cometh....

The Inquisitors

Last Friday, a Republican National Committee woman Kim Lehman, responding to an article about the polls in Politico, accused the publication of trying "to protect Obama" by denying his true religious heritage. "BTW he personally told the muslims that he IS a muslim," wrote the Iowa RNC member. "Read his lips."

What is this, the Inquisition? We suppose people call them the American Taliban for a reason. This is your Republican party. And they don't belong anywhere near public service.

Psychopath

Headline: Paul Denies ‘Kidnapping’ Anyone, But Won’t Deny He Forced A Woman To Bow To Aqua Buddha

Rand Paul is dangerous. Not because of what he was into in college but because he's is a big fan of mountain top removal mining, he thinks corporations should regulate themselves, he doesn't think the government can tell business they can't discriminate against black people, and he has common cause with people who want to replace the constitution with the bible. And a big swath of the GOP agrees with him on pretty much all fronts. Any voters who are not deranged themselves should consider that when they cast their lot in November.