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Religion
More non sequitur arguments from the Christian Right’s dogma of duplicity
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The “Yes on 8” campaign in California that, for
the time being, succeeded in revoking some citizens’ basic civil right to a
civil marriage used scare tactics and non sequitur arguments based on
misrepresentations, distortions, and deceptions. And they’re still at it.
Nov 25, 2008, 00:15
Religion
Political discourse in the US warped by religious extremists
By Howard Lisnoff
The ride down the western border of
Massachusetts is serene in fall. The hills have turned from the vibrant red,
yellow, and orange colors of the season to a more muted orange and brown. Scenic
vistas, that were blocked by leaves only a few weeks ago, open up and reveal
more distant and larger mountains in New York, and lakes and marshes, whose
reeds have by now gone to winter brown. It’s an enjoyable way to end an
afternoon working at the local community college helping students with their
writing.
Oct 29, 2008, 00:20
Religion
Distorting research, promoting hate, repeating history: business as usual for the American Family Association
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Don Wildmon and his American Family Association
are notorious for their anti-gay rhetoric and efforts to hurt, in any and every
way possible, the families of gay and lesbian Americans.
Oct 9, 2008, 00:12
Religion
Hallmark Cards to celebrate love and commitment expose bigotry and hate
By Mel
Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The
leaders of America’s Christianist Right have been whirling and twirling lately.
First, the California Supreme Court ruled that banning same-sex marriage was
discriminatory and, therefore, unconstitutional. Then the Court ruled
unanimously that medical doctors could not use
personal religious beliefs as ground for not treating gay and lesbian patients.
Sep 4, 2008, 00:11
Religion
America’s religious fascists waging war on love, people and families: Part 3, California’s Proposition 8
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Today, civil equality and marriage are the
primary targets for America’s religious fascists. They were unsuccessful in
overturning equality in Massachusetts, so California’s Proposition 8 ballot
initiative is now their focus, especially since California has no residency
requirement for people marrying in the state. Their greatest fear is that civil
equality will spread, especially since Massachusetts has repealed the 1913 law banning
out-of-state marriages.
Aug 27, 2008, 00:17
Religion
America’s religious fascists waging war on love, people and families: Part 2, the perpetrators, continued
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Fascism has two interlocking, rudimentary needs:
concocting an anti-intellectual mythic ideology and identifying a group of
people who, based on that ideology, can be blamed for all society’s ills. The
Nazis used Aryan myth and bogus science to support their claim that Jews -- as
well as homosexuals and gypsies -- were the “sub-humans” responsible for all of
Germany’s problems. The “master race” must ostracize, marginalize and
eventually eliminate them if society was to return to righteous ways. There can
be no discussion, no compromise. The paladins of the movement are divinely
inspired in this holy war. Their judgments and edicts cannot be questioned. The
leaders of America’s Christo-fascism use the same playbook the Nazis did.
Aug 26, 2008, 00:14
Religion
America’s religious fascists waging war on love, people and families: Part 1, the perpetrators
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Can’t really call them “Christian” because their
actions and rhetoric are designed to hurt people. Can’t really call them
“Religious” because they use dogma for political gain. They believe their
interpretation of the Bible -- and their’s only -- should supercede all civil
laws, including the U.S. Constitution. They are Dominionists,
religious fascists or more precisely “Christo-fascists,” as Chris Hedges dubbed
them in his 2006 book American Fascists:
The Christian Right and the War on America.
Aug 25, 2008, 00:18
Religion
Anti-gay politics continues to drive Don Wildmon’s American Family Association
By Bill Berkowitz
Two different -- yet ultimately interlinked --
issues relating to the “homosexual agenda” are agitating the folks at the
Tupelo, Mississippi-based headquarters of Donald Wildmon’s American Family
Association (AFA) these days. One is your basic AFA-sponsored boycott; the
other, according to Wildmon, will determine the final outcome of America’s “culture
wars.”
Aug 6, 2008, 00:10
Religion
Dominionists, pulpit politics and a ‘special offering’ for a political campaign
By
Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The
legal minions of Christian Dominionism have been busy for some time finding ways
pastors can use the pulpit for political purposes. The Alliance Defense Fund, a
group of lawyers dedicated to realizing the Dominionist goal of marrying church
and state, has taken another step in that
direction.
Jul 24, 2008, 00:19
Religion
Don Wildmon vs. Ronald McDonald: The American Family Association’s latest holy war
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The Christianist Right’s boycott king is at it
again. On July 2, the chairman of the American Family Association, Don Wildmon,
issued one of his hysterical “Action
Alerts”:
Jul 15, 2008, 00:20
Religion
Pennsylvania politics: Resolved to continue bigotry
By Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy
in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last
month.
Jul 2, 2008, 00:17
Religion
The spokesman for American theofascism speaks
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
James Dobson has a Ph.D. in child development. He
advocates spanking. He was once known as “the Religious Right’s New Kingmaker.”
The “king” he helped make was George W. Bush, who tops “the list when
American voters pick the worst U.S. President in the last 61 years.”
Jul 1, 2008, 00:14
Religion
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property leaps headlong into the showdown over same-sex marriage in California
By Bill Berkowitz
They've been around for more than 30 years; trace
their roots to a Brazilian anti-communist dissident Catholic; wear colorful
outfits during their protests on college campuses; and apparently have enough
spare change to fund three 4,000-plus-word simultaneously-placed advertisements
in three national dailies.
Jul 1, 2008, 00:12
Religion
End-time for the theofascist agenda
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
They howled and claimed the sky was falling when the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled in favor of civil equality: "Unless
the people of the State of Massachusetts rise up with one voice in opposition
to this lawless and socially destructive behavior [same-sex marriage], it will
destroy society as we know it." --Steve Crampton, Chief Counsel, Center
for Law and Policy, American Family Association, December 2003
Jun 27, 2008, 00:15
Religion
U.S. soldiers launch campaign to convert Iraqis to Christianity
By Jason Leopold
Some U.S. military personnel appears to have launched
an initiative to covert thousands of Iraqi citizens to Christianity by distributing
Bibles and other fundamentalist Christian literature translated into Arabic to
Muslims.
Jun 2, 2008, 00:17
Religion
The “pro-family” ruse and other Christianist machinations
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Upwards of 50 million American citizens do not have
healthcare coverage. That’s a national disgrace.
May 16, 2008, 00:10
Religion
Lucky Louie and Dour Don: Crazed Christianists on parade
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The “thinking” of Louis P. Sheldon, founder and
chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, was once again vomited forth in a
late April 2008 TVC diatribe titled Earth Day: The
Rantings Of Chicken Little Marxists.
May 9, 2008, 00:16
Religion
John Hagee: deviant theology, dangerous foreign policy
By John Taylor
Pastor John Hagee gleefully anticipates the death of
hundreds of millions of people in a series of wars preparing the world for the
second coming of Christ: “The end of the world is rapidly approaching . . .
Rejoice and be exceeding glad.”
May 7, 2008, 00:21
Religion
O'Reilly and Ahmadinejad: We must wipe them off the map
By JC Garrett
On Wednesday, I heard Bill O'Reilly tell
actor/activist Matthew Modine that we must kill all the
"Islamic fundamentalists" in the world -- wipe them off the face
of the Earth -- in order to protect America.
May 2, 2008, 00:18
Religion
US military coordinated Day of Prayer events with Christian right group
By Jason Leopold
At least a half-dozen active-duty military officials
have been working closely with a task force headed by the far-right fundamentalist
Christians planning religious events at military installations around the
country to commemorate today’s National Day of Prayer.
May 1, 2008, 00:22
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