Tag: religious extremism

When the Supreme Court announced that it would finally weigh in on whether all 50 states must allow LGBT couples to legally marry, I...

We already knew that the religious right is running out of options to defend bans on same-sex marriage. Just how desperate they are became...

Over the years, I've wondered--how in the world is Bryan Fischer still on the payroll with the American Family Association? This is, after all,...

A woman in Cordova, Tennessee--a suburb of Memphis--is pitching a fit over, of all things, the brake lights on a school bus. Specifically, she...

A prominent religious right leader thinks that Christians need to realize that they are "God's governing force on earth"--and once they realize this, they'll...

// // Police misconduct is running rampant among ISIS soldiers. In particular, there are a group of religious-crazed and controlled women, known as the...

Ben Carson is making a lot of noises about running for president in 2016. He's already firmly established himself as a no-questions-asked conservative--after all,...

For almost a decade, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and its founder, Mikey Weinstein, have stood for the rights of servicemen who face religious...

As I've mentioned several times, the religious right's claims that it just wants a place at the table for socially conservative Americans gets exposed...

// // Last weekend, I discovered that Jack Whitley, the chairman of the Republican Party in Big Stone County, Minnesota, made some of the...

The Republican Party chairman of a county in rural western Minnesota has a message for Muslims--if you want to stay in this country, you...

// // At the invitation of outgoing Congressman Rush Holt (D-N. J.), Imam Hamad Ahmed Chebli, the religious leader of the Islamic Society of...

// // After the carnage of Tuesday night, a lot of us--including yours truly--are still wondering, "What in the world happened?" Well, at least...

A neo-Confederate group in Mississippi is gathering signatures for a proposed constitutional amendment that would declare Christianity to be the official religion of the...

// //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js If you follow the religious right for any period of time, you'll quickly discover that as unhinged as its spokesmen can sometimes sound...

It's more or less an article of faith among Christian conservatives that our society went down the drain in 1962 and 1963, when two...

Wondering what the religious right's leaders are telling their followers in the last full week before Election Day? Well, the yeomen at People for...

What if I told you that a conservative radio talk show host had said that private businessmen should be able to refuse to serve...

In the past few months, we've told you about Jody Hice, a Baptist pastor and right-wing radio talk show host from the Atlanta suburbs...

// // It says a lot about the state of our country's discourse that I found myself waiting for a religious Right leader to...