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In the wake of the recent revelation of Rick Santorum’s 2008 speech at Ave Maria University where he said that America is under attack by Satan, wingnut whackjob Michael Savage says Santorum is right and that it’s going to help him become president.
Dick Cheney’s Belated Push for Equality
February 22, 2012 at 1:59 pm 
Ed Brayton The Huffington Post reports that former VP Dick Cheney is helping to lobby in favor of marriage equality in the state of Maryland. And it appears to have worked with at least one prominent state politician:
Fischer Attacks Jessica Ahlquist
February 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm Ed Brayton You knew it was only a matter of time before bigoted lunatic Bryan Fischer turned his empty rhetorical guns on Jessica Ahlquist and started calling her names. After all, he thinks this country should be for Christians only and she’s not one of them, so she must be bad.
Obama’s War on Pot
February 22, 2012 at 12:58 pm Ed Brayton Rolling Stone has an article on one of President Obama’s most flagrant and obvious betrayals of his 2008 positions. After promising again and again to change the federal government’s position on medical marijuana, he has instead upped the ante on Bush’s policy and made things worse.
Santorum and Gingrich’s Selective Catholicism
February 22, 2012 at 12:28 pm Ed Brayton Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich both make a big public show of how their social conservative policies are in line with Catholic teaching, but they also take positions in complete contradiction of the church quite often. Juan Cole has a list of ten Catholic positions that they reject completely. He focuses on Santorum, but the same can be said of Gingrich:
Santorum Wants to Ban Gambling Too
February 22, 2012 at 11:57 am Ed Brayton The more we find out about Rick Santorum’s theocratic views on government regulation of private morality, the more frightening the prospect of having him in the White House. Now it turns out he wants to ban gambling as well as contraception — at least when it’s too convenient:
Wouldn’t You Like to Be a People Too?
February 22, 2012 at 11:27 am Ed Brayton A sign on Facebook brought this thought to mind: On Planet Wingnuttia, corporations are people. So are embryos. Women, on the other hand, clearly are not. The invasive sonogram legislation in Virginia makes that very, very clear.
Another Witchcraft Scare Kills Someone
February 22, 2012 at 10:57 am Ed Brayton Most Americans are at least vaguely familiar with the Salem witch trials. Unfortunately, it seems that similar witchhunts are still happening in many parts of the world. It’s a serious problem in north Africa and now in Nepal too, where a woman was set on fire because people accused her of being a witch.
How To Pray For Marriage
February 22, 2012 at 10:26 am Ed Brayton Right Wing Watch links to the Alliance Defense Fund’s helpful document teaching Christians the best way to pray against marriage equality. Here’s how you maximize the effectiveness of your prayers:
Why Christians Should Be Secularists Too
February 22, 2012 at 9:56 am Ed Brayton Martin Robbins, writing in the Telegraph, answers Baroness Warsi’s fatuous op-ed piece urging Christians and Muslim to join forces to oppose “militant secularism.” He points out the reasons why Christians should be — and many are — secularists themselves. Though his column is about the UK, much it applies in the United States as well.
Free Speech Victory in Missouri
February 22, 2012 at 9:25 am Ed Brayton A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Camdenton School District in Missouri to stop filtering out pro-LGBT websites on the school’s computer network. The ACLU said in a press release:
Oregon Governor Stops Executions
February 22, 2012 at 8:55 am Ed Brayton I found this on Stephen Bright’s blog, Second Class Justice. It’s about 3 months old, but I totally missed it at the time and I think it’s very cool. The governor of Oregon has ended executions in his state through the rest of his term in office, becoming the second governor to do so (the other was George Ryan of Illinois).
Obama Continues to Undermine Constitutional Safeguards
February 21, 2012 at 1:59 pm Ed Brayton The Obama administration is continuing its exceptionless pattern of attempting to deny access to the courts in every single lawsuit ever filed against the federal government for actions justified on the basis of counter-terrorism efforts. In yet another suit, the administration plays the same old shell game to prevent anyone from being able to challenge their actions in court.
Loesch: Government-Mandated Rape = Consensual Sex
February 21, 2012 at 1:28 pm Ed Brayton Dana Loesch, the absolutely vile radio show host and CNN contributor, dropped this bombshell while discussing the proposed Virginia law that would require transvaginal sonograms for any woman seeking an abortion:
Valerie Pokorny Doesn’t Speak for Women
February 21, 2012 at 12:58 pm Ed Brayton CNN has a debate over the contraception mandate and one of the entries is by Valerie Pokorny, who is “actively involved in marriage preparation programs, natural family planning instruction and chastity education in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas.” Prepare to have your jaw agape at her presumptuous irrationality. The title — “Contraception denigrates me as a woman” — should give you some idea of what you can expect.
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