Right Wing Politics

This is a long installment of my ongoing series covering my journey before, during, and after my deconversion from Christianity. Since I think it is interesting how all the ambivalences, contradictions, anxieties, and displacements that I was experiencing parallel and inform each other, I am deciding to post it all as one episode in the series, rather than break each easily isolatable vignette into its own post. For the busy or the short attention spanned, I have made it easier to read in multiple sittings or to skim by breaking it into subsections according to themes.

Remixing Obama

Turn about’s fairplay. Hugh Atkin, who made the fantastic “Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up” video which I highlighted in the spring, has a terrific new parody of the infamous Obama line “You didn’t build that” which the GOP has quote mined into a rallying point. Both this video and the Romney one [...]

Why The Needs of Gay Kids Deserve Special Attention in Anti-Bullying Legislation

There is a major piece of anti-bullying legislation which will soon be up for a vote in Ontario, Canada. In the legislation, kids in Ontario Catholic schools will be protected from repeated aggressive behavior that occurs in a context where there is a real or perceived power imbalance between the pupil and the individual based [...]

GOP Congresswoman's Spokesman: "Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators"

Trigger warning: Below the fold and down the page a bit there are extremely graphic and disturbing pictures of women victimized by acid attacks. Then there is a disgusting and infuriating news story.

Where Do Women Want Government?

Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer, and Andrea Savage embrace Republican policies on women in an NSFW way. Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale Your Thoughts?

The Pros and Cons of Hiring A Republican to Represent Secularists

The Secular Coalition for America was created to lobby lawmakers on behalf of all Americans who believe in secularism. This week they hired a longtime Republican operative, Edwina Rogers, to be their executive director. In this post, I am going to explore the pros and cons of hiring a Republican in general to run this [...]

Edwina Rogers vs. Michael J. Fox

Most of us at Freethought Blogs are wary that the Secular Coalition for America has hired as their executive director Edwina Rogers, a career long Republican aid, lobbyist, and lawyer. The SCA was formed as the lobby which would specifically focus on advocating for secular lawmaking against the influence of theocratically minded legislators who want [...]

A Republican to Head the Secular Coalition for America?

Edwina Rogers has just been announced as the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, the national lobby on behalf of secularism in politics. She has a long career of service to the Republican party:

With Santorum Out of the Race

News reports are saying: With Rick Santorum out of the race, RoboRomney’s programmers start reinstalling the “ModerRomney2002″ software and start uninstalling some, but not all, aspects of the “ConservaRomney2012″ software. It should be interesting to see the differences it makes to RoboRomney’s hilarious “trying to sound human like you, people of place x with concerns [...]

After I Deconverted: I Was Deeply Ambivalent; What Was I to Make of Sex, Love, Alcohol, Bisexuality, Abortion, 9/11, Religious Violence, Marxism, or the Yankees?

If The Ten Commandments Really Were The Basis Of Our Legal System

Remixing Obama

Why The Needs of Gay Kids Deserve Special Attention in Anti-Bullying Legislation

GOP Congresswoman's Spokesman: "Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators"

Where Do Women Want Government?

The Pros and Cons of Hiring A Republican to Represent Secularists

Edwina Rogers vs. Michael J. Fox

A Republican to Head the Secular Coalition for America?

With Santorum Out of the Race

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