Add the whole litany of anti-gay bigot groups to those who are beside themselves with joy over Donald Trump’s election as the next president. They praising God and preparing to hand him a long list of demands that they want fulfilled after helping him get elected.
James Robison told a group of pastors that it’s up to the church to make sure Donald Trump gets elected because if Hillary Clinton wins, the nation will immediately be handed over to Satan himself. And then…dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.
Sarah Jones, who used to work for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and now works for the New Republic, has an article about the very loud silence coming from most of the big Christian right groups and leaders about the second suspension of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Michele Bachmann’s ignorance apparently knows no bounds, which does not, of course, stop her from spouting opinions continually while being utterly clueless. She told Tony Perkins that Trump’s immigration policy will bring America back to God.
The new campaign manager for Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, is a longtime Republican pollster with an equally long history of saying rather asinine and bigoted things. Sounds like she’ll fit right in. Media Matters runs down some of her greatest hits. First, some anti-gay bigotry:
David Barton, who ran Ted Cruz’ Super PAC during the primaries and is a member of the RNC’s platform committee, says that Donald Trump did not interfere with the writing of this year’s platform, which is so conservative that it’s identical to what Cruz would have wanted.
I’ve been perusing the 2016 Republican platform and thought I’d point out some of its most terrible ideas. A lot of them come on education, where they call for nothing but abstinence-only sex education and want the Bible taught in public schools.
As the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide turns a year old, it’s worth looking back on some of the hysterical — both in the sense of being funny and being ridiculously paranoid and overblown — predictions made about what it would provoke. Right Wing Watch chronicles some of them:
The American Conservative is one of the few, perhaps the only, intellectually honest conservative magazines, and several of their columnists are excellent. Matthew Sheffield takes the GOP to task, pointing out that Donald Trump is almost inevitable result of how conservatism has developed over the last few decades.
You’ve probably never heard of the Council for National Policy. That nondescript, innocuous-sounding name hides a very powerful conservative steering committee that has wielded enormous influence since the early 80s when it was founded by men like Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. But its membership is kept secret. Until now.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant went on Tony Perkins’ radio show and made the truly weird argument that a new law in that state that allows Christians to discriminate against gay people is actually preventing discrimination against Christians.
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