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Pig Bones and Public Schools: Betsy DeVos and That Shfela Thing
Friday , 25, November 2016 Religious Fundamentalism, Section 16 4 CommentsYesterday Up North Progressive shared an audio recording of Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick answering questions at The Gathering in 2001. The Gathering is a right wing religious organization that rakes in about a billion dollars a year to fund Dominion Christian causes, such as infiltrating government and turning the United States into a […]
The Consequences of Voting For People With An ‘R’ Next To Their Name
Thursday , 20, August 2015 Section 16 Leave a commentThis is why it’s really important to take the time to answer that survey posted to this blog earlier this week. Religious fundamentalists, tea party morons and corporate interests certainly will make sure their voices are heard, then Michigan’s children will be taught things like the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, the […]
Todd Courser Sucks At Writing Fan Fiction and Cindy Gamrat’s “In His Grip” Didn’t Mean What She Wanted Us To Think
Saturday , 8, August 2015 LGBT Rights, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party, Tealiban 2 CommentsIf you found the blog after googling Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, welcome. In Todd’s own words, “We are living in the last days.” How many people suspected he was talking about his political career? Anyone who screams as loudly as Gamrat and Courser about the sanctity of traditional marriage is doing so out of […]
Quiverfull, Homeschooling, and Religious Fundamentalism: The Rot From Within That Threatens America
Tuesday , 26, May 2015 Religious Fundamentalism 3 CommentsLast week, Quiverfull cult member Josh Duggar admitted he had raped his sisters and girls in another family when he was a teen living in the home of the Christian patriarchy family brought into American homes via television. TLC has since canceled the show and several people within the religious fundamentalism movement, like Mike Huckabee, […]