Pastor Aaron Fruh of Knollwood Church in Mobile, Alabama is a regular guest on wingnut radio shows. He was on American Family Radio recently making the bizarre claim that God sent the flood (you know, the non-existent global flood with the non-existent Noah’s Ark) because they gave our marriage certificates to gay people back then. …
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Jul 31 2012
Romney’s Bombing in London
Adolf Hitler was famously responsible for the bombing of London, but Mitt Romney’s trip to England resulted in a massive bombing IN London. It was an absolute disaster; he could hardly open his mouth without saying something irretrievably stupid and insulting. And as Andrew Sullivan points out, the conservative press has been virtually silent about …
Jul 31 2012
Murray Admits School Prayer is Submission to God
The Worldnutdaily is still making money from sales of a new book by William Murray, the evangelist son of Madilyn Murray O’Hair, so they’re still cranking out fake “articles” that are nothing more than a few statements from Murray about a subject followed by an ad for the book. The latest one is on school …
Jul 31 2012
Keyes Hearts Bachmann
If there’s one sure way to figure out whether your claims and views are bordering on utter lunacy, there’s at least one good way to find out: If Alan Keyes agrees with you, you’ve gone off the deep end. So I’m hardly surprised to see Keyes supporting Michele Bachmann’s witch hunt of Huma Abedin and …
Jul 31 2012
Billy Graham: God Should Destroy America
Billy Graham recently sent out a fundraising letter with a quote from his wife — which he agrees with — declaring America to be the second coming of Sodom and Gomorrah, worthy of being destroyed by God. Addicting Info has the text:
Jul 31 2012
Shooting Victim ‘Felt Evil’, Says God Saved Him
And here we have the perfect contrast to the rational survivor of the Aurora gunman who thanked the paramedics and doctors for saving her life; this guy says God saved him because he was praying. Oh, and that God was in the theater that night with him — but apparently not with all the dead …
Jul 31 2012
The Most Transparent Administration in History Strikes Again
Yet another example of the Obama administration — you know, the promised “most transparent administration in history” — using legal procedures to fight against actual transparency in court. A court has allowed them to continue to pretend that documents that were already made public are still so secret that they are not subject to the …
Jul 31 2012
Catholic Church Lies About Anti-Gay Discrimination
The local newspaper in Worcester, Massachusetts reports on a case where the Catholic diocese lied about a decision not to sell a mansion they owned to a gay couple — and they left the evidence right at the bottom of an email they sent to that couple. They said they had decided not to sell …
Jul 31 2012
CSI Exposes Astrology Scam
Sharon Hill has an article on the Committee for Scientific Investigation website that exposes, yet again, the fraud of astrology. She begins by citing a statement from astrologer Susan Miller: “What I do is scientific. Astrology involves careful methods learned over years and years of training and experience.” Yes, you can laugh now. Hill responds:
Jul 31 2012
Police Rules Meaningless Without Training and Consequences
Carlos Miller shows why even when police departments get it right on policy, those policies are meaningless in the real world if the officers don’t get adequate training — and if there aren’t consequences for violating that policy, especially when they have an obvious incentive to ignore it.
Jul 30 2012
Title X Grants Keep PP Clinics Open
Here’s a great move on the part of the Obama administration. They’re giving out Title X grants to Planned Parenthood family planning clinics that have been defunded by state legislatures, helping to keep their doors open to continue serving the medical needs of woman and families.
Jul 30 2012
I Was Wrong on Citizens United
When the Citizens United decision came down, I argued that its impact was being overblown because the central holding of the case, that corporations could spend money to directly influence an election, would not be used because companies wouldn’t want their name on the ads. Since they could already spend that money by laundering it …
Jul 30 2012
Virginia Columnist Slanders Atheists
Dan Casey, a columnist for the Roanoke Times, invents an entirely fake conversation in order to slander atheists, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation in particular, as only caring about church/state separation in order to make money. Here’s a taste of the irrational diatribe.
Jul 30 2012
‘Psychics’ Give Tips on Missing Girls
Two young girls from Evansdale, Iowa have disappeared and the people in that area are searching far and wide to find them. The local sheriff’s department have been looking for more than two weeks and there’s a $50,000 reward being offered. But they’re getting exactly the wrong kind of “help” from dozens of ‘psychics.’
Jul 30 2012
The Unreality of Reality TV — Or Why NatGeo Should Be Ashamed
One of the more irritating things about the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel, which purport to be pro-science and educational, is how often they put on shows that push egregious nonsense instead of critical thinking. And a new NatGeo show about UFOs is so bad that even the stars of the show are …
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