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SCOTUS Grants Cert in Legislative Prayer Case

In a move that makes me quite uncomfortable, the Supreme Court has granted cert (that is, agreed to hear an appeal) in a New York case involving the question of whether a legislative body, in this case a city council, can open its meetings with explicitly Christian prayers. Read more

Markell: God May Destroy Minnesota Cities

Last week Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the wingnuts continue to lose their minds over it. Jan Markell, who is from that state, is afraid that God may begin to destroy Minnesota cities and that the Christians there don’t know where to hide. Read more

Jones and Pratt, Together Again

Gary Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America (a gun rights group so extreme that they think the NRA is a bunch of weak-kneed liberal appeasers), went on the Alex Jones show and together they ranted about Obama being a “full bore Marxist” who stole the 2012 election. Evidence? Silly rabbit. Evidence is for rational people. Read more

Wingnut: Obama Should Admit to Being First Gay President

(Former) Coach Dave Daubenmire, John Freshwater’s buddy who thinks that the job of a football coach at a public high school is to convert his players to Christianity, continues to pollute the world with his stupidity and bigotry. In this video, he demands that President Obama come out of the closet as the first gay president: Read more

Schlafly’s Ignorance of History

Phyllis Schlafly repeats the same xenophobia of earlier generations in her most recent column at the Eagle Forum website. She says that unlike the Jewish, Irish and Italian immigrants of the past, modern immigrants don’t really want to be Americans and be patriotic: Read more