I wrote recently about David Barton’s latest lie (well, probably not his latest; he seems to lie every time he opens his mouth), about an expert witness in Abington Township v Schempp. Hemant contacted Ellery Schempp, the plaintiff in that case, to get a reaction. And boy, what a reaction it was. Knowing what a …
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Feb 28 2013
Hey Look! Another Barton Lie!
There’s an old line about people who lie habitually to the effect that they would rather cross the street to tell a lie than stand still and tell the truth. This applies quite well to David Barton, who I doubt could write a grocery list without somehow distorting things. Right Wing Watch quotes from a …
Feb 27 2013
Creech’s Staggeringly Stupid Take on Church and State
You know, people of all political and religious persuasions hold dumb opinions and say dumb things. But if you come across something so egregiously moronic that it causes your jaw to slump into your lap at the fact that the person writing it manages to tie their shoes in the morning, there’s a good chance …
Feb 22 2013
Frazer vs. Barton on Jefferson
I have for many years regarded Gregg Frazer, a historian from The Master’s College, as one of the finest scholars on the subject of religion and the Founding Fathers (he is the one who coined the phrase “theistic rationalist” to describe the views of the key founders, which I use often). In World Magazine, he …
Feb 17 2013
Rodda Catches Barton Lying. Again.
I’m sure it will come as a tremendous shock to you all that the indispensable Chris Rodda has, yet again, caught David Barton flagrantly lying about American history. Barton claimed on the Glenn Beck show that gun accidents didn’t happen during the founding period of the country because kids were all taught how to use …
Feb 08 2013
Barton Using Material From Novels Now
Chris Rodda catches David Barton using a story out of a Louis L’Amour novel in arguing that not only should teachers in schools be armed, but so should students. Because a character in a Louis L’Amour book tried to kill a teacher, but all the armed students in the old west stopped him with their …
Feb 01 2013
Fake Quotes in Texas Bible Classes
In the Texas Freedom Network’s new report on the appalling content of many of the Bible courses offered by public schools in that state after the passage of a state law encouraging them to do so, they note that many of those courses include a lot of the fake quotes that we see again and …
Jan 31 2013
Georgia Legislator Repeats Barton Nonsense
Georgia state Sen. Barry Loudermilk went on TBN and repeated David Barton’s ridiculous lie that the founding fathers based the entire American government on the Bible. The three branches of government, he says, comes from Isiah 33:22, which says the exact opposite, “the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is …
Jan 21 2013
Barton: 2nd Amendment Applies to Any Weapon
As I’ve said many times, I am a supporter of the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. I do think it confers an individual right to bear arms. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be any limitations on that right, just as we have libel, perjury and fraud exceptions to free speech. And it …
Jan 15 2013
Bradlee Dean Repeats Barton’s Jefferson Lies
Bradlee Dean’s latest bundle of stupid is entitled “Enemy of God = Enemy of America” and it’s all the usual lies and distortions, this time about Thomas Jefferson. Dean repeats many of David Barton’s false and long-discredited lies about Jefferson. Let’s take them one at a time.
Jan 14 2013
Barton Reuses His Own Fake Quote
Many years ago, after being lambasted for passing on numerous fake quotes from the founding fathers, David Barton put out a document on his website admitting that many of the quotes he used in his first book were “unconfirmed.” One of those quotes was this one from Thomas Jefferson:
Jan 05 2013
Barton: Hate is a Virtue, Tolerance a Sin
David Barton says he’s thinking about writing a book that takes the position that hate is a virtue, at least when it is applied to the things that God disapproves of, and tolerance is a sin if it means tolerating something that God is opposed to.
Dec 30 2012
More Fake Quotes in Santa Monica Atheist Displays
You probably know by now that Damon Vix and his group Atheists United managed to get a nativity scene out of a public park in Santa Monica by forcing the city first to open up the park as a public forum and then, by putting up lots of non-religious displays, prompt them to shut down …
Dec 27 2012
God Behind Right to Work Laws
Republicans in control of the Michigan legislature rammed through a right-to-work law during their last-minute lame-duck session, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now. Turns out God was behind the whole thing, according to the state senator who pushed the bill through. Here he is talking to none other than David Barton:
Dec 16 2012
Barton and His ‘Direct Quotes’
David Barton has been caught yet again lying to his ignorant followers, telling them that many provisions found in the Constitution are “direct quotes” from the Bible. He did it at the ProFamily Legislators Conference, put on by his Wallbuilders organization.
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