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Ann Coulter: Making a career out of hate speech. Image credit: AllHatNoCattle.net.With no visible signs of remorse after calling Presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" in a speech on Friday, and only days after accusing Edwards' campaign manager U.S. Rep David Bonior of "fronting for Arab terrorists," the Coultergeist continued to spew her vile hate speech on Saturday. OK, that's not so surprising since Ann Coulter pretty much makes some moronic bigoted remark every time she opens her mouth. This time however she managed to top even her more widely reported anti-gay slur. At a speech Coulter gave on March 3 at a Center for Reclaiming America conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Coulter dismissed the murders of doctors who perform abortions:
“Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I’m not justifying it, but I do understand how it happened....The number of deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade about 40 million aborted babies and seven abortion clinic workers; 40 million to seven is also a pretty good measure of how the political debate is going.”
And if that weren't enough, Coulter repeated the slur against Edwards.
The Center for Reclaiming America was founded by D. James Kennedy, Pastor of the Coral Gables Presbyterian mega-church. The Center opposes legal abortion, gay rights and routinely bashes public education. The Anti-Defamation League accused Coral Gables Ministries of "trivializing the holocaust" with a neo-creationist documentary produced by Kennedy's church that attempts to link the theory of evolution to Hitler. One can only assume Coulter's remarks played well with her audience.
The Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State called on The Center's executive director to publicly repudiate Coulter's remarks:
“Ann Coulter’s statements can only be described as loathsome,” said Lynn. “It is astounding to me that this type of vitriol was unleashed before a religious organization that claims to be ‘reclaiming’ America for Christ. This rhetoric must be repudiated immediately.”
While newspapers, blogs and talking heads continue to express shock and outrage over Coulter's remarks about John Edwards and David Bonior, Coulter's tacit condoning of murder goes unreported. When are people in this country going to stand up and say to far right-wing nutcases like Coulter that this kind of hate speech is intolerable? When are the religious faithful going to stand up and spurn Coulter for spewing hate and intolerance from a church pulpit! Seriously, how much more hate and hypocrisy are we going to take?read more »
I don't know about you, but I've had enough.
At least that's what Texas state Rep. Warren Chisum and Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges say. As reported in the Dallas Morning News (via Right Wing Watch):
“Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called 'secular evolution science' is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Mr. Bridges …
Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as "Kabbalists" and laments "Hollywood's unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism."
Chisum used Texas House time to deliver a memo from the Georgia lawmaker on Tuesday. Bridges is the author of bills in the Georgia legislature designed to undermine the teaching of evolution in Georgia schools. In his memo he refers Texas House members to the website fixedearth.com which offers up Bridges'
anti-evolution bill as a model for other lawmakers to use to stem the tide of the evil 'secular evolution science' which decries everything from the heliocentric solar system to the Big Bang as lies:
The Bible and all real evidence confirms that this is precisely what He did, and indeed:
The Earth is not rotating...nor is it going around the sun. …
Today’s cosmology fulfills an anti-Bible religious plan disguised as "science".
The whole scheme from Copernicanism to Big Bangism is a factless lie. Those lies have planted the Truth-killing virus of evolutionism in every aspect of man’s "knowledge" about the Universe, the Earth, and Himself.
To be fair to Chisum he does say he doesn't totally agree with Bridges' views, but still supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in science classes.
Those of you who know me personally and from other sites that I take part in know that I've been increasingly concerned with the incursion of anti-semitism into the dialog on the left. On the left, anti-semitism mostly slips in via two avenues. Many liberals and progressives want to express solidarity with Palestinians and sometimes uncritically read propaganda put out by decidedly unprogressive states such as Iran. Also, there has been a fairly successful far right-wing subversion of the 9-11 Truth movement. Yet as nasty as some of the stuff I've seen on the left has been, one just can not beat religious fundamentalist Southern lawmakers when it comes to advancing ignorant and bigoted causes.read more »
The Cardiff Giant: The Cardiff Giant has become known as the greatest hoax ever conceived.What does a 2,200 pound hunk of rock lying beneath a tent in Cooperstown, NY tell us about the religious right? Quite a bit more than you might think, especially the lying part. And, if you're real good (or at least real quiet), you just might get another one for Christmas...read more »
It's Halloween time again and while for most people it means trick-or-treating with your kids, costume parties or possibly some sort of mild criminal behavior, for fundamentalists it means a time of hand-wringing proselytizing about how we're all going to go to hell. In recent years the killjoy fundies have raised their virtuous angst to a fever pitch. "Hell houses" have sprung up in church basements and back lots all over, parents are urged to give out biblically oriented candy (gives new meaning to the phrase 'sweet jesus') and self-appointed guardians of culture have launched a full out attack on the "devil's holiday."read more »
Eclectic folk artist Eric Schwartz: Eric Schwartz at the piano. Photo credit Robert Corwin.OK gang, I have very little to say about Eric other than he's amazing, go view his video for Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis (Windows Media, Quicktime, MP4) and buy his tunes! However, just because I care, here's what Matthew Robinson of The Boston Globe had to say:
NOAA Satellite Image of Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 2005): One idiotic anti-abortion group claims was a punishment from god because it was shaped like a fetus.Katrina was a punishment from god for all the abortions committed in New Orleans. At least that's what one bunch of fucking idiots would have people believe. These people disgust me. I found this story from the Eve's Apple blog referenced in the comments in the David Brin blog entry that I wrote about earlier today.read more »
