Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.

Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest [...]

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When I argue about the evils of religion and the encroachment of baseless, religious dogmatism upon the public sphere of government activity, I will frequently hear the retort that I’m being an alarmist or overreacting. Of course, all that is necessary is to wait a little bit and the religious nuts will do that Voo-Doo [...]

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A few days ago, I asked a very simple question:

Q. Where in our Constitution does it acknowledge or state that the U.S. relies upon the Judeo-Christian God, Christianity, or Christian morality?
A. It doesn’t. Period. God is not mentioned once. Religion appears exactly twice, once in Article VI where the “no religious test” prohibition is articulated, [...]

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May 5, 1925. A warrant is issued for the arrest of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, for teaching evolution—in violation of state law—to a high school biology class in Dayton, TN.
The result: God goes and trial and fails to appear to defend “His” creation. In lieu of God, William Jennings Bryan shows up [...]

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Food for thought . . .
Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Showgirls is working up a biopic of Jesus that makes the claim that Jesus was born of the rape of the “Virgin” Mary by a Roman soldier.

In his upcoming biography of Jesus, “Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven will make the shocking claim [...]

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What kind of thinking is “dangerous”?
According to Rep. Monique Davis, a Chicago Democrat in the IL state legislature, atheism is dangerous thinking:

Davis: I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it’s really a tragedy — it’s [...]

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Oh, this is just lovely.

Lawmaker says unmarried teen parents are ’sluts’
A Colorado Springs lawmaker referred Wednesday to unmarried, pregnant teenagers and the fathers as “sluts,” who should be made to feel ashamed for their lack of morals.
Rep. Larry Liston’s remarks were made during a discussion of Colorado’s high teen pregnancy rate with health care professionals [...]

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Dear Mike Huckabee,
In light of your recent statements and pandering to evangelicals, to wit:

HOUSTON – Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.
The ad, which is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, shows Huckabee [...]

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Joe Scarborough goes bottom feeding with Christopher Hitchens and comes up with a bucket of garbage:

Scarborough: Doesn’t a lot of [the surge of atheism] have to do with the fact that George Bush got re-elected in 2004, supposedly by evangelicals? I remember the day after the election, people like Maureen Dowd and … and uh, [...]

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This would be excellent satire if it weren’t so sadly, sadly true.

If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process.

The change would not be to Colorado’s statutes (civil or criminal laws), but to Colorado’s State Constitution. This would be the Religious Right end-run [...]

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