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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With the recent hue and cry about the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, one would be inclined to believe that the foundations of American society are about to crumble, bringing the entirety of this nation with it. However unlikely this may be, it hasn’t stopped social conservatives from invoking every sort [...]

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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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I mock religion. I mock the religion in which I was raised—my parents’ religion—and all other religions. However, mocking the Jesus Fish isn’t simply individual smugness or an affectation of superiority. When one decides to declare their ignorance for all to see, openly mocking such ignorange almost becomes an obligation.
Over at the National Review the [...]

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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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News Flash! The U.S. Constitution does not found America as a Christian nation.
Duh.
Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the First Amendment Center*, an astonishing 65% of Americans believe the Founding Fathers intended to create a Christian nation, and 55% believe that the U.S. Constitution establishes the United States as a Christian nation.
As offensive—and [...]

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