Category Archives: Religious Right

Oh, THAT What the Boy Scouts Mean by Being ‘Morally Straight’

  By Walter Brasch | April 25, 2013 8:17 am - 8:17 am | , , , ,
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  by Walter Brasch  Harry Strausser III owns a successful small business with 25 employees in Bloomsburg, Pa. As an undergraduate, he was a national champion in several forensics categories, and represented the Boy Scouts of America in national competitions sponsored by the Reader’s Digest. As a graduate student, he coached a college forensics team. He has never been arrested or suspected of any crime. Strausser is an Eagle Scout. He is also gay. The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America says he doesn’t have the right “core values” to be a Scout leader. Denny Meyer, who lives in New York City, wasn’t a Scout, but often tagged along with his older brother to Scout meetings. During college, … Continue reading →

No Merit Badge for Courage for Boy Scouts

  By Walter Brasch | March 29, 2013 8:03 am - 8:03 am | , , , ,
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by WALTER BRASCH   Sometime in May, the Boy Scouts of America will decide whether they will allow gays to be members, volunteer leaders, or be employed on the professional staff. The decision may have more to do with funding than with any other policy. Contributions from individuals, major corporations, and at least 50 United Way agencies stopped because of the Scouts’ anti-gay policy. Among corporations that have not made annual six-figure donations are Intel, Merck, CVS, Chase Manhattan Bank, Verizon, Google, UPS, and Levi Straus. Stephen Spielberg, an Eagle Scout, in protest of the policy against gays dropped off the national advisory council. The national council was also losing funds because of a drop of about 22 percent in … Continue reading →

Intruding Upon the Constitution by the Religious Right Wing

  By Walter Brasch | November 8, 2012 6:46 pm - 6:46 pm | , , , ,
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  by WALTER BRASCH   Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Ill., ordered all parish priests in his diocese to read a letter to their congregations condemning Barack Obama. The letter, to be read the weekend before the election, declared that Obama and the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate had launched an “assault upon our religious freedom.” He wasn’t the only priest who used the pulpit to attack the President. Bishop David Lauren of Green Bay, Wisc., told his congregations that voting for Obama and other candidates who were pro-choice or who believed in embryonic stem cell research or gay marriage could put their “soul in jeopardy.” Others, primarily from evangelical Protestant faiths, were even more adamant in their religious intolerance, … Continue reading →

Attacking American Sovereign Soil Diminishes the Rights of Religion

  By Walter Brasch | September 20, 2012 7:51 am - 7:51 am | , , , , ,
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  by Walter Brasch   The terrorists who attacked the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, claimed the attacks were retaliation for the publication on You Tube of an anti-Muslim film. That YouTube video was a 14-minute trailer for a one-hour film, “Innocence of Muslims,” that was not only a vicious bigoted attack against Islam but also of no artistic merit.   One of the extremist political parties in Egypt plucked the trailer from obscurity and used it as part of a newscast, inflaming the people of Egypt, who mounted a demonstration against the U.S. embassy. Within a week, the trailer had more than 10 million hits on YouTube. An attack upon the consulate in … Continue reading →

Reductio ad Moroni

  By Hart Williams | September 13, 2012 4:53 pm - 4:53 pm | , ,
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jump the shark

After all, in this election, on the Republican side of the equation, facts and reasoning do not matter, and if the “pundits” notice the Mittwit doing something offensive, then surely it is the pundits who are to blame. Continue reading →

Rick Santorum’s Keynote Speech to the Sith Lords in 2007 … and 2011

  By Hart Williams | March 19, 2012 4:42 pm - 4:42 pm | , , ,
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Compare and contrast with Santorum’s recent “doubling down” when it was revealed that he is stridently anti-pornography (after being anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-abortion and pro the supremacy of sperm). That “cultural war” hasn’t changed, evidently. Not to say that he hasn’t flip-flopped on some other issues. For instance, this prefaces his speech, the obligatory self-supplied “biography”: Continue reading →

Franklin Graham Apologizes for Questioning President Obama’s Faith

  By Pamela Leavey | February 29, 2012 12:04 pm - 12:04 pm | , , , , , , , ,
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Yesterday, Evangelist Franklin Graham apologized to President Obama for questioning his Christian faith. Graham had said in a recent MSNBC interview that he “did not know whether Obama is a Christian” and he suggested that “Islamic law considers him to be a Muslim.” Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, said he now “accepts Obama’s declarations that he is a Christian.” “I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama,” he said in a statement. “I apologize to him and to any I have offended for not better articulating my reason for not supporting him in this election — for his faith has nothing to do with my consideration … Continue reading →

Sorry: Glenn Beck is NOT a Catholic

  By Hart Williams | February 22, 2012 11:40 am - 11:40 am | , ,
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The question here isn’t whether Glenn Beck is a delusional idiot. The real question is WHO at the Washington Post decided that this hogswallop was worthy of publication in any serious newspaper? Continue reading →