If you don't know who Scott Lively is, he's the monster who authored The Pink Swastika, a book I've derided in the past for its pseudo-historical claim that Nazis were a secret gay organization intent on destroying heterosexuality. It ranks about as high as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in terms of historical verisimilitude. In March of 2009, Scott and a posse of other Evangelical Christians traveled ...

You hear that folks, some things aren't negotiable, like defining when life actually starts. Using their super-scientific method of determining what is right and wrong (i.e., do whatever the fucking Pope tells you to do), Catholics want voters to continue to erode the reproductive rights of women, deny gays the same rights as everyone else, and let's not forget force everyone else to placate their crazy non ...

I hate the way non-scientists keep arguing that "science doesn't know everything", or that "new research supports my [insert bullshit idea here]. The latest confused buffoon is Andrew Sullivan, who has a new section where you can ask him questions. It seems that he's been reading the same book I have (Pinker's "Angels of our Better Natures; Why violence has declined), but he's come to vastly different concl ...

You know, I've always believed people who claim to want to stop debauchery, sin and vice were secretly engaging in these same activities. It explains why they think whatever they are railing against is a bigger deal than it actually is. One such hypocrite is Pastor Grant Storms, a man who's been fighting against the "debauchery" of New Orleans for nearly a decade: A self-styled "Christian patriot," Storms l ...

Homophobic crime is on the rise in England, and as you might have already guessed, the culprits are hiding behind a veil of religion to justify their bigotry. The backlash is due to the growing recognition of gay rights, both to marry and adopt, and this has prompted groups motivated by improvable dogma to retaliate. One unidentified group is putting up stickers that say "gay free zone" along with a quote f ...

I want to make something clear from the onset: yes, it's true if you're an evangelical Christian, it does not necessarily follow you personally support the maltreatment of gays around the world. However, and this is my main point, you are part of an institution whose views and opinions regarding homosexuality shape a culture of hatred and murder. You cannot escape this reality; any money, time and effort sp ...

Imagine your loved one gets gunned down for trying to reform a law that makes the lives of people visibly worse, and the murderer is showered with rose petals and celebrated for his actions? Well, for that to happen, you'd have to be in Pakistan, and the law you would have to try and reform would be the blasphemy kind. Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, was attempting to reform the laws in an effort to ...

Is it a crime to love someone? It is when you're a Hindu and the person you fall for is from a different "class" as you. As much as I hate most religions, I have a special disgust for Hinduism, which dictates from birth the future of individuals based on the confining doctrine of karma and social caste. They are crazy enough about that shit to try and murder a couple who only want to live their lives togeth ...

Normally, if you hear about a plot by an armed civilian militia trying to kill government officials, you figure it's happening in some unstable developing country. It's hard to believe in this day and age, the most powerful and wealthy country in the world also seems to have similar problems with armed maniacs trying to overthrow the present authority. A few days ago, police and FBI agents arrested 9 home g ...

Pope Benedict XVI is again being implicated in another abuse scandal, this time out of the state of Wisconsin. Reverend Lawrence C. Murphy worked in a school for deaf children, and while Benny was alerted in two letters that the priest had been suspected of molesting dozens of children, he failed to do anything at all. Unsurprisingly, Murphy was transferred from the school when the heat got too high to anot ...