Reading Time: 9 minutes The Respect for Marriage Act finally passed a its last vote. It’s now on its way to the president’s desk, where he’ll likely sign it into law on Tuesday. But it got there over the kicking and screaming of the Christian Right, a loose-knit assortment of hardline evangelical culture warriors and creepily-authoritarian hardline Catholics.
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Nancy Pelosi’s swan song implies America is a Christian nation
Reading Time: 3 minutes US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s epoch-ending, gavel-passing speech Thursday on the floor of the House demonstrated—the Founding Fathers’ vision of secular governance notwithstanding—how casually and normatively embedded Christianity remains at the summit of American government. Speaker Pelosi’s “swan song” as the revered, two-decade leader of Congressional Democrats and final arbiter of House public-policy priorities was […]
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: Southern Baptists still arguing over women pastors
Reading Time: 10 minutes To outsiders, this newest strategy might not make a whole lot of sense. But to Southern Baptist leaders, it’s the hands-down most important question of their day.
Marjorie Taylor Greene confuses Georgia the country with Georgia the planet
Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington DC – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is under fire after admitting she has always confused “Georgia the country with Georgia the planet.” How can there be a North America, a South America, and a God bless America? Marjorie Taylor Greene Greene made the comment while talking to reporters about the mass exodus of Russian […]
Massachusetts attacks Ron DeSantis with a large Dunkin Donuts coffee
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tallahassee, Florida – Florida Governor Rod DeSantis was viciously attacked earlier today by a visibly agitated Commonwealth of Massachusetts. DeSantis received a large hot Dunkin Donuts Americano coffee to the face. You’re being duped by a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don’t care about you and your family. Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey raging […]
Voters hammered Trump in 2016. So how did he end up president?
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may be unaware of it, but the Democratic Party has been on quite a win streak of late, capturing the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections (1992-2020), including when Donald Trump won the White House in 2016. The question is, how was Trump able to win that election when he […]
Governor Ron DeSantis orders ‘anti-masturbation’ school lunches for all Florida students
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tallahassee, Florida – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation mandating Florida schools to adopt anti-masturbation lunches for all students. Governor DeSantis is heralding the change as a blow against “woke Lunchables.” I see a bright future where students won’t be tempted to touch themselves during lunch. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Florida statute Title XXIX covers […]
From Hitler to Trump, strongmen’s lies have devastated the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the risk of exaggerating a connection to today’s American political environment, bald-faced lies disingenuously and persistently applied over time destroyed Germany’s pre-World War II Weimar Republic. The lies were spread by the racist Nazi Party’s fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, in a cynical and diabolical propaganda campaign inflicted on the German people during years of […]
Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for ‘Stukas’ and ‘Stormtroopers’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Madison, WI – GOP candidate for governor Andrew Canard is calling for a ‘blitzkrieg’ of ‘Stuka dive bombers’ and ‘stormtroopers’ in response to a recent scandal. The issue at hand revolves around Mr. Canard giving money to Christo-fascist churches, anti-choice organizations, and the American Society for the Propensity to Harm Animals (ASPHA) Andrew Canard is […]
Country isn’t sure why they’re being so mean to Grandad Joe Biden
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Country isn’t sure why some people are just so mean to Grandad Joe Biden. When the President wanted to say a few words about how our best friend Democracy is doing, a bunch of people just tossed out some angry word salad from the back of the room and just isn’t nice. Grandad showed […]