Archive for the ‘Catholic Fascist’ Category

Opus Dei: Neofascism Within the Catholic Church by OllieGarkey What we are seeing today in the fight over birth control is a revival of a very old, and very dangerous kind of Catholicism. It is not one supported or practiced by most Rank and File Catholics. It is a kind of Catholicism which has done [...]

As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat Robert Reich Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Aftershock My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his [...]

Church & State Report Says Religious Right And Catholic Bishops Dominate ‘Faithful’ Lobbying January 2012 People & Events In D.C. A report issued by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that religious advocacy groups in the nation’s capital are growing and that most of the largest organizations are affiliated with the Religious [...]

The Catholicization of the American Right Howard Schweber Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the past two decades, the American religious Right has become increasingly Catholic. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. Literally, Catholic writers have emerged as intellectual leaders of the religious right in universities, the punditocracy, the press, and the courts, promoting an [...]

Kuhner Claims Obama is ‘Our Lenin‘; Mefferd Afraid He’s More Like Stalin Crazed Catholic Fascist Jeffrey Kuhner Blathers Absurdities Against Obama Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wed, 02/22/2012 – 3:14pm Right-wing columnist Jeffrey Kuhner visited the Janet Mefferd show earlier this week to discuss a recent column he wrote for the Washington Times, positing that [...]

Newt Gingrich’s Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theories Crazy bigoted fear-mongering Via:-Charles Johnson With all the focus on Newt Gingrich’s race-baiting and “big ideas,” one thing that hasn’t gotten much notice yet: his outrageous anti-Muslim statements. There’s a reason why Newt was scheduled to speak at hate group leader Pamela Geller’s “Ground Zero Mosque” demonstration in New York, [...]

Gingrich Doubles Down on Victimhood Propaganda Right wing grievance mongering on steroids By Charles Johnson Things aren’t looking good for Newt Gingrich, so he really has no choice but to double down on hatred, bigotry, and ridiculous victimhood inversion memes: Gingrich Touts War Against Christianity, Gay Adoption In South Carolina. Here comes that old chestnut [...]

The GOP’s Race to the Dark Ages Post by Sarah Posner Rick Santorum thinks Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that invalidated criminal bans on contraception, was wrongly decided. He’s off the deep-end on this one, and completely out of touch even with his fellow Catholics, but his statement provoked an exchange at last night’s [...]

Gingrich Promises Presidential Commission On Ending The Separation Of Church/State Catholic Crusader Newt Gingrich has published a document vowing that “on Day One” of his presidency he will create a commission to investigate any attempt to enforce the separation of church and state. He also promises that he will thwart any attempt to stop the [...]

Rick Santorum: ‘Science Should Get Out of Politics’ The Republican Party’s total war on science Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian [he's Catholic] creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting [...]

Santorum Calls For Public Schools To Teach Creationism The Republican Party’s endless war on reality By Charles Johnson Here we go again with the right wing’s bizarre obsession with evolution. For more than a century religious conservatives have been waging a war of denial against reality itself, and there’s no sign of a cease fire [...]

Santorum Signs Pledge Defending Christian Influence Over Society  ‎Today, ‎29 ‎November ‎2011, ‏‎12 hours ago | Zack Ford Right Wing Watch notes that Rick Santorum is so far the only presidential candidate to sign Open Doors Ministry’s “Pledge for Religious Freedom.” The pledge claims that “religious freedom includes the right to employ religious arguments…when contending [...]

Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 11:59 ET At U.K. terror inquiry, Rep. King defends I.R.A. terror At a parliamentary hearing on Muslim radicalization, the New York Republican condones Irish radicalization [Is Catholic commissar Peter King the new Joseph (Catholic fascist) McCarthy and fueling a new Inquisition?] By Justin Elliott AP Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Rep. Peter [...]