Archive for the ‘Catholic Lunatics’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]