Quantcast
Channel: Troutfishing
Browsing all 138 articles
Browse latest View live

"Invisible Children" Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting "Intelligent Design", a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas...

View Article



Report Ties Invisible Children/KONY 2012 To "The Family": Extensively

"[It] functions invisibly like the mafia... They keep their organization invisible. Everything visible is transitory. Everything invisible is permanent and lasts forever. The more you can make your...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Is Invisible Children Intentionally Drowning Out LGBT Day of Silence?

I'm posting this as a promo for my colleague Rachel Tabachnick's new story, Invisible Children's "Cover the Night" is April 20 - on GLBT "Day of Silence"[by Rachel Tabachnick] Invisible Children has an...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Jon Stewart Showcases David Barton's Book of History Lies

To get a sense of where David Barton is at, consider: last October 2011, before a Florida audience that included Newt Gingrich, David Barton made the claim that the founding fathers based key concepts...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why the Religious Right’s NC Constitutional Ban On Gay Marriage Will Hurt the...

The religious right, with Billy Graham himself weighing in, has just convinced North Carolina voters to undermine their own economic well-being. I doubt many North Carolina residents asked, in the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Key Architect of Religious Right Warns of "Christian Jihad"

"I realized that the main difference between "our people" and "their people" (Islamic fundamentalists) was that ours (with the notable exception of bombing abortion clinics and assassinating doctors)...

View Article

"Biblical" Genocide? Over 100K Public School Students To Get Lessons On...

In a May 30, 2012 story in The Guardian, journalist Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children reveals that next Fall over 100,000...

View Article

KKK Praised in Text used in State-Funded Christian Schools

"the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross... In some communities it achieved a certain...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Humans and Fire Breathing Dinosaurs ? Romney Education Plan Would Fund...

[update: I've just learned that the "just a few thousand years ago, humans lived with dinosaurs - some of which may have been fire breathing dragons!" theory is aggressively promoted by Young Earth...

View Article


Yale Institute Touts Antigay Chick-Fil-A as Exemplar of "Spiritual" Values

I first covered Yale's promotion of anti-LGBT fast food provider Chick-Fil-A, as an alleged exemplar of positive spiritual values in the workplace, in a March 7, 2011 post titled Yale Faith Institute...

View Article

Paul Ryan's Favorite Philosopher Inspired "The Satanic Bible", Experts Say

"I give people Ayn Rand, with trappings" --- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (to Kim Klein of the Washington Post, 1970), as cited on page 2 of Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical...

View Article

"Crypto-cultists" and "cranks", said Colson: The video footage Paul Ryan...

note: this video is tailored for evangelical Christians, even very conservative ones, many of whom would be flabbergasted to know that the late Charles Colson -- who was a huge figure in the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GOP Convention Blessed By Pastor in Movement That Burns "Unholy" Books and Art

[note: a related story, from Religion Dispatches editor Sarah Posner, covers Samuel Rodriguez' appearance at the Republican National Convention from outside the frame of his participation in C. Peter...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pamela Geller's Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film

[image, right: Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, whose nonprofit Media For Christ produced [see 1, 2, 3] the inflammatory anti-Muhammad video trailer "Innocence of the Muslims", and anti-Islamic activist...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Slavery wasn't so bad, says book published by OR Republican for Congress

"the negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe." -- from George Alfred Henty's book With Lee in Virginia,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Republican Suggested "Sprinkling" Radioactive Waste on America

Dump radioactive waste, from airplanes, on our heads? Mix it in our drinking water? If Muslims had proposed this, it would be terrorism, and probably a fast-track to a waterboarding station in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Paul Ryan Laughs About His Plan to "Personalize" (Destroy) Social Security

"It is impossible to summarize these statements without sounding like a breathless conspiracy theorist.  Here’s what Ryan says...  Read the transcript. Don’t trust my transcript, listen to the audio on...

View Article


U.S. Military Still Using "Jesus rifles" in Afghanistan

It's not official policy, but with Internet access a 12-year old child anywhere in the Islamic world could construct, with relative ease, a plausible conspiracy theory claiming that the United States...

View Article

In '05 and '08, Todd Akin Entered American History Lies in the Congressional...

"The Bible was foundational to development of our country. The English Puritans came to the New World to follow the Bible according to the convictions of their own consciences. Of the 56 signers of the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Book From Alan Grayson Opponent Features Fake History

[note: part one in this series was In '05 and '08, Todd Akin Entered Christian Nationalist History Lies in the Congressional Record]I knew Former U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson was running for a seat in...

View Article
Browsing all 138 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images