| As Stephen Colbert would say, "Bill Moyers gets it."
"Sadly, it's become the divine distraction. Here we are bogged down in a colonial war, spending beyond our means, leaving our children a colossal debt, paving over our farmland, allowing health care to be both expensive and inefficient, facing a shortage of affordable housing, and addicted to oil that is making us more and more dependent on Islamic countries. And the party in power is obsessed with gay marriage?"
--Journalist Bill Moyers, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, commenting on the relevancy of faith and reason to contemporary American politics.
In other religious-right news, a West Virginia columnist writes that while the religious right may not overtly espouse a desire for an American theocracy, the implementation of their preferred public policies would de facto lead to such a state.
Then, the Houston Chronicle, along with a bevy of other newspapers across the nation, criticizes Texas Republicans for blocking the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-TX, doesn't "think we have a racial bias in Texas."
More important, an important study has found that while the religious right and Republicans tout unproven abstinence-only sex education, poor and uneducated women are having more and more trouble controlling their own fertility and planning for childbearing.
Last, but certainly not least, News Hounds (who watch FOX News so you don't have to) reports that the cable news network is promoting religious-right (which controls the Republican Party) positions.
More insanity from the religious right in the Texas Freedom Network's Daily News Clips. |
