Category: far-right fanatics
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Right-wing fanatic: Gay engineers can’t be trusted
So what caused Tuesday’s deadly Amtrak derailment? Some anti-gay zealots are suggesting engineer Brandon Bostian’s sexuality may have played a role. Today on her radio program, American Family Association governmental affairs director Sandy Rios also mentioned the engineer’s sexual orientation, saying it was likely “a factor” the crash. “Now I am not saying, I am not […]
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Paul Broun’s replacement may actually be stupider
The good news: Paul Broun, who lost in his bid for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, won’t be returning to Congress. The bad news: His potential replacement, Jody Hice, is Broun on steroids. In a 2012 book, that candidate (Hice) alleges the gay community has a secret plot to recruit and sodomize children. […]
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Jesus wants you to own an AR-15
So says retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, now an executive with the Christian fundamentalist Family Research Council: The Lord is a warrior and in Revelation 19 is says when he comes back, he’s coming back as what? A warrior. A might warrior leading a mighty army, riding a white horse with a blood-stained white […]
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Lies make baby Jesus cry
Michele Bachmann sure is anxious for the end times. We wouldn’t want the truth to get in the way of Armageddon, now would we we? This happened, and as of today, the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as […]
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Ted Cruz: ‘We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate’
He’d probably call McCarthy 2.0 Cruz “one of the good ones.” The Daily Beast’s Jamelle Bouie frames Cruz’s praise of Helms in the context of the GOP’s far-right tilt: When then-Senator Trent Lott praised Strom Thurmond and his segregationist campaign for president in 1948—”We voted for him. We’re proud of it.”—it all but cost him his […]