"God is tolerant and loving," says Robertson, but He's going to crap on Pennsylvania

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Saturday November 12, 2005 · 12:42 AM PST

2005/11/12 · 00:42

Last year, the Dover, PA school board made news by becoming the first to mandate the teaching of "Intelligent Design" in district schools. But earlier this week, the good people of Dover responded at the ballot box, sending all eight of the school-board members up for reelection out on their asses.

And now, Pat Robertson is prophesying death and destruction for Dover: "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected him from your city." Apparently, the Intelligent Designer suffers from such a lack of precision that he has to wipe out entire towns to prove a point. Predictable for Robertson, who together with buddy Jerry Falwell, famously blamed the 9/11 attacks on feminists, homosexuals, and the ACLU. Perhaps everyone in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 9/11 was an accessory to the Satanic liberal conspiracy, but somehow I doubt it.

I'm no theologian, but if there is a God with a habit of knocking off his enemies, wouldn't you expect him to be a bit more like a sniper and little less like an atom bomb?

Creationism Takes on Higher Ed

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 12:53 PM PDT

2005/10/21 · 12:53

According to this AlterNet article, a lawsuit has been filed against University of California Berkeley, alleging that the university's Understanding Evolution website violates the separation of church and state. You know, the wall of separation that Pat Robertson called "a lie of the left". The one that Beverly LeHaye referred to as the "imaginary 'wall of separation' conjured by nonbelievers." The one that the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention called "the figment of some infidel's imagination." Oh yes, that one. It seems the Religious Right is a lot more optimistic about the wall's existence when they think it might go their way ...

Protecting the foreign film industry

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 11:28 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 11:28

Unesco is expected to approve a resolution that would protect nations' rights to subsidize domestic film production and restrict foreign television and radio content. The US, with the sole support of Israel, unsuccessfully proposed some twenty-seven amendments to cripple the measure, which is broadly seen as a blow against US cultural imperialism.

Canada, who together with France first raised the initiative, has long had in effect its Cancon rules, which dictate the total percentage of radio and television broadcast time that must be dedicated to "Canadian content". According to at least one Canadian I've spoken to, this translates into the maddening repetition of Avril Lavigne, Shania Twain, and that Titanic woman with the freakishly long neck ...

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Meet the Fundies

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Sunday October 16, 2005 · 11:47 PM PDT

2005/10/16 · 23:47

An amendment to the Texas-state constitution banning same-sex marriage and civil unions is coming up for vote in a couple weeks, and the Texas Observer has an article featuring interviews with a number of self-described fundamentalists who support the ban.

Here's what Mary Ann Markarian—an ordained minister, graduate of Oral Roberts University, and a Christian performer often featured on the Trinity Broadcasting Network—had to say on the issue:

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