Number One in Texas politics today and yesterday?
Judge Sparks to Tom DeLay:
Once DeLay finished testifying, Sparks explained he could either leave or stay for the rest of the proceedings.
"My recommendation is to run like a rabbit," Sparks quipped according to an Austin American-Statesman account.
Baptist historian Walter Shurden, director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., warns that there is a growing theocracy in the United States and Texas.
"I am suggesting . . . that there are American Christians for whom the adjective is more important than the noun. I am suggesting that some Christian churches in our country have become political temples and that some clergy have embraced willingly the title of 'patriot pastors.' I am suggesting that theocrats have an eye on the machinery of the national and state governments, and they make no apology for it."
In response to U.S. Rep. John Carter's comment that "there is no racial bias in Texas," the state's civil rights advocates are hitting back with facts. (Also, check out a great comment in our diary yesterday on DailyKos showing just how many racist organizations exist in Texas.)
And, finally, prominent black leaders said Monday they will organize against Christian conservatives they say have used gay marriage and abortion to distract from larger moral issues such as the war, voting rights, affirmative action and poverty. Yay!
More insanity from the religious right in the Texas Freedom Network's Daily News Clips.