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- When this video by the American Life League surfaced, everyone thought it was a biting satire on religious-based, anti-contraception idiots of the world. Turns out, it's not.
- Larry Doyle, a former writer for The Simpsons, wrote this anti-Rick Santorum/anti-Catholic Church satirical column for The Huffington Post's Comedy section. As you'd imagine, conservatives went nuts and called for Arianna Huffington to apologize. The most over-the-top response, though, was by Bill Donohue from The Catholic League, who offered “These people may be threatened by Catholicism, but what really gives them the chills is babies. And they really flip over couples like the Santorums and the Palins who don't abort their disabled children.”
- Rick Santroum stepped in it last week when he took uber-Catholic (except for the whole pesky “adultering” rule) JFK to task for trying to keep church and state separate.
- Newt Gingrich, still trying to maintain relevance, held a conference call with leaders of a faith coalition and basically said the government needs to end gay marriage and teachers should bully gay teenagers more often.
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- The American Midwest and South were just decimated this week by tornados, leaving at least 38 dead and causing untold amounts of damage. And, as you'd imagine, a lot of people turned to the Lord Above during those windy and apocalyptic nights. But there was nothing as insane and creepy as this video from a woman calling on God to take away the tornado, in between seemingly reciting lines from Evil Dead II.- And then there was that whole mess with Rush Limbaugh calling a Georgetown grad student a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she was denied access to debate birth control for the House Oversight Committee. Sure, this comes from the misogynist gutter, but there are plenty of overlaps with religion.- Daniel Pearl, the Jewish journalist who died in Pakistan in 2002, is now a Mormon. Thanks, posthumous baptisms!- In West Tennessee, a high school principal was forced to resign after he told kids in his school that if they were gay, they were going to hell.- And finally, our Hero of the Week goes to: The African-Americans for Humanism society, who spent Black History Month trying to promote the role that African-American atheists had during the Civil Rights movement.@RickPaulasPreviously - Burning for You
