It’s simple, really. Besides the fact that religious men in politics wear too much makeup (see above), Delay is a racist, misogynist, thieving, lying prick and he’ll soon be a convict. No amount of apologizing to the invisible sky buddies can make that go away. But the wingnuts have gloamed on the Christianity, and morphed it into Christianism- an ersatz variety of “religion” that serves only one True Purpose: giving cover to their scumbags when nothing else will.  Read more 

Can we stone Gingrich to death now? (Leviticus 20:10 ) AP:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

Which wife was Newt on by that point? And was this the affair with the staffer? So much to remember…

“The honest answer is yes,” Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. “There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There’s certainly times when I’ve fallen short of God’s standards.”

There’s a word for this… I just can’t think of it…  Read more 

I don’t really have an opinion on the idea of making porn sites use the .xxx address. However, I find this little exchange interesting for the light it sheds on how email and communication in general is managed by our opponents:

ICM says the e-mails show how the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, were subjected to intense pressure to intervene in some way on behalf of the The Family Research Council, and Focus On The Family, two religious conservative lobbyists.

NTIA members then started keeping watch as to how the .xxx proposal was reported in the media, had drafted letters protesting the .xxx domain addressed to ICANN, helped facilitate meetings between ICANN and concerned groups, and otherwise “marshaled our resources at ICANN,” as one NTIA official put it in an e-mail.  Read more