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Believers against Bush		Why Evangelical Christians Must Vote Against George W. Bush
December 2007

Texas: School board employee fired for forwarding a short email mentioning a pro-science speaker. Florida: School board employee sends rambling creationist email and is not fired. 12-10

Remembering all those Southern Baptist klansmen from his childhood, black man who grew up under Jim Crow laws remembers why religion does not belong in politics 12-10

“J.F.K.’s speech was to reassure Americans that he wasn’t a religious fanatic,” ... “Mitt’s was to tell evangelical Christians, ‘I’m a religious fanatic just like you.’” 12-10

State education official who sent out mass email denouncing evolution teaching is forced to resign. Just kidding, she was told not to do it again 12-8

Anti-abortionist Randall Terry of "Operation Rescue" is now alerting the USA about the "negro problem" 12-7

Advocating for theocracy: The following is the text of Mitt Romney's speech on faith. Bonus: Regarding secularists in America: "It's as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America". You'd think a Mormon would be OK with that. 12-7

What the other candidates think about church and state 12-7

Televangelists tell Senate Finance Committee to go to hell 12-7

Abstinence only education pay-off: U.S. Teen Birth Rate Rises for First Time in 15 Years 12-7

President of Oral Roberts University claims God forced him to resign. Still unclear on which diety forced him to embezzle funds 12-5

The creation museum in Kentucky is doing the most harm among homeschooled children, who are being fed lies while never learning science. 12-3

December 2006

Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. A new book claiming that Noah's Flood is responsible is for sale at the Grand Canyon book store. 12-29

An “evangelical consultant” has been hired by Hillary Clinton to help attract Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign. 12-27

The Religious Right's Not-So-True Believers. Looking over the field of potential Republican presidential candidates, one odd thing jumps out at me: Many of them have expressed deep hostility to the religious right's point of view in the past, and several are now insisting that they didn't mean a word of it. 12-27

Republican Congressman Hayes says we will win in Iraq by "spreading the message of Jesus Christ" there. 12-22

evangelicals trying to convince Republicans that environmentalism is a 'biblical obligation' 12-20

Another Pastor From Haggard’s Church Resigns Over “Sexual Misconduct” 12-19

The Pentagon’s top brass is spending more time wargaming the Battle of Armageddon than they are the Battle of Baghdad. That’s not napalm in the morning you smell. It’s “ the aroma of Jesus Christ.” 12-14

Religion For A Captive Audience, Paid For With Tax Money 12-11

Senator Sam Brownback spends a night in prison to illustrate how well top republican donors mesh together: faith-based initiatives and for-profit prisons. 12-10

Florida: Governor's panel urges tripling state's faith-based prisons 12-07

If you think all Congressmen must pretend to be Christian or American society will collapse, the ADL would like to have a word with you. 12-5

In Obama's eyes, at least, the Republican Party can no longer claim ownership of all things evangelical. 12-5

Famed Scientist Fights Against Evangelical Crusade To Hide Kenya's Pre-Human Fossils. 12-5

Religious Right Up In Arms: Congressman To Take Oath On Koran. What did Tom Delay and Mark Foley swear on? 12-2

December 2005

conservative Christian advocacy group will include the voting records of legislators on Israel in its biennial Christian voting guide. 12-30

Why the religious right doesn't care about protecting the environment 12-30

The Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4) allows people to be excluded from holding office on religious grounds. An official may be "excluded from holding office" if she/he does not "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." 12-30

Utah state senator introduces his creationism bill 12-28

Conservative religious leaders are so pleased with their campaign against the "war on Christmas" that they're going to rev it up next year 12-24

Science museums now forced to spend money to train guides to respond to hostile creationists 12-24

Santorum tries to scramble away from sinking intelligent design ship, saying he is troubled by the apparent religious motivations of the Dover board 12-23

Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design': Dover, Pa., District Can't Teach Evolution Alternative 12-22

America's first creationist museum opens in the Ozark Mountains 12-22

Family Research Council announces "Justice Sunday III" 12-21

The House will be voting on a resolution expressing support for "the symbols and traditions of Christmas" today 12-15

Christian Taliban seeking to enforce Christian religion in holiday season 12-12

Bush doesn't mention Christmas on Christmas Cards. Religious Right throws fit 12-8

In Kansas the brownshirts are beating university professors who teach intelligent design as religious mythology 12-7

Quotes from the The American Taliban 12-5

A History of (Pro-Life) Violence 12-2

December

The most powerful economic and military nation in the world with unquestioned global influence has shown, in one half of its population, a strong fundamentalist spirit that is profoundly separated from modern reason. 12-31

Why It's Unconstitutional to Teach "Intelligent Design" in the Public Schools, as an Alternative to Evolution 12-28

Lawmakers in South Carolina pushing legislation to display the Ten Commandments inside the Statehouse, state colleges and other state buildings12-24

It’s Time To Put the Christ Back in Christmas and in Christianity, Too 12-22

For many Republicans, Christianity and support for the president go hand-in-hand "The president has been sovereignly decided by God to lead this country" 12-21

Mobile County school board President David Thomas said he wants to "push the envelope" on religion in schools, possibly by allowing students to gather daily to offer prayers. 12-21

Pope condemns Christmas materialism, i s getting a lump of coal 12-21

Franklin Graham: "People of the Christian faith are under attack." 12-19

Scalia blames separation of Church and State for the holocaust 12-19

"10 Commandments Judge" may run for Alabama Gov. in 2006 12-19

"There are numerous recent examples of media capitulation to fundamentalist Christian conservatives, which now wield a power wildly disproportionate to their numbers." 12-18

Conservatives try to put the "Christ" in Christmas, and that includes government buildings 12-17

Creating battles where there are none: First it was to protect your marriage from gays that want to steal it. Now it's protecting Christmas from those who acknowledge the other holidays occurring around the same time of the year 12-17

Judge embroiders the Ten Commandments on judicial robe. 12-16

Gov. Jeb Bush, a devout Catholic, credited the Virgin of Guadaloupe with interceding on his brother George's behalf during the 2000 presidential election. I shit you not. 12-15

Senate crowned a new messiah earlier this year and Bush claimed the bible belt in the election 12-15

These are the people responsible for more than 95% of complaints to the FCC. 12-15

Vermont Governor attempting to remove nude statue from statehouse. 12-14

More religious mythology encroaching upon on educational system 12-13

The Seeds of the American Taliban by POAC contributing columnist W David Jenkins III Held over

The Parents Television Council is stepping up its complaint about the FCC's tally of indecency complaints. Calling for a congressional investigation of FCC accounting, the group said that while it was "pleased" that the FCC calculated that the group had filed the "overwhelming majority of indecency complaints in the last two years," it says that overwhelming majority would have been even more if the commission wasn't lowballing the number of their complaints. 12-9

Maureen Farrell: "God Is With Us": Hitler's Rhetoric and the Lure of "Moral Values": One might expect regular citizens to be ignorant of history, but a Supreme Court Justice? Does he imagine that the phrase "Gott mit Uns" was a German clothier's interpretation of "Got Milk"? 12-9

Right wing group organizing boycott of department stores who use "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" in their ads. 12-9

Roe v Wade, aborted: a POAC reader contribution by Doris Colmes, MSW 12-8

Dover biology teachers forced to teach religious mythology with science 12-8

Republican Kansas senator trying to make getting a divorce harder 12-8

Religious right tells the GOP: Fire the homos 12-7

The Alabama Christian Coalition reminds you that the right to an education is part of a larger agenda supported by the communist party (last item) 12-4

Youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only sex-education courses frequently receive inaccurate or misleading information, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. 12-3

Alabama Republican wants all books with gay characters removed from state & university libraries Book burning at 11

The United Church of Christ ad advocating acceptance of gays denied by major networks 12-2

Democrats Should Oppose Empowering the Pious 12-1

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