So, let's say you get what you want...

I started this a long time ago, and have only recently finished it. Being an atheist, I'm of course wide open to the criticism that I hate religion. Let me make it plain - I don't have religious beliefs. I don't believe in any of the supernatural claims. I don't really care if you do or don't - it's not my business. If you ask me why I'm an atheist, I'll tell you. If you ask me what I think about your beliefs, I'll tell you.

I have no special issue with people practicing their faith. Do it, if that's what you want, good on you. My issues are and always have been with the spill-over into the public sphere. When laws are changed to mollify organised religions, when bigotry is perpetrated so unaffected believers don't have to have their belief questioned. That gives me the steaming irrits.

So this piece is about Dominion Theology, aka Christian Reconstructionism, aka Quiverfull, aka something something God something. The tack I'm taking is - okay, get what you want, complete control over US society. What now?

Freedom of (Hate) Speech

Update: Since this was written, at least some of the hate groups involved have been barred from using Paypal.

An article on the campaign to stop hate groups from using PayPal and the questions of freedom of speech it raised.

Meet your next President America

So, we've established that Michele Bachmann's got a slight connection to the Ugandan anti-gay crusade. What can I find wrong with Rick Perry? Oh I know, how about that he hates, loathes and detests women!

Pushback on Draconian Rick: Stay Out of Women's Sex Lives | | AlterNet

Doing in Uganda what you can't get away with in the US.

Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann's connection to Ugandan anti-gay campaigners, and news generally on those countries that have a death penalty for homosexuality.
http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2011/09/executed-for-being-gay.html

Tony in fairyland

US politics is bananas and full of loonies with no grip on reality. We have Tony Abbott. Compare, contrast and discuss.