Category Archives: Church and State

Snyder signs anti-abortion omnibus bill, drastically reducing women’s reproductive options, and driving even more educated young women from Michigan

By Mark | December 28, 2012

Well, it looks like Governor Snyder did what many of us were fearing that he’d do… This afternoon, while most of us were at home, enjoying the holidays with our families, he signed the anti-abortion omnibus bill into law. The following is from the Daily Beast. Michigan women will face new obstacles to legal abortion [...]

Also posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Rants | Tagged 5711, abortion, brain drain, Ed Rivet, HB 5711, Michigan Right to Life, old white men making decisions on women's health, Planned Parenthood, Rebekah Warren, reproductive justice, Rick Snyder, Roe v. Wade, war on women, women's health, women's rights | 28 Comments

Winning in November isn’t enough, says Van Jones. We also have to mobilize against Obama.

By Mark | June 11, 2012

I know he’s a big hero to many on the left, but Van Jones sometimes rubs me the wrong way. He’s too smiley, or something. Maybe it’s a reaction to having been taken in by John Edwards, but I now prefer my heros to be a bit more wonky, and bit less telegenic. But, at [...]

Also posted in Civil Liberties | Tagged Antonin Scalia, Bush tax cuts, Citizens United, corporate takeover of politics, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fear, gay marriage, get the money out of Washington, Grover Norquist, hope, John Edwards, money as free speech, money in politics, Netroots Nation, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Pell grants, political organizing, Scott Walker, slickness, Supreme Court, tax the rich, tea party, Tea Partyfication, Trayvon Martin, unions, Van Jones, Wisconsin | 11 Comments

Delaware candidate for the House attributes separation of church and state to Hitler

By Mark | September 19, 2010

Not only did the criminally misinformed voters of Delaware choose the non-masturbating former witch, Christine O’Donnell, to be their Republican candidate for Senate, but they selected her fellow tea bagger, Glen Urquhart, as their candidate to fill the seat of U.S. Representative Mike Castle, who had announced his intention to leave the House in order [...]

Also posted in Politics | Tagged a wall of separation, a wall of separation between Church & State, Christine O'Donnell, Danbury Baptists, Delaware, Glen Urquhart, Hitler, Mike Castle, separation of church and state, tea party, Thomas Jefferson, witches | 18 Comments

Let’s burn all the holy books while we’re at it

By Mark | September 9, 2010

I was going to join everyone else on the internet tonight and write about so-called Christian Terry Jones and his poorly thought-out plan to burn 200 copies of the Quran come Saturday, but it looks now as though it’s been called off, or at least momentarily postponed. Jones says he decided to pull the plug [...]

Also posted in Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism | Tagged burn a Koran Day, Florida, ground zero mosque, Lou Reed, Park51, quran, religious freedom, Sharif El-Gamal, Susan Boyle, Terry Jones | 19 Comments

Rewriting history in Texas

By Mark | March 14, 2010

Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, [...]