I live in the DFW metroplex and I must admit, I once traveled nearly half a mile without seeing a church! Shocking, I know! Dan Patrick was a Houston radio gas bag and Rush Limbaugh wannabe as well as a four-star religious nut job. That is 100% of what he brings to the table. Like most fervent evangelicals, Patrick cares about no one’s freedom of religion other than his own, and he wants nothing more than to force it on everyone in the name of saving America.
A real committee interested in real freedom of religion would have a different membership, it'd include representatives of all kinds of other faiths plus some atheists and heathens and NOT just christians. It definitely does not do what it says on the tin!
"his top priority in office is making “Christian/family values our foundation again.”"
You can start with Donald Trump: unrepentant rapist, alleged child predator, serial unrepentant adulterer, habitual liar, bully, cheat, thief, and warmonger.
And Ken Paxton. Cheat, liar, adulterer.
Your governor who welcomed the immigrant with razor wire buoys to drown them.
Then move on to your caucus and party who views the poor as parasites and shows partiality to the rich.
You know that and I know that. But the resident troll here doesn't seem to be willing to acknowledge that previous performance may be a reliable predictor of future behavior, especially considering the considerable amount of evidence we have to that effect.
Ya know, if someone throws a punch at me, I can usually block it. However, it HELPS if I'm in a ready position FIRST.
The scary part of that is that Trump would almost certainly do that, whereupon his sycophants of the cloth would call him The Hand of God™ and be totally okay with it! 🤦♂️😖
Exactly. They seem to think that ICE detentions equates to the command to 'provide succour to strangers', decimating healthcare to 'heal the sick', cutting foodstamps to 'feed the hungry', voter suppression via the SAVE act to 'honour thy mother' .... I'm sure you'll be able to come up with a few more examples!
“do not fully understand their God-given religious liberty rights secured under the First Amendment.”
If they were God-given, then they wouldn’t need the first amendment to secure them. And, there’s nothing in the bible, or any Christian teachings that remotely resemble our first amendment right to free belief and practice of religion, Christianity demands obedience. There’s no freedom in it whatsoever, especially not the freedom to believe in other religions or no religion. So, you are lying. Our rights are not god-given, they are fought and won only by the people against the tyrants. You are on the side of tyrants and the people know it.
God-given religious liberty rights, Danny Boy? Since when is your god concerned about liberty or rights? YHVH is a dictator who demands unquestioning devotion...or else.
The bible and its contents are far more interested in dictating humankind's obligations to the head honcho in the front office than it has EVER been interested in human rights or freedoms. The bible, as most all of us well know, is about patriarchy and theocracy.
Anyone who wants to assert otherwise is talking out of their ass.
"who falsely believes the Founding Fathers “honored the Lord through our constitution”"
Prove it. Where in the constitution did the founding fathers honor the Lord? Show me the specific words. Where is Jesus, Lord, Christian or Christianity in the constitution? And don’t bother with the “the year of our lord” bullshit. That’s just the convention they used at the time for dates and had nothing to do with the founders specific preferences, just like everyone used to use AD and BC until CE and BCE. Where did the founding fathers mention anything about religion that wasn’t preceded by “no”?
It’s not there. You’re making shit up to feed your narrative.
Five will get you 50 that they want to point to the mention of "nature's God" and "endowed by their Creator" in the Declaration of Independence. What they conveniently (and repeatedly!) ignore is the fact that the DoI is NOT a foundational document of the United States. It is, as a lot of us have cited too many times to count, a DECLARATION OF WAR. Further, Jefferson allowed those phrases in under protest. He didn't want them there in the first place.
On top of that, there's that phrase in the Preamble: "... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The document proclaims itself as the founding instrument of the US, about as blatantly as could be hoped for. And what follows in six Articles has no mention of Jesus or Yahweh, and the one mention of religion insists that: "... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." And, of course, there's also the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Sorry to run on so long, but this stuff pisses me off sometimes! 😁
What would they say if they knew that in the first draft of the DoI, that wily Deist Jefferson only mentioned the word "creator" once. In lowercase "c." The uppercase and three other references (Nature's God/Providence/Judge were only added later over Jefferson's strenuous objections. Oops again.
Sycophants copying Der Führer to push the same ideology. These people think that religious freedom means everyone has the freedom to choose which denomination of Christianity they wish to follow, and nothing else. They may allow Jewish congregations for a while so they can use their "see we're not really Nazis" lies for a while longer, but we all know what their end goal is here: a theocratic authoritarian regime that forces conformity into their narrow little boxes. They want Gilead.
Speaking of Texas’s Gilead, another woman was rushed to the emergency room after her ectopic pregnancy was misdiagnosed by Christian staff posing as “medical professionals” at a crisis pregnancy center.
After the “free speech” SCOTUS ruling today for conversion therapy, I was thinking about how crisis pregnancy centers also use “free speech” as protection in all lawsuits.
I see that the insults from Trump and Hegseth about the Europeans not helping the US out in its war with Iran.
Neither of them seem to have a clue what to do about the fact that the Iranians refuse to capitulate. The threats and hyperbole seem to get more extreme.
Elsewhere, I have suggested that if Hegseth really wants to terrify the Iranians, then perhaps he should get the Air Force to drop kegs of beer instead of bombs. I am sure his personal supply would be ample.
"For the record, insulting your allies and friends, threatening to invade them, failing to inform them of your plans, particularly plans with which you know they disagree, is bad enough. But then demanding that they clean up after you (or else) is immeasurably worse. The “I break it, you fix it” approach to foreign policy has limited appeal to other countries, friend, foe, or in-between."
It's just more of the same - old white people who seem to think that things were "better" in the past, and want to replicate the past by "bringing back Christian values," even though those values never existed broadly in the first place.
Just like they'd love to bring back Jim Crow and men as unquestioned head of households, a la Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet. They want to live in the past.
"conservative Christianity" The Christian death cult will never give up imposing its unfounded beliefs in the United States. The so called "Freedom of Religion" for the cult only means one religion, Christianity. Sadly Religions rule in the country with special privileges and protections, making it easy to continually spread their dogma and acquiring great wealth no questions asked. Got to love the Mormons for example, one bat shit crazy religion that rivals the Catholics in insane beliefs and wealth. Taking full advantage of the U.S. government and it's generosity for Religions.
Again, "Tax the Fucken churches" Frank Zappa -1980
Some years ago these same nutjobs were talking about having Texas leave the US. Maybe we should encourage it and invite all the good non racist/sexist/theocrats to leave.
In 2019, the state of Colorado banned licensed mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy. Christian therapist Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor who describes herself as “a practicing Christian” who believes that “people flourish when they live consistently with God’s design,” sued the state to challenge the law with help from the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
I defy them to demonstrate that their "therapy" has any meaningful positive effect. I will further challenge them to submit their techniques to a peer review.
Any bets as to whether they'll take me up on that?
They don't care. Like all the horror perpetrated by xtians on others. Their main intent is to harm others. We see it daily in the news and on this site.
"who falsely believes the Founding Fathers “honored the Lord through our constitution”"
The American Revolution was an act of rebellion against the God-given authority as outlined in Romans 13, King George the Third, to whom good Christians were supposed to submit.
Danny-boy, it's pretty clear that you don't, either. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment applies to everyone and NOT JUST CHRISTIANS, much as you would like things to go that way. Your "committee," such as it is, has little other purpose than to foist yet more Christian agitprop on Texans, and I can pretty well guarantee you that there are more than a few of them who will not appreciate that much, if at all. The very fact that the Freedom From Religion Foundation has already called you out on this noise should tell you that you shouldn't go any further.
But of course you will ... and I'm sure the lawyers involved will appreciate the business.
It is never the job of our secular government to backstop anyone's religion, and Christians are not the only people with rights. The freedom of religion is NOT a right to force your religion on others. Rights are NOT God-given. Our rights are the product of secular government.
"𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠" Typical, like many Dan Patrick doesn't understand who Amreicans really are. They are people from countries in all of the Americas.
There is just not much to say here. The religious reich will do what they can to get as much power and money as they can. It’s going to wreck this country in a lot of ways.
Any time I see "liberty, freedom or patriot" in an organization or group's name. I know they are fascists.
Freedom From Religion Foundation excepted, I hope!
Always.
Organizations that include the word 'family' in their title are another warning sign.
All three words have been red flags to me for some time now.
I live in the DFW metroplex and I must admit, I once traveled nearly half a mile without seeing a church! Shocking, I know! Dan Patrick was a Houston radio gas bag and Rush Limbaugh wannabe as well as a four-star religious nut job. That is 100% of what he brings to the table. Like most fervent evangelicals, Patrick cares about no one’s freedom of religion other than his own, and he wants nothing more than to force it on everyone in the name of saving America.
A real committee interested in real freedom of religion would have a different membership, it'd include representatives of all kinds of other faiths plus some atheists and heathens and NOT just christians. It definitely does not do what it says on the tin!
('it does exactly what it says on the tin' - that started out as an advertising slogan for a paint company: https://www.ronseal.com/the-ronseal-brand/the-ronseal-phrase/
I like that slogan!
"his top priority in office is making “Christian/family values our foundation again.”"
You can start with Donald Trump: unrepentant rapist, alleged child predator, serial unrepentant adulterer, habitual liar, bully, cheat, thief, and warmonger.
And Ken Paxton. Cheat, liar, adulterer.
Your governor who welcomed the immigrant with razor wire buoys to drown them.
Then move on to your caucus and party who views the poor as parasites and shows partiality to the rich.
Ken Paxton is as corrupt as they come.
You know that and I know that. But the resident troll here doesn't seem to be willing to acknowledge that previous performance may be a reliable predictor of future behavior, especially considering the considerable amount of evidence we have to that effect.
Ya know, if someone throws a punch at me, I can usually block it. However, it HELPS if I'm in a ready position FIRST.
I confess, T, I'm quite looking forward to watching Trump attempt to pardon "crimes against God"...
"US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/robert-morris-jail-release-child-sexual-abuse-gateway-church
The scary part of that is that Trump would almost certainly do that, whereupon his sycophants of the cloth would call him The Hand of God™ and be totally okay with it! 🤦♂️😖
John,
If I had one wish it might be that the GOP understand, and feel the full impact of irony all at once.
Every head would explode.
Birds of a feather flock together... until the cat comes. What the fuck is taking that lazy bastard of a cat so long??
Trump and Paxton are perfect examples of the family values these people espouse.
Exactly. They seem to think that ICE detentions equates to the command to 'provide succour to strangers', decimating healthcare to 'heal the sick', cutting foodstamps to 'feed the hungry', voter suppression via the SAVE act to 'honour thy mother' .... I'm sure you'll be able to come up with a few more examples!
Good essay on that here:
https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-maga-machine-a-post-mortem-of?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
It never was “our” foundation!’
“do not fully understand their God-given religious liberty rights secured under the First Amendment.”
If they were God-given, then they wouldn’t need the first amendment to secure them. And, there’s nothing in the bible, or any Christian teachings that remotely resemble our first amendment right to free belief and practice of religion, Christianity demands obedience. There’s no freedom in it whatsoever, especially not the freedom to believe in other religions or no religion. So, you are lying. Our rights are not god-given, they are fought and won only by the people against the tyrants. You are on the side of tyrants and the people know it.
God-given religious liberty rights, Danny Boy? Since when is your god concerned about liberty or rights? YHVH is a dictator who demands unquestioning devotion...or else.
The bible and its contents are far more interested in dictating humankind's obligations to the head honcho in the front office than it has EVER been interested in human rights or freedoms. The bible, as most all of us well know, is about patriarchy and theocracy.
Anyone who wants to assert otherwise is talking out of their ass.
"who falsely believes the Founding Fathers “honored the Lord through our constitution”"
Prove it. Where in the constitution did the founding fathers honor the Lord? Show me the specific words. Where is Jesus, Lord, Christian or Christianity in the constitution? And don’t bother with the “the year of our lord” bullshit. That’s just the convention they used at the time for dates and had nothing to do with the founders specific preferences, just like everyone used to use AD and BC until CE and BCE. Where did the founding fathers mention anything about religion that wasn’t preceded by “no”?
It’s not there. You’re making shit up to feed your narrative.
Five will get you 50 that they want to point to the mention of "nature's God" and "endowed by their Creator" in the Declaration of Independence. What they conveniently (and repeatedly!) ignore is the fact that the DoI is NOT a foundational document of the United States. It is, as a lot of us have cited too many times to count, a DECLARATION OF WAR. Further, Jefferson allowed those phrases in under protest. He didn't want them there in the first place.
On top of that, there's that phrase in the Preamble: "... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The document proclaims itself as the founding instrument of the US, about as blatantly as could be hoped for. And what follows in six Articles has no mention of Jesus or Yahweh, and the one mention of religion insists that: "... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." And, of course, there's also the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Sorry to run on so long, but this stuff pisses me off sometimes! 😁
Nature's God: Deist, not Christian. Oops.
What would they say if they knew that in the first draft of the DoI, that wily Deist Jefferson only mentioned the word "creator" once. In lowercase "c." The uppercase and three other references (Nature's God/Providence/Judge were only added later over Jefferson's strenuous objections. Oops again.
And that outmoded dating system wasn't even part of the US Constitution's text. It was added afterward by a scrivener.
Other words not in the Constitution: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Bible and Divine.
𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙—𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.
Sycophants copying Der Führer to push the same ideology. These people think that religious freedom means everyone has the freedom to choose which denomination of Christianity they wish to follow, and nothing else. They may allow Jewish congregations for a while so they can use their "see we're not really Nazis" lies for a while longer, but we all know what their end goal is here: a theocratic authoritarian regime that forces conformity into their narrow little boxes. They want Gilead.
Speaking of Texas’s Gilead, another woman was rushed to the emergency room after her ectopic pregnancy was misdiagnosed by Christian staff posing as “medical professionals” at a crisis pregnancy center.
She should sue their asses off! I hope she DOES!
Definitely. However, I believe laws or protections were put in place already so they can’t be touched.
Those "laws and protections" deserve some review, and almost certainly, a move to revoke!
After the “free speech” SCOTUS ruling today for conversion therapy, I was thinking about how crisis pregnancy centers also use “free speech” as protection in all lawsuits.
They call it, "free speech." I call it, "LIES!"
They can be touched. They are very touchable.
I read about it in the newsletter published by @Jessica Valenti - 'Abortion Every Day'. I'd encourage everyone to go and read it.
I see that the insults from Trump and Hegseth about the Europeans not helping the US out in its war with Iran.
Neither of them seem to have a clue what to do about the fact that the Iranians refuse to capitulate. The threats and hyperbole seem to get more extreme.
Elsewhere, I have suggested that if Hegseth really wants to terrify the Iranians, then perhaps he should get the Air Force to drop kegs of beer instead of bombs. I am sure his personal supply would be ample.
Sign seen at No Kings rally:
The difference between Iran and Vietnam is that Trump knew how to get out of Vietnam.
🔥🔥🔥 BURN!!! 🔥🔥🔥
And LOTS of haram stuff. Maybe they should parachute a lot of puppy dogs in as well, since they're supposed to be HORRIBLY "unclean!"
Kristi Gnome has the puppy dog angle covered.
My friend @Alexis Ludwig put it brilliantly:
"For the record, insulting your allies and friends, threatening to invade them, failing to inform them of your plans, particularly plans with which you know they disagree, is bad enough. But then demanding that they clean up after you (or else) is immeasurably worse. The “I break it, you fix it” approach to foreign policy has limited appeal to other countries, friend, foe, or in-between."
It's just more of the same - old white people who seem to think that things were "better" in the past, and want to replicate the past by "bringing back Christian values," even though those values never existed broadly in the first place.
Just like they'd love to bring back Jim Crow and men as unquestioned head of households, a la Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet. They want to live in the past.
How I wish they could be relegated to the past!
"conservative Christianity" The Christian death cult will never give up imposing its unfounded beliefs in the United States. The so called "Freedom of Religion" for the cult only means one religion, Christianity. Sadly Religions rule in the country with special privileges and protections, making it easy to continually spread their dogma and acquiring great wealth no questions asked. Got to love the Mormons for example, one bat shit crazy religion that rivals the Catholics in insane beliefs and wealth. Taking full advantage of the U.S. government and it's generosity for Religions.
Again, "Tax the Fucken churches" Frank Zappa -1980
OT:
Trunt chud, pedophile, arrested for voting for his orange god 3 times.
Not a drag queen
Not an immigrant
Not a protestor
https://ibb.co/3YR4NWzz
https://www.palatkadailynews.com/local-news/felon-accused-voter-fraud-investigation
Every accusation, etc. etc.
I see there is a bot in the thread below
They need an audience. Best to feed it silence.
It does seem to repeat itself ad nauseam. Bot or Rain Man?
I clicked on its profile. Seems very bottish.
Both? 😉
Some years ago these same nutjobs were talking about having Texas leave the US. Maybe we should encourage it and invite all the good non racist/sexist/theocrats to leave.
Only after Texass pays their share of the national debt based on population.
OT:
In 2019, the state of Colorado banned licensed mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy. Christian therapist Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor who describes herself as “a practicing Christian” who believes that “people flourish when they live consistently with God’s design,” sued the state to challenge the law with help from the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/supreme-court-rules-against-conversion-therapy-ban-in-8-1-decision/
What. The. Fuck. Sotomayor and Kagan? 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦? Is this bigot brain rot 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 or something?
Guillotines are looking to be a better and better option every passing second.
I defy them to demonstrate that their "therapy" has any meaningful positive effect. I will further challenge them to submit their techniques to a peer review.
Any bets as to whether they'll take me up on that?
They don't care. Like all the horror perpetrated by xtians on others. Their main intent is to harm others. We see it daily in the news and on this site.
No bet. They'd sooner swear off religion than take up your challenge.
"who falsely believes the Founding Fathers “honored the Lord through our constitution”"
The American Revolution was an act of rebellion against the God-given authority as outlined in Romans 13, King George the Third, to whom good Christians were supposed to submit.
Time for the Second American Revolution?
𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒, 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑-𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.
-- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Danny-boy, it's pretty clear that you don't, either. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment applies to everyone and NOT JUST CHRISTIANS, much as you would like things to go that way. Your "committee," such as it is, has little other purpose than to foist yet more Christian agitprop on Texans, and I can pretty well guarantee you that there are more than a few of them who will not appreciate that much, if at all. The very fact that the Freedom From Religion Foundation has already called you out on this noise should tell you that you shouldn't go any further.
But of course you will ... and I'm sure the lawyers involved will appreciate the business.
It is never the job of our secular government to backstop anyone's religion, and Christians are not the only people with rights. The freedom of religion is NOT a right to force your religion on others. Rights are NOT God-given. Our rights are the product of secular government.
Would that you could tell Patrick & Co. that and get them to LISTEN!
"𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠" Typical, like many Dan Patrick doesn't understand who Amreicans really are. They are people from countries in all of the Americas.
Truly Dandy Dan is a ture MAGA Christian cultist.
God Bless America?
There is just not much to say here. The religious reich will do what they can to get as much power and money as they can. It’s going to wreck this country in a lot of ways.