Category: Larry Jones

By Larry Jones It’s enough to make any rational person very upset over the way some right wing fundamentalists can lie through their teeth and still claim to take the Bible literally,…

By Larry Jones While Barack Obama was racking up what pundits are calling a decisive mandate on Election Day, the rights of women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered persons were hanging in…

By Larry Jones A seemingly interminable election season has finally drawn to a close. As people trooped to cast their ballots for the future head of an empire of war and torture,…

By Larry Jones If one is looking for values such as the humane treatment of all humans worldwide, women’s right to control their own bodies, social justice for the oppressed – including…

By Larry Jones    As of this writing some pundits are saying that John McCain’s pick for VP, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, may not or should not remain on the ticket,…

By Larry Jones   Barack Obama has spent considerable time recently trying to win Christian evangelicals to support his political campaign.  His party carried that forward at the DNC in Denver, first…

While Outside Protesters Face Police State    By Larry Jones As the time arrived Monday evening for Michelle Obama to give the night’s keynote address at the DNC in Denver, on the…

By Larry Jones On August 16, the evangelical pastor of the massive Saddleback Church in California, Rev. Rick Warren, took the stage before a very white largely evangelical audience and introduced a…

by Larry Jones  On August 7, the eve of the extravagant opening of the 2008 Olympics, the nation of Georgia – once part of the former Soviet Union – invaded South Ossetia,…

By Larry Jones  Convention season is upon us, and right wing Christians are getting downright silly.  Now they are calling on people to pray for rain just before Barack Obama is to…