If I were Preacher Barry C. Black, I wouldn’t push it with declarations about how my religion’s god is going to come into Congress and destroy any laws he doesn’t like.

The practice of politics involves odd justifications for all sorts of things, from the naming of post offices to the placement of bridges. Sometimes, however, a justification for a previously-held position stands out head and shoulders above the rest. Today we award our Creative Congressional Justification Award to Representative Steve King of Iowa, who has [...]

Congressman Steve King can only see a small portion of what the United States of America has been and is becoming. No matter what our individual ethnicities and cultural traditions are, we all need to have a truly representative government made up of people who are able and willing to work with the diversity of identities that make up the American people.

The 44 members of Congress who signed Pat Robertson’s legal brief ought to remember that they have sworn to uphold the Constitution, not to promote one religious group to the detriment of everybody else.

Sanford Bishop is using Jesus-talk as a kind of cheap pose, an attempt to gain the favor of his constituents by appearing to share their religious point of view.

Chaplain Barry C. Black’s speech yesterday was yet another indication of a dangerous effort, coming from within the United States Senate, financed with public money, to subvert the Constitution of the United States of America.

Wherever one stands on the question of just how the ideas of Confucius should be categorized, it’s clear that some of the opposition to H. Res. 784 was not at all based in a loyalty to the separation of church and state

Chaplain Barry C. Black has consistently pushed an agenda that seeks the transformation of the United States of America into a Christian theocracy. The official web site describing the work of the Senate Chaplain, proclaims “God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation…” and declares that the Senate not honor what Black refers to as “the separation of God and State”.

Given that we have a multicultural society with an expanding non-Christian population, and a House of Representatives that includes many non-Christian members, Coughlin’s message encouraging religious conversion is not only unconstitutional. It’s also divisive.

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert this week said of President Barack Obama that “He had poisoned the American people” Dangerous words indeed.