of course, when there actually is a white house christmas tree, the wingnuts will take credit for forcing obama to capitulate.

"We believe in God for healing."

And here we see the Republican health care plan in action.

I see the Schaibles' story as equally a metaphor for Repugnants and Dims -- for different reasons. Hell, it is a metaphor for the entire US Congress.

There's a hundred forty or so American citizens dying every god damn day because of lack of health care. US Congresscritters aren't even praying. They are sitting with their thumbs up their asses -- on both sides of the aisle.

My HMO wouldn't approve God as my primary care deity. So I have to trust in Ba'al for healing.

President Obama won't have a Christmas tree at the White House.

Screw with their heads -- put up a crêche, preferably a super-tacky Neapolitan one, or Catalan one complete with caganer, and no tree.

Because the first is Christian, and the second is pagan.

Wow. I loved the ad. Gave me goosebumps. Our country would be a lot better off if we had more of this perspective on the airways--both in actual message and tenor of it! I sure hope they have or get the funding to get it out there. I went to their website and they just completed a multi-hundred thousand dollar media buy on Christian radio ads on the climate bill (making a moral and national security argument and using pastors to take on the energy companies--that's a change, huh?:). They've got some really good stuff up there. We sure need more groups like this! www.americanvaluesnetwork.org In response to the post though, while their policies may line up with many on the left, I don't think "religious left" really fits their message and approach to some of these issues, which may be why they've been able to get the funding and media attention.

Fantastic ad. Just fantastic.

Just notice the contrast between two of these stories. While the extreme right continues to make up lies about a sitting president because they would rather live in lies and deception (and, not to mention, pettiness), the progressive faith leaders of our times are shedding light on the truths we would rather ignore and calling us to realize that it simply doesn't have to be this way. This is how America has changed: the new progressive movement is stepping up to Christ's calling to care for our neighbors while the right focuses on make believe stories about a pine tree.

The ad is fulfilling two purposes: calling attention to the moral implications of health care for all of "God's children" and the inherent argument of the family values involved with it AND, IMHO, helping to negate the right-wing attack on the "God-less liberal/progressives" that has permeated through the years.

"There are new rumors in right-wing circles that President Obama won't have a Christmas tree at the White House... It's a bogus urban legend, though it's unclear if reality will make any difference."

When the WH Yule Tree goes up, they'll just say they made him do it with their outraged public pressure.

There are new rumors in right-wing circles that President Obama won't have a Christmas tree at the White House. Apparently the White House Historical Association has been receiving quite a few calls and emails about this. It's a bogus urban legend, though it's unclear if reality will make any difference.

Of course not. The "White House Christmas Tree" will be nothing more than a computer-generated hologram designed to obscure the huge green crescent atop the pagan altar, purportedly containing fragments of the bones of Karl Marx the Obamas will instead erect in the White House foyer for the Winter Solstice celebrations.

Calm down, crazy fundies and teabagging old bags. The president will have a Christmas tree. It's just that -- to prove how deep-seated his hatred of white people is -- his Kwanzaa exhibit will be just a little bit bigger than the tree.

Jonas, you forgot the hammer and sickle as a part of the altar; Green crescent, with a (crossed) red hammer and sickle dangling from its tip. The better to cut your throats, the better to pound you into dust m'dear.

exlibra: An even scarier alternative to the Christmas tree/pagan altar scheme: just a huge basket of holiday-colored free condoms on a modest plinth. When you unroll the condoms, there will be a quote from Darwin's "Origin of Species" on each one.

Wow Rev Moon. Instead of Week in God this segment should be called How Can People Be So Fucking Stupid.

Let the faith healers go.

Seriously, if we suggested killing their kid for any OTHER crime, wouldn't it be seen as excessive?

They just dished themselves a worse sentence than we ever could. Let it go.

If you want to punish them, declare them not guilty by reason of insanity and submit them to psychiatric therapy until they realize what they've done.

I'm not as cruel as all that.

"Let the faith healers go."

No, let's not.

"They just dished themselves a worse sentence than we ever could."

If true, if the Schaibles have already been through the worst, then prison shouldn't be that big of a deal for them.

"...submit them to psychiatric therapy until they realize what they've done."

That MIGHT be a viable option if there's some sort of guarantee that that the Schaibles will indeed "realize what they've done,"...but there isn't, of course, so prison is where they belong.

Deliberately breeding for stupidity is a crime against God and Nature. There will be a

high price to pay when considering the survivability of the human species.

Speaking of faith healing, I had an evil thought today after hearing ABC News' interview with big-money faith healer Benny Hinn.

I'd love to show up at one of his revival services with dozens of amputees!

Let's see how much of a vessle of G-d's power he is trying to grow limbs!