Category Archives for Rick Scarborough

Rafael Cruz Falsely Claims San Antonio Will Fine Pastors Who Preach Against Homosexuality

By Dan | Published April 23, 2014

Rafael Cruz, the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, is joining David Barton in spreading blatant mistruths about San Antonio’s revised Nondiscrimination Ordinance. That ordinance now bars discrimination against LGBT people in employment, housing and public accommodations. Barton told hundreds of pastors gathered in Austin earlier this month that the ordinance bars anyone who criticizes […]

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More on the Groups Behind Today’s Religious-Right Conference in Dallas

By Dan | Published March 26, 2014

Our friends at Right Wing Watch have more about United in Purpose, one of the group’s behind a religious-right conference a at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport hotel today. We reported about the conference earlier this month. Following is a cross-post from Right Wing Watch: Today, Religious Right leaders including Rick Scarborough, David Barton, Jim Garlow and Glenn […]

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It’s Been a Bad Week for the Religious Right, Even in Texas

By Dan | Published November 6, 2013

Religious-right activists can’t be a happy lot today. The week started with the U.S. Senate voting Monday to short-circuit attempts to filibuster the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA), which would protect LGBT people from job discrimination. A Senate vote to pass ENDA is expected this week. Rick Scarborough of Texas-based Vision America denounced the Senate’s vote […]

Also posted in Dave Welch, Houston Area Pastor Council, LGBT issues, TFNEF | 11 Comments

Another Example of How the Religious Right and Tea Party Are Melding into One Political Movement

By Dan | Published October 23, 2013

Tea party activists like to argue that they simply want a small government that doesn’t intrude on the freedoms of Americans. But that’s hard to do believe when you see tea party and religious-right activists marching together with locked arms. Consider, for example, Rick Scarborough, head of the religious-right group Vision America, which is based […]

Also posted in Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Reconstructionism, tea party, TFNEF | 12 Comments

‘This is not a political effort’ (wink, wink)

By Dan | Published May 9, 2012

Here they go again — another effort to drag churches into partisan politics. This fall Vision America, a religious-right group based in Texas, is sponsoring “40 Days to Save America” — which calls on Americans to pray, fast and repent for “our national and and personal sins against the God of Heaven.” Rick Scarborough, Vision […]

Also posted in church and state, religious right, TFNEF | 1 Comment

Rick Scarborough Rides Again

By Dan | Published August 5, 2011

We haven’t heard from the president of the far-right, Texas-based group Vision America for a long time. But today Pastor Rick Scarborough sent out an email blast blaming the nation’s debt on immorality and promoting Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Saturday prayer rally in Houston as a step toward solving the problem: “Billions of dollars are […]

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The Right’s New Hate Campaign

By Dan | Published July 26, 2010

Of course, it’s not all that new. We’ve been watching this fester over the last decade. But the venom of the growing anti-Muslim hate campaign — and the willingness to disregard basic religious and civil liberties for American Muslims — should be a shocking development in a nation that has championed religious freedom for more […]

Also posted in David Barton, Islam, Peter Marshall | 7 Comments

Who Are the Real ‘Judicial Activists’ Here?

By Dan | Published July 18, 2010

Critics of so-called “judicial activism” — examples of which are often court decisions they simply don’t like — loudly argue for a strict interpretation of the Constitution when judges interpret laws. So we find it hypocritical, to say the least, when those same critics later decide that the Constitution isn’t a sufficient basis for interpreting […]

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Rick Scarborough: Birther Extremist

By TFN | Published December 22, 2009

Maybe Rick Scarborough should run for chair of the Texas Republican Party of Texas. After all, we’re beginning to think the head of the far-right group Vision America (based in Lufkin) could be even more extreme than the Texas GOP’s current chair, Cathie Adams. (See here and here for examples of Adams’ extremism.) In a […]

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Off the Cliff

By TFN | Published July 21, 2009

The bizarre (and long discredited) claims that President Obama isn’t a U.S. citizen keep coming from the far right. So is Texas-based Vision America, a religious-right organization headed by Rick Scarborough in Lufkin, now jumping off the crazy cliff? Seems that way. In an e-mail — signed by Scarborough — to supporters today, the organization […]

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