Awards
CWRE Awards
- /Golden Straw-Man Award
- The Hypocritical Mass Award - nominees:
- Bryan Fischer, for objecting to Christians supposedly losing their First Amendment rights and saying that the speech of others should be banned
- The Reality Inversion Award - nominees:
- Bryan Fischer, for claiming that conservatives believe in "live and let live" and liberals don't:
- 2015-03-16 Fischer: 'Conservatives Believe In Live And Let Live' (h/t)
- Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, for twisting logic to argue that marriage equality is a form of segregation:
- Bryan Fischer, for claiming that conservatives believe in "live and let live" and liberals don't:
- The Going Medieval Award - nominees:
- Todd Starnes, for attempting to invoke supernatural retribution on public school teachers, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, and the President:
- 2015-06-25 Todd Starnes Calls On God To Send Hornets And Cicadas To Attack Obama (via FtB)
- The WorldNetDaily, for describing an inexorable, long-predicted, and entirely harmless astronomical event as "judgement" of some sort by mythical being:
- 2015-03-16 Coming solar eclipse seen as 'judgment' (h/t)
- Rick Wiles of TruNews, for blaming a natural weather occurrence on an underprivileged group:
- 2015-03-21 Wiles Blames the Gays for California Drought
- Bonus points for drawing attention away from any actual human agency: if the drought was caused by people, it's probably via global warming
- California State Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R), for blaming a natural weather occurrence on legal abortion:
- 2015-06-13 Wingnut: CA Drought Caused by Abortion
- Todd Starnes, for attempting to invoke supernatural retribution on public school teachers, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, and the President:
- The Devil Made Me Do It Award for literal demonization - nominees:
- Matt Barber, for decling that all "secular progressives" are "pawns" being controlled by Satan:
- 2015-06-25 Barber: Gay Rights Activists Are 'Pawns' Of Satan (via FtB)
- The Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church, for their sign "REMEMBER / SATAN WAS THE FIRST TO DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS"
- Matt Barber, for decling that all "secular progressives" are "pawns" being controlled by Satan:
Outside Awards
These are awarded by other parties.