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Youth Pastor Arrested On Multiple Child Sex Charges

Fayetteville’s ABC affiliate reports: A man was arrested on a charge of sexual indecency with a child in a case related to his time as a youth pastor at a Bentonville church, according to Nathan Smith, Benton County prosecutor. Keenan Hord was arrested Thursday night and has been booked into the Benton County Detention Center. He is facing charges that …

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One Million Moms Vs “Dangerous Gay Christianity”

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Parents need to be warned and informed about a continuous threat, and now we have a powerful resource available to help parents with this serious problem. Let’s see if you’ve heard any of these statements before: God made people gay, and therefore being gay should be celebrated and affirmed. Jesus never mentioned …

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Cultist Pastor: Jesus Is The Only “Legal Authority”

Kyle Mantyla has the transcript at Right Wing Watch: The enemy cannot tell the truth. When liberals talk, they lie. You are on the side of Jesus Christ, or you’re on the side of the devil. You aren’t in between. You’re not an undecided. Undecided means you have already decided, you’ve already made the decision. The court of Heaven today …

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Political Director Of Leading Texas Anti-Abortion Group Arrested For Online Solicitation Of Sex With A Minor

Vice News reports: A man who worked as a political director for Texas Right to Life, the premier anti-abortion group in the state, has been arrested for the online solicitation of a minor. Lucas “Luke” Bowen, 33, was charged with the second-degree felony on August 3. A minor, under that statute, refers to anyone who’s younger than 17 or who …

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Hacker Exposes Notorious Hate Group’s Donor Records

The Intercept reports: Liberty Counsel, an evangelical Christian nonprofit that provided a brief cited by the Supreme Court in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, has been hacked, revealing a 25-gigabyte internal database that contains nearly seven years’ worth of donor records. The hacker, who identifies with the Anonymous movement, released the data on the hacktivist site Enlace Hacktivista, …

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“Hamilton” Team To Donate Damages From Church’s Anti-Gay Production To Local TX LGBTQ Rights Group

Rolling Stone reports: Weeks after putting on a production of Hamilton without permission and lacing it with homophobic teachings, a church in McAllen, Texas has apologized. The church will also pay damages to Hamilton‘s creators. Hamilton will donate the money to support a local gay rights organization. On Tuesday, nondenominational church The Door McAllen issued a statement on Instagram apologizing …

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Glenn Beck Host Compares Abortion To “Hiring Hitman”

Media Matters has the transcript: ALLIE BETH STUCKEY: In some cases, women should share legal responsibility depending on her age, mental capacity, her culpability, whether she was forced or not, the circumstances surrounding the abortion, how old was the baby. All of these things have always gone into judicial decisions about who bears responsibility for the taking of a person’s …

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DeSantis Judge To Rule On Villages “Little Cross” Furor

The Villages News reports: A judge appointed and later promoted by Gov. Ron DeSantis will preside in an upcoming hearing in a bid to save a little white cross in The Villages. Judge Jason Nimeth will preside in a hearing set for 9:30 a.m. Nov. 1 on Zoom in the case of Wayne and Bonnie Anderson. The little white cross …

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Kansas Recount Affirms Landmark Vote On Abortion

The Kansas City Star reports: Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier and anti-abortion activist advancing baseless allegations of fraud. The exercise instead delivered a second victory for opponents of an amendment that would …

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Even Dictionaries Aren’t Safe From New Florida Law

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County students. Even dictionaries aren’t safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze. Ahead of the 2022-23 school year, the Sarasota County School District stopped all donations and purchases of books for school libraries while it waits …

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One Million Moms Vs “Graphic” Ballsack Trimmer Ads

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Ballsy needs to be held accountable for their recent ad that speaks openly and repeatedly about men’s genitalia. This specific commercial, “Ouch! – Ballsy B2 Trimmer,” with its campaign hashtag #MaleGrooming, is currently airing on television. During the commercial, a female narrator walks around a fake Ballsy lab with male “scientists” wearing …

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“In God We Trust” Posters Go Up In Texas Schools

The Texas Tribune reports: A new law requiring Texas schools to display donated “In God We Trust” posters is the latest move by Republican lawmakers to bring Christianity into taxpayer-funded institutions. The “In God We Trust” law was authored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, the East Texas Republican who crafted Texas’ Senate Bill 8, which restricted abortion to the first …

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WI School Board Votes To Affirm Ban On Pride Flags

ABC News reports: A Wisconsin school board voted in favor of a policy that prohibits teachers and staff from displaying gay pride flags and other items that district officials consider political in nature. The Kettle Moraine School Board vote to keep a code of conduct in place that the superintendent recently interpreted as forbidding district employees from displaying political or …

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NOLA Again Denied Flooding Funds Over Abortion

New Orleans’ CBS affiliate reports: Abortion rights and flood mitigation don’t seem to have much in common, but here in New Orleans the politics over one is delaying funding approval for another. Thursday, for the second time, the Louisiana Bond Commission deferred the decision on a $39 million line of credit for a Sewerage & Water Board project over the …

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Mastriano’s Hand-Picked “Prophet” Declares Biden Is Secretly Dead And Pelosi Drinks The Blood Of Children

Media Matters reports: Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano has promoted and campaigned with Julie Green, a “prophet” who has claimed that God will execute political figures “for their planned pandemic, shortages, inflation, mandates and for stealing an election.” The Mastriano ally and fringe religious commentator has also alleged a variety of conspiracy theories, including that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …

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Christian Site: God Is Solving The Teacher Shortage

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Often when God answers a prayer, He does so in a way we are not expecting. Having a teacher shortage is not ideal and an extraordinary circumstance, so there needs to be unique ways to solve the problem. Some states have decided to just throw money at the problem and hope that fixes …

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Hospital Reports Threats Of Violence By Extremists

NBC News reports: Boston Children’s Hospital has warned employees about mounting threats and is coordinating with law enforcement after far-right activists on social media began targeting the hospital with false claims about its treatment of young transgender people. It’s the most recent in a series of attempts to target hospitals for their work with trans youth, adding to an ongoing …

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Texas School District Yanks “The Diary Of Anne Frank”

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were challenged by parents last year. The book purge at the Keller Independent School District in …

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NOM Launches Attack Ad Against Sen. Ron Johnson

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: Republicans in the US Senate are on the verge of betraying us on marriage. The (Dis)Respect for Marriage Act is pending on the floor of the Senate after already having passed the House. This bill imposes gay ‘marriage’ on every state in the country. It will take 10 Republicans to join with …

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Louisiana Denies Abortion Of Fetus With Fatal Condition

Baton Rouge’s CBS affiliate reports: A Baton Rouge mother has a week to make an unthinkable decision – carry her baby to term even though she says doctors tell her it will not survive or find another state where she can have an abortion. “It’s hard knowing that I’m carrying it to bury it,” said Nancy Davis, who is 13 …

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