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Via press release published by Christian Newswire: In a brief submitted November 24, the Christian media outreach D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling dismissing DJKM’s defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In its appeal brief, DJKM, represented by the National Center for Law and …

Courthouse News Service reports: The 11th Circuit on Wednesday struck down a Florida evangelical Christian ministry’s claim that it was discriminated against and defamed after the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a hate group, causing Amazon to deny its application to fundraise through the online retailing giant’s charitable website. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court upheld …

Pat Robertson’s CBN reports: A Florida-based ministry has appealed its defamation and discrimination lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for its published claim labeling the ministry as a “hate group” alongside the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, and other infamous hate organizations. D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM), a Christian media ministry founded in 1974 by the late Dr. D. …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge says a liberal advocacy group has a First Amendment right to call a Christian ministry a hate group for its opposition to homosexuality. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson threw out a lawsuit filed by the Florida-based Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc. against the Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Alabama. The ministry sued …

Via the Washington Post: Billy Graham’s grandson Tullian Tchividjian has resigned from his pulpit at Coral Ridge Presbyterian, a high-profile church in south Florida, after admitting he had an affair. Tchividjian, 42, has been married to his wife, Kim, since 1994 and they have three children. Many have considered Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin) a rising star in evangelicalism, especially in Reformed …

Truth In Action Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries) profiles hate group spokesman Matt Barber with this notation: “Conspicuous by her absence is Sarah Barber, Matt’s wife. Note what one of our VOs says in the feature: Our TV crew asked Matt if we could videotape his family, but he declined — because of the constant death threats he receives from …

“If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place. On the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ, if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place. For those who are not ‘in Christ’ …

Right Wing Watch provides this excerpt from the coming Coral Ridge Ministries film. Ooh look! Gay people with their shirts off! Nightmare!

And now we return to the Christian message we’re more accustomed to: Dirty queers belong in jail or hanging from the gallows.

“It’s sad to see groups like GLSEN be accepted by the teacher’s establishment and then allow the platform to go into the public schools and try and indoctrinate children. For example, they have something called the Day of Silence. Now they chose April 20 of all days to be the Day of Silence, I looked that up, I was like, …

(Via Right Wing Watch)

The Fort Lauderdale-based anti-gay group Truth In Action Ministries says that “homosexual activists” are lying about forcing PayPal to drop them. Because they never worked with PayPal in the first place. The group claimed this week that the accounts for four of those organizations have been disabled — one of those being Truth in Action Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries). …

PayPal has severed its relationships with four notorious hate groups after a petition campaign from All Out called on the money transfer giant to abide by its own mission statement against abetting violence and hatred. Via press release: The PayPal option has been disabled on the websites of Truth in Action Ministries, Brazilian extremist Julio Severo’s sites, Noua Dreapta, and …

One of the nation’s largest anti-gay groups is dropping its Fort Lauderdale-centric name and becoming Truth In Action Ministries.

This bit of nonsense from Coral Ridge Ministries’ Robert Knight was quoted in the linked story about the anti-gay “Awakening” conference I posted earlier today. Right Wing Watch now gives us the video.

“It’s a good thing Barack Obama is not in charge of defending the law of gravity, or we’d all be floating up to an airless death. Allow me to take off the gloves. As one who helped draft the first version of the Defense of Marriage Act, I regard Obama’s order on Feb. 23 to Attorney General Eric Holder to …

“Outrageous. Unbelievable. Our armed forces are fighting the enemy overseas while this lunatic judge behind our own lines decides to throw a hand grenade right into our own barracks. The arrogance of this judge is stunning. She has decided she is smarter than God, more than 1,163 retired generals and admirals who support the military’s policy, the hundreds of congressmen …

“In light of federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s ruling on August 4 striking down California’s marriage law, let’s imagine a worst-case scenario. It goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, where, flanked by leftist newcomers Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, Anthony Kennedy takes his latest plunge into existential mystery and manufactures a constitutional ‘right’ to force Americans to recognize same-sex ‘marriage.’ …

“Forcing open homosexuality on the armed forces would destroy the volunteer military and bring back the compulsory draft. Since women are now deployed close to combat, and the only legal reason they are not eligible is their combat exemption, a new draft could include our daughters. And some would face pressure to have on-base abortions in order to complete their …

This is the trailer from Coral Ridge Ministries’ coming anti-Obama television special. Michele Bachmann, Harry Jackson, and a cavalcade of your favorite crazies agree: We’re all going to end up like Cuba! Whatever that means!