Tag Archives: religion

Today In Christian Polls

Check out the response options on the American Family Association’s poll about the Hate Crimes Act. Sheer hatemongering and outright lying. Surprise! Provide your own reaction via their Facebook connect option.

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It’s A Slippery Slope!

Gay marriage will lead to zombie marriage. It’s a slippery slope, people!

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Study Finds Brain Link To Spirituality

A fascinating study of brain cancer patients concludes that damage to a specific portion of the brain leads to an increased desire for “self-transcendence” or spirituality. Researchers think they may have pinpointed the specific location in the brain that controls attitudes about religion. The study, published in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, involves a personality trait called …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Pennsylvania: Father James Shimsky busted in cocaine buy.Michigan: Pastor Russel Schaller charged with six counts of child molestation.Pennsylvania: Pastor Phil Marmon sentenced to prison for propositioning a child over the internet.Illinois: Pastor Mark List charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child.Vancouver: Youth Pastor Brad Firth still on Anglican payroll after child molestation conviction.Virginia: …

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Paris: Valentine’s Day Gay Kiss-In

Maxime writes from Paris this morning: It was originally supposed to take place in front of Notre Dame de Paris but Christian fundamentalist websites called in to “defend their faith against this provocation” by “AIDS bags”, “sodomites” and other homophobic insults. The websites called in for a violent answer so the organizers decided to change the location to place Saint …

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PhoboQuotable – Archbishop Henry Orombi

“The Church of Uganda associates itself with the concerns expressed in the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009. However, instead of a completely new bill, the church recommends a bill that amends the Penal Code Act addressing loopholes, in particular: protecting the vulnerabilities of the boy child; proportionality in sentencing; and, ensuring that sexual orientation is excluded as a protected human right. …

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Operation Gay Out: Kenyan Police Rescue Gay Men From Bloodthirsty Mob

Anti-gay violence continues to sweep Africa as today Kenyan police had to rescue three gay men from an angry mob. Police on Friday rescued three men accused of being gays in Mtwapa town in Kilifi district from hundreds of angry youth baying for their blood. Subsequently, a same-sex marriage that was planned to take place in the coastal town failed …

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PhoboQuotable – Matt Barber

“This is no different than having an avid gun collector preside over a Second Amendment case or a frequent user of medical marijuana deciding the legality of medical marijuana. Even his fellow judges on the notoriously liberal 9th Circuit have been forced to step-in and overturn more than one of his inexplicable rulings relative to this case. Based on his …

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Virginia Votes To Protect Residents From Microchips (And The Anti-Christ!)

Concerned that employers or insurance companies may one day forcibly implant microchips into people, yesterday the Virginia legislature made such a thing illegal without written consent. But the bill’s sponsor had an additional agenda. Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg), the bill’s sponsor, said that privacy issues are the chief concern behind his attempt to criminalize the involuntary implantation of microchips. …

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UK Reporter Patrick Strudwick Declares War On “Ex-Gay” Industry

UK-based reporter Patrick Strudwick, whose “ex-gay” undercover investigation was mentioned here last week, has now launched a campaign to expose and end the damaging tactics of the evil reparative therapy industry. Strudwick’s group is called the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT). Facebook page here. Their first target will be an “ex-gay” conference in Northern Ireland, but that’s just the beginning. …

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Archbishop Of Canterbury “Profoundly Sorry” For Anti-Gay Speeches

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opened the Church of England’s annual meeting with an apology to the gay community over comments he has made in the wake of the church’s split on the issue of gay clergy. “The debate over the status and vocational possibilities of LGBT people in the Church is not helped by ignoring the existing facts, which …

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The Hilarious Tweets Of James Hartline

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Christian Leader: Don’t Worry About Gay Marriage, Worry About Your Own Lives

Well, this is one of the more interesting items to pop up on Christian Newswire. Pastor Ken Eastburn, who leads a network of at-home worshippers in California and Colorado, says that regardless of the outcome of the Prop 8 trial, Christians should worry less about imposing their own morality on others and worry more about their own lives. “It is …

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PhoboQuotable – Mike Adams

“Some years ago, a man asked for my opinion on why his good friend, an atheist, had decided to go to Yale Divinity School. I told him that the Enemy could do more harm trying to destroy an institution from within than from without. And so it is with the so-called GLBT (Gilbert) movement. The Gilbert has equal rights. He …

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NOM Responds To Judge Walker Outing

“In a story this Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker is gay and called his orientation, ‘The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage.’ We have no idea whether the report is true or not. But we do know one really big important fact about Judge Walker: He’s been an amazingly …

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Concerned Women Are Concerned!

From the Concerned Women For America, we get this 8-minute hit piece about Obama’s appointees, including LGBT folks Chai Feldblum, Kevin Jennings, and Amanda Simpson. The march of the socialist communist homofascists shall not be stopped! Abortions and birth control will be mandatory! (Via – Good As You)

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ACLU Demands California Professor Stop Teaching Anti-Gay Health Lies

The ACLU has sent a letter to Fresno City College demanding that health professor Dr. Bradley Lopez stop teaching anti-gay lies to his students. The ACLU letter includes several examples of Professor Lopez teaching sectarian views and personal bias as “fact.” In recent lectures, Professor Lopez: * Presented a slide listing “homosexual facts,” including that homosexuality is a “biological misapplication …

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Friendly Voices – Anne Hathaway

“The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out. Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother? So I’m … nothing [no denomination]. Fuck it, I’m forming. I’m a work in progress.” – Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway, speaking to GQ.

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… California: Pastor Martin Richter arrested for sexually assaulting a 13 year-old girl. There may be other victims.New Jersey: Pastor Gregor Woodcuff arrested on multiple counts of sexually assaulting an underage girl.Minnesota: Pastor John Erbele pleads guilty to soliciting prostitution.New York: Pastor Humberto Cruz convicted on ten counts of child molestation.Delaware: Pastors Jamaar and Rhonda Manlove …

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“Ex-Gay” Fliers Distributed At Maryland High Schools

Due to a 2006 lawsuit, some Maryland high schools have been forced to allow the distribution of “ex-gay” fliers by PFOX. Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups. The fliers, …

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