Christianists

NBC News reports: A union filed two lawsuits against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director, Russell Vought, on Sunday after Vought issued a series of directives halting much of the bureau’s activity. The lawsuits were filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees in the CFPB. The filing that centered on Vought’s email argued that a judge …

Just in via press release: The Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) is warning parents and families about a sexually suggestive new Carl’s Jr. ad to air on traditional and streaming television outlets ahead of the February 9 Super Bowl game. The ad is already available to watch online. “Carl’s Jr. has taken a page from the pornography industry with …

Current reports: Thousands and thousands of Christian organizations, including Trump acolyte Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, have taken federal money to help advance their missions. Christian charities have lost funds as a result of Trump’s cuts to USAID. They include World Vision, World Relief, International Justice Mission, Samaritan’s Purse, and Catholic Relief Services. Some Trump evangelicals are also attacking evangelical organizations …

The Heartland Signal reports: At the start of the new legislative session, a group of North Dakota legislators put forward a potentially unconstitutional resolution that would have the state “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ.” “Whereas, the founding fathers of this great state begin the constitution with the words, ‘We’, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God … …

“I said we’re going to open a portal tonight over the White House. And we are going to give glory to God as this happens. God wants that portal to be opened, so we’re believing for that. “And we’re going to get rid of all that’s wicked, that all the presidents before Donald Trump invited by their actions and let …

Betsy DeVos writes for the Detroit Free Press: The Department has failed at its mission and no longer needs to exist. I can understand how that idea, which President Donald Trump is committed to advancing, might sound a bit radical. But having spent four years on the inside as secretary of education, struggling to get the department’s bureaucracy to make …

USA Today reports: The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, 48, was confirmed by a vote of 53-47. He served in the same role during President Donald Trump’s first term and was responsible for overseeing the president’s budget, reviewing federal regulations and setting …

Florida’s Mid Bay News reports: Police charged Aaron Craig Gleason with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12 by a person over the age of 18 on Tuesday. Okaloosa County Jail records show that Gleason remains in jail and has been denied bond. Profiles on LinkedIn and Facebook with the names A.C. Gleason and Aaron …

The Des Moines Register reports: Exposing minors to an “obscene performance” would be a crime under a bill winding through the Iowa Senate that critics fear could discourage drag shows and spur lawsuits against venues offering LGBTQ pride programming. The legislation, Senate File 116, would make knowingly exposing anyone younger than 18 to such a performance an aggravated misdemeanor, as …

The Christian Post reports: International House of Prayer Kansas City’s disgraced founder Mike Bickle used predatory tactics and spiritual manipulation to sexually abuse at least 17 females, including minors, according to the findings of an independent investigative report. One victim claims she was so gaslit by Bickle he made her read Psalm 51 after sexual encounters. The 68-page report, Investigation …

The Bangor Daily News reports: The Aroostook County man who was killed by police late Monday following an hours-long standoff — in which he allegedly shot an officer and a police dog while holding his 4-week-old child captive — appeared to post a video on social media during the ordeal, in which he could be seen holding a rifle with …

“I think it’s Donald Trump’s bid to build a Dubai-like city on the Mediterranean. The Gaza Strip has been a pain to the nation of Israel since the time of Samson. Process that. From the time of the Judges on, this place has been a problem for Israel and Donald Trump is saying, ‘We’re going to put an end to …

The Associated Press reports: Several large book publishers, a tiny public library and others are suing Idaho officials over a law that forces libraries to keep some books in an adults-only section if community members believe they are “harmful to minors.” The Donnelly Library, Penguin Random House and the others suing say the law is overly vague and violates the …

“Holy father, we’ve seen a darkness in our land for four years. And actually, longer than that. But the last four have been terrible, lord. We have become apostate. The corruption, the perversion, the depravity. The sacrificing of our own children, lord, in the abortion industry. “Lord, we know that no government can save us. Only faithfulness and obedience to …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: President Donald Trump has cleaned house at one of the most controversial organizations in the federal government, announcing a mass firing of employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as the White House revealed its deep funding of LGBTQ propaganda in traditionally Christian societies. “Much else of what the agency …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: NBC’s program Deal or No Deal Island is a spin-off of the Deal or No Deal game show. This new TV-PG-rated show takes place in an island setting rather than a network studio. But that is not the only change the network has made to its game show programming. During the episode …

“You have to find a woman who doesn’t need to be smacked around in order to behave in a civilized way, and that’s the way you do it. You avoid the women who don’t respect you. If a woman respects her husband — obviously her husband should treat her like the queen of the world. But if a woman hits …

ABC News Australia reports: Elizabeth Struhs lived and died suffering a deadly disease, but ultimately it was her parents’ dangerous views that ended her life. For days, as the eight-year-old lay dying, more than a dozen adults — her mother and father among them — prayed and sang songs instead of seeking life-saving medical treatment. In January 2022, she took …

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: Lawyers for former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who garnered national attention nearly a decade ago when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, argued that Davis’ court-ordered payment to a couple to whom she denied a license should be tossed. Davis’ lawyers say she is not liable to pay more than $360,000 in …

The Associated Press reports: New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; …