Christianists

Newsweek reports: A crowd at a church in Texas hosting a QAnon-linked event erupted in a “let’s go Brandon” chant that had been encouraged from the stage. Video has emerged showing the crowd at pastor and televangelists’ John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio singing the thinly veiled attack on President Joe Biden during the controversial “ReAwaken America” conference. Another …

NPR reports: In the latest call from Republican leaders to ban certain books in schools, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is telling his state’s department of education to investigate a graphic novel on queer identity being available at a school’s library. He says the content in the book is “sexually explicit” and “pornographic.” The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by …

Forbes reports: “Live free or die” has given way to “shut up or else.” New Hampshire has set up a system for letting the public turn in public school teachers for violation of its new anti-divisive subject matter law, and Moms for Liberty have offered a cash reward to parents who use it. New Hampshire’s GOP-controlled legislature inserted its “anti” …

Reuters reports: U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops this week are expected to revisit whether President Joe Biden’s support for abortion rights should disqualify him from receiving communion, an issue that has deepened rifts in the church since the Democrat took office. At a Nov. 15-18 conference in Baltimore, the bishops are scheduled to vote on a document clarifying the meaning of …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: A prominent LGBT legal activist has penned an article for the online publication Salon in which he warns that their “worst fear” – the courts facilitating an end to gay marriage – is likely to happen. The author, Don Canon, is a leftist law professor and lawyer who was involved in the …

The Christian Post reports: Daystar Television Network, one of the largest Christian television networks in the world and The American Family Association, a nonprofit Christian organization, said in a lawsuit today that a federal vaccine mandate forcing large companies to require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccinated is a ”sin against God’s Holy Word.” “AFA and Daystar have religious …

Virginia Business reports: Former Liberty University President and Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. has revived his defamation lawsuit against the Lynchburg-based private Christian university that is suing him for $10 million, according to court documents filed in late October. Falwell also seeks the return of personal property he says is being held by the university, including a .38 revolver, the JerryFalwell.com …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: It’s been two months since the Biden administration announced plans to require 100 million American workers to get the COVID-19 shot, and three months since the administration handed down mandates for all federal employees and military personnel. Yet in all that time, the administration still has not bothered to address the elephant …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, the famously private owner of In-N-Out Burger, had a call with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week after the company’s high-profile spat with Bay Area health departments over proof-of-vaccination requirements. DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw said that Snyder-Ellingson and the governor had a “productive conversation” on Monday about In-N-Out possibly expanding to Florida. …

The Fredericksburg Lance-Star reports: The Spotsylvania County School Board has directed staff to begin removing books that contain “sexually explicit” material from library shelves and report on the number of books that have been removed at a special called meeting next week. The directive came after a parent raised concerns at the School Board’s meeting Monday about books available through …

“There’s a lot of RNC members in leadership positions that are upset about this because they were not told. This is something that Ronna did on her own. “Quite frankly, I think it’s time for her to take up something else and leave the party to those who I think can chart a path forward, restore what has been lost, …

Mediaite reports: Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson is not enjoying a good week. She has recently been benched by the right-wing cable news network, and after a brief suspension, resurfaced on Twitter Tuesday continuing to push nonsense about the Covid-19 vaccines. But Robinson immediately received another suspension by the social media platform again, and now it appears that her …

The Christian Post reports: Liberty University is asking a federal court to stop a former employee from disclosing confidential information and documents amid a legal battle over claims that the evangelical Christian school wrongfully fired him for speaking out about how it handled sexual assault allegations. Scott Lamb, formerly the school’s senior vice president of communications, sued the Lynchburg-based university …

From the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: In recent months, Franklin had developed constrictive pericarditis, inflammation, and hardening of the sac around the heart that compresses the heart and prevents it from working properly. The surgery involved removing the pericardium. Mr. Graham said that he is looking forward to multiple opportunities across the globe in 2022 to proclaim the Gospel of …

Right Wing Watch has the transcript: Freedom, equality, courage; that’s what this nation was built on. And our enemies share a whole different platform. They share a platform of tyranny, poverty, suffering. That’s what they intend on bringing us so that they can stay in power and they can stay in control. Folks, these people are the enemies of freedom. …

The Christian Post reports: A Virginia megachurch pastor who is facing a felony charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor has agreed to step down from his leadership position at his congregation. John Blanchard, the lead pastor of the Rock Church of Virginia Beach, was one of 17 individuals arrested in an October sting operation aimed at capturing people seeking …

Religion News Service reports: Attorneys for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary — both in Kentucky — filed a petition Friday (Nov. 5) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit alleging the rules violate the religious freedom of the seminaries. The schools are represented by attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, a major Christian legal …

Axios reports: Heritage Action for America, a conservative 501(c)(4), is taking its first shots at an incumbent Republican senator this cycle, hitting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with full-page ads for supporting voting rights legislation, Axios has learned. Heritage Action, which can raise unlimited donations, has been engaged in contentious cultural issues, like criticizing Major League Baseball for moving its All-Star …

Posted today to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Senator Joe Manchin III has been in the news quite a bit. He’s a highly respected Democratic Senator from West Virginia. There’s a lot of pressure on him from all sides, especially from the socialists on the left. Pray that God will protect him and his family, and that his decisions would be …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Twix should be ashamed of their latest commercial’s attempt to normalize transgenderism and their use of a child to do so. Their “Twix Bite Size Halloween: The New Nanny” ad includes an elementary age boy wearing a princess dress, alongside his nanny who is dressed as a witch. The nanny threatens neighborhood …