Christianists

“Right now I declare (TAP TAP TAP) and I call forth our president to take his rightful place. Trump, to come forth RIGHT now, step into your destiny that God gave you, called you, appointed you, and anointed you for this time. To declare over America. To help America. “This is HIS choice and we call you forth right now …

CNN reports: The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday — a little more than a month after the company board took action to limit his polarizing public political remarks. On Sunday, though, Unanue appeared on the CPAC stage in Orlando …

Nashville’s ABC News affiliate reports: A Tennessee state representative wants to make the Holy Bible the official state book of Tennessee. Representative Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station) is sponsoring House Joint Resolution 150, a resolution which has in previous years been sponsored but failed to pass. His resolution adds such a designation of making the Bible the official state book would …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: “ABC Song with Blue,” from Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues & You! TV program for preschoolers, is an alphabet song for kids that is available on the show’s official YouTube channel. It sounds innocent enough, but parents should be aware of the not-so-subtle and very pro-LGBTQ agenda included in the song’s video. Every time …

NBC News reports: A new initiative backed by a coalition of right-wing organizations is courting lawmakers and parents in an effort to stop the passage of the Equality Act — a federal LGBTQ rights bill — and promote policies targeting transgender Americans at the federal and state levels. Backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Policy Alliance, Heritage Foundation and …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: He was canceled before the cancel culture. And looking back, maybe that was a blessing. Andrew Torba had a three-year head start to build his mob-proof business. Now, Gab is one of the only free speech havens still standing, giving tens of millions of oppressed Americans a social media platform to call …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Have you heard of the Equality Act? The name might sound good, but it’s deceiving. It has nothing to do with equality. It’s just a smokescreen to force Americans to accept the LGBTQ agenda and it creates a lot of INEQUALITY for Christians and all people of faith. It punishes individuals and organizations that …

“You can’t substantiate something in the natural that’s not validated in the spirit realm. And so this whole election is still going. “I’m not afraid to say it, we’re under military tribunals. The military is in charge of our nation right now. And there’s some people that might not like that. “The last line of defense in our Constitution It …

Two weeks ago Ben Carson launched a think tank aimed as dispelling notions that conservatives are “deplorable and stupid,” when what they want is “compassion and civility.” Today’s press release from Tony Perkins: Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on one of the greatest attacks on the First Amendment to ever be considered in the hallowed …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Michael Farris, who heads Alliance Defending Freedom, told participants in a Family Research Council town hall Feb. 10 that Virginia is in a “constitutional crisis” because nondiscrimination protections that became law last year in that state accomplished “virtually everything” that would be done at the federal level if the Equality Act passes. Farris …

NPR reports: In an open letter, more than 100 pastors, ministry and seminary leaders, and other prominent evangelicals express concern about the growing “radicalization” they’re seeing, particularly among white evangelicals. The letter notes that some members of the mob that stormed the Capitol carried Christian symbols and signs that read, “Jesus Saves,” and that one of the rioters stood on …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: The U.S. House is expected to vote on HR 5 — intentionally misnamed the “Equality Act” — as early as Thursday! I cannot overstate how disastrous the passage of this bill would be. Every person in the nation will be affected. This bill is the most radical bill ever introduced in Congress …

The Associated Press reports: The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted Tuesday to oust four of its churches, two over policies deemed to be too inclusive of LGBTQ people and two more for employing pastors convicted of sex offenses. The actions were announced at a meeting marked by warnings from two top leaders that the SBC, the largest Protestant denomination …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Angela Stanton King, a promoter of QAnon conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ bigotry, is scheduled to speak at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference on a Sunday afternoon panel shortly before former President Donald Trump speaks. Stanton King spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C. the night before the Capitol insurrection, …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Ryan Anderson didn’t even know his book had been pulled. There was no warning, no notification from Amazon that the title had been removed. A reader tipped him off when he tried to buy a copy and couldn’t. That’s strange, Ryan thought, logging on to Amazon to see for himself. Sure enough …

Earlier this month the CEO of the far-right social media platform Gab declared that he will no longer respond to interview requests from the “pagan” media and will only speak to Christian outlets. Last night he publicly took his brand of Christian nationalism to the next step: After Gab CEO Andrew Torba posted his ideal view of the nation with …

“A lot of the things that God had given him to do he fulfilled as a checklist. But here’s the key: Who got the glory? And who was he taking the glory to? “Was he thanking God for it publicly? Was he pointing to God for it? What we saw over and over and over, to the point that it …

The Associated Press reports: Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week. On the agenda are two items reflecting those divisions: A recommendation that a church in Kennesaw, Georgia, be ousted from the SBC because it accepted LGBTQ people into …

Via press release from Alliance Defending Freedom: Our nation’s laws should respect the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of every American citizen. All of us — regardless of sex or any other classification — deserve better than the profound inequality that the conscience-crushing, deceptively titled ‘Equality Act’ reintroduced by Congress today promises. This proposed legislation punishes and marginalizes people who hold decent …

The New York Daily News reports: A petition calling for the immediate removal of an ad featuring a real-life gay couple sharing a sticky kiss is being turned down by British confectionery Cadbury. Earlier this week, the CitizenGo Foundation, a Christian organization that demands “respect for the dignity of human beings,” posted on its website a petition directed at Cadbury …