Christianists

The Associated Press reports: Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian advocacy group, has died, the organization announced Thursday. The 85-year-old Mississippi native died on Thursday from complications related to Lewy body dementia, an obituary published by WTVA-TV said. Wildmon died in Tupelo, Mississippi, the city where the American Family Association is based. The obituary …

ABC News reports: This year, state legislators introduced and passed a record-breaking number of legislative efforts targeting LGBTQ healthcare, access to public accommodations, inclusion in education, and more in the U.S. The American Civil Liberties Union said it recorded at least 508 bills impacting the community in 2023, adding 84 of these bills were passed into law. The rise in …

Philly Burbs reports: Clarice Schillinger, 36, is facing criminal charges of assault, harassment and furnishing minors with alcohol during her daughter’s birthday party, according to the case filed in late October. Her attorney has denied all charges and said she will fight them in court. Schillinger made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor as a Republican last year and has …

The Hill reports: Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion. “I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said on X,responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If you are a Christian who supports him you don’t understand your own …

Salon reports: In a little-noticed October speech in Uganda, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., urged that nation to stand behind its new Anti-Homosexuality Act, which includes the death penalty. Walberg’s remarks came at Uganda’s National Prayer Breakfast. His trip to attend the event was paid for by the secretive U.S. group behind the National Prayer Breakfast. As the keynote speaker of …

The Christian Post reports: Days after denouncing an unverified report casting innuendo about his sexuality and accusing him of being a frequent participant at sex parties hosted by Sean Combs, popularly known as Diddy, televangelist T.D. Jakes called his accusers “liars” on Sunday and noted that even “if everything was true, all I got to do is repent sincerely from …

The Guardian reports: A grand jury is set to decide whether an Ohio woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus should face criminal consequences. Brittany Watts, who was reportedly turned into the police after her September miscarriage, has been charged with the fifth-degree felony of “abuse of a corpse” in Trumbull County, Ohio. Her case has been held up as evidence …

Religion News Service reports: Leaders of the International House of Prayer, an influential charismatic evangelical prayer and mission group based in Kansas City, announced Friday (Dec. 22) that they have cut ties with founder Mike Bickle. In late October a group of former IHOPKC leaders accused Bickle of a pattern of alleged clergy sexual misconduct. Earlier in December, Bickle admitted …

Courthouse News reports: The case, brought by Fund Texas Choice and others, takes aim at Senate Bill 8, a 2021 Texas law that allows private parties to bring lawsuits against any person who “aids and abets” an abortion. Under that law, private parties can seek damages of at least $10,000 for any instance where someone aids, abets, induces or performs …

The Guardian reports: The southern California city of Huntington Beach, a bastion of conservative voters, has made the move to block diverse monthlong celebrations of Black history, women’s history and Pride, in favor of observing the revolutionary and civil wars, California’s history and America’s independence. In the year since their elections, mayor Gracey Van Der Mark, mayor pro tem Pat …

The Florida Trident reports: A sex video involving Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman has been recovered by police as part of the ongoing criminal investigation of a rape allegation made against Bridget’s husband, Christian Ziegler, sources close to the investigation have told the Florida Trident. In response to a specific public record request for that …

Deadline reports: John Schneider may now be insisting he never threatened the life of President Joe Biden, but the Secret Service beg to differ. The federal agency opened a probe into statements the former Dukes of Hazzard star made online against the President and his son Hunter Biden, Deadline has learned. “We look at all threats against our protectees and, …

Via press release from the Catholic League: This is the most joyful time of the year, especially for Christians. It is not a good time for dogmatic secularists, many of whom are deeply unhappy. If anything, Christmas brings out the worst in them. At a time when most people are smiling, caroling, dancing and hugging, these deeply embittered Americans are …

“Let us delight this Christmas season in the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our only real hope! The birth of Jesus is worth celebrating, but the resurrection is the reason He was sent. It is the finale of the Christmas story. “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Jesus …

The Daily Mail reports: Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider has issued a death threat against president Joe Biden, saying he “should be hung.” Schneider, 63, wrote the concerning message on X on Wednesday and also targeted Biden’s son Hunter. Schneider deleted the post, but not before TMZ reported on it. Schneider, who played Bo Duke on the Dukes of …

Newsweek reports: Actor John Schneider has called for the execution of President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Recently unveiled as the Masked Singer on the reality TV series of the same name, Schneider took to X. “Mr. President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung. Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John …

ABC News reports: Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter. “This looks like a wedding,” a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. “But they are …

The Berkshire Eagle reports: The plainclothed police officer who entered an eighth grade classroom to search for a book wore a body camera and recorded the incident, leading to more legal questions and concerns. The ACLU and other free speech advocates say they are alarmed by the recording, as well as the entire Dec. 8 incident that took place after …

“It was an abomination. I was surprised. There’s almost nobody, there’s one man in there. I would have thought that there would have been, you know, a politician to yell at, to say, ‘Hey man, take this down’ – a security guard or something. “But there was nobody there, it was just that evil statue that was there to influence …

The New York Times reports: Since the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023, as the law is officially known, there have been arrests and hundreds of human rights violations involving L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to a report by Convening for Equality, a coalition of human rights groups. More quietly, the law is exacting a grim economic toll. The hospitality industry …