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The Dallas Morning News reports: Sen. Ted Cruz’s latest effort to inflame conservatives — a video in which Rep. Beto O’Rourke appears to express enthusiasm for flag burning — hinges on heavy splicing and a creative interpretation of a long-winded comment. O’Rourke did not say he’s “grateful” for flag burning. Nor did he say that flag burning is “inherently American.” …

Boston Magazine reports: Scott Lively, a pastor from Springfield notorious for his fixation on exposing “the gay agenda,” has lost his long-shot bid to unseat Charlie Baker and win the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor. But he did, however, manage to get about a third of voters in the state’s GOP primary to support him. For those unfamiliar with this …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that our nation has set another record, but it’s not one to celebrate. Last year nearly 2.3 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed in this country. That broke the record set in 2016 by nearly 200,000 cases. An STD expert says …

From the red-caped Catholic loons at Tradition, Family, and Property: When “gender fluid” story books replace Little Red Riding Hood, we should ask ourselves: Has society sunk lower than Sodom and Gomorrah? Endorsed by the American Library Association, the “Drag Queen Story Hour” has spread to twenty-one states, targeting preschool and grade school children with homosexuality and transgenderism in public …

Courthouse News reports: A civic group failed to persuade a federal judge Wednesday that Boston must mark its proposed event by flying a flag featuring a red Latin cross. Via Liberty Counsel Represented by Liberty Counsel in Orlando and the firm McLane & McLane, of Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, the group Camp Constitution filed the suit to fly its flag a …

NOM president Brian Brown was in Taiwan to support a Christianist campaign for a referendum to overturn the coming court-ordered legalization of same-sex marriage. Channel News Asia reports: Conservative campaigners on Tuesday (Aug 28) threw a roadblock in the path to legalizing same-sex unions in Taiwan, proposing a public vote on the issue and saying any reforms would jeopardize “family …

Raw Story reports: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Monday agreed with President Donald Trump’s sentiment that Democrats will become “violent” if they are allowed to win midterm elections. During a dinner with evangelical leaders, Trump raised the specter of violence to motivate Christian voters. CNN’s Erica Hill spoke to Perkins on Wednesday after he attended the dinner with …

The New York Times reports: In remarks to evangelical ministers in the White House State Dining Room on Monday night, President Trump spoke in high-minded tones about religious liberty, abortion and youth unemployment. He noted a John Adams quote carved into the room’s fireplace: “I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house.” But once reporters and …

Via press release from Catholic League head Bill Donohue: Conservative Catholics have been especially strident in their comments. Unfortunately, they are being played. To be specific, their call for grand jury investigations in every state, and the wholesale release of priest personnel files, is playing into the hands of the enemies of the Catholic Church. So are their appeals to …

Last night Glorious Leader threw a lavish White House dinner for right wing evangelicals leaders and the heads of viciously anti-LGBT hate groups. Afterwards, Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress rushed to Fox News, where he said this: “I know a lot of people are still perplexed- why are Christians so supportive of Donald Trump? Well, it’s really not that hard …

Politico reports: Jerry Falwell Jr., a top conservative religious leader, said Monday he urged President Donald Trump to fire Jeff Sessions over his handling of investigations into Russian election meddling, saying the attorney general has lost evangelicals’ support. “He really is not on the president’s team, never was,” Falwell, the president of Liberty University, said of Sessions. “He’s wanted to …

The Christian Post reports: Televangelist Ernest Angley and his megachurch, Grace Cathedral, are being sued for sexual misconduct and for allegedly forcing a former associate pastor to go through with a vasectomy. According to the lawsuit, filed last week in Summit County Clerk of Courts, former Grace Cathedral employee Brock Miller is accusing Angley of “predatory, harassing, and offensive behavior,” …

“I don’t dare wear a Trump hat. The evil in this country is so bad, if I was a Republican – which I have been my whole life – I couldn’t wear a hat with my candidate on it without concern about being murdered in the street. They’re putting us in a corner and I won’t shut up. “I’m in …

Just in from hate group leader Monica Cole: Jack in the Box is following a trend in crude commercials. While a few fast food restaurants are cleaning up their ads, Jack in the Box decided to air their newest #JACKSBOWLS commercial for Teriyaki Bowls with an obvious innuendo. Jack in the Box restaurants may push away customers if they continue …

Alleged ex-gay Robert Oscar Lopez, who now runs the Texas chapter of the anti-LGBT hate group MassResistance, writes for the far-right Christian LifeSiteNews: California’s extreme “stay gay” bill fulfills the most important aspiration of the LGBT movement. Marriage, military service, and even anti-discrimination laws all pale in importance beside the acquisition of a captive constituency. Gays know that homosexual life …

“Lord, we’re not going back! We’re not going back under Jezebel. We’re coming out! We’re coming out! We’re coming out! We’re done with Jezebel! Lord, the soul of this country’s at stake. The very soul of this country’s at stake, Lord. There’s a battle for the soul of America. Lord, I ask in Jesus’ name. Expose those shadow spirits. Expose …

Todd Starnes writes for Fox News: Christians across the nation are expressing grave concerns over a proposed California law that would outlaw speech dealing with certain issues – including homosexuality and gender identity – by clergy members, licensed counselors and others. Assembly Bill 2943, authored by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low, would utilize the state’s existing consumer fraud statute to classify …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: The Foundation for Moral Law (“the Foundation”) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court today urging it to protect religious liberty from transgender activism. In this case, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a funeral home, owned by Christians, that refused to …

“Every natural disaster is a purposeful, intentional act of God. To do what? To rouse a nation and a people from its spiritual complacency, its spiritual apathy, and to turn their attention back to him. In other words, God watches the life — the spiritual life — of a nation, and when He sees that the eyes of that nation …

According to Christian web show hosts Leigh Valentine and Chris McDonald, God will destroy Omarosa for betraying God’s anointed leader of America, Donald Trump. Kyle Mantyla has the quotes at Right Wing Watch: “She has sought to destroy President Trump and now she’s going to wind up being destroyed herself,” McDonald declared. “And that should warn every one of us, …