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The Family Research Council’s annual Values Voter Summit begins this morning with a cavalcade of crackpot anti-LGBT activists and extremist politicians. Watch their live stream below. Among the first speakers are debunked “historian” David Barton, loony Louie Gohmert, FRC president Tony Perkins, former FRC president Gary Bauer, Fox News host Todd Starnes, and wackadoodle “filmmaker” Kirk Cameron. Later today self-proclaimed …

Tomorrow afternoon self-proclaimed “best friend to the gays” Donald Trump will address the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. In the room will be the leaders of anti-LGBT Christian hate groups that would happily imprison prominent Trump supporters Matt Drudge, Peter Thiel, and Milo Whatisopoulos. That won’t come as a surprise to longtime JMG readers, but here’s a recap from …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson seized on a story promoted by the Drudge Report alleging that Hillary Clinton has a secret handler who guides her through health crises. The evidence? That the man supposedly carries a Diazepam pen and once rushed to the stage during a campaign rally to help Clinton …

The opinion of this Roy Moore wannabe was in the minority but Slate warns of what it portends. Mark Joseph Stern writes: On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court refused to review a lower court ruling holding that cities may not deprive married same-sex couples the benefits it provides to opposite-sex couples. The court’s decision leaves in place a pro-equality ruling …

The Christian Post reports: Controversial Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International in Florissant, Missouri, claimed last Thursday that he raised a woman from the dead through a message sent to her on Facebook. “Raised from the Dead! David E. Taylor Commands Her to Live Through Sending a Text Message Through Facebook — Releasing the Supernatural Resurrection Power …

“If you disagree today with somebody who disagrees with the Bible and you speak, but they have an agenda and if you won’t stop, they are going to kill you. Do you understand this? We have never lived in a day of our time, in our history of America, where you couldn’t have an opposite opinion. Now they’re determined to …

From the New York Times editorial board: Just days after the federal Department of Education in May issued sensible antidiscrimination guidelines for accommodating transgender students, Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, set out to challenge them. Zeroing in on North Texas, the attorney general’s office encouraged the Harrold Independent School District to adopt an anti-transgender bathroom policy. The choice of district …

Via email this morning from Matt Barber’s BarbWire site: Dear fellow Christian and Patriot, Our nation is reeling. I turn on the news and see Bruce Jenner being celebrated for wearing a dress. Women on Instagram exploiting their bodies for fame. The music industry is selling sex, drug use and explicit language to our children. I see riots in our …

“I believe I have a moral obligation to vote for the lesser evil. Otherwise, I become morally culpable for the greater evil prevailing. Some Evangelicals have said, ‘If I voted for Donald Trump, I would have to apologize to Bill Clinton.’ Frankly, I feel that if I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, I would …

Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Five states, led by Texas, and several nonprofit medical groups, all of which are religiously affiliated, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Obama administration’s efforts to guarantee health care coverage to transgender people under the Affordable Care Act. “On pain of significant financial liability, the [Health and Human Services Department’s] Regulation forces doctors to …

As you might have guessed, this is all being done in the name of Jesus. Hawaii Civil Beat reports: The chair of the Hawaii Republican Party is urging party members to disavow the candidacy of the GOP nominee for the 2nd Congressional District, which represents the neighbor islands and rural Oahu. “I want it understood by the general public and …

Via Right Wing Watch: Today, radical right-wing activist Janet Porter released a video explaining why she will be voting for Donald Trump and warning Christians that they will be held accountable by God if the refuse to do likewise. Praising Trump for his promises to appoint anti-choice judges, allow churches to directly support candidates without losing their tax-exempt status and …

Earlier this month loony anti-LGBT activist Flip Benham crashed a meeting of the Charlotte City Council to scream that the streets and schools of the city will soon run with blood over transgender rights. This weekend Benham attempted to disrupt Charlotte Pride by screaming over a loudspeaker from a vehicle parked near one of the stages. Watch below as Benham …

Today notorious grifter and felon Jim Bakker surprised guest Alveda King with a year’s worth of his End Times food slop buckets. As you can see, even a fellow raging nutjob like King could not summon a thankful expression in the moment. After composing herself, King did agree with Bakker that the slop buckets will come in handy when the …

Last week a $104M class action lawsuit was filed against Canadian anti-gay activist Bill Whatcott after he and his supporters infiltrated Toronto Pride to hand out vicious anti-LGBT screeds to unsuspecting attendees. Whatcott claims that he is essentially penniless, homeless, and lives in somebody’s basement, yet welcomes the publicity the lawsuit brings to his cause. But he still needs the …

A few days ago the Christian site Charisma News pondered whether Hillary Clinton is a witch or the anti-Christ. American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer has an opinion. Via Right Wing Watch: Fresh from telling his radio audience that they cannot vote for Hillary Clinton because “women should not be entrusted with high political office,” Bryan Fischer declared yesterday …

Hemant Mehta goes off at The Friendly Atheist: Conservative Christians: They “love” LGBT people so much that stepping outside and experiencing nature is all it takes to tweet something nasty about them. Case in point? Check out this message from Walker Wildmon, Assistant to the President of the American Family Association. He makes it sound like every time you look …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: In his latest video, extremist right-wing activist Theodore Shoebat declared that Hillary Clinton is a devil worshipper who wants to kill Christians and therefore must be put to death. Shoebat declared that Clinton is a “sick woman” and a “decrepit, reprobate wretch,” but he couldn’t quite bring himself to openly call her a …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: The folks at Homeschoolers Anonymous recently got their hands on some old workbook pages used at the Institute of Basic Life Principles. That would be the Christian ministry founded by Bill Gothard, a man who resigned as President a couple of years ago after 34 women accused him of sexual harassment. In these …

And thus it was foretold that the Holy Word would rain from the heavens in tiny electronic form. The Washington Post reports: The apparent logic of the Swedish church Livets Ord, or “Word of Life,” is that by using a tactic that simulates the airstrikes that have traumatized a region, they will bring light and love and maybe convert some …