Christianists

Mediaite reports: “Why is it acceptable in your state to force girls who are victims of incest to carry those children to term?” Tapper asked. Reeves argued that abortion procedures overwhelmingly happen in elective cases while incest is a much more uncommon circumstance by comparison. “This is your law,” Tapper interjected. He added, “that is going to be the law …

Orlando’s ABC News affiliate reports: Channel 9 is learning more about an alleged “cult-like” secret society operating within Leesburg High School involving both faculty and students. Records show it was started as some kind of religious group by two school employees and a few former students. Gabriel Fielder has requested a chance to resign in lieu of termination after a …

The Associated Press reports: Tennessee will soon strictly regulate the dispensing of abortion pills, including imposing harsh penalties on doctors who violate them, under legislation recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee. The measure, which Lee signed on Thursday, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2023. Once enacted, a medical clinician will be required to be physically present …

Raleigh’s NBC News affiliate reports: Authorities have arrested a pastor on several sex crime charges stemming from a joint investigation. The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reports their detectives, along with police from  Winterville joined forces to investigate suspected child abuse involving John William Lovelace earlier this year. The pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Ayden was charged by Winterville police …

Religion News Service reports: Catholic bishops in California have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging a state law that expands the time survivors of childhood sexual assault have to file their claims. The petition was filed by nine California Catholic archdioceses after the California Supreme Court refused to consider the case. In 2002, California enacted a …

Posted tonight to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Pray for our Supreme Court Justices—that God would protect them and our judicial system. The Left is going after them—personally—publishing their home addresses and more. This is extremely dangerous. It seems these activists will use any tactics to get their way including threats, intimidation, and violence. They try to cancel anyone and everyone …

The New York Post reports: A group of Republican senators want a new TV rating created so parents can block their children from watching shows with LGBTQ characters.The five senators from North Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Indiana and Montana sent a letter Wednesday to the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board asking for the new rating. The two-page letter signed by Sens. …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Appearing on the Truth and Liberty Coalition’s weekly livestream program Monday night, Perkins urged conservative Christians to withdraw their own children from public schools but also to “see the public schools as a mission field” full of students ripe for conversion by right-wing Christian teachers. After Truth and Liberty Coalition founder Andrew Wommack …

The Arizona Mirror reports:  A group of far-right extremists with ties to white nationalists tried to counter-protest an abortion rights rally held at the Arizona Capitol Tuesday night, where they were vastly outnumbered and one was arrested for violently attacking a demonstrator. Michael Merritt Graham, 34, was arrested and booked for suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct after state troopers …

The Texas Tribune reports: At a time when Texas is poised to outlaw the vast majority of abortions if the nation’s highest court overturns constitutional protections for the procedure, a recent University of Texas at Austin poll shows most Texan voters think access to abortion should be allowed in some form. Texas would make performing most abortions a felony if …

“The Lord spoke to me, ‘You’re always binding the devil, but I want you to bind five Judges into a coalition of conscience with chains that cannot be broken.’ “The Lord said, ‘I want you to mobilize prayer to bind five Judges on the Supreme Court into a coalition of conscience that no threats or witchcraft will break.’ “I want …

The Christian Post reports: Bill Hwang, founder of the more than $10 billion Archegos Capital Management investment firm who was once revered as one of the Evangelical world’s biggest benefactors, could spend the rest of his life in prison after he was arrested and charged Wednesday with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud offenses. The charges stem from a …

The Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports: A Louisiana legislative committee on Wednesday advanced a bill to make abortion a crime of homicide in which the mother or those assisting her in terminating the pregnancy can be charged. The measure cleared the House Appropriations Committee on a 7-2 vote despite at least one of the representatives voting in favor acknowledging the bill …

Mass Live reports: The Satanic Temple is hoping to raise one of its flags in front of Boston City Hall after the Supreme Court ruled Boston violated free speech rights when it refused to fly a Christian group’s flag. “Religious Liberty is a bedrock principle in a democracy, and Religious Liberty is dependent upon government viewpoint neutrality,” Lucien Greaves, cofounder …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a Texas-style abortion ban on Tuesday that prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, part of a nationwide push in GOP-led states hopeful that the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will uphold new restrictions. The bill Stitt signed takes effect immediately with his signature, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court on …

The Christian Post reports: Another former student has claimed that Liberty University failed to properly investigate her allegation of sexual assault, prompting the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the school’s handling of assault allegations. The lawsuit, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, argues that Liberty “failed to provide Plaintiff with services …

“We’re not talking about 40 years ago. Today’s Democrats are advocating for the right to have an abortion beyond the birth of the child. And most Americans would say, ‘That’s not something that sits well with me.’ “And, so for Democrats to go out on the campaign trail if they want to put all their eggs in this basket and …

Via press release: Christian media company Good Fight Ministries has released the first installment of its seven-part Marvel and DC’s War on God series. Entitled The Anti-Christ Agenda and narrated by Pastor Joe Schimmel, the company says the 150-minute film “documents how popular comics and the movies that they have spawned are riddled with anti-Christ themes that glorify gratuitous violence, …

“I want to thank you for appreciating that I can’t have my camera on tonight. I’ve been struggling with COVID pretty severely lately and I’m just not suitable for cameras. So thank you so much for just letting me speak and then I’ll hand things off to Leo.” – Michele Bachmann, speaking this weekend on a Christian “prayer call” conducted …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the city of Boston violated the Constitution when it refused to let a local organization fly a Christian flag in front of city hall. While the case had religious overtones, the decision was fundamentally about free speech rights. The court said the city created a public forum, open to …