Christianists

Posted to the Duggar family’s “official” website: The recent “documentary” that talks about our family is sad because in it we see the media and those with ill intentions hurting people we love. Like other families, ours too has experienced the joys and heartbreaks of life, just in a very public format. This “documentary” paints so much and so many …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: This is shameful. The head of the teachers union—which supports socialism and inspires communism—is going to have her pension paid by New Yorkers? This article says this is a corrupt, unconstitutional practice that many taxpayers haven’t even heard about—I know I hadn’t. If I lived in New York, I would be upset about this …

Fox News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence is speaking out against the decision by Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers to welcome an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team’s annual Pride Night. The former vice president, taking to Twitter on Wednesday, said that Dodger’s decision to honor the group after it rescinded its original …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: The North Face is currently using a drag queen to help push its gay pride clothing line. This line includes a couple of items for children, and these pieces furtively advocate for the LGBTQ lifestyle. The North Face ad begins, ”Hi, it’s me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual. I’m here with The …

The Daily Beast reports: Even the odious Sen. Ted Cruz expressed outrage at Uganda’s draconian new anti-LBGTQ statutes. But Cruz’s rare moment of moral truth was immediately challenged by the same pastor who delivered the invocation at Gov. Ron DeSantis’ second inauguration. “Tell it to God, Ted,” Tom Ascol of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, tweeted in reply. …

Via email from the Family Research Council: When the rest of the world lost its corporate marbles, conservatives liked to think that there was one place that would never let them down: Chick-fil-A. As far as they were concerned, the churchgoers’ chicken of choice had been solidly built on Truett Cathy’s strong family values. While other CEOs took their brands …

“For whatever reason, the people who put together this bill, knew we needed work requirements for SNAP but they said we shouldn’t have them for Medicaid, which kind of, I predicted. But they left low-income housing untouched. “I think as far as discouraging work and discouraging marriage, I think low-income housing is even a more dangerous program than the food …

Mediaite reports: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stood by his condemnation of a new Ugandan law imposing harsh penalties for homosexual relations on Tuesday morning despite comparisons between himself and Bud Light made by critics on his right flank. One of the Cruz’s harshest critics was Jenna Ellis, the disgraced attorney who assisted former president Donald Trump in his attempt to …

From the president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary: Most of the world has heard by now of Target’s ‘Bud Light moment’ regarding the sordid display of their gay pride collection, much of which was directed at young children. But just when the large retailer thought that perhaps their stock had bottomed out, Fox News is reporting that in putting together …

The Birmingham News reports: Multiple motorists traveling on Interstate 65 on Monday near Clanton reported Alabama Department of Transportation signs displaying messages for a group identified as a white supremacist organization. Images on social media showed large digital traffic signs displaying the words “Patriot Front” and “reclaim America.” The SPLC identifies Patriot Front, based in Texas, as a “white nationalist …

Via press release from American Atheists: Today, the church-state separation watchdog American Atheists claimed victory in its goal to remove mandatory “In God We Trust” language from Mississippi’s official license plate. In June 2021, American Atheists filed a lawsuit against the state of Mississippi on behalf of the Mississippi Humanist Association and three nonreligious Mississippi residents, accusing Mississippi officials of …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: It’s a shame that the Los Angeles Dodgers want to give such perversion a platform. They’re hosting an event honoring LGBTQ Pride and inviting a group that calls itself the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence whose very goal seems to be mocking the Catholic faith. One bishop who strongly opposes their displays points out that …

The Roys Report reports: Soul Survivor Watford has formally suspended Mike Pilavachi, founder of a large Christian youth festival in the U.K., who’s facing allegations he spiritually and sexually abused young men under him. The suspension comes amid revelations that ministry leaders in the U.K. knew about allegations concerning Pilavachi for nearly two decades but did nothing. On Saturday, Soul …

Bloomberg News reports: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed into law legislation with harsher penalties for LGBTQ people, including death and life-imprisonment sentences. The president “has assented” to the bill, which now becomes law, his office announced in a post on its Twitter account. Parliament had approved an earlier version of the bill in March, but Museveni returned it to lawmakers …

Fox News reports: One of the nation’s largest Catholic advocacy organizations has issued a letter to the Los Angeles Dodgers announcing an upcoming ad campaign calling for a boycott of the baseball club. CatholicVote President Brian Burch addressed the letter to Dodgers principal owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten. “We wrote to you last week with a reasonable ask: …

Fortune reports: Target’s top executive hammered the aggressive behavior that some customers directed toward employees because of the retailer’s collection of LGBTQ-themed merchandise. The company removed some items from its collection for Pride Month in June, saying a rash of threats made workers feel unsafe. That move followed “many difficult days of deliberation and decision-making,” Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell …

The Associated Press reports: A judge put South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has enacted strict limits on the procedure. The ruling by Judge Clifton Newman came just about 24 hours after Gov. …

The right wing Florida Daily reports: On Friday, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a group affiliated with former Vice President Mike Pence, filed an amicus brief in Florida defending the rights of parents and arguing that school administrators cannot hide life-altering decisions about a child from the parents. “The fact that Florida schools could hide life-altering decisions from parents about their …

The Shreveport Times reports: The Rev. John Raymond of Slidell, an elected member of the Louisiana Republican Party governing board who is charged with four counts of criminal cruelty to juveniles, is running for a seat in the state House of Representatives. “I feel it’s important people who believe in conservative Christian principles hold positions to create laws to direct …

Religion News Service reports: The Board of Commissioners of a lakeshore Michigan county has passed a resolution declaring it a “constitutional county,” a designation favored by some far-right groups who believe state and federal governments have become tyrannical. Ottawa County, which borders Lake Michigan, is the second state county to vote on becoming a “constitutional county” in the space of …