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Huge Stash Of Cash Found In Wall Of Osteen’s Church

Salon reports: A plumbing repair at televangelist Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston reportedly led to the discovery of “bags and bags” of cash and checks in a bathroom wall. The discovery came several years after someone stole $600,000 in cash and checks from a safe at Osteen’s Lakewood Church, according to a report from KRPC Channel 2. The station suggested …

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VIRAL VIDEO: North Carolina Lt Gov Threatens Dem Lawmaker After Speech In Support Of LGBTQ Rights

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican who has used his pulpit to make numerous anti-LGBTQ comments, confronted a Democratic lawmaker Monday night after she gave a speech responding to Robinson’s remarks. Robinson “berated” state Sen. Julie Mayfield, a Democrat from Asheville, after her speech and wagged his finger in front of her …

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Hate Group Appeals To Supreme Court Over Its Hate Group Designation From “Reputation Terrorists” SPLC

Via press release published by Christian Newswire: In a brief submitted November 24, the Christian media outreach D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling dismissing DJKM’s defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In its appeal brief, DJKM, represented by the National Center for Law and …

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Anti-Vax Evangelical Radio Host Is Sick With Something

“I got COVID, Suzanne got COVID — I don’t know if she gave it to me or I gave it to her. But then she went to visit my parents, and gave it to them. “My mother got it, and my father got it, and my current daughter, I won’t use her name on the air, let’s just say Hortense, …

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SCOTUS Appears Poised To Back MS Anti-Abortion Law

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, based on sometimes tense and heated questioning at a momentous argument in the most important abortion case in decades. Such a ruling would be flatly at odds with what the court has said was the …

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Widow Of Anti-Vax Televangelist “Stands By” Ivermectin

“We were trying to treat the COVID and pneumonia with the different protocols we use, including the ones we talk about on Daystar. “We used those — I myself used them and had breezed through COVID. His blood sugar spiked and he needed oxygen. “He 100 percent believed in everything we talk about here on Daystar, things that help so …

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Library Association Battles Attempts To Ban LGBT Books

CNN reports: The American Library Association says it has provided legal guidance and support to a number of libraries impacted by the “dramatic uptick” of attempts to remove books concerning LGBTQ issues and people of color. Since June 1, the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has tracked 155 incidents across the country and has provided support and consultation in 120 …

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Franklin Graham Ignores Late Marcus Lamb’s Crusade Against Vaccines: “He’s Now In The Presence Of Jesus”

Posted this afternoon to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: I was shocked to learn today that Marcus Lamb passed away early this morning from complications due to COVID-19. Marcus was the founder of Daystar Television Network, located outside of Dallas. He will be greatly missed. My prayers are with his wife Joni and their children. For all those who put their …

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Jury Selection Begins In Josh Duggar’s Child Porn Trial

ABC News reports: Jury selection was set to begin Tuesday in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial over federal child pornography charges. Duggar, who appeared in TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” was charged in April with two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography. A federal Homeland Security agent in May testified that pornographic images depicting the sexual abuse …

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Family Of Late Anti-Vax Televangelist Blames Satan For His Death: “This Is A Spiritual Attack From The Enemy”

Religion News Service reports: In recent weeks, friends and supporters had been praying for his recovery from COVID, seeing it as a spiritual attack because of his advocacy against vaccines and push for alternate treatments. “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy,” Lamb’s son, Jonathan, said about his father’s COVID-19 illness on …

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Anti-Vax Televangelist Marcus Lamb Dies Of Something

First, a reminder from earlier this month: Daystar Television Network, one of the largest Christian television networks in the world and The American Family Association, a nonprofit Christian organization, said in a lawsuit today that a federal vaccine mandate forcing large companies to require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccinated is a “sin against God’s Holy Word.” AFA and …

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Graham: “Trust Jesus” To Protect You From Omicron

Posted today to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: In his 1933 inauguration speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” There’s a lot of truth to that statement. The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 is striking fear in the hearts of people around the world. European countries as well as the U.S. have …

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Staver: Biden Is “Purging Christians” From The USMC

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: A young Marine was recently told her Christian values do not match the values of the U.S. Marine Corps. Joe Biden’s unlawful denial of religious freedom for our military members is a slap in the face to all who have served our nation. When the shot mandates came down, Rachael was distressed. …

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Church Fires Pastor Who Approves Of Marital Rape

Religion News Service reports: The Seventh-day Adventist Church has removed a New York City pastor who said in a sermon earlier this month that husbands may rape their wives. Burnett Robinson, who served as senior pastor of Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church for nine years, is no longer a pastor in the denomination, said Kevin Lampe, a communications consultant for …

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Brown: We Can Stop Gay Marriage In TX, Send Money

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: I want to alert you to a major development in Texas that could result in marriage being restored as solely the union of one man and one woman in this great state. A powerful state Representative, James White, has written to state Attorney General Ken Paxton asking him to rule that the …

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Liberty Counsel Issues Annual Xmas Retail Boycott List: Barnes & Noble, Dick’s, Gap, Target, TJ Maxx, And More

Just in via press release: Years ago, Walmart had banned its employees from even responding with the phrase “Merry Christmas.” Now the company has moved to the “Nice List,” completely embracing the Christmas season. Thankfully, many other companies have done the same to acknowledge Christ’s birth during the season. Belk, JCPenney, Walmart, Staples and Kohl’s are examples of stores on …

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Franklin Graham: Jesus Helps You Win Football Games

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: The Indianapolis Colts are incredibly blessed to have a man like this as head coach. After their upset victory on Sunday over the Buffalo Bills, Coach Frank Reich didn’t hesitate to recognize the One who helped him and the team get to that point. At the press conference he quoted from the song, “In …

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Anti-LGBT TX Rep Drops Bid For State Attorney General

The Texas Tribune reports: State Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, is ending his campaign for attorney general and running for Tarrant County district attorney instead. Krause told The Texas Tribune that he began seriously considering a district attorney campaign after the incumbent, Sharon Wilson, “unexpectedly” announced her retirement earlier this month. He said he “started getting tons of calls” to …

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NYC Pastor: “The Best Person To Rape Is Your Wife”

Religion News Service reports: In a sermon about wifely submission, the pastor of a New York City Seventh-day Adventist Church went on to suggest that husbands may rape their wives. “I would say to you gentlemen, the best person to rape is your wife,” said Burnett Robinson, senior pastor of Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist, a church located in the Bronx …

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GOP NC Lt Gov Compares Gays To Cow Shit, Maggots

The Charlotte Observer reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson again made disparaging remarks about LGBTQ+ people, this time at a Winston-Salem church, according to a video of the sermon made on Sunday. Robinson, a Republican who is expected to run for governor in 2024, questioned the “purpose” of being gay; said heterosexual couples are “superior” to gay couples; and …

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