Hate Groups

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Incredible. Yesterday, dozens of University of Michigan medical students walked out of a White Coat Ceremony when Dr. Kristin Collier, a pro-life assistant professor of medicine, got up to the podium to speak. Why? Because she values and defends life—she wants to protect the unborn, as well as the mother. Pro-abortion students had already …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Senate Republicans are feeling the pressure to defend marriage and the natural family, as two large grassroots coalitions warn them that a controversial bill will fuel frivolous litigation and subject the most fundamental unit of society to an infinite variety of experimentation and tampering. H.R. 8404, which proponents of redefining marriage have …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Never underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to self-destruct. That’s the one thing years of cultural battles have taught everyone. Heading into November with the elections on a silver platter, the men and women who rebranded themselves as the forces of anti-wokeness have suddenly gone soft on an issue that should be a …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: As time has gone on, Republicans seem to have gotten increasingly comfortable letting the court decide an issue they argued was rightly theirs. That shock was driven home Tuesday when 47 House members walked away from the party’s principles and platform to cast a vote for same-sex marriage. The list included a …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the deceptively named “Respect for Marriage Act” in a 267-157 vote. If this bill becomes law, it would formally repeal the  Defense of Marriage Act—a law that was passed in 1996 defining marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman. While …

Just in via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: I’m writing with terrible news. The US House of Representatives has just passed emergency legislation that is intended to impose same-sex marriage nationwide. We must urgently act to prevent the passage of this legislation in the Senate – the disingenuous “Respect for Marriage” Act. Please sign our petition immediately opposing …

The Huffington Post reports: Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host and racist “replacement” theory proponent, brought his familiar message that the “ruling class” wants to manipulate everyday Americans to a high-profile stop Friday on the Republican presidential nomination circuit. In 42 minutes of meandering remarks with frequent tangents to attack his favorite targets and punctuated with his trademark cackle, Carlson …

The Daily Beast reports: Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to ignore rumors about a potential 2024 presidential bid. Instead, he turned his ire to “woke math” at a Friday gathering in Tampa for the conservative group Moms for Liberty. He boasted that, after a recent Department of Education review, woke math books in Florida were sent back to publishers, …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: WARNING! Thor: Love and Thunder just released in theaters on July 8, and this new movie from Marvel Studios includes blatant LGBTQ content. One Million Moms needs your help to make sure as many people as possible are aware that Marvel Studios is pushing the LGBTQ agenda on families in their newest …

ProPublica reports: According to documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and given to ProPublica, the FRC filed an application to change its status to an “association of churches,” a designation commonly used by groups with member churches like the Southern Baptist Convention, in March 2020. The agency approved the change a few months later. The FRC is one …

Law & Crime reports: Former Alabama judge Roy Moore cannot revive his defamation lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over the latter’s “pedophile detector” sketch, which was “clearly comedy,” a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The ruling falls less than a month after Moore’s attorney Larry Klayman compared his client to Johnny Depp before a skeptical three-judge panel at …

The Daily Beast reports: The leader of the right-wing and COVID anti-vax 1776 Restoration Movement—formerly called The People’s Convoy—was arrested near the National Mall on Wednesday after his group came to town protesting non-existent mandates. Far-right Proud Boy member and leader David “Santa” Riddell was taken into custody for a warrant out of Maryland, D.C., Metropolitan Police officers told The …

Nashville’s NBC News affiliate reports: Tennessee judges have dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Knoxville couple who alleged that a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to help them because they are Jewish. The lawsuit challenged a 2020 state law that installed legal protections for private adoption agencies to reject state-funded placement of children to parents based on religious beliefs. The …

Rolling Stone reports: At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. “We’re the only people who do that,” Peggy Nienaber said. …

The Boston Herald reports: A group of about 100 marchers identifying themselves by flyers as belonging to the white nationalist group the Patriot Front, cut through the heart of downtown Saturday sparking a confrontation. A scanner call came in at around 12:30 p.m. announcing that a group had gone up to a rental truck parked in the area of the …

Posted today to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: The “liberal world order”?? Democrats in the White House aren’t ashamed of their socialist Communist ideology—they’re out in the open with it. White House economic advisor Brian Deese told CNN that the high prices at the gas pump were what America has to pay for “the future of the liberal world order.” I …

Rolling Stone reports: Soon after the draft of its decision stripping abortion rights got leaked, the Supreme Court resembled a fortress. The courthouse was ringed with eight-foot fencing and public streets and walkways near the grounds were closed to the public. There was thick irony in the fact that the high court justices had created a “buffer zone” to limit …

The Christian Post reports: More than a month after his arrest on DUI and weapons charges, Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, has removed Pastor Jordan Daniel “J.D.” Hall from ministry due to allegations of “serious sin.” Hall, known for his scathing criticisms of Christian leaders on his now-defunct polemics website Pulpit & Pen and, more recently, Protestia, has also …

The Hill reports: Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday expressed his desire to revisit a landmark 1964 ruling that makes it relatively difficult to bring successful lawsuits against media outlets for defamation. Thomas’s statement came in response to the court’s decision to turn away an appeal from a Christian nonprofit group who disputed their characterization by the civil rights watchdog group …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: On Saturday President Joe Biden signed what has been deemed the most sweeping gun control law in decades. He says it will save lives. I’m concerned that this bill is just a way to make politicians feel like they have done something, when really all they have done is spend billions more on government …