Religion

Hermant Mehta writes at The Friendly Atheist: Two years ago, I posted about how nomadic fire-and-brimstone campus preacher Brother Jed Smock would soon be starring with his family in a reality TV show. Like any show, there was only promise of a pilot episode (which is no guarantee of a series or that the pilot would even air on television). …

Anti-gay Alabama probate Judge John Enslen wants his state’s Supreme Court to rule that only the federal government should have to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. AL.com reports: Enslen also asked that the Alabama justices issue an order declaring the state will only honor same-sex marriage licenses either issued by the federal government or a state that has a …

In their prayer of the day, the Family Research Council tells its followers to ask God to make everybody stop lying about Kim Davis and her meeting with Pope Francis. They write: The leftwing and mainstream media have radically distorted the Papal audience, characterizing it a chance meeting, a casual encounter, a few brief words to a woman in the …

The American Principles Project, a right wing think tank co-founded by former NOM chairman Robert George, has issued a call for “all federal and state officeholders in the United States” to defy the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling. They write: If Obergefell is accepted as binding law, the consequences will be grave. Of the results that can be predicted with confidence, …

You’ve been waiting for this one, right? “Dear Joe, A homosexual ‘married’ couple is featured prominently with a young boy (their son) in the new Campbell’s Soup advertisement. Campbell’s #RealRealLife campaign aims to change the face of the American family. It starts off with the first man feeding soup to the little boy and in a ‘Star Wars’ Darth Vader …

And of course he’s exploiting the news with a money beg: Big win! Kevin McCarthy, the California Congressman who supported pro-same sex marriage Republican, Carl Demaio has dropped out of the race for House speaker! As you know NOM worked hard to help defeat Carl Demaio and other pro-same-sex marriage Republicans in 2014. Now the fight is on for a …

“Peter LaBarbera was sent to jail in Canada for his pro-marriage views. Kim Davis was sent to jail for practicing her faith as an elected office-holder in Kentucky. Now Troy Newman was taken to jail in Australia for his pro-life views. How do we overcome the Criminalization of Christianity? Find out how in the film, Light Wins. Both Peter LaBarbera …

“I’ll state the obvious and say that he seems like he’s a much more open-minded individual, who seems to be moving outside of the dogma of the Catholic Church that has been set in stone since the days of Constantine. So I think it’s good. It’s good to look out into the big, wide world and see that we have …

Back in March, the Slovenian national legislature approved a same-sex marriage bill by a 51-28 vote. The law has not yet gone into effect as anti-gay factions call for a repeal referendum despite a 2013 constitutional amendment which bans any public votes on human rights issues. Slovenia’s Constitutional Court has heard the case but has yet to rule on whether …

After months of screaming, dodgy petitions, and outrageous lies, the haters forced a public referendum on repealing Houston’s LGBT rights ordinance. According to a poll issued today, 52% support retaining the law. Early voting begins on October 19th and the Family Research Council is busy inflaming their troops. Via press release: Money for Parker’s crusade has streamed in from all …

The website MuckRock has launched a crowd-funding campaign to obtain the emails of Kim Davis. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act, Davis is required to hand over her emails upon request, but she tells MuckRock that each email must be printed and physically mailed because she’s “old school.” And she wants $1200 for that. They write: A couple days before …

“Several members of the ‘Trunews’ team and I were talking this morning in the office about the mysterious appearance of similar looking persons at the scenes of recent mass shootings. Could they be the same people? Could they be paid crisis actors and actresses? Is there a secret death squad at work in this country staging mass shootings in order …

Via Knoxville’s CBS affiliate: In the market for a gun? An East Tennessee store is offering a deal, as long as you’re a Christian. The owner of Frontier Firearms says the mass shooting in Oregon prompted the sale. “If Christians are going to be targeted, we need to protect ourselves,” said Brant Williams, Owner of Frontier Firearms. “The best way …

Speaking today at a rally in Mount Vernon, Iowa, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about Kim Davis by saying, “I think what happened to Kim Davis was the right thing. She violated the law, and therefore she was arrested. I actually think that she was treated as she should have been treated. You either enforce the law or you resign. …

In Italian priest has been suspended from his parish after telling a live TV audience that he can understand pedophilia because it’s caused by “affection seeking” children. Homosexuality, he went on to say, is just a sinful disease. The Independent reports: Don Gino Flaim, 75, of the diocese of Trento in Northern Italy, has been removed from his position and …

The Guardian reports: While our planet may have survived September’s “blood moon”, it will be permanently destroyed on Wednesday, 7 October, a Christian organization has warned. The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While that claim proved …

As those of us who watched the live-stream know, last night’s county commission meeting in Blount County, Tennessee was abruptly adjourned without a vote on the resolution that would ask God to pass over Blount County when he kills everybody for loving gay marriage. The resolution’s author, Commissioner Karen Miller, says she was “blindsided” by the move. The adjournment brought …

Tony Perkins needs a lot of money to stop the Equality Act, which he today tells supporters will strip Christians of their employment rights. Via email: “I was wrong. I thought we had just about beaten ENDA — the dangerous Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would force Christians to employ people utterly opposed to their own values. But the Left has …

The county commissioners of Blount County, Tennessee are about have a public hearing on the resolution of loony bird Commissioner Karen Miller, who wants them to formally ask God to “pass us by” during “His Coming Wrath” when he righteously kills the fuck out of the rest of America over gay marriage. Local activists are staging a protest outside the …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer interviewed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, a former Religious Right activist and aide to Chief Justice Roy Moore who has become a radical justice in his own right, for two segments about the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling earlier this year. After making the case …