Religion

Well, this is a shame. Christianity Today reports: Two months after promoting plans to send out “limitless” numbers of missionaries, the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) faces a financial crisis. IMB president David Platt announced Thursday that the agency needs to cut at least 600 missionaries and staff in order to balance its budget. Those …

Breitbart gleefully reports that over half a million have signed a petition from the red-caped Catholic loons which calls on Pope Francis to defend the “traditional family” and denounce same-sex marriage. Plus some other Catholic-y stuff! From the petition: Holy Father, In view of the Synod on the family to be held in October 2015, we filially address Your Holiness …

According to infamously cuckolded-by-a-lesbian Texas Values head Jonathan Saenz, a homosexual occupying army now has its boot on the neck of America. And he needs a whole lot of Jesus Bucks to fund the resistance. He writes: America today is occupied territory. The enemies of religious freedom occupy every power center from government to academia. Everyone except its spiritual core. …

“Why would Obama suddenly bring the hammer down on homosexual prostitution? Maybe, in the wake of the Ashley Madison hack, he wants to get all the client information from this website in federal custody to protect the identities of his political and social friends who may be customers. Or Obama believes, with homosexuality being the flavor of the year in …

Focus Of The Family has posted a recap of last week’s anti-gay rally in support of renegade Kentucky country clerk Kim Davis. According to FOTF, those brave martyred Christians “endangered their livelihoods” merely by showing up to wave misspelled signs about Jesus. In the clip below Davis and her totally not related but probably secretly related fellow clerk Casey Davis …

“The Devil always overplays his hand and the Devil overplayed his hand with that decision on June 26. You’ve got to realize that that decision was not about homosexual marriage, that decision was a decision against religious liberty. What was the basis for their decision? It was the 14th Amendment. That means they’re calling homosexuality a civil right. Understand me …

Yesterday Donald Trump dodged questions about his favorite bible verse, declaring it to be personal rather than confessing that he doesn’t know any. Twitter had a field day.

Clip 1: “If it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do. They fought and died so we could have this freedom and I’m going to fight and die …

According to the Sixth Circuit Court, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has “little to no likelihood” of prevailing upon appeal. Equality Case Files has the ruling: “The injunction operates not against Davis personally, but against the holder of her office of Rowan County Clerk. In light of the binding holding of Obergefell, it cannot be defensibly argued that the holder …

Posted this afternoon on the Duggar family website: “We are so thankful for the outpouring of love, care and prayers for our family during this most difficult situation with Josh. As parents we are so deeply grieved by our son’s decisions and actions. His wrong choices have deeply hurt his precious wife and children and have negatively affected so many …

Kyle Mantyla writes at Right Wing Watch: Recently, Rena Lindevaldsen, Liberty University Law School’s interim dean, delivered an address to students on the question “Do Government Officials Have Authority to Impose Their Morals on Others?” Lindevaldsen’s answer was a resounding “yes,” provided that the morals being imposed are Christian ones. But if the morals being imposed are not Christian ones, …

Josh Duggar is the gift that just keeps giving. In Touch Weekly has the latest reveal: In a bombshell world-exclusive interview with In Touch magazine, stripper and porn star Danica Dillon, 28, reveals she had sex not once, but on two separate occasions, with Josh Duggar, both occurring when his wife, Anna, was pregnant with their fourth child! Danica — …

The Guardian recaps: Michael Keaton, in his first post-Birdman role (ignoring his voice work in Minions), stars alongside Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci as the Boston Globe team who uncovered a massive child abuse cover-up within the local Catholic archdiocese, and later won a Pulitzer prize for their efforts. Billy Crudup, coming off a …

If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t heard much about NOM’s 2016 anti-LGBT hate pledge since it was launched over two months ago, now we know why. From Brian Brown: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today identified four Republican presidential candidates they have dubbed “Marriage Champions” for having pledged to the American people that they will take several specific …

From the clip recap: We were asked to share our faith story in front of our congregation at First United Methodist Church of Austin. This is a church that has welcomed us and changed our lives. All are welcome, no exceptions. As members of this incredible church family we have grown as Christians, individuals, and as a couple. After 9 …

After having been found mentally competent to stand trial, the Jerusalem Pride killer has finally been formally charged with murder. The Associated Press reports: Jerusalem’s District Court indicted Yishai Schlissel for murder on Monday for last month’s deadly attack, along with multiple attempted murder charges for those he wounded. Schlissel, who had been freed from prison weeks earlier after serving …

Knoxville’s CBS affiliate reports: Darrell Trigg is running for president and forming his own political party, the Christian Party. The first point of his campaign platform is to do away with separation of church and state and make it union of church and state instead. This means, among other things, the official religion of the United States will be Christianity. …

“The ‘Equality Act’ should be called the ‘Gaystapo Empowerment Act,’ because if passed it will give homosexual activists and their allies the legal power to attack and punish Christians and other pro-family advocates in virtually every sphere of American life. The trampling of Christian bakers, florists, bed and breakfast hotel owners etc. that we’ve seen this far will instantly transform …

Cardinal William Joseph Levada, who was embroiled in several pedophile-shielding scandals and was once second only to the Pope in the Catholic hierarchy, has been arrested for DUI while on vacation with “priest friends” in Hawaii. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports: “I regret my error in judgment. I intend to continue fully cooperating with the authorities,” Levada said in an email …

She grew three inches on the spot! “One very sweet miracle was through a word of knowledge when I said, ‘There is someone here, and you are shorter than you are supposed to be.’ I went on to explain — because lots of people wanted prayer to grow!—that this would not be someone who had lost height, but rather, someone …