Religion

Duggar family infighting! E Online reports: The Duggars might be turning to their faith during Josh Duggar’s ongoing scandal, but one person is set on having him ousted from the family, and that’s Daniel Keller, Josh’s wife’s brother. Anna Duggar’s brother commented several times on the picture of the Bible verse Jessa Duggar posted on social media Sunday, going on …

“Gov. Steve Beshear went far beyond the Supreme Court when he made it Kentucky policy to foreclose any possibility of a religious accommodation for county clerks. Beshear made new law, and disregarded the laws he swore to uphold; he is the official who should do his job or resign. [Kim] Davis is merely asking that her religious convictions be accommodated. …

Ronnie Floyd is head of the Southern Baptist Convention and preaches at a church attended by the Duggar family. Yesterday Floyd delivered a sermon which obliquely referenced the latest Josh Duggar scandal. According to Floyd, if spouses don’t put out, Satan steps in. “Adultery, being sexually or emotionally unfaithful to your spouse, that’s wrong. Some of you are on the …

NOM has finally handed over its donors list in Maine and as we all suspected, the hate group only has a handful of supporters. The Bangor Daily News reports: Jonathan Wayne, executive director of the Maine Ethics Commission, said in a written statement Monday morning that the list had been filed at the commission’s website and that the organization has …

Today’s stock market dive happened because the Obama administration backs Planned Parenthood, says Pat Robertson. “We will pay dearly as a nation for this thing going on. And possibly if we were to stop all this slaughter the judgment of God might be lifted from us. But it’s coming, ladies and gentlemen. We just had a little taste of it …

A few days ago I reported that anti-gay Oregon bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein had sent ten cakes to LGBT groups as a “gesture of love for homosexuals.” Included in those loving packages was the latest viciously anti-gay DVD from banana man nutcase Ray Comfort. Today we learn that one of the recipients of the cakes was a San Diego-based …

Street preacher and aspiring reality show star Brother Jed Smock, who likes to show up at college campuses and scream damnation, has debuted his newest sign. Friendly Atheist blogger Hemant Mehta is most offended by “gerbil abusers” because it lacks the alliteration of the rest of the sign. See the full sign at Christian Nightmares.

According to Gawker, Ashley Madison-using anti-gay Christian YouTube star Sam Rader was kicked out of a vlogging conference yesterday after threatening violence against other attendees. From their report: The viral Christian vlogger Sam Rader was ejected from the Vlogger Fair conference in Seattle yesterday for “threatening violence” against one or more people. This incident allegedly occurred just one day after …

Ted Cruz has been pulling out all the stops this weekend in a last-ditch desperate ploy to run up his polling numbers enough to make the cut for the next GOP debate. Today he issued a campaign clip starring the same tired handful of martyred anti-gay Christianists that have been trotted out at every anti-gay event in the last couple …

One of the more amusing internal battles currently raging in the evangelical world is that of the cessationists versus the continuationists, the latter of whom believe in speaking in tongues, annointings, miracles, and human prophets directly spoken to by God. (Think Robert Tilton, Cindy Jacobs, etc.) One of the most prominent critics of continuationism is megachurch Pastor John MacArthur, who …

The martyred Iowa couple who plan to erect 1000 anti-gay billboards across the nation took center stage at a Ted Cruz “religious freedom” rally attended by thousands on Friday night. CNN reports: A crowd of over 2,500 men, women and young children turned out for the three-plus hour event. Upon arrival at the venue, guests received Ted Cruz Pocket Constitutions, …

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: At a rally Saturday behind the Kentucky Capitol, several thousand people sang hymns, prayed, and praised three county clerks who refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. They also heard Republican political candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Matt Bevin, and legislators criticize Democrats, especially Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway, the Democrats’ nominee for …

“Hypocrisy is sin. It is hypocrisy, for instance, to run around cheating on your wife, and to then self-righteously rebuke others for the sin of adultery or some other sexual depravity. But the sin being rebuked remains sin nonetheless, even when he who rebukes it is a hypocrite. Indeed, we don’t have to judge sin, because that which is sin …

The man whose photo was used by Josh Duggar in his OKCupid profile is threatening to sue. TMZ has the scoop: Josh Duggar turned the life of a Hollywood DJ upside down by apparently jacking his pic for his OKCupid profile. Matthew McCarthy tells us he was shocked see his pic on the dating site, and way more shocked to …

Christian YouTube star Sam Rader, who first came to our attention for a viral clip in which he tried to convince his five year-old daughter that gay marriage is a very bad thing, has been busted for having an Ashley Madison account. Last night Rader posted a clip in which he announces that Jesus has already forgiven him. Some recent …

According to American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, if the price of gas goes up, that’s God being pissy. If an aircraft carrier gets torpedoed, that’s God throwing a tantrum. And if a typhoon drowns a few million poor people? You guessed it, God saw them stepping out of line.

And that’s why the president has droned the fuck out of Liberty University. (Today’s money beg is really totally about YOU, of course.) Via email from pedophile employer Tony Perkins: “President Obama, America’s Commander-In-Chief, is aggressively attacking what he believes is the greatest threat to the U.S. Armed Forces. No, not ISIS. Not Hamas. Not Russia, China, Iran, or North …

If you weren’t a fan of Ellen Page before, you will be now. ABC News reports: While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and …

Well, that didn’t take long. Despite a national furor over far-right extremist radio talker Jan Mickelson’s call to literally enslave undocumented immigrants, questionably documented immigrant Ted Cruz had no problem returning to Mickelson’s show to declare that the evil “atheist Taliban” is stealing America’s right to scream about Jesus at all times. Right Wing Watch has the audio:

The Jerusalem Pride killer has been found mentally competent and will stand trial.  The Jerusalem Post reports: Following a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, Yishai Schlissel – who killed a teenage girl and seriously wounded five others in a stabbing rampage at Jerusalem’s annual Gay Pride Parade last month – was on Thursday deemed fit to stand trial. The decision was made …