Tag Archives: Christianists

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: During a livestream Sunday night, televangelist Kenneth Copeland, his daughter Terri Pearsons, and her husband George Pearsons held their hands to their right ears as they prayed for Donald Trump to be healed During a livestream Sunday night, televangelist Kenneth Copeland, his daughter Terri Pearsons, and her husband George Pearsons held their hands …

Mediaite reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), the party’s nominee for governor in 2024, is slated to speak at the Republican National Convention this week despite swirling controversies around his inflammatory rhetoric. Robinson made national headlines when he called for “killing” his fellow Americans during a wild speech. Notably, Robinson’s call for extrajudicial killings and his continued embrace …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Clad in a “colonial preachers robe” meant to the emulate the apocryphal “Black Robe Regiment” that supposedly rallied the colonists to rebel against England during the American revolution, Hibbs said he only breaks out the garb in “times of tyranny.” We are in just such a time right now, said Hibbs, prompting him …

The Alabama Political Reporter reports: A House bill that could have led to the arrest of librarians narrowly missed becoming law last session, but sponsors have already filed a follow-up for the session that begins next February. House Bill 4 is primarily sponsored by Rep. Arnold Mooney, R-Indian Springs, but has a total of 49 co-sponsors including House Speaker Nathaniel …

ProPublica reports: A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose …

The Christian Post reports: A group of Democratic members of Congress are calling on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the national Christian conservative advocacy organization Family Research Council’s official status as an “association of churches.” Reps. Jared Huffman of California and Suzan DelBene of Washington sent the letter, with 11 other lawmakers joining. The correspondence is addressed to U.S. …

Reuters reports: Two conservative federal judges in Texas have blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group. Thursday’s rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth followed …

The Christian Post reports: A billionaire who has claimed to be a devout Christian and was one of the Evangelical world’s biggest benefactors was found guilty Wednesday in New York City of massive securities and market manipulation fraud that reportedly wiped $100 billion from the global market. Bill Hwang, who founded the investment firm Archegos Capital Management in 2013, stared …

“He can invoke something called Schedule F, which allows him to fire federal employees at will. He should have done it in the first term, but there was a lot of question about it. And we need to fire thousands of federal employees, especially the ones that have been working against our interest and working against the interest of the …

The Washington Post reports: Barbra Streisand kidnapped by Hamas. Antifa-BLM protesters taking over a migrant detention facility. The FBI arresting Donald Trump two days after winning the election. These were among the far-fetched scenarios imagined by a simulation of threats to the 2024 election showcased on Thursday by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The presentation, delivered at the foundation’s Washington headquarters, …

The New Republic reports: Self-described “gay furry hackers” behind a group dubbed SiegedSec on Wednesday released text exchanges between Heritage Foundation executive Mike Howell and a member of the hacker group. The texts followed a leak of nearly two gigabytes of data from The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation’s blog site. In the texts, Howell appears apoplectically humorless, oscillating between …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: One of America’s best-loved farming brands has “gone woke,” embracing everything from diversity standards to Pride initiatives to anti-Christian bias, according to a new report. Conservative documentary filmmaker and former music video director Robby Starbuck released an eight-minute video on Tuesday exposing John Deere for having “gone woke.” According to Starbuck’s report, the …

The Denver Westword reports: Earlier this year, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was caught on Vail Pass going 84 miles per hour in a 65 mile-per-hour zone by the Colorado State Patrol, leading to a $174.50 speeding ticket and a scheduled court appearance for July 26 after she failed to pay the fine on time. The House representative didn’t contact Eagle County …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Smoothie King’s newest commercial, “Don’t Be Fooled by Fake Fast Food! Be Sucking Awesome,” includes a double entendre and insinuates profanity, both of which are completely unnecessary. Foul language (or the implication of it) is not needed in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Smoothie King intended with their …

Courthouse News reports: Seven GOP-dominated states filed a federal lawsuit in St. Louis against multiple Biden administration agencies Wednesday, in opposition to recent changes to the Affordable Care Act meant to protect transgender people from medical discrimination. Missouri, Utah, both Dakotas, Iowa, Idaho and Arkansas, joined by a conservative medical professional organization known as the American College of Pediatricians, filed …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens sparked fresh controversy with a now widely condemned episode of her online show, in which she discussed Adolf Hitler and dabbled in some wild Holocaust revisionism. Clips from the episode titled “Literally Hitler. Why Can’t We Talk About Him?” began circulating online this week, including of Owens claiming that accounts of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s horrific …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Unlike past years, when the media was welcome in the proceedings, “there’s kind of this cone of silence,” Perkins warned. Not only were the 112 delegates ordered to leave their cell phones outside the room, but none of the participants had access to the proposed platform language in advance. “That’s not the way …

Law & Crime reports: The families of Louisiana schoolchildren who sued to challenge a new law requiring that the Ten Commandments are displayed in every classroom are now asking a federal court to block the law before children return to school in August. When Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed the law, he said it was a way of respecting …

The Christian Post reports: Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church articulated a stern view of Biden’s leadership during a recent interview, framing it as a divine judgment and a reflection of societal moral decline. America is a nation reaping the consequences of its moral choices, he declared. When a society “turns to sexual immorality, homosexual immorality, and a reprobate …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: As Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson runs for governor, questions are being raised about his past bankruptcies and his failures to pay taxes. But there’s another problematic part of Robinson’s history that hasn’t received attention – how he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from …