Tag Archives: Christianists

The Texas Tribune reports: Former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said on Thursday that Midland oil magnate Tim Dunn, one of the state’s most powerful and influential GOP megadonors, once told him that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the lower chamber. Straus, a Republican who is Jewish, relayed the encounter in an interview with former Texas Tribune CEO …

Miami’s NBC affiliate reports: A man who climbed a cell tower in Miami early Wednesday without safety gear, causing major damage and a service outage as he spent hours up on the structure before coming down, has been arrested, police said. The bizarre incident began when Miami Police said the man started climbing the cell tower at 29th Street and …

From the Justice Department: United States Attorney Henry Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that a federal judge returned a guilty verdict yesterday for defendants Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place on criminal charges arising out of their blockade of a reproductive …

From the Family Research Council’s website: The hour is late, and open war rages across the United States. No sword is drawn, no shot is fired, yet lives, souls, and civilization itself all hang in the balance. This present war is not a political one — though politics and government are the weapons used in this combat — but a …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Hillshire Farm’s smoked sausage and lunchmeat commercials include a double entendre that is inappropriate and unnecessary. Foul language (or the implication of it) is not needed in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Hillshire Farm intended with their play on words. The ad praises their food, of course, bragging …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Every day, the House and Senate open their floor sessions with a prayer that is meant to be non-denominational, but Republicans who control both chambers have long only allowed Christians to speak. But Rep. Lupe Diaz (R-Benson), who is also a minister, went a step further in his opening prayer Monday, and spent nearly five minutes …

“I haven’t met Robert F. Kennedy, Jr—I wouldn’t agree with all of his politics and I’m sure he wouldn’t agree with mine either—but he doesn’t beat around the bush and he comes across as honest. “I appreciate that. Honesty is important—it’s a Biblical character trait and it’s something that is missing in much of politics today. Last night on CNN …

From the Family Research Council’s website: For all his campaign ads about passing historic legislation, President Joe Biden’s most impactful legacy might be his alteration of America’s spiritual life. Late last week, the Biden administration prohibited children from expressing their Christian faith while redesignating Easter Sunday as the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Biden literally banished Christianity from a children’s contest …

The Deseret News reports: Dawn Staley had a message for nonbelievers after her team advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four. “If you don’t believe in God, something’s wrong with you, seriously,” the University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach said during an on-court interview after the game, adding that God made her team’s prayers come true. Many who watched …

From hate group leader Mat Staver: Today, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a deceptive ballot initiative that proposes to codify unrestricted abortion in the state’s constitution may appear on the November ballot. Now Floridians must defeat this deceptive amendment. This amendment is not about protecting women. In fact, this amendment will throw women into back-alley abortion butchers. The …

“President Biden has declared tomorrow—Easter Sunday—as ‘Transgender Day of Visibility.’ This once again shows how little respect President Biden and his administration have for God. “On the most significant day of the Christian calendar, when the Church around the world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ who died and shed His blood for the sins of mankind, the Biden administration …

The Washington Post reports: A Republican member of Congress appeared to suggest that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, according to a video from a town hall circulating on social media, but his office maintains that he was speaking metaphorically “to show urgency to defeat these enemies swiftly.” “Why are we spending our money to build a port for …

The Christian Post reports: A former Starbucks employee claims she was fired after objecting to a pride month display she felt was not family-friendly and refusing to abide by a policy requiring her to use a trans-identifying individual’s “preferred pronouns” due to her Christian beliefs. Taylor Trice opened up in a viral TikTok video Monday about how she was fired …

“With the current state of the world being one that embraces darkness and rejects the righteousness and design of God, could the mass casualty event in Baltimore have been a sign of the times and a warning to America? It is a attack on our Star Spangled Banner. It’s an attack on everything, and it is dropping so to speak …

Politico Europe reports: The draft legislation, set out by the governing Georgian Dream party on Monday, aims to prohibit people from changing their gender, as well as outlaw same-sex couples from adopting children. According to Georgian Dream’s executive chair Mamuka Mdinaradze, Georgia’s constitution should be amended to allow marriage only of “a union of a single genetic male and a …

The Christian Post reports: “You know when I get concerned? It’s when the enemy leaves me alone.” That was the reaction from an Evangelical pastor in Hawaii after what he described as an “evil spirit” manifested itself during a study on Bible prophecy. The bizarre incident happened at Calvary Chapel Kaneohe on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, as Pastor …

Via press release from Texas Democrats: Leaked video shows Hood County Constable Scott London, Hood County GOP Chair Steve Biggers and Hood County GOP Chair candidate Greg Harrell attending a meeting held by Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) where they supported the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. London and Harrel have also signed …

UPI reports: At least four states are considering legislation to follow North Dakota in mandating the showing of an animated fetal development video in elementary school classrooms. The particular video suggested, Meet Baby Olivia, developed by the anti-abortion organization Live Action, is factually incorrect and rife with misleading information. Following North Dakota’s passage of a similar bill last year, lawmakers …

“You know, everyone always wants to get into all the little gossip of the right-wing personalities and things. I’m not saying that you want to do that, but a lot — like, on Twitter and even when you do interviews – Piers Morgan was trying to do this to Ben the other day. I could not possibly care less about …

From the Family Research Council’s website: Over the weekend, a well-chronicled historical fact became a subject of discontent and dispute for the armchair philosophers and amateur pundits of social media — many of them self-professed conservatives and even Christians. According to these self-appointed arbiters of theological, historical, and social truth, the admission “Christ is King” is clearly a hateful, anti-Semitic …