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Angry White Men reports: During a June 12, 2024 livestream, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon defended making homosexuality a capital offense. Webbon suggested that death, as a “maximum penalty,” would act as a deterrent. He also claimed that it is a “natural reaction” to want to “throw up” at the sight of same-sex couples holding hands or kissing. Webbon explained …

“The attacks on President Trump and, and some of even the attacks on on Project 2025 are all of the same kind. It’s essentially you know, they trot out the dictator, authoritarian narrative but in reality, it’s all projection. “We are actually living now and we have an authoritarian resident in the White House with the name Biden. “And you …

The Louisiana Illuminator reports: Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms. The new rule applies to any school that accepts state money, including colleges and universities. The American Civil Liberties Union, its Louisiana chapter, Americans United …

The Christian Post reports: Though he previously featured prominently in former President Donald Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board, Gateway Church’s founding pastor, Robert Morris, who recently resigned in the wake of child sex abuse allegations, no longer has a role in it, a spokesperson for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has said. Morris hosted Trump at Gateway Church in June 2020 …

From the Family Research Council’s website: Tolerance is not a Christian virtue; it is rather an earthly shadow or purely social mirroring of the fuller virtue of mercy. As is made abundantly, almost appallingly evident in the form of Christ crucified — that bloodied and mangled God-man hanging upon a broken tree — mercy is forgiveness of some evil. Mercy …

The Independent reports: Louisiana’s Republican Governor Jeff Landry is looking for a legal fight after mandating the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. “I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms,” he said during a recent GOP fundraiser in Tennessee. “I can’t wait to be sued.” Landry signed the bill into …

“You have an administration that is pushing this transgender agenda that is indoctrinating our children, marginalizing the relationship between parent and child. “We see religious institutions like adoption agencies being put out of business because they’re being called bigoted and hate-filled. “We see this administration working with groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that target Christian organizations and churches …

Media Matters has the transcript: CALLER: You talked to that other caller about the Constitution. Well, I don’t think I want anyone who said I will suspend the Constitution to keep myself in power and told his vice president to reject Biden electors and keep his fake electors just like he told Mike Pence. I don’t think I want anyone …

The Associated Press reports: The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12. Gateway Church’s board of elders said in a statement Tuesday that they’d accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the church’s senior pastor and founder. The board said it …

From the far-right Christian outlet Charisma News: For those paying attention and applying biblical discernment to the times in which we live in, an increase in demonic activity is evermore visible, according to Pastor Jack Hibbs. “Possession, Satan, all of these things have now carried the bulk of the conversation rather than the pursuit of lost souls,” Hibbs says. “People …

NBC News reports: YouTube has a pattern of recommending right-leaning and Christian videos, even to users who haven’t previously interacted with that kind of content, according to a recent study of the platform’s suggestions to users. Researchers created accounts and built mock user personas by searching for content, subscribing to channels and watching videos using those accounts. After having built …

Houston’s CBS affiliate reports: A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining the records of pediatric patients at Texas Children’s Hospital who were not under his care and without authorization, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. The indictment alleges Ethan Haim, 34, illegally accessed patient names, treatment codes and attending physicians “under false pretenses and with intent to cause …

The Christian Post reports: Despite statements from elders of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and their founding Pastor Robert Morris suggesting that he stepped away from ministry for two years to undergo a carefully monitored restoration process following a “moral failure” — sexually abusing a girl over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12 — he was …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE LEE PETERSON: I gotta ask, do you believe in the order of God in Christ? Christ over man, man over woman and woman over children? MARK BURNS: Absolutely. 100%. God has a clear order. Right? God is the head. And through his son Yeshua, that we have a commune relationship with the father, we …

Ken Ham writes for his Answers In Genesis blog: Are Christians really obsessed with homosexuality? This is an objection I will often see on social media when I post biblical teaching that conflicts with the LGBTQ worldview. Instead of engaging with my arguments, the comments section fills with accusations that Christians must be “closet gays” because of how much they …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: “In recent months, both floods and tornadoes have ripped through parts of the country’s Midwest and Southeast region, upending people’s lives and shattering their homes and businesses,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins noted during Wednesday’s “Washington Watch.” “We need to ask this question, why?” Perkins told The Washington Stand. “What’s going on, …

The Christian Post reports: Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” more than 35 years ago while he was a young pastor after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years beginning when she was 12. “When …

The Texas Tribune reports: Multiple speakers and a venue pulled out of a prominent Texas activist group’s July conference after The Texas Tribune reported on its plans to amplify white nationalist figures and rhetoric. Billed as the 15th anniversary celebration for True Texas Project, the conference agenda claims that there is a “war on white America,” and urges attendees to …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: One Million Moms is diligent in warning our supporters of inappropriate content our children and grandchildren could be exposed to in today’s media. Recently, popular YouTuber Ms. Rachel, a former preschool teacher with over ten million subscribers to her channel, openly supported Pride Month online. I personally no longer have young children …

“Supporters of the natural family and traditional values have caused a seismic shift in the direction of the European Parliament, crushing the left in European parliamentary elections this past weekend. “Conservative pro-family leaders such as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen are big winners, helping wrest control of the EU Parliament away from leftwing leaders …