Tag Archives: Christianists

The Texas Tribune reports: County election departments across Texas are trying to reassure voters amid a flood of formal challenges questioning whether their registrations are valid. The challenges, filed by conservative groups and individual activists, seek to remove tens of thousands of voters from the rolls on the grounds that they don’t live in the county, are not citizens or …

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: The superintendent of Bixby Public Schools has filed a lawsuit claiming Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters defamed and slandered him during a news conference in late July. In a lawsuit filed by Robert Miller Jr. in Tulsa County, the Bixby Public Schools superintendent says Walters made “maliciously uttered slanderous and defamatory statements” during a July …

Megachurch Pastor Mario Murillo writes: This is the blog that will cost me friends and close doors to my ministry. If I was not writing this at the urging of the Lord, I would not dare. But write it I must. Because the cost of remaining silent would cost me the anointing. A price too dire for me to even …

Courthouse News reports: An Iowa man fired for posting a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to God” was not illegally fired based on his religion, a federal appeals court said in a ruling Wednesday. Daniel Snyder was fired from Arconic Corp., an aluminum company with tens of thousands of employees worldwide, …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Jack in the Box restaurants may push away customers if the company continues advertising in a manner that offends parents with ads that include insinuated profanity. The company’s newest commercial has Jack, its iconic mascot, talking with Deadpool, the Marvel Studios character, after he and Wolverine destroy a Jack in the Box …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on Tuesday afternoon. Video captured in …

“Kamala Harris, she wants to take us to the Soviet grocery stores. Kamala Harris is ‘hearing the concerns’ of the American people. Her pollsters say, you gotta do something about this grocery problem, this price problem. “So Kamala Harris is going full Soviet. Kamala Harris, rejecting the lesson from Boris Yeltsin when he was marveling about the abundance in our …

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, …

Oklahoma City’s CW affiliate reports: Twenty-one Republican lawmakers have signed a letter that calls for a committee to investigate State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education. That committee could ultimately recommend that Walters be impeached. It is up to House Speaker Charles McCall to form that investigative committee. On Tuesday, he told his caucus that at …

The Daily Mail reports: An Ohio restaurateur who drew headlines after announcing a boycott of the Olympics over its controversial Last Supper recreation is now facing a string of serious criminal charges. Bobby George, 43, turned himself in this week on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, strangulation, assault and rape in relation to the alleged abuse of a woman between …

Posted to the Liberty Counsel’s website: Tim Walz, assistant high school football coach turned Minnesota governor, has been at the front lines of the LGBTQ fight for decades. While working at Mankato West High School, Walz founded the school’s first “Gay Straight Alliance” chapter and encouraged minors to join the group that encourages children to experiment with sex as early …

The Christian Post reports: Josiah Johnson, brother to the widely followed self-described prophet Jeremiah Johnson [photo], has publicly accused his sibling of fabricating prophetic visions and messages, particularly those involving former President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Jeremiah admitted to inaccurately prophesying Trump’s victory, a confession that led to considerable backlash from his followers, including death …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Trump Administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told her local newspaper that she would be open to serving in the former president’s cabinet should he win again this November. The position is a 180-degree turn from the one she staked out on Jan. 7, 2021, the day she resigned from her post in protest following what …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Gillette Venus has launched an ongoing series of commercials about shaving pubic hair – in the name of “normalizing” it. “Venus for Pubic Hair & Skin Regimen” is one of the commercials currently being aired by Gillette Venus. It features a female standing in her lingerie while the ad discusses pubic hair …

“We all know what would happen if Olympic athletes celebrated and gloated over an all-white podium. “We know the reaction if the silver and bronze medal were won by white people and they bowed to the gold medalist in part to celebrate the fact that he was also white. “Like, we all know how that would go. If we would …

The Freedom From Religion Foundation writes: The 8-year legal saga over censorship by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of a Bill of Rights display has finally ended with receipt of attorneys’ fees by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Although FFRF won the lawsuit with a judgment by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last year, disputes and delaying tactics by …

Courthouse News reports: Huntington Beach will work to fight California’s prohibition on forcing educators to out LGBTQ students after the City Council voted Tuesday night to prepare a “parents’ right to know” ordinance. Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark submitted a request to prepare the ordinance in response to Governor Gavin Newsom signing the Support Academic Futures & Educators for Today’s …

“Tim Walz, before he was a governor, before he was a congressman, he was a teacher. He was a high school teacher. He founded the first gay-straight alliance at Mankato West High School way back in 1999. So all the way back in 1999, this guy was a pioneer when it comes to talking about weird sex stuff, desires, and …

The Guardian reports: A JD Vance-introduced book by a leader of Project 2025, the vast and controversial hardline rightwing plan for a second Trump administration, will be delayed until after the 2024 election. “There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our …

The Daily Beast reports: Valentina Gomez, who littered her campaign with offensive statements about gay and transgender people, used derogatory language towards Vice President Kamala Harris, and called Juneteenth a “ratchet” holiday—all the while espousing her religious views—acquired less than eight percent of the vote, bringing to an end a theatrical campaign that at one point saw her take a …