Tag Archives: Christianists

Via the Independent: Move over, couple who promised to get a divorce if gay marriage was legalised, because one Texas pastor has taken his opposition to marriage equality one step further. Rick Scarborough, a Baptist pastor and Christian political activist, has said he would be willing to be burned to death in his fight against gay rights. He made the …

As I have mentioned here many times over the years, in 2001 then Louisiana state Rep. Tony Perkins addressed (photo above) the Council Of Conservative Citizens, an SPLC certified racist hate group with active chapters in more than a dozen states including South Carolina. Perkins’ speech to the CCC (formerly the White Citizens Council) came only five years after he …

“The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Branch, and it is certainly not the Supreme Being. I refuse to sit silently as politically driven interest groups threaten the foundation of religious liberty, criminalize Christianity, and demand that Americans abandon Biblical principles of natural marriage. I will fight to defend religious liberty at all costs. I also refuse to surrender to …

Freshman Michigan Tea Party state reps Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat have introduced a trio of  anti-gay marriage bills, two of which are so theocratic that you just have to laugh. Via Eclectablog: House Bill 4731 changes the current law covering the ability of a couple to get married in secret (“without publicity”) to make that option available only to …

“Dr.” Alveda King has had three abortions, so she totally knows what she talks about.

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Cliff Kincaid says Obama has given an interview to a “gay porn outfit” (referring to the Huffington Post.) Cliff Kincaid demands that Fox anchor Shepard Smith come out of the closet, refuses to comment on Matt Drudge. Kincaid says that marijuana use causes terrorism.  Kincaid says gay people live a “disease-ridden lifestyle.” Kincaid lectures at Porno Pete’s …

Ben Carson phoned into CNN this afternoon following their report on his claims that gay rights are not civil rights. Host Brianna Keilar attempted to get a direct answer out of Carson, but he tried to turn the conversation back to Christian persecution. Of course. Even Carson supporters were likely cringing during this interview.

CNN reports: Ben Carson said Wednesday night that he was “irritated” by the comparison between the fight for same-sex marriage rights and the Civil Rights Movement because there’s no overt segregation against gays. Speaking on Fox News’ “Special Report”, Carson elaborated on his remarks on CNN in March that he believes being gay is a choice because people “go into …

“I love this story so much I want to take it to Franklin Graham’s new bank and marry it. If it’s a lady.”

A coalition of hate groups and Christian pastors calling themselves Defend Marriage has published a full-page message to SCOTUS in the Washington Post. Among the signers at the bottom of the ad are Mat Staver, Elaine Donnelly, the Benham brothers, Alveda King, Jim Garlow, John Hagee, E.W. Jackson, Don Wildmon, Dave Welch, Robert Jeffress, and Penny Nance. From the text: …

And yup, he compares himself to Martin Luther King.

Early this year the Duggar family invited couples to post kissing photos on their Facebook page, which naturally spurred many submissions by gay couples. After the Duggars deleted all of the gay photos, Texas couple Tandra Barnfield and Samantha Muzny went viral with a photo they took right in front of the Duggar home in Arkansas. The pair returned to …

Just in via email: TV Land calls their new program “Impastor” an irreverend new comedy. Christians are calling it disgusting! “Impastor” is a show set to air July 15 at 10:30 p.m. ET/9:30 p.m. CT that includes a man stealing someone’s identity who happens to be a pastor. The main character, posing as a gay preacher, recently hired sight unseen …

Via Right Wing Watch: “What we saw happen in Ireland was clearly a mass rebellion against God’s design, clear design, millennia-old design for the institution of marriage. As history has shown over and over again, any society that abandons monogamous man-woman marriage as a central aspect of that culture and embraces sexual relativism as they have now done in Ireland, …

“I know there are millions of Christians, Jews and others who would pull up stakes and move to another country that honored the institution of marriage as it was designed by God – a union between one man and one woman. As Jesus said it: ‘For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his …

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Via Yahoo Politics: Conservative culture warrior Rick Santorum launched a 2016 White House bid on Wednesday, vowing to fight for working-class Americans in a new election season that will test his influence — and focus on social issues — in a changing Republican Party. The former Pennsylvania senator may have exceeded his own expectations by scoring a second-place finish in …