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From the clip description: This year’s theme focused on the Catholic heroes of Germany. Accordingly, the meetings were filled with examples of great men, from the warrior monks of the Teutonic Order to the lives of great saints such as Saint Peter Canitius. Every meeting strove to equip camp participants with the spiritual tools they need to remain faithful in …

Miranda Blue writes at Right Wing Watch:  Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Iowa-based Religious Right group The Family Leader, held a revival event yesterday that also happened to be a good marketing opportunity for his new book about the “urgent call for revival” in America. Vander Plaats introduced the event — which also featured a Q & A with …

From the editorial board of the New York TImes: President Obama should resist a pressure campaign by some religious groups to weaken a promised executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against gay men, lesbians and transgender people in their hiring practices. Emboldened by the Supreme Court’s addlebrained Hobby Lobby decision, several groups wrote to Mr. Obama on …

From the Virginia Family Foundation: Join us for 40 Days of Prayer, Fasting and Repentance for Marriage from August 27 through October 5, 2014. Our state and nation are mired in confusion and post-modern thinking and nowhere is this more evident than in the current debate raging about what constitutes marriage. The Supreme Court begins their session on October 6th. …

NOM chairman Brian Brown rarely responds to anybody on Twitter, but this morning he couldn’t resist the above image posted by activist Scott Wooledge, who was reacting to a screed posted yesterday by Brown on NOM’s blog. An excerpt: You may have read the completely misleading headline this week: “Children of Same Sex Couples are Happier and Healthier than Peers, …

“The New York Times and the media are widely reporting the results of a new study of 500 children raised by same-sex couples. Researchers are aghast that such a shoddy piece of work, which is based on a convenience sample of parents who volunteered to be surveyed, and which relies solely on these parents’ reports to determine child well-being, should …

A Kentucky woman is suing US Bank for firing her after being repeatedly warned to stop asking customers if they’d accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior.  Polly Neace admitted she was reprimanded and was given multiple warnings, but she continued with the phrase. After complaining about a situation at the bank, Neace claims she jokingly told a manager she …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins invited Fox News’ go-to-Christian-persecution-commentator Todd Starnes to join him on the weekend edition of “Washington Watch,” where Starnes pointed to recent remarks by Rick Warren and Russell Moore warning of the imminent imprisonment of Christians in America as proof that Christians will indeed soon face jail sentences. Perkins, who recently warned …

Homocon horcrux Robert Oscar Lopez spent the holiday weekend compiling links to “300 examples of homofascism” for hate group leader Matt Barber’s website. Scanning the list, you’ll note that many of the examples are outright lies, hoaxes, or simply court cases lost by Christianists. (Tipped by JMG reader Andi)

Via the Houston Chronicle: Opponents of Houston’s new non-discrimination ordinance turned in well more than the minimum number of signatures needed to trigger a November vote on whether to repeal the measure. A group of conservative political and faith leaders on Thursday claimed to have gathered more than 50,000 signatures within the 30-day window after the ordinance’s passage, about 30,000 …

It took NOM more than two days to publicly react to the Kentucky ruling. From their blog: Stunningly, a single judge has decided that his opinion can override the votes of 75 percent of Kentuckians, who approved a constitutional amendment protecting marriage in 2004. According to Heyburn, there is an “utter lack of logical relation between the exclusion of same-sex …

Todd Starnes writes at Fox News: The folks in Montpelier, Vermont will have to find someone else to pick up trash after their Fourth of July Parade. It seems the Boy Scouts won’t be volunteering this year. And they won’t be selling bottled water either. The Boy Scouts bowed out after city council members criticized the group’s ban on gay …

Former NOM chairman Robert George claims that JP Morgan Chase is threatening non-gay employees via a question reportedly added to its annual staff survey. According to Breitbart, the new question asks staffers to indicate if they are “an ally of the LGBT community, but not personally identifying as LGBT.” This employee was alarmed to receive the final question. If he …

Via Kyle Mantyla at Right Wing Watch: It seems that Jacobs has stopped so many terrorist attacks that she can’t even keep them all straight any more, as she also recalled the time when she woke up in the middle of the night because “there’s somebody getting on a plane in London and they’re going to try to blow up …

The Freedom From Religion Foundation published the above message in a full-page New York Times ad today. Full-screen version here.

Stemberger (right) is the head of the Florida Family Policy Council, the group behind the successful 2008 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. (Tipped by JMG reader Erik)

“Friends, On Sunday night I was attacked on HBO’s  ‘Last Week Tonight’ a supposed comedy/news show in the mold of The Daily Show. The host is a Brit named John Oliver. I find it funny that lefties like John Oliver who pose as humanitarians are the masters at dehumanizing other people through ridicule and never give the subjects of their …