Tag Archives: Christianists

Miranda Blue writes at Right Wing Watch: In a conference call with the anti-immigrant group Numbers USA last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann called illegal immigration a “war against the American people” and suggested that the U.S. levy a 100 percent tax on money that immigrants send back to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in order to put pressure on …

Just in via email: Joe, Radio Shack is offending families with not one but two inappropriate commercials. Both ads use sexual innuendos and include children. Parents find this type of advertising disgusting. In “Laundry,” a dad enters the room with a laundry basket and says to his son, “Mom just finished laundry. Anything you want to tell us?” The boy …

“I have contended for years that the First Amendment, as given by the Founders, provides religious liberty protections for Christianity only. Most attorney types, befuddled by years of untethered Supreme Court activism, think it covers any and all religions you can name. The results of this expansive but badly misguided understanding of the First Amendment have not been too costly …

Via LGBTQ Nation: A federal appeals court has rejected a Pennsylvania county clerk’s latest effort to overturn a federal judge’s ruling allowing same-sex couples to marry in the state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday denied a request by Theresa Santai-Gaffney, the Register of Wills and Orphans’ Court Clerk for Schuylkill County, Pa., seeking an …

Via Brent Bozell’s CNS News: Mathew D. Staver, dean of the Liberty University School of Law, said that efforts to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex “marriage” would be like trying to re-define the law of gravity, adding that, if it were tried, it would mark “the beginning of the end of Western civilization.” “We’ve never been in …

The wingnut Washington Times today reports that Tea Party hero Ben Carson has taken a “major step” towards officially announcing his run for the presidency. Emerging from two-days of meetings with supporters in Palm Beach, Fla., Dr. Carson told the Times on Friday morning he has selected Houston businessman Terry Giles to be his 2016 campaign chairman should he run …

And yet Croatia approved civil unions two weeks ago.

After President Obama mentioned the loss of HIV/AIDS researchers on the downed Malaysian Airlines flight, hate group spokesman Bryan Fischer declared that Obama was “politicizing” their deaths in order to legitimize gay relationships. Fischer went on to claim, “We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men.” PolitiFact looked into Fischer’s bullshit and gave him …

Zack Ford has the story at Think Progress: After New Jersey passed its ban on ex-gay therapy for minors last year, two lawsuits were filed challenging the law, one by therapists wishing to continue to practice the harmful treatment and one by a family seeking to continue the treatment for their son. In November, a federal judge ruled against the …

Just in via email: Joe, USA’s new summer program, “Satisfaction,” has a name that says it all. I suppose the name “Unsatisfied” didn’t sound as attractive. Like a revamped soap opera, spouses get themselves tangled in a web of lies and hurt the ones they love. “Satisfaction” airs on Thursday evenings at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT. The premier episode …

In April, Truth Revolt writer Andrew Klavan declared that gays should thank Jesus for giving us our civil rights. Today he says that we should thank all Christian white men for…well, basically everything.

From Charisma News, which last week declared that gay people are possessed by “putrid-smelling demons.” The Shut Up, Devil! app is an innovative resource that puts the power of the Word of God in your pocket. And because it’s on your smartphone, which is almost always with you, you’re ready to resist the devil whenever and wherever he attacks. Additionally …

And whatever those protections are, getting around them will be delicious. (Tipped by JMG reader Achilles)

Cornerstone University radio host John Balyo was arrested last month after federal investigators connected him to the rape of an 11 year-old boy. Today Balyo confessed to a second rape. Via the Detroit Free Press: Former WCSG radio host John Richard Balyo admitted today that he and a second man handcuffed a 12-year-old boy to a motel bed, sexually abused …

“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit yesterday became the second federal appeals court to declare that a state (in this case, Virginia) defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman violates the U.S. Constitution. The three-judge panel divided 2-1, with the majority declaring that ‘the fundamental right to marry encompasses the right to same-sex …

Kyle Mantyla writes at Right Wing Watch: Last weekend, the Ohio Liberty Coalition hosted a “Reload 4 Liberty” event at which Janet Porter spoke about her never-ending push to get her anti-choice “Heartbeat Bill” legislation passed in Ohio. But apparently that is not all that Porter is up to these days, as she also revealed to the audience that she’ll …

As Houston officials review the validity of the petition signatures to place a repeal of the HERO ordinance on the public ballot, a local pastor is asking his followers to make “imprecatory prayers” against the bill’s supporters. Via the pro-gay Texas Freedom Network: Imprecatory prayers are those that ask God to burden, curse or even destroy wicked individuals and institutions. …

Variety reports that GOP Florida state Sen. Alan Hays plans to introduce a bill that would require that all public high school and middle school students watch the latest movie by Christianist filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because D’Souza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, …