Tag Archives: Christianists

Washington Post reporter Carolyn Lockhead: “Crowds are sparse but it’s still early.”

Among the other images in the supplement is a rainbow-colored gavel smashing down on the Jesus fish. Jeremy Hooper has posted the full thing.

“President Obama can probably fit the people satisfied with his leadership in one ballroom — and Tuesday night in New York City, he tried. With the world literally crumbling around him, Obama sought solace from one of the few groups still wholeheartedly embracing him: the gay and lesbian movement. At New York City’s Gotham Hall, the President got a hero’s …

Tomorrow we’re gonna hijack the fuck out of that hashtag.

“Dear Joe, I don’t know if you heard the news that came out on Friday of last week, but a Federal judge in the state of Wisconsin has wisely stayed her ruling overturning the state’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Her reasoning in staying the decision cited the Supreme Court issuing a …

Via Lone Star Q: According to Rob Schlein, former president of Log Cabin Republicans of Dallas, Schwab was a member of the group before becoming ex-gay. “He was in LCR for a time and even attended a party at my house with boyfriend,” Schlein wrote. Log Cabin Republican is one of the groups that fought the reparative therapy plank. Schwab …

“Obviously, homosexual attractions are not a ‘choice’ in the vast majority of cases. But it should be insulting to people with same-sex attractions to claim that they’re compelled to act on those attractions. Homosexual or heterosexual, people are responsible for their conduct. Have we come to the point that we are nothing more than our sexual urges? And that’s essentially …

Lone Star Q identified the author of the Texas GOP “ex-gay” plank as Jeremy Joel, but his IMDB profile lists him as Jeremy Schwab. Via a JMG reader, watch Joel/Schwab star in the below 2006 ad for the Dallas titty bar The Lodge, where you can play poker while topless women hang upside down from stripper poles – among other …

Via Raw Story: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Tuesday grilled a pastor who supports the separation of church and state, asking him why he did not share the “good news” that non-Christians were going to Hell. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing about religious freedom on Tuesday, Gohmert told the Rev. Barry Lynn, who serves as the executive director for …

The Anti-Defamation League has denounced hate group leader Tony Perkins and demanded an apology for comparing the wedding cake ruling in Colorado to Jews being loaded onto boxcars. ADL director Abraham Foxman has issued a statement: Tony Perkins’ invocation of the Holocaust in his statement referring to a judge’s finding that a baker unlawfully discriminated against gay customers is offensive …

Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver today testified before a US House committee hearing on “religious liberty,” where he told Rep. Jerry Nadler that it should be illegal to refuse to serve Jewish customers, but that businesses should be free to discriminate against gays.

Via Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch: Janet Porter of Faith 2 Action is so happy about the Republican Party of Texas’s decision to embrace ex-gay therapy as part of its new far-right platform that she wants similar language endorsing the pseudo-science “adopted nationwide.” She might find allies in Tony Perkins and David Barton, members of the 2012 Republican National …

Via Watchmen News: The city of Houston has been taken over by the Gaystapo and its homosexual leader Mayor Annise Parker. It wasn’t enough to elect a self-proclaimed lesbian as the mayor of the city. The City Council, in an 11-6 vote, has now shoved the gay agenda done the throats of the people of Houston and those who visit …

Hawaii state Rep. Bob “Crazy Eyes” McDermott has apparently finally won one of his many crackpot crusades. Hawaii is making its sex education classes for middle school students opt-in, responding to critics by giving parents responsibility to affirm they want their children to be taught the course. The Department of Education said Friday that the shift from an opt-out policy …

“It’s a simple question, one to which every Junior High student in America learns the answer. Who rules this country? We the People! Government of the people, by the people, for the people! Simple, clear, and unmistakable — unless you are an unelected federal judge. Then it seems the rule is: I will impose my opinion on an entire state …

Seoul’s gay pride parade was disrupted multiple times today when hundreds of Christians laid in the path of the floats and refused to move. According to information provided to Gay Star News by a Ph.D student in South Korea, conservative Christians held mass prayer services during the 7 June event. “To put it simply today was a kind of battle …

Last night Bill Maher debated former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed about biblical literalism.  Maher pulled out a list of items from the bible and asked Reed to defend them.

Speaking to Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Nicolle Martin, who just fucking lost her bakery case in Colorado, KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins declared that gay rights advocates are going to start “rolling out the boxcars” for Christians.