Tag Archives: Christianists

So said evangelists Cindy Jacobs and Chuck Pierce in a Generals International webcast caught yesterday by Right Wing Watch, who reports: Jacobs explains that years ago Bob Jones prophesied years that following the death of Oral Roberts, the Gulf Coast would be hit with an oil spill and two hurricanes. Apparently that prophesy is now coming true and it is …

Twin Cities Pride is warring with the Minneapolis parks department over the decision to allow anti-gay activists on the grounds of their Pride festival, where the husband and wife team of Brian and Lois Johnson is expected to attempt to hand out bibles and shout about Jeebus. Festival organizers say they paid ten of thousands of dollars to secure the …

People For The American Way has published an excellent dissection of the Christian right’s takeover of the Texas textbook program. The Religious Right has invested so heavily in Texas textbooks because of the national implications. School districts in Texas have to buy books from a state-approved list, and Texas is such an enormous market that textbook publishers will generally do …

Here’s Eugene delivering a supposed one million anti-gay petitions to Congress back in April. But as we know, the guy is seriously deranged, so those boxes might just be filled with Cheetos.

A Minnesota-based Christian rock band whose lead singer calls for the execution of homosexuals will appear at this year’s state GOP convention and has ties to the reelection campaign of Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann. Via Change.org: The Minnesota Independent notes that a Christian rock band in Minnesota, which has called for LGBT people to be killed and targeted for …

Tonight at 10PM CurrentTV will air Missionaries Of Hate, a documentary about anti-gay American evangelicals working in Africa to further the brutalization of LGBT people there. Just as it was during the life and times of Harvey Milk, the movement against homosexuality in Uganda is being led by a group of conservative Christian evangelicals. And the arguments they’re using are …

Readers have been sending me clips by West Virginia-based Pastor Jeff Owens for several months now and this one went up on YouTube yesterday. “We need to stop burning flags and start burning FAGS! We need Hunt-A-Homo Week. We need to take ’em all out and shoot ’em with a scatter shotgun.” Owens is on a national speaking tour of …

The battle to rewrite the textbooks used by school districts all over the nation is nearly over as Christianists attempt to revise history. The Fox clip below is, of course, full of assholery.

As you can see by the above headline from World Net Daily, Christianists are celebrating their successful campaign to force the Alameda Unified School District to drop their planned anti-bullying campaign. WND exults: A lawsuit that demanded a right for parents to opt their young children out of a “gay” indoctrination program in a California school district was dropped after …

The creators of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, whose signers vow to disobey all LGBT rights laws, today announced that a British counterpart has been launched. From the Westminster Declaration: We pledge to support marriage – the lifelong covenantal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. We believe it is divinely ordained, the only context for sexual …

Remember that hilarious FAIL of an anti-gay Christianist rally that took place on May Day in Washington, DC? Today Right Wing Watch tips us that rally organizer Janet Porter is now saying that they prayed them some prayers that were SO good, that as a thank you bonus, God decided to make sure that there Times Square car bomb would …

(Via – Funny Odd Thing)

Chistianists in Hawaii are shocked, SHOCKED I tells ya, about yesterday’s House vote to approve civil unions. (We’re shocked too!) Unprepared for the vote, they are organizing to lobby the governor to veto the bill. “It’s not the end of the game,” said Dennis Arakaki, executive director of the Hawai’i Family Forum and the Hawai’i Catholic Conference. “We still don’t …

(Via – Library & Information Science News)

Alternet today features a lengthy essay on the rise of Christian terrorism seen recently via the murders of abortion providers and the resurgence of heavily armed Christian militias. Christian terrorism has returned to America with a vengeance. And it is not just [Dr. Tiller’s murderer] Roeder. When members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan and Ohio recently were arrested with …

According to the Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, he and many others in the “biblical arena” have contacted Peter LaBarbera to congratulate him about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of Americans For Truth as a hate site. One question is why SPLC would pick on a small ministry like AFTAH. “They started with them and have not yet gone after …

Christianist extremists have successfully rewritten American history. Here’s just a few of the textbook changes approved by the Texas State Board of Education. -The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum’s world history standards on Enlightenment thinking, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.” -“Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s …

Hoax or real? Calling it “Utah’s Fair Solution”, a group called Patriots For A Moral Utah is holding a press conference today to announce legislation that would force all homosexuals to leave the state. The bill would create a transportation system for shipping all gays out of the state and would criminalize any Utah citizen who “harbors a remaining homosexual.” …

Our second American Talibangelists post for today: An anonymous Christian group is approaching women in Virginia and handing them leaflets that advise that their clothing is “ungodly” and because men cannot withstand such temptation, they may be deservingly facilitating their own rapes. Here’s what a young woman working a fast food drive-thru window experienced: “Even though nothing is showing, you’re …