Tag Archives: Christianists

Christian Leaders Issue Proclamation Declaring Unity Against Gays Rights

A coalition of leaders from numerous Christian denominations have issued The Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto declaring the intent to disobey any laws that force them to recognize same-sex marriages. The group intends to use the document to sabotage the ENDA debate currently taking place in Congress. Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, …

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Oklahoma Legislator Wants Exemption To Hate Crimes Law In Order To End State’s Raging Corpse-Fucking Epidemic

Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell (R) plans to submit a bill that would authorize the state to opt out of the recently passed Matthew Shepard Act. Because it discriminates against the right to hate queers and would hinder the prosecution of corpse fuckers. SRSLY. “The federal government should not be creating a special class of people, and that is just …

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Anti-Gay Bigots Rally Against DC Marriage

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Dominionist Lou Engle Coming To Maine

Good As You notes that evangelical freak show Lou Engle, who rabidly rallied his vacant-eyed troops over Prop 8, is coming to Maine. From Engle’s site: In 2007, in California, thousands of believers fasted for a 40-day period and prayed that God would restrain the spiritual powers that are behind the homosexual agenda and the drive to redefine marriage. Three …

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Anti-Gay Christian Action Network Told They Can’t Raise Funds In Maine

After they sent out a fundraising letter called “inflammatory” and “anti-Muslim,” the state of Maine has told the virulently anti-gay Christian Action Network that they can no longer raise funds there. The group is suing the state in response. The organization claims the state violated its right to free speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it denied the …

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UPDATED: Dirty Tricks In Houston

Saying that she is a heathen who doesn’t believe in God and is therefore unworthy to hold public office, a group called Christians For Better Government has emailed thousands of voters attacking openly lesbian Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker. An excerpt: “Annise Parkers lifestyle that of being a HOMOSEXUAL is not the proper role model to lead the fourth largest …

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Football Coach Takes Players Out For Steak…PSYCH! You’re Getting Baptized

A Kentucky high school football coach included an extra stop during a field trip with his players. A mother is angry about a trip led by the head football coach at Breckinridge County High School. The coach took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them — including her son …

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Unfriended By The Apocalypse

(Via – This.That.No Other aka JMG reader BStewart23)

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Another Preacher Prays For Obama’s Death

Joining the ignominious ranks of Pastor Steven Anderson and Pastor Wiley Drake, infamous white supremacist, anti-Semite, and anti-gay Pastor Pete Peters is praying for President Obama’s death. A third, and perhaps even more menacing anti-Obama “death prayer pastor” is Peter Peters of the LaPorte, Colorado Church of Christ. During the 1980’s, members of the white supremacist militia group The Order …

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Concerned Women For America: No Equal Rights For Queers (Or We’ll Shoot)

Pam Spaulding tips us to the latest bit of bile from the Concerned Women for America, who actually used a handgun to illustrate their opposition to employment equality for gays. ENDA adds not only “sexual orientation” but “gender identity” to federal workplace anti-discrimination law. Thus, it takes an ax to the idea that sexual behavior has a natural normalcy or …

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Christian Right Trying To Change Public Education In Texas: God Made The USA

Christianists in Texas are trying to create a history curriculum for public schools that says the United States would not exist were it not for the divine intervention of God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the [Texas school] board to revise the state’s history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a …

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Ralph Reed: It’s Time For The Christian Coalition 2.0

Christianist carnival barker Ralph Reed wants to reboot the old Christian Coalition and get back to doing what he does best: thwarting the basic premises of American democracy. “This is not going to be your daddy’s Christian Coalition,” Reed said in an interview to describe his new venture, the Faith and Freedom Coalition. “It has to be younger, hipper, less …

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Evangelical Radio Host: “I’m Praying For The Death Of President Obama”

Another whackjob Christianist is in the news. Speaking to Fox News Radio, loony evangelical radio host Pastor Wiley Drake said the he is praying for the death of President Obama. (Audio below.) Drake is the former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastor Wiley Drake prayed that abortionist George Tiller’s wife would become a widow. Tiller is now dead. …

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Porno Pete In “Financial Crisis’

Porno Pete LaBarbera is using quotes from me and Michelangelo Signorile to plea for donations to end a “financial crisis” at Americans For Truth About Homosexuality. I am writing to ask your help to lift Americans For Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) out of a financial crisis, but also to you to do your part to lift America out of her …

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PhoboQuotable – Matt Barber

“Oh, those fun-loving little sadomasochists. They do enjoy their, um, slapstick, don’t they? I’m flattered to have made such an impression. Comedy aside, though, forgive me if I find the specter of a fussy little mob of queer CPAs, I.T. geeks and interior designers in buttless leather chaps pointing at me shrieking ‘There he is! There he is!’ a little …

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Red Scare At World Net Daily

The knuckle-draggers at World Net Daily have moved on from their “Obama is a socialist!” meme.

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“Liberty” University Bans Democrats Because They May Support Dirty Homos

Liberty University, the Christian college founded by Dead Jerry Falwell, has told the school’s Democratic Club that they must disband. Here’s what they told the student Dems in an email: The Democratic Party Platform is contrary to the mission of LU and to Christian doctrine (supports abortion, federal funding of abortion, advocates repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, …

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Birthers Launch Billboard Campaign

Sponsored by Christianist site World Net Daily, the “birthers,” a particularly nasty subset of wingnuts who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, have launched a national billboard campaign demanding “Where’s The Birth Certificate?” The idea behind the billboard campaign is to make sure Obama cannot avoid this question any longer. He must be asked to …

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The Wingnuts Have Outdone Themselves

Just when you think the bizarre lies of the Christianist right cannot possibly get any more outrageous, they go and outdo themselves…….. Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition is claiming that the hate crimes act currently before Congress will legalize numerous types of sexual crimes because the American Psychiatric Association lists certain sexual fetishes under a long list of “sexual orientations” …

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Pro-Killing Of Gay Youth Group Releases Anti-Day Of Silence Video

UPDATE: Since this post went up, the Illinois Family Institute has changed the information on their home page. Instead of a Baptist church in Arizona, the creator of the clip is now identified as Grace Gospel Center in Bensonville, Illinois. The Arizona church has written me to say they have no affiliation with the Illinois Family Institute. I have updated …

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