Tag Archives: Christianists

Terrified at the prospect that Barack Obama will actually make LGBT Americans the full citizens they deserve to be, the Christianist right has preemptively launched Protect DOMA, a site designed to build opposition in minority communities to the repeal of the Defense Of Marriage Act. All of the photos and quotes on the main page are from black and Latino …

The right-wing just won’t let go of their “Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen” bit of nonsense. Today the Christiantist site World Net Daily is asking their readers to FedEx letters to the Supreme Court demanding they hold a hearing on the subject. They also want letters sent to Republican members of Congress saying, “Please hold congressional hearings to …

The backers of Proposition 8 have begun to splinter. Protect Marriage, worried about being associated with the “extreme fringe” elements of the Christianist movement, has convinced the California Supreme Court to bar the Liberty Counsel from representing the Campaign For California Families in the coming legal battle. The group that persuaded California voters this month to pass Proposition 8, which …

A new study shows that due to the influence of Christianists and the GOP, half of the surveyed HIV researchers dropped or changed their grant requests to study populations affected by the virus. Important US research to reduce HIV infection may have been prevented in recent years because scientists have censored their funding requests in response to political controversy, according …

Emboldened by their three-state sweep of hate, the Christian Coalition is vowing to extend their anti-gay battle to the rest of the states without a marriage amendment. Among the most important news from yesterday’s elections were the banning of homosexual “marriages” in the states of California, Florida, and Arizona. Indeed, the citizens of California overturned a tyrannical judicial decision by …

The Christianists are monitoring this and other LGBT blogs and calling for the criminal prosecution of those calling for violent revenge against the religious right in the wake of yesterday’s vote on Proposition 8. From Matt Barber, former spokes-twat for Concerned Women For America, current spokes-douche of the Liberty Counsel: DATE: November 5, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Gays” Call for …

People starving all over the world, children living in the streets, and the Christianists forced a fight that cost $73M. Spending for and against a ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage in California has surpassed $73 million, almost twice the total that was spent in the 24 states where similar measures were put to voters since 2004, campaign finance …

A final Freeper Prayer for the election: Lord, your word tells us that if two or more agree, what we bind on earth, will be bound in Heaven. Blind the Democrats who have the blood of innocents on their hands, and hold them accountable for the misery the perverse lifestyles cause the children of this land. Hold them responsible, I …

Yesterday Rex Wockner attended TheCall, a massive pro-Prop 8 rally at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium where Christianists prayed for an end to gay marriage in California. Wockner: The stage featured James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, ex-homosexuals telling their odd stories, a really good Christian rock band, and a barrage of other …

Christianists love money as much as Jeebus, so much so that some of them gathered at the Wall Street bull statue today at the behest of Prosperity Gospeletta, aka Cindy Jacobs. Cindy is calling for a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. They are calling for prayer for the stock markets, banks, and financial …

The Christianists at Yes On 8 continue their “Think! About! The! Children!” theme, this time using the example of the class of San Francisco first-graders that attended their teacher’s wedding. Of course, they fail to mention that all the parents of those kids gave permission for that field trip.

Christians For McCain protested Wednesday outside the national headquarters of the East Coast Media Elite. Workers peered out of their windows briefly, then went back to skewing polls and spiking stories that use the words “birth certificate.” Hey, who ordered the stem-cell cappuccino? We all did! (Photo by Amin Torres via Gothamist)

Multiply this crazy-eyed woman times millions. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Using a portion of New York law that forbids recognizing out-of-state marriages that are “absolutely abhorrent” to state policy, such as polygamous marriages or those between blood relatives, the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund is taking another run at New York’s recognition of gay couples legally married in other jurisdictions. New York’s recent policy change granting health benefits to spouses of …

How about some commentary on the Hallmark boycott from the lovely folks at the American Family Association? Here’s a sampling of what their members are telling Hallmark on their petition about the company’s line of gay marriage greeting cards: – “Gay marriage is wrong, against God’s standards. You cannot mock God without feeling the consequences.”-“This is not in the Bible …

Joe Biden has already won tonight’s debate, according to the American Family Association’s online poll. ‘Tis a pity that nobody’s obeying their request not to vote until the debate actually happens. What meanie has been sending their link around the lefty blogosphere?(Via – Good As You)

I’ve gotten a number of emails inquiring and/or complaining about my use of the word “Christianists” to describe the Christian right. The word’s origin is not, as some have suggested, a portmanteau of “Christian” and “activist”, although that seems a logical conclusion. If I recall correctly, I first saw the term in a 2006 article by Andrew Sullivan in TIME. …

As predicted here a couple of days ago, check out the top story at the site of anti-gay marriage Christianist group Campaign for Children and Families. Because if we allow gay marriage, we will have a deadly train collision EVERY FUCKING DAY. (Image via – Good As You)

Well, the lovely Christers at the Values Voters Summit sure don’t hide their racism very well, do they? Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama …

It turns out the anti-gay Christers at the Focus On The Family-related California Family Council are a bunch of crooks. A look at their finances has revealed that almost all of their fundraising goes to pay the high salaries of their executives. From Justin McLachlan’s well-researched story: The money was supposed to go to support the California Family Council’s charitable …