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Dead Pat Robertson’s CBN News reports: Unrelenting tornadoes ripped through the state, and the Britts were in devastation’s path. “In that storm, the helplessness that you feel. Remembering your faith, remembering to rely on the Lord, we were praying. As the storm approached, we could feel it, your ears could feel it, you could hear it,” she recalls. The Britts …

The Daily Beast reports: Weeks after Republicans suffered major losses in the 2018 midterm elections because of their failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, then-conservative commentator Mark Robinson accused the law of attempting to “enslave” people. Around two hours and 43 minutes into the YouTube program Politics and Prophecy—as an image displaying “Bloodlines of the Illuminati” is shown …

Politico reports: A prominent evangelical advocacy organization plans to significantly ramp up political spending in the 2024 election with one goal in mind: returning Donald Trump to the White House.Faith & Freedom, a conservative-leaning organization, intends to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, texting and calling supporters, and door-knocking — $10 million more than it spent four …

Axios reports: Conservative states are pushing to allow chaplains in public schools, in theory to help solve a persistent shortage of counselors. Since Texas introduced it own blueprint last year, allowing schools to use safety funds to hire chaplains who do not have the same licensing as counselors, similar bills have ricocheted across more than a dozen states including Florida, …

Talking Points Memo reports: A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country is on a crusade: to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change in the United States, potentially via a “national divorce.” It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but it’s real. The group is called the Society …

The Christian Post reports: With the approval of her co-pastor husband, Reginald Steele of Kingdom Church in Phoenix, Arizona, Kelley Steele warned Christian women in her congregation to avoid withholding sex from their husbands because it’s unbiblical and they could push their husbands in the arms of “some trick, some ho, some homewrecker that will give him exactly what he …

NBC News reports: Iowa Republicans passed a personhood bill in the state House on Thursday night that would make it a felony to “cause the death” of an “unborn person,” putting the conservative Midwestern state directly into the national battle over protections for in vitro fertilization. The bill in its current form does not provide any protections for embryos created …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Secret Whole Body Deodorant needs to be called out for its latest commercial. The ad discusses repeatedly in detail that their product is safe to use everywhere on your body. The ad begins with, “Wanna know a secret? More than just my armpits stink.” The commercial continues with, “That’s why I use …

Courthouse News reports: An LGBTQ student group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday for emergency intervention so it can conduct an annual charity drag show against the wishes of the university’s Christian president. Two lower courts denied Spectrum WT’s request to block West Texas A&M University’s ban on the performance. The group urged the justices to act where the lower …

CBS News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that in vitro fertilization and the handling of embryos remains an issue that “policymakers have to determine how to handle.” “We need to look at the ethics surrounding that issue, but it’s an important one,” Johnson told “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil on Thursday. “If you do believe that life begins …

The Daily Beast reports: The campaign ad begins with creepy piano music and scenes from Trump rallies and the Jan. 6 insurrection. “The far right has brought their brand of violent chaos and bigotry into our schools,” a narrator says, before members of the Proud Boys flash on screen. Proud Boys are also pictured at the election night party of …

The Huffington Post reports: On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters. “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by …

Mediaite reports: The Democratic Governor’s Association dropped a new ad attacking the GOP candidate for governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, just as the results were coming in that he would win his primary on Tuesday night. The Democrat’s pouncing so quickly on Robinson is a signal they see him as a particularly weak candidate in a crucial swing state …

The Texas Tribune reports: Houston Rep. Lacey Hull has prevailed in the Republican primary against Jared Woodfill, a prominent anti-gay activist who was backed by Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican leaders despite his role in an ongoing sex abuse scandal. Woodfill’s campaign — and its endorsement by Paxton, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi …

Anti-vax QAnon Texas state House candidate Bianca Gracia was trounced in the Republican primary yesterday. Here’s what she said in 2022 when she lost her Texas state Senate primary by a similar 40-point margin: God chose me for a reason. I didn’t lose. I won. Now you’ve just gone and made me more dangerous. I went into the lion’s den …

The Guardian reports: Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor who has a history of making inflammatory comments and has said he would abolish abortion rights, has won the state’s Republican nomination for governor.  He has described Covid-19 as a “globalist” conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump. In 2021, he criticized efforts to teach LGBTQ+ issues in sex education, referring to transgender …

From hate group leader Bill Donohue: Most Americans are conflicted about abortion, and most are reluctant to condemn a woman who has had one. But they are also reluctant to honor those who have. Not the Bidens. At the State of the Union on March 7, the Bidens will showcase Kate Cox, a woman who left Texas in December to …

The Washington Post reports: The Education Department will impose a record $14 million fine on Liberty University, department officials announced Tuesday, for violations of federal law on campus safety. Liberty must also spend $2 million on campus safety improvements — in addition to the money it has already budgeted for Clery operations — during a two-year post-review monitoring period, the …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: The 25th annual Joy At Week Week will be held from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, March 24-31, 2024. According to the event’s founder, Drew Crandall, Joy At Work Week encourages working Christians from all traditions and cultures to take the joy of the Lord into their workplaces, not only during Holy Week, but …

“I heard him coming in on the plane, I was listening, and I said to the people in the plane, ‘Watch this, this is Martin Luther King on steroids.’ Okay? “Now, I told that, I told that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.’ “And he …