Tag Archives: Christianists

Bismarck’s NBC affiliate reports: Nearly everyone agrees: no child should go hungry. But who’s responsible for feeding them when they’re at school? That’s the question lawmakers are trying to answer this week. The state has a budget of about $18.5 billion. How much of that will go toward school lunches for poor families? It looks like the answer to that …

Bloomberg News reports: A Biden administration rule barring states from discriminating against poor LGBTQ people in the distribution of food stamps and other nutrition assistance programs survived a legal challenge by almost two dozen Republican-led states. The lawsuit filed in July exaggerated the impact that the federal regulation would have on religious freedom, and improperly tied the new rule to …

The Hill reports: The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent said they support them. Democrats are the most likely to oppose such laws, with almost three-quarters of them saying they are opposed, but 57 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans also …

“There are a lot of Christians in the world, but there’s only a handful of countries that actually still pass laws reflecting Christian teachings. One of those countries though is the central African nation of Uganda. “Uganda’s legislature just approved a new law; that law criminalizes gay marriage and the homosexual lifestyle and imposes the death penalty for pedophiles. “Yes, …

The Christian Post reports: Churchome, the Washington state megachurch led by Judah Smith and his wife Chelsea, has been slapped with a class action lawsuit for allegedly imposing a tithing policy on employees, in violation of state law, that requires them to give back no less than 10% of their gross earnings to the church or face disciplinary action, including …

The Washington Post reports: A little-known conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations to wage a cultural battle against the left over three years, a Washington Post investigation found. The previously unreported donations to the fledgling group Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty were channeled through …

Raw Story reports: In the immediate aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville that left at least seven people dead including three children, Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed Joe Biden, Democrats, and gun control advocates. Greene blamed gun free school zone laws that passed in the 1990s when Biden served in the Senate, in particular, for Monday’s shooting. “Joe Biden’s gun …

“We are fighting a spiritual battle and they are coming at us in all facets. When it is drag queens being shown to our children at three years of age and people think it’s cute or they are just trying to make them grow up and not hate drag queens, it’s a deeper battle than that. “It’s an access – …

The Texas Tribune reports: In 2016, former Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfill received an urgent warning about Paul Pressler, his longtime law partner and a Southern Baptist leader. In an email, a 25-year-old attorney from Woodfill’s Houston firm said he’d recently gone to lunch with Pressler, who told him “lewd stories about being naked on beaches with young men” …

The Tennessean reports: Facing increasing pressure from neighbors over church services and property expansion at Global Vision Bible Church, a local battle with Pastor Greg Locke’s church escalated with a new lawsuit from Wilson County. The county based its case on construction and stormwater zoning violations, narrowly tailoring it to avoid a fight over protections for religious practice. Wilson County …

The Associated Press reports: The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her. Confusing art …

Raleigh’s NBC affiliate reports: As he prepares for an expected campaign for governor next year, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson continues to amp up rhetoric against gay, lesbian and transgender people that has become a key part of his political brand. Robinson said this Sunday during a church service outside Charlotte that God created him specifically to fight against …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Indeed, a national company catering to job seekers, is attempting to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle with its liberal advertising choices. A recent commercial for Indeed’s job search website specifically focuses on people who are not just looking for a job but a particular work “culture” as well. Blatantly throwing homosexuality in the …

“We’re not having a climate crisis, but what we are having is a crisis of common sense. If you think about it, CO2 – man-made CO2 – collectively adds up to one-one-hundredth of one percent of the atmosphere around the globe. “If you think about the entire CO2, it’s about four-one-hundredths of one percent. And there’s one thing that I …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.” So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible for any inappropriate …

Via press release from Liberty University: Liberty University will host the 46th Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis as keynote speaker during Convocation on Friday, April 14, where he will address the student body for the first time. This visit continues Liberty’s longstanding tradition of welcoming policy leaders and influential voices in America’s conservative movement. “We are pleased to announce that …

The Independent reports: A parent in Tallahassee, Florida cost a charter school principal her job after complaining that one of the world’s most beloved artistic masterpieces was pornographic. Hope Carrasquilla, who had just stepped into her role at Tallahassee Classical School less than a year prior, announced her resignation on Monday during an emergency board meeting, according to the Tallahassee …

Axios reports: North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is expected to announce his long-anticipated run for governor April 22, Axios has learned. And he’ll do it in a place that became the hornet’s nest of hostility toward Democratic policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Alamance County’s Ace Speedway. He’s filed bankruptcy three times and has let some taxes go unpaid, …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a traveling Christian evangelist’s free-speech challenge to a University of Alabama requirement that he obtain a permit before handing out religious pamphlets and preaching from a sidewalk adjacent to its campus. The justices turned away an appeal by preacher Rodney Keister of a lower court’s ruling rejecting his claim that the …

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports: The Iowa Senate passed a bill Wednesday restricting books and instruction related to LGBTQ identities in Iowa classrooms and libraries. Lawmakers changed language in Senate File 496 Wednesday, before passing it 34-16. The amendment to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ “parental rights” bill added requirements that school libraries not include materials which depict, visually or textually, any …