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Responding to complaints from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Penn State has reportedly removed Gideon bibles from its campus lodging. Tony Perkins is ever so pissed. Via press release: In a wild misrepresentation of the Old Testament, FFRF claims the Bible calls for “killing nonbelievers, apostates, gays, ‘stubborn sons,’ and women who are not virgins on their wedding nights.” According …

Even Liberty University has its limits. Ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has lost his teaching gig at Liberty University. The Christian college announced on Friday they had ditched the disgraced politician after he was convicted on multiple federal corruption charges. Liberty President Jerry Falwell had called the former governor “a longtime friend of the university” in April, when McDonnell was appointed …

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Brigham Young University has told Hallmark to get those gay greeting cards off of the racks. Placed by Hallmark, the cards reading “Mr. and Mr.” and “Mrs. and Mrs.” were quickly removed when bookstore staff discovered them after photos surfaced online. The outside vendor stocked the shelves without realizing the school wouldn’t want to sell the cards marketed to buyers …

After an stompy tantrum by Twitchy, Dictionary.com has apologized and changed their example sentences for uses of the word “homeschool.” New example sentence: “In order to homeschool, parents may need to dedicate a significant amount of time to schooling their children.”

And some actually excellent news out of Tennessee. Viciously anti-gay GOP state Sen. Stacey Campfield was trounced yesterday in his reelection bid. With all precincts reporting, Richard Briggs had 13,977 votes, or 66 percent, compared with Campfield’s 5,824 votes, or 28 percent. The primary was expected to be tough for Campfield, a highly visible lawmaker who often drew attention and …

From the you-can’t-make-it-up-department in Provo, Utah: Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there. This concept is taught early on to foreign students learning English because it can be confusing to …

Variety reports that GOP Florida state Sen. Alan Hays plans to introduce a bill that would require that all public high school and middle school students watch the latest movie by Christianist filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because D’Souza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, …

Earlier this year two “undercover” members of the “ex-gay” group Voice Of The Voiceless visited LGBT student centers at seven Virginia colleges to see what would happen if they requested help in rejecting their homosexuality. According to the group, all seven colleges advised them that “ex-gay” therapy doesn’t work and often results in self-harm. Enter the Liberty Counsel: On behalf …

Via Religion News Service: A lesbian student who married her partner was expelled from an Oklahoma university one semester shy of her sports management degree. Christian Minard married Kadyn Parks on March 17, 2014. Christian Minard, 22, attended Southwestern Christian University, a school affiliated with the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Bethany, Okla. As part of her admission requirements, she …

Via Business Insider: Starbucks announced late Sunday it will pay for thousands of its workers to take courses through Arizona State University to complete their bachelor’s degree. The Starbucks College Achievement plan will let full- and part-time workers choose from 40 undergraduate degree programs at ASU that will be delivered online. 135,000 employees are eligible. “There’s no doubt the inequality …

Jared Padgett, the 15 year-old Oregon high school student who yesterday marched onto campus and murdered a classmate, had exactly the interests you would expect. Police Chief Scott Anderson revealed that Padgett was armed with a legally owned AR-15 rifle, which he stole from his home and used to open fire and kill Emilio Hoffman, 14, and wound coach Todd …

“I’ve stepped up to the microphone to address my students hundreds of times before. But this was different. My hands were sweaty; I was shaking. I’m the principal of Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. Last Thursday, I stood in front of a thousand people, including my students, teachers, even D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, and came out. ‘I’m a …

Hawaii state Rep. Bob “Crazy Eyes” McDermott has apparently finally won one of his many crackpot crusades. Hawaii is making its sex education classes for middle school students opt-in, responding to critics by giving parents responsibility to affirm they want their children to be taught the course. The Department of Education said Friday that the shift from an opt-out policy …

Woodrow Wilson High School principal Pete Cahall came out last week during his school’s LGBT pride event. There’s no word yet this morning on whether Westboro has actually followed through on their threat to picket the school today.

Yesterday a Washington DC high school principal came out during his school’s LGBT pride event. This morning he talked to local television.  The second clip below is his coming out speech to students, all of whom seemed to react positively.

CBS News reports: A LGBTQ pride celebration at D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High School led to a big surprise for students Wednesday, as Principal Pete Cahall came out as gay in front of the crowd. Cahall tells WNEW’s Matt DelSignore that he just turned 50 and was “tired of hiding.” “I would be a hypocrite if I tell kids to ‘be …

A Catholic school in Pennsylvania is apologizing to parents after recalling party invitations that feature “poor role model” Ellen DeGeneres. The school’s principal has vowed to destroy the invitations once they are returned. It was “completely wrong” to use DeGeneres’ picture because the lesbian celebrity “lives her life outside the teachings of the Catholic Church,” St. Andrew Elementary School principal …