Tag Archives: religion

Surviving The “Ex-Gay” Industry

How blatantly bizarre and predatory does “ex-gay reparative therapy” have to be for even the mental cases at Exodus International to disavow you? Here’s some of what their “therapist” at their Lansing, Michigan affiliate did to young Patrick McAlvey. “He asked how large my penis was. He asked if I shave my pubic hair. He asked what type of underwear …

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World’s Most Successful Scam Artist Dies

Pioneering televangelist Oral Roberts has died. Evangelist Oral Roberts died today in Newport Beach, Calif., due to complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from OralRobertsNews.com. His son, Richard, and daughter, Roberta, were at his side, the release said. The founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University was 91. There will be a private family internment. …

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Utah Unthink Tank: Give Discrimination Exemptions To All People Of Faith

Salt Lake City’s new anti-LGBT discrimination law exempts churches and religious groups. The Sutherland Institute wants that exemption extended to anybody who believes in God, which would effectively gut the law from having any use at all. The ordinances protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in housing and employment. Sutherland Institute president Paul Mero says churches and some organizations have …

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Maddow On Asheville’s Atheist Councilman

Remember the Asheville, North Carolina city councilman whose election was opposed because he’s an atheist? Well, the wingnuts are gunning to have him booted.

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Queerantine

Holy Bullies points us to this bit of hate-filled YouTubery. Aside from endorsing Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, Mr. Pleasant Preacher (SRSLY) wants to send all homos to California and put a 30-foot electrified fence around the state. A “queerantine,” he calls it. Alvin at Holy Bullies: This man’s sentiment isn’t something that should be kicked aside by putting on a …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days…Arkansas: Pastor Shane Montgomery resigns after confessing to sex with underage boy he met online.Florida: Rev. Gatson Smith convicted for stealing county grant money intended for the poor of Liberty City, Miami’s most destitute neighborhood.England: Father Paul Symonds arrested for molesting a boy in the 1970s.British Columbia: Pastor Larry Robert Collins sentenced to 15 months in …

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Author Of Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill Says Death Penalty Will Remain

According to a report in tomorrow’s issue of the UK’s Guardian, Ugandan member of parliament David Behati has presented his “kill gays” bill and vows that it will not be watered down. In addition to the death penalty or a life sentence for some cases, the bill provides for the imprisonment of people who don’t turn in someone they know …

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Scott Lively “Commends” The Brave Ugandans Who Want To Kill Gays

American evangelical Scott Lively, widely considered to be the chief U.S. architect of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, today issued a press release saying that while he bears no responsibility for the legislation, which he calls a “serious overcorrection,” he also “commends the courage of the Ugandan people.” By official count 22 young men were executed under Uganda’s law on homosexuality. …

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PhoboQuotable – Randy Thomasson

“John A. Perez is an aggressive supporter of the sexual indoctrination of schoolchildren, homosexual ‘marriages,’ and punishing business owners that don’t support homosexuality and cross-dressing. We’re concerned he will add to existing homosexual-agenda laws, such as ‘Harvey Milk Gay Day,’ $150,000 in government fines against family-oriented businesspersons, and a dozen other bad laws trampling people’s rights and freedoms.” – Save …

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Maddow On Rick Warren & Uganda

Last night Rachel Maddow covered Rick Warren’s long-overdue denouncement of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, pointing out his previous hypocrisies and lies about Prop 8. Watch this.

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Rick Warren Sends Open Letter To Uganda Denouncing “Kill Gays” Bill

After weeks of media criticism, Rick Warren has at last specifically denounced Uganda’s now-dismantled “kill gays” bill. Previously Warren had said it was not his business to “interfere with sovereign nations,” despite his years-long championing of the bill’s chief proponent, Martin Ssempa. The text of the below video is here. An excerpt: We are all familiar with Edmund Burke’s insight, …

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CA: Alameda County Pulls Anti-Bullying Program Under Threats From Christianists

Score one for the Christianists that endorse the beating and taunting of LGBT students. The school board blinked. Under the duress of a lawsuit and threats of recall, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out an elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying. The so-called Lesson 9, which had become an opposition centerpiece …

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North Carolina Law Bans Atheists, One Gets Into Office Anyway

Some folks tried to prevent newly elected Asheville, North Carolina city councilman Cecil Bothwell from taking office. Because he’s an atheist. And that’s still against the law there, as it is in five other states. North Carolina’s constitution is clear: politicians who deny the existence of God are barred from holding office. Opponents of Cecil Bothwell are seizing on that …

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SCOTUS To Decide Case Of LGBT Students Excluded From Christian Group

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of LGBT students barred from membership in a college Christian group. The Christian Legal Society had appealed a lower court’s decision to uphold a California university’s denial of recognition over anti-gay discrimination. The case could set new rules for campus groups that receive funding through fees paid by the students. The …

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Rachel Maddow Takes On “Ex-Gay” Nutcase Richard Cohen

You may recall the deranged “ex-gay” advocate Richard Cohen, whose ridiculous “reparative therapies” such as beating out one’s homosexual tendencies with a tennis racket and a pillow became the laughingstock of YouTube. Well, it turns out that Cohen isn’t quite the relatively harmless lunatic we all thought. His book’s completely fabricated “statistics” about gays “recruiting” and molesting children (courtesy of …

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Episcopal Church Aids NYC’s LGBT Homeless Youth Shelter

Carl Siciliano, executive director of NYC’s Ali Forney Center, writes to direct us to a story in today’s New York Times about the aid recently given his organization by the Long Island Episcopal Church. Since 2002, when he opened the Ali Forney Center, which helps homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, Carl Siciliano says, he has often witnessed the …

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Minnesota Quakers Won’t Certify Marriages Until It’s Legal For Everybody

A Quaker group in Minneapolis-St.Paul has announced that they will no longer certify marriages until the right is granted to everybody. “We’re simply trying to be consistent with the will of God as we perceive it,” said Paul Landskroener, clerk of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, in an interview with MPR’s All Things Considered on Monday. The congregation will continue …

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Victory In New Jersey! Marriage Vote In Full Senate Slated For Thursday

Equality activists scored a preliminary victory in New Jersey tonight! The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee has narrowly voted to pass a marriage equality bill to the full state Senate. The final tally was 7-6. Whew! That voted is scheduled for Thursday. It is not yet known when, or if, the state Assembly will vote on the issue. The debate …

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Pro-Gay Christians Launch The Affirmation Declaration

In response to the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, a document calling for the disobedience of LGBT rights laws and co-signed by hundreds of religious leaders, comes The Affirmation Declaration, which calls for pro-LGBT people of faith to sign on as supporters of civil equality. An excerpt from the just-posted document: We assert that the pain brought upon our GLBTI brethren in …

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“A Perverse Accomplishment”

In an editorial about their October court victory in forcing the Catholic Church to turn over secret documents about the child molestation cover-up scandal, yesterday the New York Times noted the starkly differing reactions to such abuses by former New York Archbishop Edward Egan (pictured) and Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Referring to the Rev. Raymond Pcolka, whom 12 former parishioners …

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