Tag Archives: religion

Over the last seven days….California: Pastor James Ray Guerrero charged with molesting “two young relatives” beginning when the boys were 11 years old.Italy: A yearlong Associated Press inquiry uncovers 235 male victims of priest molestation.Connecticut: Father Michael Jude Fay dies in prison 18 months after being convicted of stealing $1.3 million from his congregation. Fay spent the money on luxury …

Last year we heard about Bradley Fowler, a Michigan gay man and ex-con who sued two Bible publishers for $70M for publishing versions that he claimed caused him “mental anguish and harm” because they substituted the word “homosexuals” in places where earlier translations did not. Both suits were dismissed due to statute of limitations restrictions between the publication dates and …

A Kentucky high school football coach included an extra stop during a field trip with his players. A mother is angry about a trip led by the head football coach at Breckinridge County High School. The coach took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them — including her son …

A series of billboards quoting scripture thought by some to be affirming of homosexuality have been erected along I-30 in the Dallas/Fort Work area by the Metropolitan Community Church. Christine Lutz was traveling down Interstate-30, just east of Fort Worth, when she came face to face with a billboard containing a pro-gay message. “I cringed. I was disgusted at the …

Oooh WEEE! This is gonna be fun when the End Times folks get hold of it! The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in a report published Monday that the U.S. dollar should be replaced as the world’s standard reserve currency, giving rise to a new global currency managed by an as-yet undetermined financial regulatory organization. Heiner Flassbeck, …

(Via – This.That.No Other aka JMG reader BStewart23)

This weekend a group called People Against Clergy Who Preach Hate (Facebook group) had the first of their planned weekly protests outside the Phoenix-area storefront church of Pastor Steve Anderson, who has publicly prayed for the death of the president. The 125 protesters waved signs containing scriptural admonitions against hate as well as signs supporting the president.

“The [Harvey Milk Day] bill — which will honor a sexual predator, a polygamous relationship advocate, and a public liar — and extend a homosexual, bisexual, transsexual agenda as a role model to children to aspire to is going to the governor after a short stop on the [California] Senate floor. It could mean gay-pride parades on campus, mock gay …

Bishop Richard Malone of the Maine Archdiocese has ordered all of the state’s Catholic churches to make a special second collection during mass next Sunday. The money taken during that second collection will go to the anti-gay Stand For Marriage Maine, who will be staging a rally this Sunday at the statehouse in Augusta. I suggest making your own counter-donation …

Patricia Mauceri of ABC’s One Life To Live claims she was fired from the show in late June because her religious beliefs did not allow her to go along with a storyline that involved her character’s son coming out of the closet. Patricia Mauceri says she was fired and abruptly replaced for objecting to a gay storyline because of her …

Over the last seven days… Minnesota: Pastor John Kameron Erbele busted in prostitution sting.Nevada: Pastor Ladislao Morales charged with molesting a 10 year-old girl.Florida: Pastor Robert Riddle charged with defrauding his church of $200K. Riddle was previously convicted of stealing $70K from a 91 year-old congregant.Wisconsin: Father James Blume charged with sexually assaulting a 12 year-old boy in 1978. Blume …

Guest host Ana Marie Cox takes on the world’s craziest conservative site.

A Quebec provincial judge has ruled against a group of Christian parents who were outraged that their children were being taught about all of the world’s major religions as well as aboriginal Canadian faiths. Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Dubois dismissed a bid by parents in Drummondville, Que., who said the course on ethics and religious culture introduced across the …

Joining the ignominious ranks of Pastor Steven Anderson and Pastor Wiley Drake, infamous white supremacist, anti-Semite, and anti-gay Pastor Pete Peters is praying for President Obama’s death. A third, and perhaps even more menacing anti-Obama “death prayer pastor” is Peter Peters of the LaPorte, Colorado Church of Christ. During the 1980’s, members of the white supremacist militia group The Order …

Next Tuesday, President Obama is scheduled to make a televised speech to the nation’s schoolchildren. But the wingnuts of America don’t want their precious snowflakes exposed to our fascist/socialist/communist leader and have launched a campaign to keep good Christian children home that day. Stephanie Klick, Tarrant County Republican Party chairwoman, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that many Texas families are …

The author of the ChristWire piece on Andre Bauer that I linked to yesterday sends this letter. Dear Joe, A friend forwarded your article to me and I was thrilled at first because, with your blog’s name, I thought you might be a man of the cloth. Instead I find that you are gallivanting around in the most inappropriate of …

Times are getting really tough for one of the nation’s most nasty anti-gay hate groups. Bwah bwaaaaah. Focus on the Family announced a reorganization Wednesday that will eliminate 75 jobs — an 8 percent reduction in a workforce that already has been cut twice since September 2008. The Colorado Springs-based ministry is shutting down the creative division of its advertising …

Porno Peter LaBarbera is outraged, outraged I tells ya, that Ben & Jerry temporarily named a flavor Hubby Hubby in honor of same-sex marriage coming to Vermont. “Besides the health aspects, there’s also the fact that homosexual behavior is opposed by God, and that’s something that we should take seriously. All homosexual behavior is sinful, and regardless of what liberals …

The Catholic Truth Society has published a book commanding couples to pray before sex. Not for it. The prayer, which appears in the Prayer Book for Spouses, implores God ‘to place within us love that truly gives, tenderness that truly unites, self-offering that tells the truth and does not deceive, forgiveness that truly receives, loving physical union that welcomes’. It …

“What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass. Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to …