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“I have a son who is a farmer. He has sheep. He says to me: Father, if the sheep were only male, the world would die. There would be no more sheep. The natural tendency of man is to allow the world to continue to exist. So a man who comes and says ‘I hold an orientation that does not …

Saying that legislators violated the will of the voters, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is refusing to defend his state’s new domestic partner’s law against a lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Family Council. “When the people have spoken by amending our Constitution, I will abide by their command,” said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, who believes the law is …

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is taking credit for his state’s recent lack of hurricanes. Because he slipped God a note about it. Crist noted that just before his election in 2006, Florida had been affected by a total of eight hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. “Do you know the last time it was we had a hurricane in Florida? It’s …

The Evangelical Lutheran Church voted today to allow individual congregations to bless same-sex marriages. “I’ve been a life-long member at Redeemer Lutheran Church [in Atlanta], and I was never comfortable asking my church to bless my relationship,” said Bob Gibeling, who is at the assembly. “This offers great hope to me that when I find a future life-long partner, my …

For a mere $110 the kind atheists at Eternal Earthbound Pets will take care of your beloved animals after Jeebus has raptured you up to everlasting glory. You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off …

As the rate of bad Referendum 71 signatures continues to rise, Washington state’s wingnuts are accusing LGBT activists of pressuring election officials to speed up the process, thereby causing errors. The Faith and Freedom Network’s Gary Randall bleats: The hurry-up plan was put in place as the homosexual lobby discovered that the faster the checkers checked, the more names were …

Emboldened by his recent high profile as DC’s most angry homo hater, Bishop Harry Jackson is taking aim at health care reform, saying it’s “reverse classist” (huh?) and racist. I don’t know who the woman with the terrible wig is, but dig her giving Jackson those Nancy Reagan eyes.

Good As You points us to this just-posted “sermon” by Pastor Steven L. Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona. The clip is audio-only and NSFW as the good gentle Christian pastor screams things like “Faggots run this country!” He also accuses Barney Frank of being a pedophile and lies that Frank has been arrested for it. …

Or so screams the headline on Christianist site OneNewsNow. But here’s what the article says: Mike Farris with ParentalRights.org is drawing attention to Title IX, Subpart 3, section 440, on page 837 of Obama’s healthcare plan (HR 3200). That section deals with the creation of a government bureaucracy that would establish and expand “programs providing voluntary home visitation for families …

“If I felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it. When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I’ve said yes to it. But I will not seek a higher office if God is not calling me to do it. That’s really my standard. If I am called to …

“What the White House wants is for a court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act so that the White House and the president don’t have to take the political damage for undermining a law that protects normal marriage. President Obama ran promising he would be open and transparent, and no longer practice the usual politics of Washington, DC. …

Towleroad provides a transcript excerpt: “You know, I grew up in a religious family, in a religious community and it just doesn’t make sense to me. It just doesn’t work for me in the long run. I never wanted to step on anyone else’s religion and their beliefs — that’s what’s great about our country — until I started seeing …

A law requiring the offering of Bible education in Texas public schools is about to go into effect. Books are a common sight in classrooms around the nation, but the Bible is one book that is not. Come this fall, a Texas law says all public schools must offer information relating to the Bible in their curriculum. “By the end …

Over the last seven days…Ohio: Pastor Dwight Smith charged with hiring a prostitute.Alabama: Pastor John Picard charge with 42 counts of sexual battery on parishioners.Virginia: Pastor John Duffer charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor.New Jersey: Pastor Robert Carlino confesses to possession of child pornography.Texas: Pastor Matthew Wood resigns after being accused of sexually cyber-stalking a parishioner.Ghana: Pastor Kwame …

“With every passing day it becomes more and more in the distant mirror. I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I’m on and to relish each day as a gift. I’m grateful for my brokenness. I’m grateful for my humility. It’s a blessing. An old Benedictine priest told me, …

Pam Spaulding tips us to the latest bit of bile from the Concerned Women for America, who actually used a handgun to illustrate their opposition to employment equality for gays. ENDA adds not only “sexual orientation” but “gender identity” to federal workplace anti-discrimination law. Thus, it takes an ax to the idea that sexual behavior has a natural normalcy or …

Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral candidate Anna Falling is running on the platform of forcing the city’s zoo to include the book of Genesis in its displays, in order to explain to children where all the animals came from. “Some may ask why this issue during a Mayoral campaign? And I say why not?” said candidate Anna Falling. For Anna Falling, the …

In the midst of a $6M budget shortfall, the cash-strapped Focus On The Family is transferring the operation of its Love Won Out series of “ex-gay” conferences to Exodus International. “Exodus is the ideal organization to transition Love Won Out to,” said Melissa Fryrear, director of Love Won Out. She noted that Focus on the Family and Exodus have been …

Well, this has got to be the strangest story of the year. Dwan Prince, 31, has sent an apology to the man whose 2005 attack in Brooklyn left Prince partially paralyzed, telling him that it was Prince’s own flirtatious behavior that brought on the assault and that thanks to the beating, he is no longer gay. Duncan Osborne at Gay …

Sen. Arlen Specter’s town hall meeting today went as the others have, with one man screaming that “God’s gonna stand before you and he’s gonna judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the Hill!” Later Specter called out a woman in the audience for spreading “vicious, malicious rumors” when she claimed that a 75 year old …