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Over the last seven days…. Texas: Pastor William Frank Brown charged with eight counts of child molestation and aggravated sexual assault.Missouri: Pastor Aaron Rodgerson charged with failure to report child abuse, neglect, or death and practicing law without a license.Florida: Pastor Jose Sos Santos charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of 12 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor William Ralph Wilson III …

Raise your hand if you’re totally shocked. Gerard Caron walked into the Auburn Post Office and was met by a woman with a pair of clipboards. “This petition is against gay marriage and this other petition is to support gay marriage,” she said, according to Caron. The Poland man said he asked her why there would be a petition to …

Saying that putting the WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) logo at the top of their stationery “portrays the debtor as a sinner who is going to hell” and therefore violates the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, one debt collection agency is suing another and has filed a federal class action suit to force the removal of the logo. The agency …

Westboro Baptist Church claims that it will picket NYC gay synagogue Congregation Beth Simchat Torah this Sunday at its Bethune Street location. The synagogue responds: CBST will be holding a non-violent prayer vigil and service during the time of their protest. We cannot allow this group to go unchallenged as they engage in hateful speech at our synagogue. The most …

Marriage equality opponents in Maine have hired the publicity firm behind California’s Yes On 8 campaign. Organizers of an effort to overturn a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in Maine have hired the California public relations firm that ran the successful Proposition 8 campaign to overturn same-sex marriage there. Supporters of the law have hired a seasoned Maine political strategist …

Represented by the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, Bishop Harry Jackson and his six cohorts have filed a court challenge of Tuesday’s decision by the DC Elections Board that a referendum could not be mounted to challenge the city’s decision to recognize marriages from other jurisdictions. “We are not going to sit by and allow an unelected board of bureaucrats to …

PBS will allow its affiliate stations that currently carry a religious show to continue to do so, but has banned all new religious programming. The vote by PBS’s board was a compromise from a proposed ban on all religious programming. Such a ban would have forced a few stations around the country to give up their PBS affiliation if they …

And what century are we living in again? A group calling itself the Christian Civil Liberties Union filed a claim with the city of Milwaukee seeking the right to burn a public library’s copy of a young-adult book with gay content, according to the American Library Association. The CCLU presented trustees of the West Bend Community Memorial Library with the …

“Football is like the army — it’s a battle field. In war you have to trust the guy that’s next to you. Now, if a teammate has different views about what they’re attracted to in the showers it’s going to affect the team. It’ll destroy the oneness. “Men are going to be more comfortable with other heterosexuals. It’s like having …

Over the last seven days… Tennessee: Pastor Shane West convicted of prescription drug fraud.Kentucky: Pastor Daniel Gabbard charged with wanton murder in fatal DUI crash.North Carolina: Rev. John Schneider charged with obstructing justice for purging child pornography from the home computer of his church’s music minster. Ontario: Rev. William Major sentenced to two years in prison for sexual assault.Florida: Pastor …

This is the nutjob that I mentioned yesterday had spoken at the DC marriage hearing, saying “discrimination against gays was positive discrimination.” From HRC’s clip description: “Minister Leroy Swailes manages to invoke pedophilia, beastiality, the anti-Christ and extermination of the human race all in his three and a half minute testimony before the DC Board of Elections and Ethics.” Dig …

Another whackjob Christianist is in the news. Speaking to Fox News Radio, loony evangelical radio host Pastor Wiley Drake said the he is praying for the death of President Obama. (Audio below.) Drake is the former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastor Wiley Drake prayed that abortionist George Tiller’s wife would become a widow. Tiller is now dead. …

In what some say is evidence of the increasing influence of Muslims in the Netherlands, a leaked letter from the country’s Council Of State advises that the nation’s state-funded religious schools are allowed to fire gay teachers. The Council of State, the highest advisory body to the Dutch government, says religious schools can exclude gay teachers if they behave in …

Outsiders crowded a meeting of the DC city council yesterday as the council deliberated whether putting a same-sex marriage referendum to voters violates the city’s 1996 Human Rights Act, which lists eight items than can never be put to a popular vote. One Maryland man told that council that discrimination against homosexuals was “positive discrimination” because “all gay sex acts …

Maggie Gallgher, Tony Perkins, Bishop Harry Jackson, and NY Sen. Ruben Diaz led a “Stand 4 Marriage” rally on the steps of the capitol in Albany yesterday. Blah, blah, blah. (Via – Good As You)

On Monday leading evangelical Rev. Rob Schenck crept into the U.S. Senate’s darkened Hart Building to “anoint with oil” the door of the room where the SCOTUS confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor is expected to take place, in order that Congress be struck by the holy spirit and refuse to confirm her. As I prayed, I touched the doors in …

“Boys are ‘made homosexual,’ [Pat] Robertson says, ‘because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure… abused them.’ As a thought experiment let’s concede the point: homosexuals are made, not born (with the exception of the few of us with ‘biological problems’). Who do you suppose is making homosexuals out of kids from fundamentalist Christian homes? …

(Via – Media Matters)

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Pastor Ernest Beal charged with stealing $75K from the personal accounts of residents of the developmentally disabled adults living in group homes he was overseeing.New York: Father Patrick Dunne charged with stealing $432K from his parish, including money from a fund meant for Katrina victims.Canada: Father Robert Borne charged with molesting three children.Colombia: Pastor …