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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 …

Led by Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the eight Catholic bishops of New York have released a statement condemning marriage equality. This is the first such joint statement from the group. “We face today the prospect of a law in New York which would radically change the timeless institution of marriage. As pastors of citizens from every corner of our great state, …

Repent America founder Michael Marcavage is suing the city of Philadelphia and its police department because they have repeatedly removed him from the premises of Outfest, the city’s annual gay pride celebration. Lansdowne-based Repent America director Michael Marcavage says he was physically restrained by city police on four separate occasions and that an officer once put him into a chokehold. …

America’s best Christian explain the Biblical origins of marriage. Cover your keyboards. (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

Lead by Bishop Harry Jackson, a coalition of black ministers based in the Washington DC area have filed a formal request for a citywide referendum to block the city from recognizing same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. In paperwork filed with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the group Stand 4 Marriage D.C. said it wants to begin the process …

Rev. Bob Emrich is telling news outlets that his group has distributed over 5000 petitions to repeal Maine’s new marriage equality law. Just over 55,000 signatures are required to place the issue on the Maine ballot and Emrich is suggesting that Mainers host petition-signing open houses and parties. “Hey, folks! We’re havin’ a hate party! Y’all come on by.”

Over the last seven days… Minnesota: Rev. Donald Dean Budd convicted of two counts of felony sexual misconduct.Utah: Pastor William J. Blanscet charged with exposing himself over a webcam to who he thought was a 13 year-old girl.Pennsylvania: Pastor Guy Carlton Jones sentenced to three years in state prison for attempted sexual conduct with an 8 year-old girl. Bonus: Jones …

Pastor Ron Hamman writes in the Wasilla Frontiersman: Sodomy is the only sin for which God came down from heaven to destroy. Though God dealt with many other sins in various ways, there is no other for which he came down from heaven to verify and destroy. In the New Testament, sodomy is declared to be “against nature.” And of …