A Fox News “legal analyst” claims that Miss California Carrie Prejean has a case for religious discrimination and should sue the Miss USA pageant. Prejean fielded a question during Sunday night’s pageant from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton about whether every state should legalize same-sex marriage. Prejean replied that she is opposed to gay marriage, and her answer may have cost …
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The Wingnuts Have Outdone Themselves
Just when you think the bizarre lies of the Christianist right cannot possibly get any more outrageous, they go and outdo themselves…….. Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition is claiming that the hate crimes act currently before Congress will legalize numerous types of sexual crimes because the American Psychiatric Association lists certain sexual fetishes under a long list of “sexual orientations” …
Read More »This Week In Holy Crimes
Over the last seven days…. Florida: Pastor James Harris arrested for filming high school football players having sex in return for the promise of NFL careers. Some say this has gone on for decades.California: Father Antonio Cortes arrested for unlawful sexual behavior with a minor.Kansas: Pastor Alfred White nearly beats woman to death in dispute over whether he fathered her …
Read More »Listen My Homos And You Shall Hear
Tomorrow Californians Against Hate will be launch a six-state online ad campaign in the Northeast to let everybody know that NOM, the National Organization for Marriage, is a front group for the Mormon Church. Banners ads will appear on the capital city hometown papers of states currently in play for marriage equality: NY, NJ, DE, ME, NH, and RI. Designed …
Read More »“Ex-Gays” Denied Ad In Texas Paper
Focus On The Family’s “ex-gay” road show was denied ad space in a San Antonio newspaper. From Christianist site OneNewsNow: Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger tells OneNewsNow that conference organizers tried to buy an ad in the San Antonio News-Express. “And the ad was rejected as being ‘offensive,’ even though all the ad really does is recount the personal story of …
Read More »Diaz Calls For Paterson’s Removal Over Marriage Equality Support
Wingnut Pentacostal minister and NY state Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) says he is planning a May event to call for the resignation of Gov. David Paterson over his support of marriage equality. Diaz: “We will bring out thousands and thousands of Hispanic evangelical Christians in the city of New York to ask Governor Paterson to step aside.” In the NYC …
Read More »We ARE Intolerant Of Bigotry
Anti-gay hater Karen England and the Capitol Resource Institute are upset about the phone calls and emails you sent them about their Day Of Silence walkout plans, citing them as examples of gay intolerance. Because people are supposed be tolerant of bigotry. Their new video in response to your complaints is at the bottom of this post. Our staff is …
Read More »Internet Ordination Mill To Sue For Marriage Equality Rights
The Universal Life Church, which sells online ordination certificates, says that it has retained two law firms in a plan to sue for marriage equality across the country on the grounds of religious discrimination. The Universal Life Church Monastery has announced a legal defense campaign that will take action in all states that have enacted unconstitutional same-sex sacramental marriage restraints. …
Read More »Archbishop Dolan Vows To Fight Paterson’s Marriage Equality Bill
In his second statement on the issue in as many days, yesterday New York’s new Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan vowed to use his new job to fight the marriage equality legislation to be introduced by Gov. Paterson today. Dolan said he will call on all the Catholic Bishops in New York to work with him to defeat the bill.Dolan: “We …
Read More »Pro-Killing Of Gay Youth Group Releases Anti-Day Of Silence Video
UPDATE: Since this post went up, the Illinois Family Institute has changed the information on their home page. Instead of a Baptist church in Arizona, the creator of the clip is now identified as Grace Gospel Center in Bensonville, Illinois. The Arizona church has written me to say they have no affiliation with the Illinois Family Institute. I have updated …
Read More »Focus On The Family Fires Employee Busted For Focusing On Underage Sex
Remember the Focus On The Family employee who was busted To Catch A Predator-style last week? It took them ten days, but he’s been fired. Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger says Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, was fired Thursday after he was formally charged with criminal attempted sexual assault on a child and Internet luring of a child. Ovalle …
Read More »Deconstructing The Christianist Lies
This guy does a fantastic job breaking down the lies of the Christianist right. You’re probably familiar with all the cases he cites, but the wingnuts continue to harp on the same lying examples.
Read More »Mel White Vs. Tony Perkins
Things really heat up in the last minute.
Read More »UK: Catholic Adoption Agencies Break From Church To Comply With Pro-Gay Laws
Five of the largest adoption agencies in the UK have broken their official ties to the Catholic Church in order to comply with gay rights laws and continue to receive government funding. The situation has caused an outcry in American religious circles as an example of religious persecution headed for American shores. Five agencies have declared themselves independent – and …
Read More »Religious Right Concedes Defeat
The above is the headline from the UK’s Telegraph. Leading evangelicals have admitted that their association with George W. Bush has not only hurt the cause of social conservatives but contributed to the failure of the key objectives of their 30-year struggle. James Dobson, 72, who resigned recently as head of Focus on the Family – one of the largest …
Read More »Rick Warren Is Exhausted….
….from the beating up he’s gotten from all sides after last week’s double-talk bullshit about having never supported Prop 8. In fact, he’s SO exhausted, he flaked on yesterday’s scheduled appearance on ABC’s This Week. Instead of explaining contradictory statements over his actions regarding California’s Prop 8 on same-sex marriage, Rick Warren went with Plan B today: He didn’t show …
Read More »12 Year-Old Goes “Ex-Gay” On YouTube
“I used to be gay but then I decided it was wrong and I stopped it. Now I’m very interested in girls,” says 12 year-old YouTuber ChristianU2uber in a clip posted two weeks ago. He says he learned that being gay was a sin on the news. Christianist site WorldNetDaily has taken an interest in the kid and yesterday posted …
Read More »This Week In Holy Crimes
Over the last seven days…..Missouri: Pastor Robert M. Black busted in internet underage sex sting.California: Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby arrested for murdering 8 year-old girl.Texas: Pastor Robert Baker charged with murdering wife.Virginia: Pastor Ana Paula Almeida charged with rape of 14 year-old.Tennessee: Church youth volunteer Matthew Jernigan charged with two counts of child rape.Georgia: Pastor Otis Ray Hope charged …
Read More »NOM – Storm Clouds (Remix #2)
PhoboQuotable – Pastor Eric Schumacher
“The Flood of 2008 is arguably the most destructive disaster that the state of Iowa has seen — at least, that is, until last Friday. On April 3, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state law limiting marriage to one man and one woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. Licenses will be issued to …
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