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OCTOBER 5, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy alert: Earlier today Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito signaled that they will overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision that guarantees the right to same-sex marriage nationwide. Advocate reports: Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have opened the court’s term by calling for the overturning of […]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Pat Robertson Lives: Televangelist Pat Robertson denounces the Black Lives Matter movement as being a lesbian-led “anti-family, anti-capitalist, Marxist revolution” that wants to destroy Christianity for “being racist.” Newsweek reports: Televangelist Pat Robertson said on Thursday’s episode of his television program The 700 Club that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement […]
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Teaching Children To Hate: A conservative Christian preacher in Tennessee is threatening to sue his daughter’s public high school after the girl was sent home for wearing an anti-gay shirt proclaiming “Homosexuality is a sin.” The Christian Post reports: An outspoken Christian preacher and activist is accusing his daughter’s school of […]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE When In Doubt, They Blame The Gays: Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Filaret contracts coronavirus after blaming gays for the virus. The church leader who recently claimed COVID-19 was “God’s punishment” for same-sex marriage has been hospitalized after testing positive for the virus. ABC News reports: Leading Ukrainian religious figure Patriarch Filaret […]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Stupid, It Burns: Former Minnesota congresswoman and Christian extremist Michele Bachmann claims that “transgender Marxists” are “seeking to overthrow” the U.S. government, just like the Bible predicted. Bachmann, appearing on televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s “The Victory Channel” last week said: Antifa is, if you go to their website, their materials, they […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 The United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States with more than 12 million members, has been on the verge of breaking up for months now. The pandemic may have delayed the process, but the cracks are forming once again. The issue at hand is whether […]
JULY 4, 2020 BY KARL J. FOREHAND One reality of our political climate in the United States is that it divides us up into identifiable camps. While it doesn’t make for productive discussions, it does allow me to generalize without being too far off base. So, please understand that this is only my opinion and it […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER JULY 7, 2020 Best-selling Christian author and speaker Jen Hatmaker made headlines a few years ago when she admitted to supporting LGBTQ people — which, as an evangelical darling, was basically a career-buster. She didn’t even say she welcomed same-sex marriage, only that gay couples ought to be afforded the same legal protections as everyone else, but it was […]
JUNE 12, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Deplorable: Rewarding his conservative Christian base, President Donald Trump has eliminated protections against discrimination in health care for LGBTQ people. Associated Press reports: The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. The policy shift, long-sought by the president’s religious […]
JUNE 16, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Thoughts and Prayers: Franklin Graham is furious after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. On the landmark ruling that federal protections prohibiting job discrimination because of sex includes LGBT individuals, the Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court ruled Monday […]
JUNE 29, 2020 BY ED BRAYTON The Supreme Court recently ruled that businesses can’t discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and the American Pastors Network is quite upset about it. The American Pastors Network devoted time in recent episodes of its “Stand in the Gap” broadcast to denouncing the Supreme Court’s June […]
MARCH 6, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE When in doubt, blame the gays: Conservative Christian Pastor Steven Andrew, pastor of the USA Christian Church, claims that the coronavirus is punishment for “LGBT sin.” Advocate reports: LGBTQ people have been blamed for hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and other disasters — and now they’re being blamed for the coronavirus […]
Gay conversion therapy is an intensely harmful practice which has been known to have led to despair, depression and even suicide in the past. The effect of gay conversion therapy is particularly damaging to young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who are often struggling to come to terms with their own sexuality. Neel […]
By Devan Cole, CNN Updated 1:55 PM ET, Wed February 5, 2020 Beto O’Rourke: Conversion therapy is tantamount to torture 01:28 Washington (CNN)A bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors is making its way through Virginia’s state Senate after the House of Delegates approved the measure earlier this week.The law, which is currently before the Senate’s education and health committee […]
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 7, 2020 In most cases, LGBTQ conversion therapy and religion go hand in hand. But that’s not always true. Infamous Twitter personality Graham Linehan is here with a timely reminder that atheists, too, can peddle cruelty and hate in exchange for notoriety. Once upon a time, Linehan was an Irish comedy writer known for his […]
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 8, 2020 It turns out Virginia really is for lovers. Now that the state legislature has passed the Virginia Values Act, the motto applies even to lovers of the same sex, as well as everyone else in the state’s LGBTQ community. The historic legislation establishes gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes […]
JANUARY 27, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Banned in Liverpool: Christian hate preacher Franklin Graham has been banned from appearing at a venue in Liverpool because he promotes anti-gay Christian hate. BBC reports: A conference venue in Liverpool has cancelled an event featuring American evangelist Franklin Graham. Mr Graham, the eldest son of the late preacher Billy […]
BY DAVID GEE JANUARY 23, 2020 At long last, Utah has banned the use of bigoted and discredited “conversion therapy” on LGBTQ children, making it the 19th state to do so. State lawmakers and activists went back and forth for months as they fought to create a law that satisfied the largest constituencies, including the […]
JANUARY 21, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy Alert: The White House YouTube account is streaming a vile anti-gay church sermon attended by Vice President Mike Pence. Newsweek reports: Vice President Mike Pence called for people to remember the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “in these divided times” while attending a church where a bishop described how “the devil” […]
JANUARY 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Deplorable: Former rap superstar Kanye West will join prominent anti-gay, conservative Christian hate preachers as a featured headliner at “Awaken 2020” a prayer rally to be held in Arizona this weekend. In what’s being billed as the “first epic evangelical stadium event of the decade,” West will join a collection of controversial Christian leaders […]