WSAZ, the NBC affiliate for Huntington-Charleston, WV, had some guests on promoting the Queens Slay Cancer Drag Show at Marshall University, an event to raise money for cancer. Predictably, the Family Policy Council of West Virginia, affiliates of Focus on the Family, lost their shit. Hats off to WSAZ’s Tim Irr for this public response: …
Religious Nuts 2
This won’t end well…
Trump was crowing on Twitter earlier about the Trump signs waved at the Netanyahu victory rally: It’s natural that Trump and Netanyahu have an affinity for one another. They’re both crooks and bigots who are taking their respective countries to dark places. The signage is no surprise either; fanatics all over the world have adopted …
He’s Just Being Honest
This is, of course, appalling, but at least one anti-abortion fanatic is being honest about what they believe in: Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God’s wrath.” The act of public atonement they are seeking …
A Shameless Supreme Court Ruling
Last night, in denying a request for a muslim man scheduled to be executed to have an imam in the chamber rather than a Christian chaplain, the christianist caliphate of the Supreme Court laid waste to the first amendment: Time and time again the courts have demanded religious neutrality from the state, whether the context …
Falwell and the Pool Boy*
*(Alternate Title: Michael Cohen: Zelig for Scumbags) So, while we wait for the next irruption of lethal folly from Dear Hairpiece, how’s about a little fun from the Evangelosphere: The prominent evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. has for the first time acknowledged putting up $1.8 million for a business venture managed by a young pool …
Fake Jews*
These fucking guys: Mike Pence got a rabbi who is really a Christian to pray for synagogue dead. On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence led a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan where prayers were said by Rabbi Loren Jacobs, who is affiliated with the Messianic synagogue Shema Yisrael. “God of Abraham, God of Isaac, …
Inciting Religious War
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the republic, and the mainstream press is still missing the plot. Here’s the money quote of what he said last night to a gathering of evangelical religious leaders hypocrites once the press was gone: “The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable…Part of it …