Please pour one out for Sister Wendy—she will be missed!
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Pat Robertson Calls for a Ban On Assault Weapons
Holy shit. Pat Robertson spoke for nearly two minutes today and only managed to say one thing I kindasorta disagree with—see if you can spot it. And be sure to listen closely for the “amen” Robertson’s cohost tosses in. (I believe she’s sitting just outside of the shot with defibrillator paddles in her hands.) If […]
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An Excellent Day for an Exorcism
Accompanying an Exorcist on a Home Cleansing
On an unseasonably warm Saturday morning, Archbishop James Cloud and I meet at a Starbucks in Bethany, a small suburb north of Beaverton. Bishop Cloud wears a clerical collar, with a crucifix hanging from a golden chain around his neck. He is in his mid-40s, has a playful smile, and could otherwise be mistaken for […]
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Jim Bakker (Who Is Still on TV, BTW): Stop Mocking Me or God Will Punish You
Some of Bakker’s meretricious poison is good for a chuckle.
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Religious Moron: Gay Sex Unnatural Because Kids Find It Icky
The Friendly Atheist brings this idiot and his idiocy to our attention… Conservative activist E.W. Jackson recently interviewed WorldNetDaily’s David Kupelian and both men agreed that homosexuality was unnatural because kids found it icky. “We now have 4-year-old kids in preschool where we have lesbian and transgender teachers,” Kupelian said. “They go in and they […]
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The Nashville Statement: Surprise! Evangelical Leaders Are Still Trying To Knock That Dick Out of Your Mouth!
A group of evangelical leaders released a manifesto attacking “homosexual immorality and transgenderism” yesterday. (People are drowning, the nation’s 4th largest city is underwater, but priorities!) The Nashville Statement didn’t contain any big surprises. The Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: A Coalition for Biblical Sexuality—quite a mouthful for a group that opposes oral sodomy—came […]
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Cardinal Dolan Knows You’re About to Suck a Delicious Cock But Wishes You Wouldn’t
With everything that’s going down right now and with so many of the world’s environmental problems directly traceable to human overpopulation—we are literally killing everything—you’d think the princes of the Catholic Church would have better things to do with their time than knock that cock out of your mouth. You’d be wrong: Cardinal Timothy Dolan […]
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Some of Phyllis Schlafly’s Greatest Hits, for People Too Young to Know
Phyllis Schlafly, on death’s doorstep, supporting Trump. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com • She called public sex education classes ”in-home sales parties for abortion.” • She said, “Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” • Hated the gays. • Hated “libs.” • Hated gender-nonconformity. […]
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The Orlando Shooter Might Have Been a Twisted Closet Case
What he said: The self-loathing-gay and ISIS-inspired-jihadist theories of this attack are not mutually exclusive.— Josh Barro (@jbarro) June 14, 2016 A person can be a violently self-loathing closet case and a devout-if-demented “believer.” The former all but requires the latter. To blame gayness for the harm done to gay people by a gay person […]
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Required Reading: Being Queer and Muslim in America
A view from the ground at the vigil outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn on Monday evening. SB The Village Voice’s Raillan Brooks (who, full disclosure, is a close friend) on the Orlando shooting: In the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, a 29-year-old man entered Pulse, an Orlando gay club hosting an “Upscale […]
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Dear Christians: Let’s Talk About Grammar
Dear Christians: First of all, I have no beef with you believing in whatever nonsense you choose to believe. (For example, I believe there are nice Christians who don’t actively try to fuck up other people’s lives, as well as bad Christians who make nice Christians look like assholes.) BUT I HAVE A TWO-PRONGED QUESTION: […]