Wow: In 2002, at the height of the outcry over the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests, the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan, issued a letter to be read at Mass. In it, he offered an apology about the church’s handling of sex-abuse cases in New York and in Bridgeport, Conn., […]
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High School Paper Publishes Editorial by a Christian Student Who Believes that Gays and Lesbians Should Be Put to Death Because THE BIBLE!
The relevant question isn’t whether, under the 1st Amendment, the student paper had a right to publish the editorial and the kid had a right to think those thoughts. It did, he did. The relevant question is whether the same student paper would publish an editorial arguing that high school girls who aren’t virgins should […]
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Pope: Legal Gay Marriage Will Turn All Straight Men Into Cocksucking Power Bottoms
I think that’s what the pope means. That and legal gay marriage will turn all straight women into carpet munching golf pros. Otherwise I don’t see how allowing same-sex couples to marry—the civil right, not the religious rite—presents a threat to the “the future of humanity itself.” The entire world population is not going to […]
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Bob Vander Plaats Asked the Woman to Step Out of the Way for the Real Christian Man
Yesterday, Rick Santorum unsurprisingly “scored” some evangelical Christian endorsements, including Family Leader president Bob Vander Plaats. Today, the news comes out that Vander Plaats asked Michele Bachmann to quit the race in order to throw some additional support to poor little Ricky Google-pants, who’s barely registering in the polls at all: The phone call took […]
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Deliver Us From Our Dicks
John Shore diagnoses what ails—and so thoroughly warps—many Christian priests and pastors: A great many men go into the profession of spiritual leader because—and to whatever degree they’re aware of it—they are at war with their sexuality. They enroll in seminary at least partly because they are convinced that the closer they get to God, […]
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“The Spirit Will Tell You Whether What You Are Wearing Is Appropriate or Not.”
In case you haven’t been following the story over the past couple days, almost a decade after they first became a widely popular style, the Mormons have formulated a reaction to skinny jeans! Annnnd…. they don’t like ’em! Some at Brigham Young University-Idaho, a Mormon school, say skinny jeans are too risqué for campus wear: […]
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Christian Barbershop Quartet Best Thing Ever! (In Hell)
I just can’t imagine why all this “Christianity” stuff hasn’t caught on!
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Occupy Kitchen (A Plea to Womankind)
I could go into a long lengthy explanation why this guy thinks his sign and everything on it is a good idea… but, as he says himself, “Read Bible for Details.” via
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This May Be My Last Time Singing, and Gospel Films Tonight
Venerable archival label Tompkins Square Records has released the second compilation of rare gospel records from local writer/ publisher/ DJ/ archivist/ historian Mike McGonigal, titled This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African American Gospel on 45 RPM (1957-1982). Like the first volume, 2009’s Fire in My Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherwordly African […]