This was on the editorial page yesterday. The Catholic League took out an ad in the New York Times yesterday that you can read here on the Catholic League’s website if the text above is too small for you. Hilariously, this is not the ad the Catholic League wanted to run. The ad the Catholic […]
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Portland Tops Seattle & San Francisco
Portland is the most godless city in America, says the American Family Association. Three of the most godless cities in America are on the West coast, with the Rose City—Portland, Oregon—coming in as the least faithful. According to a survey of 50,000 people conducted by the nonpartisan and nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values […]
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Multnomah University’s President Wants to Know Why the Feds Are Being “Selective” In Awarding The Right to Discriminate
M. O. Stevens The president of a tiny Christian university in Northeast Portland is confused. Back in February, he asked the federal government for formal permission to deny access to transgender students, and he hasn’t heard back—even though dozens of other schools have gotten the same permission. “I don’t understand why it’s taken so long,” […]
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Mormons Resign Church Over Latest Anti-Gay Assholery
Until very recently, churches could order members to choose their faiths—choose their imaginary friends and their man-made dogmas—over their own children. Those days are over: Ever since she was an infant being blessed during a church naming ceremony, Lindsay Matson had been on the books of the Mormon Church. As it has done with millions […]
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God Won’t Take No For An Answer
The sign outside Seattle’s All Pilgrims Christian Church makes God sound a scary ex-boyfriend who violates the restraining order you got against him.
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Q&A With the Person Behind the Brilliant @KimDavis917 Account on Twitter
I was one of many people who fell for the Twitter account @KimDavis917. @KimDavis917 was supposedly Kim Davis’s own Twitter account. The account, according to its bio, was being manned by Davis’s fourth husband because Kim, as you may have heard, is sitting in prison for contempt of court. The account had been up for […]
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And Now I Have to Say Something About Kim Davis
I’ve pretty much ignored Kim Davis—save the odd tweet or RT—since she first made the news for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. Davis is the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, an elected position, and everyone from the governor to the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Davis to comply with the […]
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Naked Bike Ride Drama; Nude Roller Skater vs. Homophobes
As the crowd gathered on Saturday night at Col. Summers Park in anticipation of the annual World Naked Bike Ride—not everyone in attendance were there to have a good time. Photographer Aaron Wessling was on the scene and witnessed a dust-up between a couple of homophobic/nude-hating Christians and the WNE crowd. According to Aaron, the […]
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One Reason to Stick with Wells Fargo? Christians Hate ‘Em!
Oh, I wish I had a nickel for every time I threatened to quit Wells Fargo bank… but they’d probably end up taking all my nickels in various fees anyway. Yes, there are good, strong reasons for taking your business away from institutions like Wells Fargo, but now there’s one good reason not to. I […]
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Nearer My Bud to Thee
Here’s a phrase I never expected to utter: “A good thing came out of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” And yet… If you don’t recall that measure, it allows anti-gay bigots to refuse service to gays and lesbians (because, you know, Jesus was all about the hate, separation, and judgment.) Somehow, the First Church of […]
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Pat Robertson Advises Wife to Forgive her Drunk (and Most Definitely Gay) Husband
In this clip from The 700 Club, incredibly old Pat Robertson fields a question from a Christian lady who claims her hubby of 11 years had gay sex with a fellow male church member. THAT’S HOT! However, hubby is trying to write it off as something that “accidentally” happened because he was “drunk.” Mmmmmm-hmmmmmm. (When […]
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I Love Television™: Christians Hate Egg Salad
Illustration: Jeremy Eaton As you know, today is Easter—which is when Christians bellyache about how we non-Christians “stole” the holiday and replaced “religion” with “bunnies and hard-boiled eggs.” Well, don’t get it twisted—because Christians STOLE IT FIRST. It was Christians who yoinked the name “Easter” from the pagan celebration of spring—but, whatever. Sounded like a […]