On Dec. 27, Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas prided himself on his rejection of “false prophet Fred Phelps.” Phelps is the patriarch of a Kansas fundamentalist cult that travels the country, threatening families with young children, in public settings, with foul…
Christian Nationalists
65 Articles
65
F
Fox Snubs Brokeback
1 Min Read
31
1 Min Read
31
At the risk of annoying you all with more news about Brokeback Mountain… Fox News has released Roger Friedman’s the top 10 movies of the year (actually it is 12) and their number 1 is Munich. Capote and Transamerica are…
1 Min Read
0
I still haven’t had time to read the December cover story and related articles thoroughly. Among the items of interest are stories about the Founding Fathers’ intent on religion in government, Christian Reconstruction, the religious right’s growing “orbits of influence,” a conservative-Christian media…
1 Min Read
3
While I congratulate Swedish pastor Ake Green on his acquittal by his country’s supreme court, I reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s assertion that calling homosexuality a “cancerous tumor on all of society” represents “the biblical view of homosexual behavior.” Freedom of speech…
1 Min Read
0
Neither liberals nor the ACLU have espoused “compassion” for Islamic terrorists, nor sought to ban Christmas. But Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas apparently needed someone to grumble about yesterday. So, on his blog, he reprinted far-right agitprop without checking the facts or identifying any…
1 Min Read
13
(Week-old news. I’m posting this for the XGW archive.) Exodus President Alan Chambers likes to accuse his conscientious critics of being the agents of Satan, while presuming that he enjoys God’s special favor. Former President and Baptist Jimmy Carter has…
G
God’s Wrath?
1 Min Read
20
1 Min Read
20
News reports today include: Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting “intelligent design” and warned them on Thursday not to be…
1 Min Read
13
From Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com: The Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice is ostensibly a religious-right nonprofit legal-advocacy organization. But Tony Mauro of Legal Times reports that Jay Sekulow, head of ACLJ, has “feathered his nest” with perks…
4 Min Read
26
The Exodus media blog promoted the following propaganda pieces by antigay political allies this week, and withheld alternative viewpoints from the Exodus readership. (Exodus does not technically “endorse” what it promotes. But the half-truths that Exodus reprints — and the…
C
Critics of Lesbian Cleric: Follow the Money
1 Min Read
2
1 Min Read
2
United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie follows the mammon money underwriting Republican activists’ two-pronged effort to divide mainstream churches with partisan misinformation over hot-button issues, and then to convert the wreckage into taxpayer-subsidized Republican front groups with religious-sounding names….