15 Famous Celebs Who Have Committed Horrible Crimes!

15 Famous Celebs Who Have Committed Horrible Crimes! June 19, 2015

• Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., holds some surprisingly Baptist ideas about religious liberty for religious minorities, dissenters and freethinkers.

After posting a video in support of the civil rights of the non-religious, Akin was challenged for supposedly thereby advocating “an evolutionary, anti-Christian worldview, homosexuality, atheism, Agnosticism, amorality and immorality, and every other ungodly movement of our society.” (That’s a direct quote, not a caricature — those folks are impossible to caricature.) His response to that challenge was impeccably Baptist in a way that Southern Baptists rarely are these days:

That video is from the SBC’s Avance 2015 gathering, where Ronnie Floyd and 5,000-some delegates from local Southern Baptist congregations partied like it was 1999. Or like it was 2004, at the latest.

SplendorRIP Elisabeth Elliot, author of Through Gates of Splendor and Passion and Purity.

• Dear FreemantleMedia North America and Starz: Don’t screw this up. Thank you. (via)

Matt Barber of right-wing nonsense machine Liberty Council is very pleased that Texas is retricting access to cancer screenings for poor women. Because, you know, that’s what it means to be “pro-life.”

No one has ever accused Barber of being especially bright, but his latest screed is also notable for his hilariously inept attempt to update the fantasy rhetoric of Satanic baby-killing. Planned Parenthood, Barber says, is “like Baal worship of old.”

Baal worship was a fertility religion. Try again, genius.

• OK, the snark level above is a bit harsh — not too much, but perhaps too soon. So here’s a link to an actual obituary for Elisabeth Elliot. That’s from Christianity Today (a publication that believes gay and lesbian couples are “destructive to society”).

And here’s “A complicated eulogy for Elisabeth Elliot,” from Addie Zierman.

• What is it with right-wing politicians weirdly trying to conscript angry protest songs into service as jingoistic anthems? What exactly did Donald Trump hear in this song that made him think it would work as his campaign theme?

Yeah, it’s anti-Bush — which kind of makes sense for Trump in the GOP race against Jeb! But still.

Maybe Carly Simon will give The Donald permission to use this — it’s far more appropriate for the major theme of his stump speech:


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