TRUE story*: an American kid aged 4 is taken by his mum into a play area at branch of Chick-Fil-A before it abandoned its Christian values. There he loudly declared that Santa Claus and Jesus Christ aren’t real. He compounds the offence by saying he is Jesus Christ! Mayhem ensues. His mum wrote: Chick-fil-A asked us not to return … I am apparently the lesbian mother of the second coming of Christ. I was reminded of that incident when I… Read more
December 15, 2019
UK school apologises for telling kids the truth about Santa
December 15, 2019 By Barry Duke
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December 13, 2019
Brazilian Christians vent fury over gay Jesus Xmas movie
December 13, 2019 By Barry Duke
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PORTA dos Fundos is Brazilian comedy group with a huge following in Brazil. Their YouTube channel has more than 16 million subscribers, and religion is often a butt of their humour, as this Jesus Loves You sketch indicates: But their latest offering, a Netflix special Christmas film entitled The First Temptation of Christ, has unleashed torrents of outrage as as it depicts a gay Jesus bringing his boyfriend home to meet Mary and Joseph. According to PinkNews, more than 1.3 million… Read more
December 12, 2019
Trump declares Judaism a ‘nationality’. Liberal Jews are appalled.
December 12, 2019 By Barry Duke
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OUTRAGE has erupted among liberal American Jews in the wake of a New York Times report this week that President Trump plans to sign an executive order that will effectively classify Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion. Trump’s intention is introduce a federal law penalising colleges and universities deemed to be shirking their responsibility to foster an open climate for minority students. In recent years, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – or BDS – movement against… Read more
December 11, 2019
Blow to anti-vaxxers: NY court insists public health trumps religion
December 11, 2019 By Barry Duke
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NEW York’s Attorney General Letitia James, above – named as co-defendent in a legal challenge to the state’s recent ban of religious exemptions to vaccinations – has been vindicated. Albany County Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought against James and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, in June, signed a bill ending vaccination exemptions based on religious beliefs. It was the latest move to address the growing measles outbreak, the worst the US had experienced in decades. In dismissing the… Read more
December 10, 2019
Toronto shuts doors to anti-gay hate preacher David Lynn
December 10, 2019 By Barry Duke
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PASTOR David Lynn, a vocal campaigner against Toronto’s LGBT community, is alleging persecution after the authorities tossed his church – Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries – out of a city-owned facility. They also barred him and CFM from using any other public premises. Earlier this year, Lynn was arrested for disorderly conduct. The ban, complains Lynn, is “blatant in your face discrimination” and the preacher, who has long been criticised for hate speech, aimed principally at the city’s LGBT community, is now… Read more
December 9, 2019
Horror expressed after Swedish church unveils LGBT altarpiece
December 9, 2019 By Barry Duke
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Last week ‘The Activist Mommy’ Elizabeth Johnston was having conniptions over a children’s book of demons. She’s now moved on to attack St Peter’s Church in Malmö, Sweden, for having recently accepted an artwork showing a group of gays and lesbians – and a transsexual up a tree – in, of all places, heaven! Commenting on the altarpiece created by Swedish lesbian artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Johnston, writes: A truly Christian church is a body of believers who profess faith… Read more
December 8, 2019
Lawyer asks US judge to consider abusive rabbi’s ‘good works’
December 8, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A LAWYER representing a prominent Connecticut rabbi convicted of repeatedly abusing a teenage boy over a two-year period asked the a judge to take into account the ‘good works’ he had done. David Grudberg, representing rabbi Daniel Greer, above, founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven, said that, following his arrest and conviction on four counts of abusing yeshiva student Eliyahu Mirlis, the rabbi had lost his religious school. Grudberg said: Daniel Greer has already been punished. He was the de… Read more
December 8, 2019
Bible college head accused of groping a young man on a plane
December 8, 2019 By Barry Duke
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THE alleged victim, a 19-year-old seminarian, was returning from a religious trip to Israel in late November when Cornelius Tilton, above, a pastor, businessman and President of the Christian Bible College of Louisiana, sat next to him and tried to get his hands into the young man’s shorts. A statement from the US Attorney’s Office said: During the flight, Tilton allegedly placed his hand on the victim’s bare calf. Tilton continued to touch the victim’s thigh, and eventually began rubbing… Read more
December 7, 2019
‘Bishop’ blasts Trump’s Appeals Court pick – for the wrong reason
December 7, 2019 By Barry Duke
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ON October 15, 2019, President Trump nominated an openly gay man, Patrick Bumatay, 41, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He did so, according to the Alliance for Justice, because Bumatay is a Republican ‘idealogue.’ Furthermore, says AFF, Bumatay has ‘no judicial experience’ and ‘limited experience as an appellate lawyer.’ In contrast, his experience advancing the cause of the Republican Party is extensive. Bumatay, a member of the Federalist Society since 2003, worked on the… Read more
December 7, 2019
Shock, horror: Vatican invested €1-m in a bio-pic featuring gay sex
December 7, 2019 By Barry Duke
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THE Vatican is reportedly investigating how €1-million of its funds was given towards the production of the first movie by a major film studio to include a male homosexual sex scene. The money for the highly-acclaimed Rocketman, which features Taron Egerton, above, as Elton John, is said to have come from Peter’s Pence, a Vatican fund used: For the many different needs of the Universal Church and for the relief of those most in need. It was revealed that it… Read more
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