Wednesday May 30, 2012
We’ve been waiting for this for what seems like forever. Yet while we celebrate one of those rare moments in which we see that the long arc of the moral universe does indeed bend toward justice, we can’t help but wonder: What must Pat Robertson be thinking right now?
What? You mean you didn’t know Pat Robertson, that supreme judge of all things moral and immoral, invested between $8 million and $15 million (allegedly CBN [Christian Broadcasting Network] and/or PTL money) in Liberian blood diamonds, giving Liberia’s murderous dictator Charles Taylor a 10% share in Reverend Pat’s Freedom Gold, Ltd., — or that Pat allegedly used his own “humanitarian” air fleet to move those dirty diamonds out of Africa (“Operation Blessing’s tax-exempt cargo planes were used almost exclusively for Roberton’s diamond-mining operation, not for humanitarian purposes“), and allegedly lobbied the Bush administration to support the Taylor regime? (All of which Pat denies! Denies, he tells you! Denies, denies, denies!) (more…)
Charles Abdelahad • James Boudreau • Walter Bradshaw • Melissa Dalton • Joshua Finney
Carl C. Lloyd III • Denis Lyons • Damon Young / Dayspring Christian Fellowship
Sentenced: Charles Michael Abdelahad, 56, former pastor, St. George Antiochan Orthodox Cathedral, Worcester, Massachusetts, to two years minus all but 90 days with three years’ concurrent probation, after his bench-trial conviction of one count of assault and battery (for biting his victim) and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (the shoe he was wearing when he kicked her), committed against a 45-year-old female parishioner who had come to him for counseling for an eating disorder. The Telegram & Gazette reports that Judge Andrew M. D’Angelo (more…)
“The poll appeared on the same day as headlines about Catholic Church leaders fighting President Obama’s attempt to get insurance coverage for contraception for women who work or go to college at Catholic institutions. The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, (more…)
We expected more from R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, than a misreading of the Bible so amateurish, it would embarrass any first-year theology student. Or is Mohler’s misreading deliberate? We can’t possibly know. All we know is that, from our experience with many, many Albert Mohlers, we think that anyone who would write something so outrageous as the following would say or do anything to advance his own agenda: (more…)
Tuesday May 29, 2012
Related to the subject of the Catholic church trying to bully SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) into oblivion, David Ferguson at Raw Story sums up Bill Donohue’s latest appalling apologia nicely:
“Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, believes that the Catholic church has gone too easy on the survivors of sex abuse by clergy, and has vowed to fight them ‘one by one,’ says a post at the blog Right Wing Watch. (more…)
Boy Scouts Liable for Bias Against Muslim Worker
By Lorraine Bailey, reprinted with the kind permission of Courthouse News Service(CN) — The Boy Scouts of America owes $152,500 in back wages to a Muslim Egyptian-American who was passed over for promotion, a federal judge ruled.
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Diane Elain Shafer is a 60-year-old former orthopedic surgeon, former vice chair, Mingo County Board of Health, staunch Republican, failed candidate for the West Virginia state house, failed RNC delegate candidate, heavy GOP donor (see here and here), and, while this isn’t the first time she’s been called on the carpet for being a crooked doctor (click on the links for four cases of discipline & five cases of malpractice in her WVA medical board record), now — after writing more prescriptions than some hospitals — she’s a convicted felon: (more…)
“At the beginning of May, Romney told a crowd in Pittsburgh that an unemployment rate over 4% is too high. Romney was responding to an economic report showing that the unemployment rate had dropped to 8.1%. …
“Romney couldn’t even hold that position for a full month, because on Wednesday, during an interview with Mark Halperin of Time magazine, Romney said that he would get unemployment down to 6% by the end of 2016. … (more…)
Monday May 28, 2012
Until today, D.J. Bettencourt was the anti-tax, anti-choice, anti-healthcare, Mitt Romney-loving, Catholic, Republican New Hampshire House bulldog with the bad skull-shave who spent his earlier days devoting his time to putting unqualified, misguided, stupid, and/or just plain mean Republicans into office, including George W. Bush (who was unqualified, misguided, stupid, and just plain mean). He was also a special aide to Romney during the latter’s reign over the temporarily-insane state of Massachusetts. (more…)
Dear Colorado: Are you going to continue to recognize the Crecelius marriage, even though it will now be a same-sex marriage?
If not, then are you going to annul the marriage? Wouldn’t that be breaching the state’s original contract with Stevie and her wife? After all, Stevie never signed anything promising that she would always have man parts, and you, Dear Colorado, never made that a condition of civil marriage.
If so, does this mean all a cisgender same-sex couple would have to do in order to be legally married in your great state would be for one of them to get a sex change? What if one got a sex change, and then changed back after getting married? What if one got a sex change, married, and then the other had a sex change? (more…)
“In this historic moment for human rights, listening to the likes of [Roger] Ailes (now on his third marriage) and [Rush] Limbaugh (currently married to wife No. 4), not to mention [Karl] Rove (divorced twice), it is impossible to believe that Republicans screaming about the future of wedlock are sincere. If they are truly worried about marriage, they should stop harassing gays and campaign for the only change that might make a real difference. (more…)
We haven’t the words to express our disgust: “it was not his place” — nor anyone else’s — “to call the police”?!
The prayer group met regularly at St. Anthony of Padua, a Roman Catholic church in Camden, N.J., where behind the modest brick facade (more…)
Sunday May 27, 2012
Joseph F. Byrne • Jamie Duerre • Paolo Gabriele • Susan Grady
Rodney Marcus Grimsley • Richard O’Toole • Walter F. Smith III
Accused: Joseph F. Byrne, Roman Catholic priest (“with limited ministry”), St. Patrick’s Church, Falmouth, Massachusetts, and former pastor, Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted, Waltham, as well as several other parishes in the Boston area, of sexual abuse of a child. A May 25th press release from the Archdiocese of Boston states: “The allegation concerns conduct alleged to have occurred in the early-1970s and was only recently reported… The Archdiocese immediately notified law enforcement of the allegation and has initiated a preliminary investigation into the complaint. Fr. Byrne (more…)
Saturday May 26, 2012
Our friend Wayne Besen caught this hysterical hypocrisy from the hysterical Bill Donohue, head crusader of the Catholic League. As quoted in a column by Maureen Dowd about various hardliners’ hissy fits over Kansas Governor (and moderate, sane Catholic) Kathleen Sebelius’s speech at the very, very (but relatively moderate, sane) Catholic Georgetown University, Donohue sputtered:
“Remember, Georgetown has no neo-Nazi clubs or skinhead clubs on campus, nor should they. But they have two — two! — pro-abortion clubs at Georgetown University. Now they’re (more…)
“Bristol Palin accused Obama of pandering to teenagers who watch one too many episodes of ‘Glee.’ Says the girl who got knocked up after watching one too many episodes of ‘Teen Mom.’”
— Bill Maher, May 11, 2012
Friday May 25, 2012
Unbelievable video after the jump.
Congratulations to Stacey Pritchard, faithful follower of anti-gay hate preacher Charles L. Worley, for earning eternal enshrinement in Conservative Babylon by making herself the public Face of Homophobic Hatred (second only to Pastor Worley himself) for not only her beloved, un-evolved, gay-hatin’ Providence Road Baptist Church, but for all un-evolved, gay-hatin’ North Carolinians. No, wait — make that for all un-evolved, gay-hatin’ troglodytes. (more…)
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If you don’t know about Pastor Charles L. Worley and his Final Solution to kill off “all the lesbians ‘n’ queers ‘n’ the homosexuals,” do catch up with the ongoing saga before continuing…
All done? Good. Now… WSFA reports: “The YouTube version of the video cuts off shortly before Pastor Worley is able to clarify his sentiments, but WBTV listened to the rest of the (more…)
Backstory: “Dear Mr. Guetzloe: Not Wanting to Pay Taxes Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have to Pay Taxes,” May 24, 2012
In response to the question, “In your words, what are you going to prison for?,” anti-tax activist Doug Guetzloe — who says he “was not charged with not paying taxes — only with not ‘filing’ the paperwork,” but who’s headed to the slammer for 15 months for what sure-as-shootin’ sounds to us like not paying his taxes — had this to say: (more…)
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