“Winans took advantage of ‘good, decent, church-going people,’ said [Judge Sean Cox] in U.S. District Court before sentencing him. ‘That is very, very troubling to me… You used … churches to perpetuate this fraud.’
“Assistant U.S. Attorney Abed Hammoud said of Winans: ‘He used religion. He used the church, the good reputation of the family,’ to rob victims. … (more…)
Stanley Kirk Burrell, the flash-in-the-pan musical spectacle and living punch line better known as MC Hammer, and now traveling Pentecostal preacher (he had his own show, “M.C. Hammer and Friends” — which, despite the sound of the title, was not a cartoon, although its host might be considered such — on Paul Crouch‘s TBN), was arrested in Dublin, Caifornia, Thursday night after an altercation with a cop, resulting in charges of resisting a police officer and obstructing a police officer in the performance of his duties. (more…)
“You take the good, you take the bad, you take ‘em both and there you have: a washed up teen sitcom actress who finds God and loses her
— Will Kohler
We couldn’t come up with a better lead-in for this story than the following post (“So, ‘The Facts of Life’ Boasts TWO Bigots Among Its Alumnae?”) from The Lavender Newswire, October 24, 2007 — which should explain why we’re experiencing a thoroughly unbecoming, off-the-scale amount of pure, unadulterated Schadenfreude at the news of the dissolution of Miss Whelchel’s ordained-by-God, better-than-gay marriage. (Embedded links may or may not still work.)
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“What bothers me the most about ‘The Expendables 2′ was the producers’ apparent willingness to acquiesce to Norris’ demand that the movie’s language needed to be toned down or he wouldn’t participate in the film… Norris, who has written several Christian-themed books and is a voice of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, isn’t OK with swearing being in a film but is perfectly fine with killing dozens of nameless bad guys with a gigantic automatic weapon, leaving nothing but a trail of blood and body parts in his wake. (more…)
“I also believe that in a hundred years from now, because they are the squeaky wheel, gay marriage will be legal, and a hundred years from now, people gonna be saying, ‘‘Who was against gay marriage? What idiot was that?’ Well, I’m that idiot!”
— Jimmie “J.J.” Walker
The best thing we can say about Jimmie Walker — the washed-up, has-been, one-trick pony whose greatest claim to fame was mugging like a moron on the cringe-making “Good Times” — is that at least he admits he is indeed “that idiot.”
First, he makes his irrational bigotry known on CNN, citing “traditions” in which he himself has never participated (unless he counts the oldest profession in the world as one of those “certain traditions that need to be upheld”): (more…)
Charged: Raymond Roland Collette, 40, media director, City on the Hill Church, St. Petersburg, Florida, “with trying to entice a minor into a sex act after allegedly asking a mother who responded to one of his many Craigslist ads if he could worship her 4-year-old’s shoes – while posing as a woman and using photos from the Facebook profile of a female church member,” reports the New York Daily News. According to court records, a woman (and mother of a four-year-old girl) who responded to one of Collette’s Craigslist ads called police after Collette (a.k.a. “April Love”) “‘expressed (his) (more…)
“If you push anti-gay legislation and make anti-gay speeches, you should probably take a pass on having gay sex, regardless of whether it’s 2004…
“Rep. Schrock resigns after ‘gay phone sex call’ surfaces on web”
“…or 2010…
Missouri has always been something of an anomaly among the states. Officially part of the Midwest, Missouri looks, feels, and often acts far more like its Southern neighbors (particularly Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee). Offhand…
A city like Columbia actually feels like a city, but drive a few miles out of town, and suddenly you’re in dark woods of the sort that will make you think you’ve just been dropped into the middle of a Friday the 13th sequel, where you’ll remember every reference Stephen King ever made to “foo lights,” before you stop mid-thought and suddenly recognize the tune you’ve been humming mindlessly to yourself. (more…)
…despite his brand-spanking new Christian conversion and repentance he’s using to justify his breathtaking homophobia, rooted in his current journey “deep into Bible study.” Since Leviticus is only the third book of the Bible, he must be a very slow reader (or perhaps, as we suspect, just very slow, thanks to all those punches to the head):
“In an interview with National Conservative Examiner, Pacquiao addressed President (more…)
“Pacquiao is entitled to his beliefs, but he looked a bit hypocritical when it turned out that his wife, Jinkee, nearly divorced him in November. The Los Angeles Times last week reported that trainer Freddie Roach said Jinkee Pacquiao served divorce papers upon her husband shortly before his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.
“Roach subsequently denied saying she served divorce papers, though he didn’t deny that Pacquiao’s lifestyle was hurting his fight career. Roach said that, among other things, the distractions (more…)
Headlines below pretty much say all — but it’s important to note that Williams’s spiritual father, in more ways than one, is the late and ever-so-infamous Fr.Marcial Maciel Degollado, Legion of Christ founder who raped boys and fathered at least one child of his own.
• “Famous priest who preaches morality on TV confesses to fathering love child,” AP, May 15, 2012
• “Legion admits it knew of priest’s kid, did nothing,” AP, May 15, 2012
Claims to fame: Former Major League Baseball outfielder whose hot-headedness is far more consistent than his performance on the field ever was; none-too-bright “Apostolic Christian” theocratic creationist; dinosaur-denier; moon-landing denier; massive homophobe; admitted adulterer; accused child- & wife-abuser
Moral apex: Impossible to choose just one, so let’s start with the two most recent: Busted in 2011 for domestic violence — twice. (more…)
We are not calling Patricia Heaton, the annoying co-star of “Everybody Loves Raymond” (and the reason we stopped watching that show years before it was mercifully euthanized), several forgettable Lifetime TV-movies and, we understand, something called “The Middle” (which we will not bother even trying precisely because of the presence of Miss Heaton), a slut.
Rather, Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke a slut (over and over and over again) for exercising her First Amendment right to free speech. (more…)
The real question: What did Mormon church officials know, and when did they know it?
But first: Let’s back up this truck, and get to what we do know.
The short version: Five siblings become famous playing piano, selling records & selling out concerts, while Mom, Dad, and kiddies alike wax sincere about their deep and abiding faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family is portrayed as epitome of wholesome Mormonosity — until the three daughters accuse Daddy of sexually molesting them for many years. Daddy takes Mommy on “ski trip”; on way home, drives Porsche over 300-foot cliff. Both survive. Daddy confesses: While progeny plunked pianos, Daddy diddled daughters. (more…)
Claims to fame: Emmy award-winning investigative reporter for right-wing Fox News affiliate WNYW-TV Fox 5, New York; ex-Marine; husband; father of two; apparent homophobe; apparent woman-basher; accused child molester & kiddie-porn consumer
See all entries for Aaron Bruns
July 21, 2009
According to a Tweet by ABC News’ Jake Tapper, a former Fox News producer received a ten year prison sentence for child pornography charges.Tapper’s Twitter said, “the @foxnews reporter who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, Aaron Bruns (@abruns) was just sentenced to 10 yrs in prison.”
More at Raw Story.
Claims to fame: Fox “News” Channel producer (2002-09); “embed” producer on Hillary Clinton’s campaign trail; accused child pornography collector and purveyor
Moral apex: Take your pick: either the kiddie-porn bust on February 10, 2009 (for having the most vile kiddie porn images and videos on his computer), or the 1999 bust for distributing child pornography in college. (more…)
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Claims to fame: Lakewood, Colorado, Republican radio personality; host of KRCN-AM 1060′s “Business for Breakfast”; winner of “various news awards from the Colorado Broadcasters Association, Associated Press and the Radio/Television News Directors Association”; would-be Internet predator; registered sex offender
Moral apex: Engaged in a sexually graphic online chat with what he believed was a 12-year-old girl — who was in reality an undercover Fort Collins police detective, working an investigation of Cortelyou that had begun in August, 2006.
Busted: Arrested at the radio station after finishing his morning show, on January 23, 2007, for using the Internet to lure a child into a sexual relationship.
Arrested a second time on January 31 for suspected Internet Sexual Exploitation of a Child “at his Conifer home Wednesday afternoon following an investigation into an Internet ‘chat’ conversation with an undercover police officer that is alleged to have occurred in August 2006. According to court documents, Cortelyou engaged in more than one sexually graphic Internet conversation with a person he believed to be an underage child. This matter is alleged to have occurred in a different jurisdiction and before the incident that prompted his arrest by Fort Collins investigators January 23.”
Ultimately: On April 23, 2007, he pled guilty to Internet Luring and Attempted Internet Sexual Exploitation of a Child, both class five felonies.
On July 24, 2007, Cortelyou was sentenced to 18 months’ probation (“Intensive Supervision Probation”).
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Cortelyou:
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
— Job 20:11-14
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