EDDIE Long, a self-styled gay-hating bishop who stood accused in 2010 of sexual misconduct involving four males – former members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist megachurch in Lithonia, Georgia – is at the centre of a new controversy involving a throne, Jewish paraphernalia … and a load of tosh spouted by a Messianic rabbi. [...]
ONE MILLION MOMS, a vile offshoot of anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, have found a new target for their bigotry: American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress Ellen DeGeneres. According to this report, OMM are all of a lather over the fact DeGeneres has partnered with US retail chain JC Penney to promote [...]
A MAD US hate group, the Family Research Council (FRC), has declared war on a multi-million dollar video game – Star Wars: The Old Republic – because its creators decided to include a same-sex romance component to the game in a future patch. Despite the fact that the patch, according to this report, is completely [...]
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RANDY Roberts Potts, grandson of one of America’s most famous televangelists – Oral Roberts – is a man on a mission … to convince “conservative” Bible Belt communities that gay relationships are more than just a matter of sex, but about love and companionship, and “being human”. In an interview with CNN, Potts, who spent [...]
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WHILE the Archbishop of York, the toothy Dr John Sentamu, was running his mouth off yet again about the horrors of same-sex marriage – “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is” – a group of Christians turned out at a gay pride event in Chicago to apologise [...]
IS IT me, or is America’s 2012 presidential campaign throwing more religious lunatics into sharp relief than any in the past? Take, for example, the Rev O’Neal Dozier, a wingnut described here as “a firebrand social conservative”, who heads the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Dozier loathes Islam and cares even less for [...]
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