Televangelist Benny Hinn's wife is filing for divorce.
Singer Elton John told People magazine that he thought Jesus was a "compassionate, super intelligent gay man," to which a furious Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission declared that the musician's statement was "an outrage and the height of blasphemy and an offense to all those who are Christians." Cass goes on to say in his press release that Elton John owes all Christians an apology.
Rove Monteux reports on a fundamentalist Christian couple accused of beating one of their two adopted children to death:
Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz of Paradise, California, were charged with murder and torture for allegedly beating their two adoptive daughters, causing injuries so severe that one of the two died. The other remains in critical condition.
The Schatz family believed in a religious philosophy that espouses corporal punishment to "train" children to be more obedient to their parents and God, using "the rod" as a corrective tool. In this case, the rod is a quarter-inch thick plastic plumbing line.
Political junkies and fans of Ron Paul might remember that when Paul dropped out of the Republican presidential primaries, he threw his support to Chuck Baldwin of the Cosntitutional Party, a third party whose platform preamble reads something like a call for a theocracy:
The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.
This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been and are afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.
It turns out that Mr. Baldwin is scheduled to speak at the racist "Foundation for Moral Law" convention this Saturday. According to an article published by the Southern Poverty Law School's Hate Watch, "Baldwin has written that 'the South was right in the War Between the States" and that Martin Luther King Jr. "brought havoc and unrest to America as few men have ever done.'" The article highlights other speakers who have ties to the Klu Klux Klan and former Justice Thomas Moore. Included in the roster is John Eidsmoe, characterized by SPLC follows:
Eidsmoe is a former law school professor and close friend and one-time legal adviser to Roy Moore. A theocrat, Eidsmoe has suggested that the government "may not act contrary to God's laws." In 2005, Eidsmoe spoke to the national conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a hate group that routinely denigrates blacks as "genetically inferior," complains about "Jewish power brokers," calls homosexuals "perverted sodomites," accuses immigrants of turning America into a "slimy brown mass of glop," and named Lester Maddox, the now-deceased, ax handle-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, "Patriot of the Century."
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