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Bostock v. Clayton County, that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ workers.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, appointed by President George W.

reported that Rick Scarborough, a self-described “Christocrat,” strident anti-LGBTQ activist, and longtime critic of public education, had begun raising money through his group Recover America to fund an effort to elect right-wing candidates to school boards in three Houston-area school districts.Earlier this month, Scarborough spoke at the Katy Christian Chamber of Commerce Breakfast in Houston, where he said that if they are successful in taking over these three school boards, he plans to

Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta reports.“People who will have a violent attitude towards the f****ts and sodomites will be reported as having committed hate crimes,” Alvarez lamented, calling it “a mixed-up justice system” that “needs to be called out.”“If they were to.

Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov.

Lt. Governor Mark Robinson to resign after video of remarks he made in June, calling LGBTQ people “filth,” went viral this week, as NBC News and others are reporting.Robinson, who is also a conspiracy theorist, climate change denialist, anti-abortion activist, and NRA board member, is not only refusing to resign, he’s now claiming he is the one being attacked because of his political beliefs.“We will not be intimidated.

Virginia, Arizona, Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Vermont, according to local news reports.Evangelical anti-LGBTQ activist and former Trump advisor Franklin Graham this week jumped on the right wing conspiracy theory that wrongly claims the U.S. Dept.

mobilizing angry mobs to yell at school board members that parents have the right to control what their children are taught, evangelical pollster George Barna told religious-right activists at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” summit Thursday that it is their duty to try to indoctrinate other people’s children into a “biblical worldview.”Barna, one of the first senior fellows at FRC’s recently established Center for Biblical Worldview, specializes in studying what he calls “SAGE

Blue Virginia first reported. And on Friday, the Republican hopeful will speak at the Pray Vote Stand Summit hosted by the Family Research Council, another anti-LGBTQ organization so extreme the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed it a hate group.Youngkin appeared at the Family Foundation event alongside GOP candidate for lieutenant governor Winsome Sears and the hard-right Virginia state Sen.

scandal–plagued Australian megachurch Hillsong, will plead not guilty to charges of concealing child sexual abuse.Authorities in New South Wales, Australia, in August charged the 67-year-old pastor with concealing child sex offenses committed by his late father, the Pentecostal pastor and pedophile, Frank Houston.

Right Wing Watch reports.Failing to cite any sources or statistics, Christmas claimed that the shame of being gay led people to die by suicide.“Can I tell you how my heart goes out to the homosexual community because there are so many of them,” Christmas said. “Suicide amongst the homosexual community is one of the highest rates of suicide of anything in the Earth.“In part, it is because of the guilt.

Pat Robertson announced on Friday he is stepping down from his role as host of “The 700 Club.” And while his Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is calling it “60 Years of History-Making TV Ministry,” many others are applauding the decision.For more half a century Robertson, a former ordained minister, waged what he saw as a religious war against the LGBTQ community.

according to the Wrap.“My replacement will be my very capable son, Gordon, who will take over as full-time host of the program,” he added of his 63-year-old son, who has been the show’s co-host and executive producer for the past two decades. Robertson began hosting “The 700 Club” in 1966, six years after founding CBN. The program’s name was inspired by a 1963 telethon Robertson hosted in which he asked 700 viewers to pledge $10 a month to the network.

HBO Max‘s “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin,” the first three episodes of which debut today, follows the rise and fall of Shamblin’s Remnant Fellowship Church, which has been called a cult and implicated in the death of at least one child.

conversion therapy, which claims to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity, Christmas said that rather than tell LGBTQ people that they are “scum,” he was going to “change” them.“We’re not gonna tell ’em they’re going to hell, we’re not gonna tell ’em they’re scum. We’re gonna tell ’em that they’re born of God, that God will set them free, and change them by the power of the Holy Hhost,” he said.“We’re going to put them on our platform to sing that our God is an awesome God.

Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex marriages, calling it a divine sacrament that the church cannot change.Speaking to reporters last week, Francis was asked if he approves of European countries passing laws recognizing marriage equality, the Associated Press reports.“I have spoken clearly about this, no? Marriage is a sacrament. Marriage is a sacrament,” the Pope replied.

scandal–plagued Hillsong Church, has stepped down from almost all of his positions at the Australia-based megachurch ahead of a looming court date next month.“I’ve made a decision to step aside from my role on the Hillsong Church boards that oversee the governance of our operations,” Houston, 67, wrote in an email sent to congregants Friday and seen by The Post.

a long shot.”But that’s not stopping Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an anti-LGBTQ extremist and former federal prosecutor trained to only bring cases he knows have a chance of succeeding.Brnovich is running to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Kelly in the 2022 election.“Is it a long shot? Yeah, I recognize that,” Brnovich told Bloomberg News.

Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” — was a good choice for the position due to young people’s increasing lack of religiosity. “There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,” Epstein, who grew up in a Jewish home, told the New York Times in an interview published Thursday.

was drafted in response to one parent’s complaint about an LGBTQ pride flag that’s been hanging in a middle school classroom for years.District Superintendent Dr. Brad Yates deemed the LGBTQ flag “controversial” in a letter to parents and in a Facebook post last week.

out a senior American official could lead to further outings among the church’s hierarchy.In July, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — the church’s official mouthpiece in the U.S.

Inside Edition, American Airlines said that he was an Envoy Air employee, adding that the pilot “accessed the public address system upon landing and made troubling comments until a crew member could intervene.”“To our affected passengers, we apologize for your experience and what you heard does not reflect our values,” American Airlines said.Steve Cowell, a veteran pilot, told Inside Edition that the speech was “nothing more than a very, very public cry for help.”Read More:Chasten and Pete

said on Aug. 15, urging followers to “pray the Rosary for him.”After testing positive, Burke, 73, tweeted on Aug.

pressure Israel to divide its land and blamed droughts in California on same-sex marriage.In a recent appearance on right-wing ministry leader Jan Markell’s “Understanding the Times” radio show, he claimed that COVID-19 was a “judgment” on widespread acceptance of LGBTQ people, Right Wing Watch reports.Koenig and Markell also accused LGBTQ people of prepping children to be “groomed and sexualized,” calling it a “war on children.”Merkell kicked off the attack during her July 29 broadcast by

according to Brian’s own shocking admission in a newsletter sent to his congregation over Christmas.Authorities in New South Wales, Australia subpoenaed the 67-year-old reverend by way of his attorney on Thursday afternoon, The Australian has reported. He is due to appear in court on Oct.

reported. “Data app signals suggest he was at the same time engaged in serial and illicit sexual activity.” The Wisconsin-based priest’s alleged “activity” included attending a “gay bathhouse” in Las Vegas. “On Monday, we became aware of impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior by Msgr.

last Sunday that anyone who believes in evolution must oppose marriage equality and that homosexuality “proves the existence of God.”“When two people of the same sex get together, it’s out of sheer wanton lust and pleasure only for self,” Hibbs said during his sermon. “Nothing comes of it.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham doesn’t often talk about principles, but on Wednesday the South Carolina Republican declared his willingness to go to war for them.

a Washington Post exposé on “a growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”As The Post explains, “It is a world in which demons are real, miracles are real, and the ultimate mission is not just transforming individual lives but also turning civilization itself into their version of God’s Kingdom: one with two genders, no abortion, a free-market economy, Bible-based education, church-based

National Catholic Reporter.No details have yet been made public about when Anatrella will face trial, but the Paris Archdiocese previously reprimanded Anatrella in 2018 due to the allegations against him, preventing him from practicing therapy or hearing confession.Anatrella allegedly positioned himself as an expert on men struggling with their sexuality, reportedly using so-called “body therapy” to “heal” them.That “therapy” included massaging clients, masturbating them, and forcing sex on them