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May 2017

May 01, 2017

Trump Is Delivering on the Religious Right’s Evangelical Sharia Wet Dream

White evangelicals love Trump because he's delivering what his core constituency craves: the real possibility...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

Is Franklin Graham gay “but in a state of denial, self-loathing and shame?” asks John Allyn Welch

(Photo YouTube) Is Franklin Graham gay "but in a state of denial, self-loathing and shame?"...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

It’s Now Clear: White Evangelicals Unleashed a Wave of Jew-Hatred Bigotry and Lies: Trump Is Fulfilling the Worst Case Scenario — American Jews, Hispanic Christians, Gay Moms and Dads Are in Real Danger

Trump is unleashing a wave of Jew-hating. White evangelical voters are now responsible for an...

February 15, 2017

WATCH: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and white American evangelicals are fast becoming America-hating complicit traitors to democracy

TRUMP, RUSSIA, EVANGELICAL FASCISTS = IMPEACHMENT: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP?

(Photo YouTube) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO RESIST TRUMP? WATCH and then PLEASE COME...

January 03, 2017

Meet the Bottom-Dwelling “Faith Leaders” — Franklin Graham included — Selling America For Access to Power at Trump’s swearing-in

Think of Paula White’s ministry as the church version of Trump University. Think of Franklin...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

No Lives Matter: Will the last gender studies professor welcoming the last gay student to the last safe space college catering to sensitive transgender students learning to write code and dreaming of startups please turn out the lights?

(Photo: Wikipedia) We are facing the most important question in human history and it's not...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

#HopeAfterTrump

#HopeAfterTrump   `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` P.S. If you want to know a little more about where I'm...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

an open letter to millennials about this election from an old guy who actually likes you

  You are a betrayed generation. Frivolous divorce rocked your world as too many parents...

September 15, 2016

Trump and the Evangelicals are now One and the Same– Literally. To the Evangelicals America’s Gays, Blacks, Hispanics and Women are a “Strong-Willed” Child in Need of Breaking and if Need be– Killing

(Photo queerty.com/YouTube) An old friend of mine Gary Bauer -- we worked together on the...

September 13, 2016

HERE’S WHY THE AMERICAN “PATRIOTIC” EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT NOW SUPPORTS THE MURDERER/FASCIST AMERICA-HATING THUG PUTIN

(Photos YouTube) In the 1970s and 1980s when my dad (Francis Schaeffer) and I helped...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Here’s the Best Article I’ve Read on Just Why and How Evangelicals Can Deny Everything They Say they believe and Support the Ultimate Anti-Jesus Candidate: Trump

  "According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of white evangelical voters say they...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses

 "White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses" writes Steven Rosenfeld in an...

July 23, 2016

Did Jerry Falwell Jr Watch the Multiple and Disgusting Howard Stern/Trump Interviews (or Know that Trump is accused of Child rape) BEFORE Endorsing Him?

(YouTube photo) In the 1980s when I was myself in the religious right I preached...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Samantha Bee Best Ever Commentary On Mass Shootings, the NRA and Their Republican Congressional Pimps: Priceless– WATCH!

Samantha Bee, the best thing in late-night television today, did what she does best aiming...

June 04, 2016

HERE IS WHY I’LL VOTE FOR HILLARY, AND WHY YOU SHOULD TOO– Please! Watch! Please Pass On! Let’s Save America From the Casino FOOL!

Please watch this and save America and the world from the casino/fake college/bad steak/beauty pageant...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Donald Trump and His Angry Voters Are Furthering an Extremist Christian Agenda to replace democracy with theocracy by undermining our rights and protections from the bottom up

Unlike Muslim fundamentalists who use bullets, bombs and beheadings to enforce Sharia from the top...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Here’s the best article I’ve read on the sensible journey away from the Evangelical World that Hates Our (Clearly) Queer/Trans Creator

Author Deborah Jian Lee "So when I became a leader of my college Christian fellowship...

April 06, 2016

Pastor Kevin Swanson and Ted Cruz Ask: “Who Would Jesus Drown?”

 (photo Daily Express UK) As Ted Cruz supporter Pastor Kevin Swanson says, "Don't you dare...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

2016 Elections and Trump/Cruz Mark the End of the American Evangelical Movement

In our fuzzy American sentimental folklore Christianity was once associated with kindness. Not anymore. Evangelicals embraced...

March 01, 2016

I Am A FAN of Brandan Robertson… Will You Join me in Helping Struggle for LGBT+ inclusion???

Hey there! Please read the letter from someone I admire very much and help out....

January 2016

January 20, 2016

The Witch-Hunts, Dishonesty, Victimology and Paranoia at Gordon, Wheaton (and Many other Evangelical Schools) Spells Long-Term Disaster For Christian Education in the USA

Evangelical schools are indulging in witch-hunts. They are acting on ideological imperatives and financial incentives—donors...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Susan Cottrell wrote True Colors to help LGBTQ people heal relationships with parents, family, others

“For anyone who has been spiritually hurt by the church, by parents or family members,...

September 12, 2015

KIM DAVIS (not to mention evangelical hypocrisy) DESTROYED: “I am the very model of a modern fundamentalist”

Sick of Kim Davis? Tired of evangelical smarmy Hypocrisy? Here's the last thing you ever need...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian

LOUISVILLE, KY—At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

a 7-year-old first grader stands up to the religious right WATCH THIS CLIP

  In this video clip Zea--a 7-year-old first grader--stands up to bully religious right. The argument...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

how evangelical Protestantism lost me

"This essay, which represents my first detailed public statement on how evangelical Protestantism lost me, is...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Ireland to Roman Catholic Church “Get Lost!” R.I.P Catholic neocons! (And good riddance)

Conservative Roman Catholics hate Pope Francis because he loves Jesus more than power. And now...

May 16, 2015

Why Does God Hate Gay People? My Interview on the New Movie

At the End of the Day is a feature-length comedy written and directed by Kevin O’Brien....

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Will California face a backlash for its homophobic legislation like Uganda Did?

"So will the State of California face the threat of similar federal sanctions for its own proposed...

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