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March 2015

March 24, 2015

California: “shoot the gays” proposal

According to the Guardian a California lawyer says he wants to legalize the execution of gay people,...

March 24, 2015

Can Ted Cruz revive the evangelicalism of the past?

"LYNCHBURG, VA – Ted Cruz came to this southern town Monday to launch his presidential...

March 12, 2015

Here’s How the Roman Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality Can and Must Change

Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. In this...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite Certainty Addicts & Help Me Financially Too

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite...

November 14, 2014

Many Evangelical Leaders Are Such SOB’s– What Are They Hiding?

Are Franklin Graham--and/or the 13 Evangelical leaders who wrote to Obama asking to be allowed to...

November 09, 2014

The Days of the Bigots at Christianity Today Magazine, Who’s Editor Wrote to President Obama demanding the “religious liberty right” to Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women, are Numbered: WATCH This Clip

Please pay attention to my friend Brandon Robertson--and pray that this young evangelical leader is...

November 05, 2014

Republican Victory Proves That Lies Work With White Evangelicals

The Republican Party base is white evangelicals. So no wonder the GOP lies about...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay”

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek where he said "So...

October 25, 2014

Calling for Southern States to Secede From the Nation Over Gay Marriage

Douglas MacKinnon Calls For Southern U.S. To Secede As Anti-Gay Nation Called 'Reagan' The Huffington...

October 05, 2014

“Transparent” is Willing to Take on the Actual Complexity that is in Each of Us When it Comes (no pun) to Our Sexual Lives

Transparent is great! Jill Soloway, the show's writer and director/creator is brilliant. If Amazon’s book-selling success...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

“In this context and with a heavy heart, I hereby return my diploma to the Gordon College Board of Trustees”

Frank, Thanks again for offering to post this on Patheos.com. In addition to registering...

July 11, 2014

Dear Evangelical Establishment, I know you don’t trust or like me and I don’t blame you! But instead of just writing me off as wicked, for once you’d better listen up…

(A 1984 satirical magazine cover depicting "Franky" Schaeffer as a "kid" throwing mud at Christianity Today Magazine and...

July 08, 2014

Dear Mr. President, As the Executive Editor of Christianity Today Magazine I Demand A Religious Exemption For Burning Witches Our Freedom As Christians is at Stake (No Pun)

Fourteen religious leaders including Gordon College president D. Michael Lindsay as well as the executive...

July 06, 2014

The Can and Can’t LIST of the Religious Right

Can carry a loaded gun in public Can’t get contraceptives Can go to the Creation...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is like Some Mafia Thug, Actually Worse

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's actions of late remind me of Season 6 of The Sopranos....

June 20, 2014

Watch My Latest on MSNBC Huckabee uses MLK to justify LGBT discrimination

Watch my latest on MSNBC Click on this LINK … Frank Schaeffer is a...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

World Vision: It’s Never Too Late To Hate

World Vision’s annual budget is $1 billion. When $1 billion is at stake you backtrack. The...

March 22, 2014

The Only Difference between the Late Fred Phelps and the Evangelical Establishment (Not to Mention Christianity Today Magazine) is that Fred had the Guts to Act on His Evangelical Convictions

Fred Phelps is dead. There’s only one interesting thing about Phelps: He was the mirror...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

The Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014

Here's Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014... 1. Thank President...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

My NPR Interview on God, the Tea Party, Religion, my Books…

WBEZ's Worldview Frank Schaeffer: Christian religious extremism leading to persecution of LGBT people Posted...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Evangelical Marriages Fail At Much Higher Rates Than Atheist’s Marriages

Surprise! Atheist marriages last longer than Christian ones. Yet conservative Christians see themselves as the...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

American Religious Right and Russian Orthodox Leaders are Colluding in Putin’s Persecution of Gay People

With the disgusting acquiescence of the Russian Orthodox bishops, Vladimir Putin has accomplished what Sarah...

September 20, 2013

NEWSFLASH! The POPE is SANE!

Pope Francis said in an interview published Thursday that the Roman Catholic Church must...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Gays Are Dangerous to Christians– Really! (Watch)

Gay men and women are persecuting Christians. The Pope says there is a secret gay...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

American “Mainstream” Evangelicals Target Africa With Their “Gospel” of Hate

This video blog first aperred in the New York Times Please watch this...

December 2012

December 09, 2012

Good Riddance To The White Stupid Rube GOP!

Here's my favorite Maureen Dowd column of all time! Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Lost Civilization By MAUREEN DOWD Published:...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Do Christians Have Something Better To Do Than Spending the Next 4 Years Hating and Lying About President Obama The Way They Did For The Last 4 Years?

On the morning after the reelection of President Obama American Christians of a conservative-to-far-right bent...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Thank God The Christian Right Will Be Destroyed By Its Homophobia

This article is by Valerie Tarico and was first was published by AlterNet as "Will the Christian Right...

October 22, 2012

Billy Graham Endorses Romney’s Secret Conversion to Islam — Says “At Least He’s Not a Homosexual!”

Meanwhile in the alternative USA somewhere on a planet far away and not so long...

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