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November 2021

November 05, 2021

Religion, sex and crime: a Friday round-up

FIRST off, from Texas comes news that Koran teacher Mohammed Omar Ali, above – found...

November 02, 2021

Texas radio show host gets three life sentences for a Ponzi scheme

WILLIAM Neil “Doc” Gallagher, above, has been handed three life sentences for bilking elderly listeners...

November 02, 2021

Christian lawmaker is on a ‘search and destroy’ school books mission

TEXAS ... again! Gormless Republican Lawmaker Matt Krause, above, who is involved with an outfit...

October 2021

October 26, 2021

‘Christocrat’ has plans to seize control of Texas school boards

IN 2014, fiery Texas preacherman Rick Scarborough said God would be justified to nuke America...

September 2021

September 03, 2021

‘Come and get me’ – rabbi says he’ll defy Texas abortion law

A TEXAS law imposing a near-total ban on abortion that the US Supreme Court allowed...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

Pastor who declared ‘in the name of Jesus lockdowns are over’ is fined $5,000 and his church is now shut

CHRIST Embassy Church in Blacktown near Sydney was raided on Sunday, just hours after its...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Biblically ‘evil’ house torched. Man dies and woman, 82, injured.

TEXAS man Phillip Daniel Mills, inset above, has admitted torching his family’s home, killing his...

July 25, 2021

Abuse lawsuit launched against New Hampshire Catholic bishop

"HERE we go again, with another allegation against a bishop." These are the words of...

July 18, 2021

Florida pastor compares COVID-19 vaccinations to drug abuse

LAST March, South African-born millionaire pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, above – leader of River at Tampa...

June 2021

June 19, 2021

Christian rock band in hot water over ‘Jesus loves you’ message

WHO knew that there's a Christian rock band in Texas called Seventh Day Slumber? I...

February 2021

February 27, 2021

Op-ed: Oh, how they laughed when Ted Cruz joked about Cancún

A winter storm with below freezing temperatures killed more than a few people in Texas...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Wacko in Waco backpedals over Ginsburg death prayer

WHEN pastor Robert Henderson, above, of the Radiant Church in Waco, Texas, claimed a week...

September 03, 2020

Jesus tells Christian headmaster to expel star pupil

HE looks such a kindly geezer, but Dr Tony Jeffrey, inset, is now deservedly being...

July 2020

July 27, 2020

Kids infected with COVID-19 at Texas church’s summer camps

THE Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, led by pastor Ed Young, above, lost no time...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

Texas clown-turned-mayor in a pickle over Bible-based misogyny

COUNCIL meetings in the city of Wylie, Texas, begin with prayers. Nothing unusual in that...

April 2020

April 04, 2020

Gay-hating Texas MD and three pastors sue to keep churches open

THE President of the Conservative Republicans of Texas, Dr Steve Hotze, above, is notorious for...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Texas judge sues for being reprimanded over same-sex marriages

'BIBLE-believing' judge Dianne Hensley wants $10,000 in compensation for an alleged violation of her religious...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

Row erupts after judge gifts a Bible to woman jailed for murder

THERE was nothing 'inappropriate' in a Texas judge's decision on Wednesday to hand a convicted...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Christian couple who ran a ‘gay cure’ camp face trafficking charges

GARY Wiggins and his wife, Meaghan, who operated the Joshua Home – 'a haven of...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

Texas school’s haircut demand ‘traumatises’ Catholic schoolboys

CESAR and Diego Gonzales sport long braids because of a promise their Roman Catholic family...

July 14, 2019

‘Fake Christian’ Pence ‘uncomfortable’ at Texas concentration camp

A Texas detention centre for illegal immigrants – a concentration camp in all but name...

July 03, 2019

Church alleges ‘persecution’ after hazardous Jesus sign is removed

THE Jesus Christ Open Altar Church in Hawkins, Texas, has accused local authorities of a...

May 2019

May 12, 2019

Anti-gay firebrand gets a black eye over proposed ‘Jesus chicken’ law

AFTER his wife abandoned him for a woman in 2014, Texas-based Jonathan Saenz, above, abruptly...

April 2019

April 13, 2019

New ‘Jesus chicken’ outlet will be ‘the gayest in America’

RATHER than exclude a Chick-fil-A, as airports in Texas and New York have done, authorities...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

Chick-fil-A’s Texas airport exclusion has escalated into a major row

A COUPLE of days ago the Friendly Atheist reported that former Republican presidential candidate Mike...

March 22, 2019

Priest accused of groping ill woman while giving her last rites

THE Catholic Church is not – I repeat NOT – crammed to the rafters with...

March 07, 2019

Judge who invoked God at woman’s trial had a bout of ‘delirium’

TEXAS Judge Jack Robison, above, was portrayed in the media last year as stark raving...