Actor ‘didn’t understand’ that a character she was to play was gay

February 1, 2021 By Barry Duke

THE long-running battle between UK Christian bigot Seyi Omooba, above, and the Birmingham Hippodrome took a fresh turn this week when an Employment Tribunal was told that the actor would never have accepted the role of Celie in The Color Purple of she’d known the character was gay. According to this report, Omooba, 25, was sacked after making alleged homophobic remarks online, and that she would not have played the character. She is suing the Leicester Theatre Trust and her agents… Read more

Pastors call VP Harris ‘Jezebel’ & Biden ‘cognitively dysfunctional’

February 1, 2021 By Barry Duke

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ANOTHER day, and another report about outpourings of idiocy that issues from the mouths of moronic pulpit bullies. First off, Tom Buck, above, pastor of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas, drew a comparison between Vice President Kamala Harris and Jezebel, the Bible’s ” most nefarious woman”. According to Religious News Service, the godly dimwit tweeted shortly after her inauguration: I can’t imagine any truly God-fearing Israelite who would’ve wanted their daughters to view Jezebel as an inspirational role model… Read more

Jewish groups join calls for expulsion of mad Marjorie Greene

January 31, 2021 By Barry Duke

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NEWLY-minted gun-toting Christian lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, above – mentioned in an op-ed yesterday by Ophelia Benson – is now facing calls for her expulsion from Congress for her lunatic conspiracy theories, including Jews. According to Religious News Service, several reports emerged in the past week pointing to Greene’s longstanding support for bizarre and unfounded conspiracy theories, including speculating in a 2018 Facebook post that a wildfire in California that year was started when the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family,… Read more

Biden’s ‘blasphemy’: He promised awful things then touched a Bible

January 31, 2021 By Barry Duke

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WHEN Trump ordered peaceful protesters in Washington to ber tear-gassed so that he could pose outside a church brandishing a Bible, many Americans – including horrified Christians – saw his posturing as ‘farcical, sacrilegious and even fascistic.’ Reptilian Los Angeles pastor John MacArthur, above – who recently blasted rich “phony” preachers – was certainly not among those who expressed outrage. But when Joe Biden laid a hand on a Bible to take his presidential oath of office, the octogenarian told… Read more

Christian photographer launches lawsuit over gay wedding pics

January 30, 2021 By Barry Duke

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THE pic above is an example of the ‘godly’ work of Christian wedding photographer Bob Updegrove. It’s apparently ‘consistent with the Virginian’s deeply held’ biblical beliefs. But ask Updegrove to photograph gay couple, and he will shriek “NO!” – and he’s launched a lawsuit challenging a 2020 state law in Virginia that he claims would force him – eeew!!! –to do same-sex weddings despite his biblical beliefs regarding marriage. The law in question is The Virginia Values Act that came… Read more

Op-ed: A bit of a kerfuffle

January 30, 2021 By Ophelia Benson

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So that was fun. I love watching as the large and unruly country I live in comes way too close to a violent coup, and all the way up to and into a violent insurrection. I especially love it after four years of the most evil corrupt malevolent narcissistic president in our history. What can we do for an encore? Extermination camps? That idea doesn’t seem anything like as hyperbolic as it would have five years ago. I think we… Read more

‘Sexual sadist’ Catholic priest jailed for more than ten years

January 29, 2021 By Barry Duke

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JOSEPH Quigley is paedophile priest who was sent to the US for ‘therapy’ before being reinstated as a minister at a time when Cardinal Vincent Nichols was Archbishop of Birmingham. Nichols is now Archbishop of Westminster, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales – and claims to be deeply troubled over abuse in his church. According to this report, Quigley was sentenced today (Friday) at Warwick Crown Court to eleven and a half years in prison and ordered to sign the… Read more

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pose a ‘staggering threat’ to health and safety

January 29, 2021 By Barry Duke

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A CHAREDI community in London was confronted at an emergency meeting this week by government Faith Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, above, in the wake of a ‘shameful’ breach of COVID-19 regulations at a Yesodey Hatorah school wedding attended by 150 people. Greenhalgh made clear at the meeting in Stamford Hill – attended by the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Charedi charity Interlink and the Jewish Leadership Council – that “shameful events could and would not continue” or there would be consequences…. Read more

Priest complains of a ‘Catholic Antifa’ after a break with his church

January 28, 2021 By Barry Duke

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THE woes of Wisconsin priest John Zuhlsdorf, above, began with an ‘exorcism’ he conducted with the apparent aim of reversing President Joe Biden’s ‘fraudulent’ election win. According to this report, after Zuhlsdorf live-streamed himself performing exorcisms of alleged election fraud he was ousted from his position at a Roman Catholic diocese in Wisconsin. In one of the live-streams, Zuhlsdorf said: I think it’s amply clear, there’s enough evidence to demonstrate that there was fraud in some places, and people had to… Read more

In Germany religious posters ‘make people feel uncomfortable’

January 28, 2021 By Barry Duke

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FOR almost 60 years the South German Poster Mission, started by three Americans, has been plastering Christian propaganda in public places. But one political organisation, The Pirate Party ((Piratenpartei Deutschland) is now saying ‘enough is enough’ and has mobilised to stop the practice. In the Regional Assembly of Stuttgart, according to Evangelical Focus Europe, the party is demanding new advertising guidelines for the city trains (S-Bahn) to make sure no one is offended by the Bible verses. The “leftist faction”,… Read more

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