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God hates the Westboro Baptist Church
Yesterday, in a move that will hopefully lead to the bankruptcy of the Westboro Baptist Church, a jury awarded Albert Snyder, the father of a dead Marine, nearly $11 million for emotional damages...
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The banshee screams for loon meat: Warren Jeffs heads to the bighouse
The gig is up for Warren Jeffs. ST. GEORGE, Utah (Reuters) – U.S. polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed “prophet” of a sect of breakaway Mormons, was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years to...
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Westboro Baptist Church to picket Heath Ledger's U.S. memorial services
I’m not usually one to post celebrity news, preferring as I do news with more substance. But pretty much anything the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas does grabs my attention. And the nominal...
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Can the center hold?: a response to Pastor Dan
Pastor Dan has an absolutely must-read piece on faith and politics over at Street Prophets, and while I feel wholly inadequate for the task of matching the depth of his analysis, he raises a number of...
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Hock if you love Jesus
On the left at about the 8-second mark, figure in black spits in the face of Shirley Phelps-Roper. Gratuitous, yes. But don’t tell me you haven’t dreamed of doing it yourself… Thanks to Steven Campbell...
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Our latest tragic shooting: who's to blame?
Another church shooting, this time in Knoxville. By now you’ve probably read the accounts and know that the shooter, Jim Adkisson, was motivated by, among other things, an apparent hatred of...
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Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?
In this season’s eighth episode, Boston Legal – the relentlessly liberal ABC dramedy starring William Shatner and James Spader – lobbed an absolute bomb at those of us on the pro-choice side of the Roe...
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Fred Phelps is dead: the LGBT community owes him a debt of gratitude
An evil man has departed the Earth, but not before inadvertently making it a better place. Without Contraries is no progression. – Blake Fred Phelps, founder of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, is...
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Gay marriage: Fred Phelps’ death is the end of an era, but it isn’t the end...
The passing of Fred Phelps actually makes the struggle for gay marriage and LGBT equality a little more difficult. A few days ago I summed up the impact the late Fred Phelps exerted on American...
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