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Rep. Joe Walsh #fundie news.yahoo.com

Republican Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois said after his Thursday debate against Democratic rival Tammy Duckworth that abortions are never necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, because modern technology has eliminated the risks of childbearing.

Walsh was defending his position that abortion should be outlawed with no exceptions, which is also the Republican Party's official stance on the issue.

"With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance" of a pregnant woman's life being at risk, he told reporters after the debate. "There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing." He added that "advances in science and technology" meant that abortion is never necessary for the health of a mother.

Ann Coulter #racist news.yahoo.com

On ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday, Ann Coulter said the Democratic party has shifted its strategic campaign focus to the Latino vote ahead of the November elections. Of course, the conservative firebrand phrased it a little differently.

"Democrats are dropping the blacks and moving on to the Hispanics," Coulter said during a roundtable discussion that featured Coulter, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich and former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes.

Coulter's comments came in response to Ramos, who accused the GOP platform of ignoring immigration. "If Republicans don't do something with immigration," Ramos said, "they're going to lose not only this election, they might lose the White House for a generation."

Romney, Reich said, "is basically taking a position that is anti a large and the fastest growing segment of the electorate."

Earlier, Coulter was asked by about her criticism that Democrats have largely abandoned African-Americans when it comes to civil rights.

"I think the way liberals have treated blacks like children and many of their policies have been harmful to blacks, at least they got the beneficiary group right," Coulter said. "There is the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We don't owe the homeless. We don't owe feminists. We don't owe women who are desirous of having abortions or gays who want to get married to one another. That's what civil rights has become for much of the left."

"Immigrant rights are not civil rights?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"No," Coulter responded, "No. I think civil rights are for blacks. What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven't even been in this country."

Billy Ray Cyrus #fundie news.yahoo.com

Billy Ray Cyrus: 'Hannah Montana' destroyed family

He told the magazine that he is scared for his daughter and compared her current path to those of other stars whose lives ended tragically, including Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson.

He said his entire family was baptized before leaving Tennessee for Los Angeles to protect themselves from evil, and he believes Satan is attacking his family.

"It's the way it is," Cyrus said. "There has always been a battle between good and evil. Always will be. You think, 'This is a chance to make family entertainment, bring families together...' and look what it's turned into."

Zedd #conspiracy news.yahoo.com

BO can't even run this country and he thinks he can dictate to othr countries what to do? He's got some nerve. If anyone needs to be shown the door, its this scumbag.
This whole Egypt thing is a staged event, to take away from and provide an excuse for him when the dollar collapses form the weight of the printed dollars of his stimulus program is doing. The world will soon stop using the dolar as the benchmark currency and it will be the Weimar republic all over again.
Open a history book and learn!

Matt #fundie #homophobia news.yahoo.com

Being a homosexual is wrong and always will be wrong in the sight of God. Lets quit sugar coating this sin and call it what it is "SIN". Can a homosexual go to Church and the answer is yes. Unless they are living in a homosexual relationship, then the answer would be no.

Dog #racist news.yahoo.com

Oh, but one last thing,,,when obama gets on a bus does his white side want to sit in the front of the bus, while he demands his black side to sit in the back....Must be an incredible conflict of rage going on inside of him everyday....I'll bet you this, I bet his black side is always stealing money from the pocket of his white side.

Kevin aka cowboy_big_k #racist #homophobia news.yahoo.com

Blacks get jobs for the color of their skin....and now Gays get jobs for where they put their privates....and now some have passed laws making it a crime to bully someone if they are gay.....LOL
Yea this is a america I want my kids to be proud of......
I SAY IT'S TIME TO BRING BACK THE BASHING'S......

JakeF #conspiracy news.yahoo.com

(Comment at the end of a LiveScience article saying that the 2012 Mayan End of World nonsense could be off by 50-100 years.)

All this article does is tell me that someone who knows the 2012 prophesy is true is trying to debunk the whole @#$% thing and make everyone believe that it's going to be alright. Fact is everything will not be alright. Even scientiest, astronomers, astrologers are saying that something is going to happen December 21st. 2012 and it is no coincidence that this coincides with the Myan calender. This article is a bunch of rubbish, written by those who want to de-tour you from the truth!!!

Leroybraun #fundie news.yahoo.com

(In reference to the recent suicide of Tyler Clementi)

Learning moment: if what you're doing is so shameful that you might consider suicide if seen doing it then DON"T DO IT! The vast majority of society considers homosexuality to be a sickness, regardless of what the media would like us to believe.

RonaldM #fundie news.yahoo.com

Actually, no, no faith predates Christianity, contrary to the many lies of our liberal media, classrooms (of all "educational" levels... please note the quotation marks), pop culture, consensus thought, etc., and as usual, yahoo! news is a joke. This type of nonsense is no different than the nonsense that I heard in college, i.e. from my Sociology professor, someone I had a lot of exchanges with.

Truth is absolute, not relative, not subjective, not dependent upon an aforementioned consensus/status quo or time frame. Truth never changes and is absolutely parallel in all cases.

Christianity is the true faith, and please note the definite article. Don't take my word at face value, though; seek the truth. God has given us the faculties of reason and wisdom. Indeed, use them. You will know-- not assume-- the truth if you do indeed seek it, and since God created the universe, don't tell me that any false faith that originated after the fact somehow predates Christianity. You can't predate the true faith.

When I was four, I stood in church, looked around, thought I was in the right place, but wondered how I could know. I sought the truth and found it. I unfortunately left the faith at one point but thankfully returned.

Anyone wanting to continue this conversation can reach me at <email address removed>.

"Kate" #fundie news.yahoo.com

(Ironically, the article was from LiveScience entitled 'Clues to Obama's Muslim Problem', regarding the psychological effects of priming in developing an irrational belief.)


True Clues to Obama's Muslim Problem"

1. The "my muslim faith" interview slip up with Snufflelufogus, and quick correction by Snuffles. When have you as a Christian ever make such a mistake?

2. Calling the Koran, the "Holy Koran". What Christian ever refers to another religions' book as "Holy"? We only call one book Holy, the Holy Bible. When we refer to other religious books we just call them their name.

3. The muslim call to prayer being one of the prettiest sounds on earth. Do you as a Christian believe that?

4. Three times a day Obama goes into a separate room in the White House without anyone else for a short period of time. Muslims outside of islamic lands can instead of havign to pray five times a day, can if they are outside islamic lands instead pray three times a day. And yes Michelle goes into a separate room and does the same thing.

5. Bowing to the Saudi King as a subject under Islam.

6. Regular interviews with old school buddies explaining how Obama was a devout muslim, discussing how he would pray in their families' prayer rooms in Indonesia (the largest muslim country on earth).

7. Being registered at the St Francis Assisi school in Indonesia as a muslim. Parents could choose to register kids either as Christians or Muslims.

8. Remember the first dog being flown on a separate jet? What do muslims think of dogs? Perhaps we can see why it took over 6 months for him to even pick one?

9. What Obama is doing to the US Bank system. Punishment for not having sharia law lending practices, collecting interest, etc.

10. First thing in office, dropping every govt agency from using 'islamic fanatics' from their vocabularies.

11. Most of his family is muslim. Discussed in his book about that, discussed how proud he was of his brother converting to islam.

12. The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim

Sallyjo01 #fundie news.yahoo.com

(In response to the announcement that Stephen Hawking finds the idea of a Creator redundant)

Just 3 questions:

1) Who invented gravity?

2) Do you really find it easier to believe we all came from 1 organism and just happened to mutant into the most incredibile life form on Earth?

3) Why are life form not mutating stil?

Dw #racist news.yahoo.com

[referring to a new contraceptive pill approved by the FDA]

"Please give them free to all black teenage women. Maybe we will have fewer criminal and less welfare babies. Sent them free to Mexico while their at it."

Roz #fundie news.yahoo.com

You gays are allways crying about equal ya everybody is equal but the mentally ill like you are equal but not equal in what they can do. You are mentally ill just by the fact you think you should have the right to marry proves this. Take your imoral sick deranged lifestyle behind closed doors and nobody will care what you do. No matter what any court says you will never be accepted as normal.

QuinnT #fundie news.yahoo.com

[A federal judge has overturned a gay marriage ban in California]

It was destroyed once and then rebuilt. Lets hope it goes into the Ocean this time....Come on God, I pray you destroy these perverts

Bob #fundie news.yahoo.com

[if me and my unmarried but obviously conjugal partner were not allowed to stay in the same bed (and using simple good manners to not have noisy sex) I would have BOTH of us stay in a hotel... and that's just one step away from not bothering to visit at all. If there is no secret that their relationship isn't just Victorian-era 'courting' ]

You aught to be glad that you don't live in my house. Because if you did, you would be out on your A** in a hot tick. Also I would not be paying for your collage ether because you now have a conjugal partner. He can start taking care of you and pay for all the stuff you need. Show No Respect You Get No Respect.

Thomas W Jarvis #fundie news.yahoo.com

actually, the more I think about it, the more inclined I am to want gays to marry. Why? Because, the fastest growing religion is Islam. And Islam has the Taliban. And the Taliban like Sharia Law. And Sharia Law mandates the execution of gays. And hunting down gays is tiresome work. So, if they register at Macy's Bridal Dept, and with Govt...it won't take long to track them down and execute them. Oh? We don't have Sharia Law and Taliban controlled govts in the US? No...sadly, we do not. We will, though. Maybe not in my lifetime. Maybe not in the lifetime of my children. But, it is not a question of if...it is a question of when. Let's make it easier on the taliban to find and subject them to Sharia Law. Let them register their marriages.

Hard Candy #racist news.yahoo.com

I think any white american that marys out side his or her race should be crucified. half breeds thats as bad as being incestious. I get lots of mexican women that want to date and with in 2 to 3 months they want to marry and when you start probing around you find they are illegal or they are here on work visas looking for that free ticket so men beware the young ones are the worst dont be fooled by they like or love you and forget the pretty ones they just want you to get them pregnant anchor baby. I say use koreas law 8 yr in prison at hard labor or just shoot them like china

Charley Schirmer #fundie news.yahoo.com

[Comment under an article titled "World's Oceans Remain Largely Mysterious."]


And just think, at one time in Earth's past there was very little water present and Mars had an ocean of it. Then for some unknow reason some how the situation was reversed. Earth has water and Mars doesn't. What do you think the odds are that it is the same water. That means most all life on Earth came from Mars. Enoch said that the water for the great flood came from chambers in the heavens and he also said that he was taken up into the first heaven which was located at the SPOT opposite that of the Moon. Someone did a little engineering on a rather large scale, not unlike some scientists are proposing that we do on Mars today. I don't think that I would dare go into the deep abiss, there are things that were very evil things put there by God before he flooded it with the water from Mars.

Sherry R #fundie news.yahoo.com

[Gay couple in Africa arrested and sentenced to maximum 14 years in prison after celebrating their engagement.]

Well, let's see..GOOD JOB MALAWI!
Funny, a third world country has a better grip than we do on truth and reality.Homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice, it is wrong, unnatural and perverse...and it is a CHOICE. No, do not blame a gene, it is a choice
In America, you can be a Homosexual and it is called a lifestyle choice...and you are given sympathy and afforded rights not given to others....but if you are overweight, it is an outrage...a moral failure even!!!! Oh, and If you choose to stay at home and raise your babies instead of shipping them off to daycare, then you are looked down upon with sympathy... and dismissed as out of touch, backwards and an unproductive member of society even!. Sorry, it does not take a village to raise a child...just a set of parents who are not selfishly chasing after the almighty dollar...
The days have arrived when evil is called good....and good is called evil.

Ken #fundie news.yahoo.com

Personally I dont care what someone does in their own bedroom, as long as they are not trying to do it to me it's none of my business. They are so many more important things to focus on

You are correct, but the queers have the mind of the media and the heart of the media.
So we are all forced to endure their lifestyle.
Because until it is promoted by every single person on the face of this earth as THE preferred life CHOICE, you and your children are going to have to hear about men sticking their members into each other and creating fecal stick.

Mary S #fundie news.yahoo.com

[Gay couple in Africa arrested and sentenced to maximum 14 years in prison after celebrating their engagement.]

I am so Thankful someone has the morals to stand up against this abnormal gay rights thing.. They are very sick people, and most do this just to get attention due to the fact they are trying to get attentiona and fit in.. This is not the way to fit in,,I can tell you this for sure. America don,t have the guts to stand up to them due to the political aspect of it.. They are afraid they will lose a vote on election day.. Well they are headed for disaster soon.. Just read the King James Version Bible and see what happened to the gay town of sodom and Gomorrah.. It was distroyed.. and so will America be.. They are headed for distruction if they don,t stand up and begin praying for this country again.. This country was built on a Moral background.. and we should take it back.. Without God nothing is possible,, but with him all things are possible.. tyvm

Berfel #fundie #homophobia news.yahoo.com

[Re: The Vatican's conspiracy to coverup child abuse.]

Tue Mar 09, 2010 09:29 am PST

The Catholic Church continues to learn the painful lesson of allowing homosexuals into the priesthood. Let's not forget there are many homosexual priests entrenched in the church and they will continue to fight reform in this area. While the overwhelming majority of priests are wonderful men of God living the Christian life, many were there for the boy’s club atmosphere reminiscent of the destruction of WMCA. This has become a problem since the 1960's, (not for centuries), when restrictions on homosexuality in the priesthood were loosened due to the liberalization of Church policies in defining celibacy. The question was raised "what difference does ones sexual orientation matter if celibacy is an objective, After all we all as human beings have our crosses to bear"? Clearly a big difference.
Berating the Church serves no purpose other than to strengthen those who wish to destroy her and propagate this abhorrent activity of abusing post pubescent's. Shawn, Satan has everything to do with it.

This is not an idictment of homosexuality, rather of those predators who whish to abuse children and young teens.

John #fundie #dunning-kruger news.yahoo.com

Interesting, but I don't buy it. In every species, when one species evolves into another species, the previous one disappears. So, if we evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes? It takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in creation.

Leodigario #fundie news.yahoo.com

If their dating and their DNA test are accurate or near accurate, they must be up to the DNA of some superior human race: one who has not yet degenerated to what the humans are like now. That is before humans became so inferior not only morally but physically as they are right now,

We read in the only account of man's origin that human beings were created by his Creator to last endlessly or eternally without aging, but that was interrupted by man's disobedience to his Creator, However a default system was set in place that would restore humans to that original purpose of the Creator..

But the moral, intellectual and physical degradation of mankind was not sudden. Human's first parents live nine centuries according to biblical record. Then six centuries, then four, until Abraham who lived 175 years, until the time of king David who lived 70. Since then man's life expectancy remained 70 until now. This disprove Darwin's evolutionary theory.

If we will need biblical faith to believe biblical account of man's origin, we likewise need faith, a darwinian faith, in order to believe Darwin's evolutionary theory. But I would rather believe biblical account using biblical faith rather than darwinian faith to believe darwinian theory of evolution.

If scientists will only make objective studies rather than do studies influenced by biased subjective instinct to exclude their Creator from their investigation, it will not be long and their mind will come in contact the Great Creator.

Proudwhite #racist news.yahoo.com

You will NEVER see another black in the White House after this.Only happy people today are those minorities with 4 children from 4 non responsible "dad's", who don't work, abandon the children and do not support them. W O R K I N G and R E T I R E D people will now be taxed for those misfits. These are obammes 25-35 percent he mentions. This MusSLIME along with witch peLOUSY , suck a$$ biden will have YOUR childrens, children paying for this. Welcome COMRADE!

Victoria #conspiracy news.yahoo.com

NOW is a very good time to pick yourselves up and challenge Obama and his supporters until every news announcement comment thread is thick with calls for his citizenship records, because – and this is fact, not theory – if he is in fact technically ineligible, THE CONSTITUTION ASSURES THAT EVERYTHING HE SIGNS WILL BE NULL AND VOID.

We need to gum up the media until every man, woman and child in America understands that Obama’s citizenship question, which he fuels himself, needs to be resolved, and begin calling for those records, loudly.

His health care system will give government direct withdrawal access to every personal bank account in the United States, so you better hurry, unless you want that.

More than 40 people have sued Obama for his citizenship records, and he has FOUGHT THEM, instead of turning the records over as every other president has done! Fact, not fiction. The court records are public documents.

A year and a half ago the Democrats demanded that McCain and Tom Delay to turn over their same records. THEY DID, and did so without fuss or bother. Go to you tube to see Tom Delay tell chris Matthews all about it.

Both situations are public record. Compare the difference!!!

Obama’s lawyer's responses do NOT say, "Here, let's put this to rest, here are the records." They say, "No, under no circumstances may you see them." Smell political blood in the water? So do we.

Jayme #fundie news.yahoo.com

(On the passing of former Secretary of the Interior and environmentalist Stewart Udall)

I hope he enjoys his eternity in Hell. Let this be a lesson to democrats everywhere. Get right with Jesus or go to Hell. This man is, right now, screaming for God to save him. He is covered in flames and being sodomised by fire daemons over and over again and it will never stop. It will go on for an eternity.

Ray #fundie news.yahoo.com

This is all a lie. Humans started walking upright about 6000 years ago, when God made 'em from dirt. There is no compatibility whatsoever between random, purposeless, Godless evolution and Christianity or Judaism. Any divine oversight or guidance means that natural evolution never occurred. Science is full of frauds, hoaxes, misinterpreted evidence, circular logic, and fanciful flights of imagination, and has never proved that any species evolved from any other species. There are no missing links in the fossil record. The Bible has never ever been proven wrong on anything.

Reality #fundie news.yahoo.com

[Re: "An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs"]

What a crock of Sh##. It was so big it wiped out the dinosaur, but the monkey survived and stood upright to evolve into man. Where's this nine mile wide rock now? Dinosaurs are Hollywood folks. All the photos and models are footnoted: "artist renditions". I bet they make a movie out of this crap. What idiot put a mic in front of these jokesters. Why don't they put their studying to good use, like making a decent battery, or portable water desalination. Now that they think the dinosaur mystery that never was, is now solved, can we move on to important things? That waste of time and resources did nothing for us. Its just another tower of babel.

Jeff #fundie news.yahoo.com

(Commenting on an article about an asteroid killing the Dinosaurs)

"This is not "science." Scientific fact comes from things that are observable, repeatable and testable. This is conjecture based on an athiestic, evolutionary worldview."

David B. #fundie news.yahoo.com

[In response to an article that explains what it was that wiped out the dinosaurs.]

Oh give me a break. 1) NONE of these 'scientists' knows with any degree of certainty that the earth is even that old!
2) an asteroid had nothing at all to do with anything like this on this planet. It was a global flood that did in the dinosaurs. It's been proven.
3) the Earth, at best is near 8-9 thousand years old, not millions.
4) HAD an asteroid hit this planet, it would NOT be in the kind of perfect orbit it is that sustains the life it does. It would have knocked us out of that orbit, not left it alone on the exact axis tilt we are on, at the rate of speed we are, on the orbits around the sun that we are.
College educated idiots is what they are...

Saudi religious police #fundie news.yahoo.com

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Valentine's Day, a Saudi official said.

Members of the feared religious police were inspecting shops for red roses, heart-shaped products or gifts wrapped in red, and ordering storeowners to get rid of them, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

Red-colored or heart-shaped items are legal at other times of the year, but as Feb. 14 nears they become contraband in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom bans celebration of Western holidays such as Valentine's Day, named after a Christian saint said to have been martyred by the Romans in the 3rd Century.

Most shops in Riyadh's upscale neighborhoods have removed all red items from their shelves. A statement by the religious police, informally known as the muttawa, was published in Saudi newspapers, warning shop owners against any violations.

"Those who don't comply will be punished," the statement said, without spelling out what measures would befall the offenders.

The Valentine's Day prohibition is in line with Saudi's strict Wahhabi school of Islam that the kingdom has followed for more than a century. The birthplace of Islam also bans several Muslim holidays except the two most important ones because it considers them "religious innovations" that Islam doesn't sanction.

Don McLeroy #fundie news.yahoo.com

Texas braces for fight over social studies lessons:

Former board chairman Don McLeroy, a Republican from College Station, says the conservative efforts have been misconstrued.

"I don't see anyone wanting to say that this is a Christian nation or anything like that," McLeroy said. "The argument is that the principles on which (the nation) has been founded are biblically based."

Tony Perkins and Sen. Jim DeMint #fundie news.yahoo.com

[From a news article about the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act being passed:]


At the urging of Republicans the bill was changed to strengthen free speech protections to assure that a religious leader or any other person cannot be prosecuted on the basis of his or her speech, beliefs or association.

"Nothing in this legislation diminishes an American's freedom of religion, freedom of speech or press or the freedom to assemble," said Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. "Let me be clear. The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act targets acts, not speech."

That didn't convince Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who said the bill was a "dangerous step" toward thought crimes. He asked whether the bill would "serve as a warning to people not to speak out too loudly about their religious views."

Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, said the measure was "part of a radical social agenda that could ultimately silence Christians and use the force of government to marginalize anyone whose faith is at odds with homosexuality."

Keith Bardwell #racist news.yahoo.com

HAMMOND, La. – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.

"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said. "My main concern is for the children."

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

"I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves," Bardwell said. "In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer."

If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.

"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Indian Farmers #fundie news.yahoo.com

PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.

Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.

"They (villagers) believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains," Upendra Kumar, a village council official, said from Bihar's remote Banke Bazaar town.

"This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily."

India this year suffered its worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some states.

Tony Alamo #fundie news.yahoo.com

TEXARKANA, Ark. – Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the federal sex-crimes case against an evangelist accused of taking underage girls across state lines for sex.

The charges against 74-year-old Tony Alamo could land him in jail for the rest of his life if he's convicted.

The jury began deliberating early Thursday at Texarkana federal courthouse, a day after listening to prosecutors and defense attorneys offer their final portrayals of Alamo.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyra Jenner described Alamo as a manipulator who dictated everything from what his followers believed to what they could eat. At one point, she turned to stare directly at him.

"Your crimes have been exposed in this courtroom," Jenner said. Alamo sneered and waved her away.

Alamo fell asleep several times during Jenner's closing argument. At one point, his mouth hung wide open as his head rolled back in his chair. A member of his legal team woke him by throwing a pen onto the defense table. When he was awake, Alamo muttered "bull----" at times during Jenner's remarks.

Defense lawyer Phillip Kuhn told jurors not to be swayed by testimony unrelated to the indictment — that Alamo may have had multiple wives, or that he may have set up businesses to evade taxes. He said prosecutors deliberately strayed from the specific charges against Alamo.

"Was it to give Tony a fair trial or was it to turn the jury into a moral mob?" Kuhn asked.

Alamo is accused of taking five young girls across state lines for sex between 1994 and 1995 after "marrying" them. Defense lawyers say prosecutors targeted him because the government is anti-Christian. Alamo has also said the Vatican is behind his troubles.

Defense attorneys largely stayed away from challenging the accusers' testimony about sex with the evangelist. Alamo's lawyers rested their case Wednesday after persuading the flamboyant minister not to testify. Though he had told reporters he would take the stand, Alamo said Wednesday afternoon he chose not to testify in an "unjust court."

Alamo is charged with violating the Mann Act, a nearly century-old morality law. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Jim David Adkisson #fundie news.yahoo.com

An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.

"They just glory (in) these weirdos and sickos and homos," he said in an interview recorded by investigators.

He also railed against the Unitarian Church: "That ain't a church, that's a damned cult," Adkisson said.

Adkisson walked into the church, pulled a sawed-off shotgun from a guitar case and fired into a congregation of about 230 people watching a children's musical performance.

Adkisson left a four-page suicide note in his SUV in the church parking lot. In it, he described the attack as "a hate crime,"

Adkisson concluded, "I'd like to encourage other like-minded people to do what I've done. If life ain't worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. Do something for your country before you go. Go kill liberals."

Catherine Murray, who was friends with the couple, told police Adkisson had drug and alcohol problems and "basically was afraid of anybody or anything that was not like him."

Nigerian pastors #fundie news.yahoo.com

EKET, Nigeria (AFP) – Jeremiah, 10, stares blankly at a window, tears rolling down his burn-scarred cheeks recounting how his father doused him with petrol and set him ablaze accusing him of witchcraft.

He is just one of hundreds of children in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region thrown out of their homes, tortured or even killed after they are branded witches by a new crop of self-styled religious leaders.

Around a dozen phony pastors have been arrested -- one on murder charges after he confessed in a documentary film to having killed 110 child witches. He now says he killed only the witches inside the children, not the children themselves.

At a centre in Eket, Akwa Ibom's oil town, Jeremiah and over 170 other children -- aged between 18 months and 16 years -- have sought or been brought to emergency shelter. Many bear scars of physical torture -- machete cuts, burns or a nail drilled into the head.

It has been more than a year since Jeremiah fled from his home, but he suffered months of abuse at the hands of his parents after he was accused of sorcery.

"We were having a revival at church one night when from nowhere, the pastor's wife stood up to say I was a witch," recounts Jeremiah.

He was immediately locked up at the pastor's house, starved and assaulted with clubs as part of the exorcism exercise.

When he moved back home his father tied a noose around his neck and led him to a nearby school grounds, but apparently developed cold feet.

In minute detail he recounts how over several weeks, his parents locked him up in a room and starved and flogged him. That was before the father torched him, accusing him of being behind his losing a job with an oil firm.

Muslim Clerics #fundie news.yahoo.com

No one knows who brought the book to the mosque, or at least no one dares say. The pocket-size translation of the Quran has already landed six men in prison in Afghanistan and left two of them begging judges to spare their lives. They're accused of modifying the Quran and their fate could be decided Sunday in court...

...The book appeared among gifts left for the cleric at a major Kabul mosque after Friday prayers in September 2007. It was a translation of the Quran into one of Afghanistan's languages, with a note giving permission to reprint the text as long as it was distributed for free.

Some of the men of the mosque said the book would be useful to Afghans who didn't know Arabic, so they took up a collection for printing. The mosque's cleric asked Ahmad Ghaws Zalmai, a longtime friend, to get the books printed.

But as some of the 1,000 copies made their way to conservative Muslim clerics in Kabul, whispers began, then an outcry.

Many clerics rejected the book because it did not include the original Arabic verses alongside the translation. It's a particularly sensitive detail for Muslims, who regard the Arabic Quran as words given directly by God. A translation is not considered a Quran itself, and a mistranslation could warp God's word.

The clerics said Zalmai, a stocky 54-year-old spokesman for the attorney general, was trying to anoint himself as a prophet. They said his book was trying to replace the Quran, not offer a simple translation. Translated editions of the Quran abound in Kabul markets, but they include Arabic verses.

The country's powerful Islamic council issued an edict condemning the book.

"In all the mosques in Afghanistan, all the mullahs said, 'Zalmai is an infidel. He should be killed,'" Zalmai recounted as he sat outside the chief judge's chambers waiting for a recent hearing.

California Lutheran High School #fundie news.yahoo.com

Court: Christian school can expel lesbian students

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A California appeals court has ruled that a Christian high school can expel students because of an alleged lesbian relationship.

The 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside on Monday upheld California Lutheran High School's right as a private, religious organization to exclude students based on sexual orientation.

Two girls sued claiming they were discriminated against after they were expelled from the Wildomar school in 2005. A lower court said the school isn't bound by the same anti-discrimination laws as a business establishment.

John McKay, attorney for California Lutheran, says the school's goal is to educate based on Christian principles.

The attorney for the girls could not be immediately reached Tuesday.

Andrew D. Basiago #conspiracy news.yahoo.com

A lawyer in the United States has written the National Geographic Society, asking it to publish in National Geographic his discovery that a photograph taken and beamed back to Earth by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit contains evidence of life on Mars. In his letter, Andrew D. Basiago, 47, wrote that his analysis of the NASA photograph of the Red Planet captioned PIA10214 has revealed images of human and animal life forms, as well as statues and other structures built by advanced, intelligent beings. "This image is the most significant photograph ever taken by human beings from Earth," Basiago wrote. "In it, humanity has crossed the threshold that separates our past as an earth-bound race from our future as a space-faring civilization in contact with extraterrestrial species— This epochal discovery begins a new chapter of the human adventure in the Cosmos."

Ethiopian clerics #fundie #homophobia news.yahoo.com

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Religious leaders in Ethiopia on Monday urged lawmakers to amend the country's constitution to ban homosexuality in a move they argue could further strengthen existing codes.

At a meeting in the Ethiopian capital, nearly a dozen religious figures, including heads of Ethiopia's Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, adopted a resolution against homosexuality, which they termed as "the pinnacle of immorality."

They also blamed homosexuality for the rise in sexual attacks on children and young men.

"This is something very strange in Ethiopia, the land of the Bible that condemns this very strongly," said Abune Paolos, the patriarch of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church.

"For people to act in this manner they have to be dumb, stupid like animals," he told reporters. "We strongly condemn this behaviour. They (homosexuals) have to be disciplined and their acts discriminated, they have to be given a lesson."

John Stemberger #fundie news.yahoo.com

[This is in reaction to Florida overturning it's ban on gay couples adopting children.]

John Stemberger, chairman of a successful drive earlier this month to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Florida, called the ruling "classic judicial activism" and predicted it would be reversed on appeal.

"Everywhere in the law where children are affected, the standard must always be what is in the best interest of the child," said Stemberger, an attorney in Orlando. "What is stunning to me is that when it comes to dealing with gays, that standard goes out the window. Children do better with a mother and a father."

Rev. Jay Scott Newman #fundie news.yahoo.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

Somali Islamists #fundie news.yahoo.com

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.

Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.

Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.

"This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo," David Copeman, Amnesty International's Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.

General Othman Mustapha #fundie news.yahoo.com

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters Life!) – Not content with banning women from wearing trousers, Malaysia's top Islamic council now wants a ban on yoga, according to a report on state news agency Bernama.

The National Fatwa Council's Deputy Director-General Othman Mustapha told reporters after a seminar on Islamic jurisprudence on Thursday that the announcement would be made soon.

Professor Zakaria Stapa of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Islamic Studies Center told the seminar on Wednesday that Muslims who had taken up yoga should stop practicing as it could damage their faith, Bernama said.

Last week the Fatwa Council decreed that tomboyish behavior by girls, including wearing trousers, was immoral as it may lead to the practice of lesbian sex. (as if)

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