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Here’s a delicious chunk of schadenfreude for all of our uniformed men and women in the Gay Militia fighting the fundies out West: “[Colorado Springs-based ministry] Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide, bringing the total number of employees to around 950. …The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.” To the suddenly unemployed Culture Warriors in Colorado: don’t be upset! And please don’t complain? No complaining!! If you complain, Jesus will kill you. MORE »

Oh WOWSERS one brave Christian has traveled into the future and brought back a chilling message from 2012: After godless liberal Marxist free-love hedonist Barack Obama ascends to power, he will stack the Supreme Court with six (6) young hippies, force everyone to get gay married, and sit on his hands while the Russians invade Massachusetts. (Enh, let ‘em have it, it’s all full of Communists anyway!) Religious people should be concerned about this, especially the ones who vote for Obama because they will be going to Hell. [Letter from 2012 in Obama's America (PDF)]

You know who hates edible Christmas gifts and loves the New Testament? James Dobson, that’s who! And that’s why he despises Barack Obama and his delicious fruitcake Constitution for pointing out that Leviticus says a lot of wacky shit about shellfish. Wait, did that last bit make zero sense? Then it still makes one million times more sense than what Focus on the Family’s leader will be saying on his radio program today. MORE »

James Dobson’s batshit organization lays off 30 people because nobody’s giving money anymore because nobody hates fags or believes in Jesus enough. [Denver Channel]

Gentlemen, start your praying!

“Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, that every day we inflict on ourselves another 9/11?”
-Gary Bauer

It was certainly news to us, but not to the thousand or so people watching with rapt attention the funny little man behind the podium at the Family Research Council’s (or FRC Action, their lobbying arm) “Washington Briefing” (or “Values Voters Summit“) last weekend. Gary Bauer — former head of the FRC ’til he pissed off the Christian Right by running for president, having an adultery scandal, and endorsing John McCain in 2000 — was the prodigal nutcase, welcomed with open arms as he riled the crowd up with stirring rhetoric that, unfortunately, came from a guy who looks and sounds like Radar from M*A*S*H.

The conference lasted all weekend, and we were at, uh, part of it. Exciting coverage of Gary, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, and yes, future United States Senator Katherine Harris (complete with pictures from Liz Gorman, Intrepid and Creeped Out Girl Reporter), is after the jump.

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Dobson’s the dude who runs Focus On the Family, a big evangelical operation out of Colorado. We have no issue with focusing on a family or the family or even several families, but Dobson’s real mission these days is to savagely harass the homosexuals while threatening GOP politicians with a Born-Again Backlash if they don’t push for homophobic anti-liberty laws.

So why not spend some time “shopping” for crap off Dobson’s website? Instead of a purchase, what you’re really doing is ordering some materials in exchange for a “donation” … a donation of nothing!

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This might be the greatest, most convincing website we have ever read. Gays must be denied domestic partnership benefits for the simple reason that dogs do not MOO. MORE »

The Washington Post today reports on a protest at the Capitol today by religious groups who want to draw attention to Congress’s Grinchian end-of-the-year cuts in welfare (now that’s a war on Christmas). Among those groups urging a reversal that “brings good news to the poor”: the United Methodist Church, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church USA and United Church of Christ. Missing from this faith-based fandango? Prominent member of the religious right. And there’s a good reason for that. They care about the poor, but they care more about fetuses. Or, as you might call them, the “pre-poor.” Says a Focus on the Family spokesman:

It’s not a question of the poor not being important or that meeting their needs is not important. But whether or not a baby is killed in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, that is less important than help for the poor? We would respectfully disagree with that.

In other words, poor people, if you’re cold and hungry this Christmas, the right would love to help you. You’ll just need to find a womb to crawl into first. MORE »