EXCERPT from Christian Right Leader Lauds Uganda Dictator as ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Is Revived | Alternet: In the past week the Family Research Council has been busy praising Uganda’s commitment to Christian faith and “national repentance” — even as the Ugandan Parliament once again takes up a bill that would legally mandate the persecution MORE…

 Editor’s Note: Well that didn’t take long, eh? I rather think Hurricane Sandy is physics’ punishment for ignoring climate science. EXCERPT from Zack Ford | ThinkProgress: A Christian religious leader has already claimed that Hurricane Sandy is further proof that “God is systematically destroying America” as political judgment for the “homosexual agenda.” John McTernan previously made MORE…

(VIDEO) EXCERPT from Joe. My. God.: An order of Catholic nuns called the Children Of Mary has released a video which claims women who take birth control cause the men around them to commit homosexual acts. Or something. A group of Roman Catholic nuns in central Ohio has produced a short anti-contraception video hoping to MORE…

EXCERPT from Adam Lee | Alternet: When you hear the word “interfaith,” you might think of people from different religions working together to do charitable deeds: running a soup kitchen, for example, or collecting clothes for the poor. But there’s a darker side to interfaith as well. Whatever good that religion does in the world MORE…

EXCERPT from Phil Zuckerman | HuffingtonPost.com: At last week’s Republican National Convention, Florida Senator Marco Rubio was loud and clear: What makes us Americans is our shared belief in God. That’s it — above all else. Forget adherence to the Constitution, forget a hatred of tyranny, forget a love for baseball. Forget watching reality TV MORE…

EXCERPT from Hrafnkell Haraldsson | PoliticusUSA.com: Pauline Hylton writes on CBN that she ate at Chick-Fil-A on Chick-Fil-A appreciation day “because I want to stand for something. Not against someone.” Even though by supporting Chick-Fil-A she is standing against someone: she is standing against the rights of people to get married like she can, to MORE…

EXCERPT from Austin Cline | Atheism.About.com: There are lots of good reasons to be critical of Al Sharpton – too many, in fact, to recount here. Because of this, though, we should be willing to acknowledge when he does things right. One place where he is very right, and trying to hold other black leaders MORE…

EXCERPT from Ryan Reilly at TPMMuckraker: An appeals court has tossed out a lawsuit from three Michigan pastors challenging the constitutionality of the Hate Crimes Act. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled that the Christian ministers had not established standing to challenge the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which MORE…

From Brian Tashman at rightwingwatch.org: [Liberty Council’s] Matt Barber, who led a news conference outside of McDonalds’ corporate headquarters protesting the company’s support for the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and declared that “anyone who supports traditional marriage should boycott McDonalds,” today attacked boycotters of Chick-fil-A while wondering if the Muppets are gay, MORE…

EXCERPT from Wendy Gittleson at Addicting Info: Last month, I wrote about a student who was kicked out of his Christian school for being gay. His mother, who came to the defense of her son, found herself fired from the school. In case you suspected that this was an isolated incident, a three-year-old in New Mexico MORE…

From Hugh Kramer at Examiner.com: Aaron Fruh, an Alabama pastor and author active on the Religious Right, claimed yesterday (7/26) that ancient acceptance of same-sex marriage was the reason God brought the Flood to destroy mankind. Speaking on American Family Radio, the broadcasting arm of the conservative, fundamentalist Christian, non-profit, the American Family Association, said, MORE…

EXCERPT from Zack Ford | ThinkProgress: The Catholic Church has been caught both lying and openly discriminating against a gay couple in Massachusetts. James Fairbanks and Alain Beret were planning to purchase a mansion and surrounding property from the Diocese of Worcester in Northbridge, MA, in hopes of renovating it into a banquet hall, and MORE…

Ouch! Bradlee Dean must feel like such a dolt. Oh, wait… He IS a dolt. EXCERPT: About a year ago, after filing a libel lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and the Minnesota Independent, controversial preacher Bradlee Dean sounded pretty confident. His attorney, Larry Klayman, even declared that Maddow’s career was effectively finished. It turns out MORE…

The freedom of religion does not grant the freedom to discriminate, and it doesn’t mean religious institutions can impose on existing laws.

EXCERPT: In Tuesday’s David Pakman Show, Pakman interviewed Navy Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt and Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. Chaplain Klingenschmitt is a self-proclaimed Pentecostal and he claims to have successfully “exorcised” the gay from a lesbian. Besen argues that Klingenschmitt offers “voodoo” and not real healing. He called Klingenschmitt’s religion, “radicalism MORE…