Jerry Falwell, Jr. is Suing Liberty U. to Restore a Reputation He Never Had
Get your popcorn ready.
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The Satanic Temple has made a statement demanding the newly confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuse herself from hearing their pending case challenging medically unnecessary abortion laws in Missouri.
The Satanists, who claim such a law violates their religious freedom to the Satanic abortion ritual, are using Barrett’s past “pro-life” statements to demonstrate her inability to make an unbiased ruling.Justice Barrett, an avowed Catholic, has been quite candid in the public expression of her religious beliefs that human life begins at conception, abortion is a sin and Roe has sanctioned murder on an epic scale. In 2006, she signed a statement published by St. Joseph County Right to Life in the South Bend Tribune that “oppose[s] abortion on demand and defend[s] the right to life from fertilization to natural death”… She implored the general public to “[p]lease continue to pray to end abortion.” She endorsed the statement “[i]t’s time to put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade and restore laws that protect the lives of unborn children. Roe v. Wade: More than thirty-two years… More than 47 million children dead and counting…”
Barrett avoided all questions regarding abortion in her confirmation hearings, leaving her public history to speak for itself. While TST’s case is unlikely to be taken up by the Court, we all should have reason to be concerned Barrett would not make a fair legal ruling on any such case and TST’s rebuke of her qualifications needs to be keep being repeated.
Nothing says American freedom like driving around in a flag-decorated van waving a Bible and gun — and Idaho Republicans will be damned if emergency pandemic restrictions take that away from them. Never mind that Idaho doesn’t even have a statewide mask mandate, let alone a mandate to confiscate your guns or bibles. Which means there’s literally no point to this video.
They should just come out and say what they really mean: “We want to go to church in person at full capacity and we don’t care who dies as a result.”
Jerry Falwell, Jr., who ruined his own conservative Christian reputation when he and his wife carried on a multi-year ménage à trois with a hotel pool boy (along with many, many other scandalous, drunken, and racist antics), is suing Liberty University for *checks notes* ruining his reputation.
Falwell resigned as president of Liberty U. amid the aforementioned controversy with a $10.5 million dollar severance package. What more could he possibly want, considering how damning his situation is?
Falwell added in a statement, “I must take the necessary steps to restore my reputation and hopefully help repair the damage to the Liberty University brand in the process.”
Good luck with that, Captain Hypocrisy. Clean reputations are not awarded in court.
If we’re claiming defamation, Liberty U. has an even greater reason to sue Falwell. So far, no takers…
Even the anti-Trump Lincoln Project is dunking on Falwell since he blamed the group for conspiring against him: "The Lincoln Project didn't make Mr. Falwell sit in the corner. The Lincoln Project didn't make Mr. Falwell unbutton his pants on a super yacht and post a picture on social media."
A new series of Uber Eats commercials featuring Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness doing gymnastics in a leotard has the one Christian mom that makes up One Million Moms losing her mind.
… Casting a cross-dresser in its ads screams liberal agenda and turns off potential Uber Eats customers.
… For anyone curious or struggling with his or her sexual identity, watching someone prance around in the opposite sex’s clothing is not the answer.
I don’t really get the commercial either, but I bet an Uber Eats campaign featuring conversion therapy sessions would do even less for people’s appetites.
Right-wing pastor Jim Garlow just vouched for the politics of 60 million aborted fetuses, saying, “If they could be polled, they would be voting for Donald Trump…”
Right-wing pastor Jim Garlow says this election is a choice between good and evil and "60 million babies that have been killed in the womb, if they could be polled, they would be voting for Donald Trump."It’s not a stretch to assume 60 million uneducated voters would lean Republican.
An Islamic extremist attacked churchgoers in the French town of Nice this morning, killing 3 people. The assailant was wounded by police and “cried ‘Allah Akbar!’ over and over, even after he was injured,” according to Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi. There’s been a rash of attacks since the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Humanists UK made a statement:
Feelings of offence can never justify violence just as, on their own, they can never justify censorship. Attempts to draw any kind of moral equivalence between drawing cartoons or defending artistic freedom on the one hand, and violent murder and decapitation on the other, are disgusting.
Our resident expert Richard Wade answered a question from an atheist struggling with lingering anxiety after deconverting: “Could it be that I have intellectually accepted that there is no God but not emotionally?”
Here’s how Howard Stern paid tribute to the late James Randi:
Finally, is Pat Robertson doing okay…?
