Melissa McCarthy Apologizes for Donating to Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ Group

The Christian charity is NOT taking the news well.

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• The one Christian mom behind One Million Moms is fuming about a new Hallmark Christmas movie that will air over the weekend in which a couple tries to adopt a son. 
  
  The Christmas House appears to be like any other Hallmark movie — wholesome, family-friend, corny, and guaranteed to have a happy ending — except that couple in question is gay. (Luckily for Hallmark, the publicity will probably do more good than harm.)

• Actress Melissa McCarthy and HBO Max took some heat for donating $20,000 to a group called Exodus Cry, which bills itself as an anti-sex trafficking organization. In reality, it’s a conservative anti-abortion/anti-LGBTQ group whose founder has claimed that “gay people would face “flaming missiles of the Evil One” and that Adolf Hitler was a “hunter” sent by God to punish the Jews.

  

  The donation was made as a “20 Days of Kindness” challenge to promote McCarthy’s new film, Superintelligence. As soon as the mistake was brought to their attention, the donation was withdrawn and McCarthy issued an apology on Instagram.

• Conservative Rod Dreher wanted to know why Millennials were abandoning evangelical Christianity, so now #ILeftBecause is trending on Twitter and Dreher is getting all he asked for and more.

  Skylar Camp @SkylarEllenC

  #ILeftBecause life experience showed me how Evangelical values didn't line up with reality, in others lives or my own. Once you see the cracks, you can't unsee them.

  

  Chrissy is Antifa and You Can Too @C_Stroop

  Hey all, why don’t you share your stories of why you left evangelicalism or any form of conservative Christianity with Rod Dreher, since he’s suddenly interested in the topic. Maybe we could hashtag it #ILeftBecause? https://t.co/Ea8nP3NeXN

• We regret to inform you that the perpetually delusional Pat Robertson is at it again.

  Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

  Pat Robertson remains confident that Trump will win the election: "We will not give up this great country and Satan, you cannot have it."

  

• Speaking of delusional, it doesn’t bother Pastor George Pearsons one bit that Trump hasn’t been able to prove this so-called “voter fraud” to any judge yet, he’ll still make a fool of himself at the pulpit.

• Christian blogger Ken Alexander can’t understand why some evangelicals voted for Joe Biden, so he penned them an open letter that makes sense only to those who live in Bizarro World.

• To those atheists who might oppose voting for devout pastors, rest assured they’re not all the same. Here’s the excellent Raphael Warnock, a minister who’s currently in a runoff for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia:

  Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock

  I’m a pro-choice pastor, and I believe that a hospital room is way too small for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government.

• A Seventh-day Adventist school in Salem, West Virginia has settled abuse claims for nearly 30 students for $52 million. The school, Miracle Meadows, promised to straighten out troubled youth with staff members who lived up to “God’s high calling.” Instead, the place was shut down in 2014 after horrific allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

• Finally, a holiday gift for the atheists in your family:

  femboy slim @adequateGF

  For Sale: Baby Trebuchet, Never Used