Sexist Pastor Shames Women for Weight Gain After Marriage
As if you needed another reason to leave church.
Right-wing secular group Atheists for Liberty is tootin’ its own horn for participating in CPAC over the weekend where a straw poll revealed attendees rank conspiracy theories higher than abortion on their list of important issues— as if somehow AFL’s influence at the convention was to thank for what is still really concerning news to the rest of us.
Canadian hospital drama Nurses had an episode pulled by television networks for amplifying an anti-Semitic sentiment. The offending episode centers around an Orthodox Jewish man who refuses a bone graft from an Arab woman out of prejudice.
B’nai Brith Canada explains why the episode is not only harmful, it’s demonstrably false.
In actuality, when a Jew receives a graft or organ donation from the dead, under Jewish law, the fact that the donor may be a non-Jew, a woman, an Arab, or even a fellow Jew is irrelevant. According to traditional Jewish law, saving a life takes precedence over all other considerations and religious commandments.
A misogynist Baptist pastor in Missouri had the gall to give an entire sermon shaming women for gaining weight in marriage, suggesting men put a “divorce weight” on their wives.
Here’s one proven way to motivate a Christian adoption agency to place children in the homes of loving LGBTQ parents: Threaten to revoke their tax funding.
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Not that we’re surprised, but Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville made his disregard for religious diversity and a secular education system very apparent in his first Senate floor speech.
Finally, a Texas pastor issued an apology after his daughter-in-law Ashley Marie Ayres went full-on white privilege in this “I’m not racist, but…” video.
