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Anti-LGBT hate group is behind push to reopen churches.

The anti-LGBTQ hate group Liberty Counsel, one of the groups that serve as the legal defense arm of the religious right, is helping to lead the push to reopen churches during the coronavirus pandemic. The effort by evangelicals endangers the…

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Catholic leader thinks US is ‘mass producing LGBT people.’

The leader of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, has come up with a bizarre theory that the US is ‘mass producing LGBT people’. He argues that ‘liberals’ and those with no religious affiliation are ‘more susceptible to LGBT propaganda’…

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Is televangelist Jim Bakker about to lose his empire (again)?

Televangelist Jim Bakker is facing mounting pressure for peddling a fake cure for coronavirus to his gullible followers. His latest grift may result in another round of criminal charges and economic ruin for the huckster preacher. Bakker, the former head of…

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Pat Robertson is back and blames COVID-19 on gay marriage.

Televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson has blamed the novel coronavirus on same-sex marriage. Robertson, the host of the long-running evangelical Christian program 700 Club, is notorious for blaming LGBTQ people for natural disasters and weather phenomena…

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Graham now claims he’s being ‘harassed’ for being a bigot.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, conservative preacher Franklin Graham opened up a field hospital to help treat patients. Ordinarily, this would be something to be praised, but it transpired that he would only employ people to staff the hospital if they opposed…