May 24th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
A former doctor turned TV evangelist and fake health fraud has been convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for a fake cancer cure that she promoted on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian television network. Courthouse News reports: Read more
Posted in Religious Frauds, Skepticism | 14 comments
May 24th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
We may have actually found a Jackson who is even dumber than Victoria Jackson — and it’s E.W. Jackson, the new Republican nominee to be the next lt. governor of Virginia. Here’s the two of them together, with the latter claiming that Obama is both and atheist and a Muslim and “an evil presence.” Read more
Posted in Wingnuttia | 22 comments
May 23rd, 2013 by Ed Brayton
In a move that makes me quite uncomfortable, the Supreme Court has granted cert (that is, agreed to hear an appeal) in a New York case involving the question of whether a legislative body, in this case a city council, can open its meetings with explicitly Christian prayers. Read more
Posted in Church and State | 11 comments
May 23rd, 2013 by Ed Brayton
Last week Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the wingnuts continue to lose their minds over it. Jan Markell, who is from that state, is afraid that God may begin to destroy Minnesota cities and that the Christians there don’t know where to hide. Read more
Posted in Equality, Wingnuttia | 41 comments
May 23rd, 2013 by Ed Brayton
Gary Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America (a gun rights group so extreme that they think the NRA is a bunch of weak-kneed liberal appeasers), went on the Alex Jones show and together they ranted about Obama being a “full bore Marxist” who stole the 2012 election. Evidence? Silly rabbit. Evidence is for rational people. Read more
Posted in Wingnuttia | 16 comments