by Jesse Galef
How does a man recover from publicly first condemning homosexuality in front of thousands and then being caught in a meth-crazed sexual affair with another man? I don’t know either, but if you have ideas I’m sure Ted Haggard would love to hear them.
Poor guy. He’s back at home “healing rapidly” and [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 18 of the Pillars of Faith series
No Joke
Skewering Pat Robertson, The Most Dangerous Man in America, in 700 words or less is no easy task. Where does one begin? Books, like the above by Robert Boston, have already been written, and there may not be enough trees to cover all the [...]
A principal in an Australian Christian school is being charged with having sex with a 16 year old student:
Frank Bailey, 44, also repeatedly acknowledged what he had done was wrong and said how sorry he was.
“Every day I just think about what I did and I feel sick,” he said in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.
He has admitted [...]
The Bible has a test for who is a “real” prophet and who is a “false” prophet — real ones can tell the future, and false ones can’t:
You may say to yourself, “How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?” 22If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but [...]
A decade ago, it was virtually impossible to get fired as a priest for molesting children. But as Fr. John Conley found out, it was easy to get fired if you told your bishop you were going to accuse a fellow priest of molestation:
In November 1997, [Fr. John Conley] came home early one evening to [...]
In a packed sanctuary that held hundreds, Father Mike, as he was known, stood before the congregation he had led for a dozen years. Reading from a statement, he told them that 19 years ago he had “transgressed the personal boundaries of an adolescent.” (Only later would it emerge that the diocese knew he, in [...]
When conservative politicians speak of “protecting the family,” have you ever wondered who “the family” needs protecting from? Because I’m thinking it’s probably from themselves.
A conservative California politician “who is the vice-chairman of the legislature’s commerce committee and a member of its ethics committee, is married with two children and is known as a staunch [...]
South Carolina politics is in a right-wing sexual bloodbath, at least if such a thing existed. Gov. Mark, of course, was caught cheating on his wife when he told his staff he was “hiking the Appalachian Trail,” coining overnight a fantastic new sexual euphemism. Then, it was discovered the anti-gay second-in-command Andre Bauer was having [...]
Jabster: “I see a lot of things science has produced for our benefit. Religion hasn’t given us anything to compare.”... Fooling Ourselves
Brian: the first time I see a monk levitate up to the moon I’ll start giving religion a little more respect. Theologians... Fooling Ourselves
