Muslims voting for John McCain and his gun nut running mate are both courageous and rare, so one would imagine the Republican ticket would loudly herald the small constituency the way a botanist might a flower that blooms once a decade. One, it turns out, would be wrong. For their willingness to both see past the GOP's brass-bound ties to Israel and brave the hate pits of monkey dolls and epithets that McCain and Palin are calling rallies, Republican-voting Muslims are repaid with a whole lot of "get the fuck away from us before people think we support terrorism!"
To wit:
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Well I'll be! Turns out that not all McCain-Palin rallies are heady hives of sticky-faced clown people calling Barack Obama a terrorist ACORN nigra.
Click through to see video of some Republicans at a Virginia rally – a few of them Muslim – swarming and haranguing two jackasses who are defaming Obama by saying he's an Islamic Communist.
Surprisingly, the guy with the sticker on his head is one of the rational folk.
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Ellen DeGeneres has created a public service announcement imploring California's most virulent bigots to give it a rest for a while and vote no on Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to ban gay marriage. If the legislation passes, it could possibly nullify DeGeneres' August marriage to partner Portia de Rossi, thus hurting them both tremendously and permanently.
America: Where everyone has the right to publicly beg Bible-thumping lunatics to not hate them for who they are.
Video after the jump.
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Oh, look! Not content with being just xenophobic or just racist, insane McCain-Palin supporters out to work their resentment into a frothy rage at the Republican nominees' rallies are now killing two birds with one stone.
Take the gentleman at left, who brought with him to McCain-Palin's Johnsontown, PA event a funny effigy to roast. It's a monkey named Little Hussein. Isn't that hilarious and issue-based and what politics is all about?
Click through to hear what this sugar bag sounds like while cackling.
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Jennifer Lopez, friend and relative of a plethora of Scientologists, defended the religion in a recent interview — but she's totally not a member of the cult. She just holds the same beliefs, hopes to school her children in Scientology lessons and thinks it's a great way of life. Got it?
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful. So in a sense, yeah, you do call on it. No [I don't consider myself a Scientologist]. I wouldn't have a problem saying it because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.
J.Lo went on to tell about a nervous breakdown she had a few years ago on the set of Enough: "Right away they want to give you pills. But I have never liked the idea of pills and kept saying no to that. … I've still never been to a shrink. I'm not a shrinky person." So you don't believe in medicine or shrinks. Hmm. If it walks like a duck…
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Less than a week after we noted that Pope Benedict XVI, who's looking mighty sad these days, should be doing things other than reading the Bible with celebrities for a week straight on Italian television, the pontiff heeded our call and expressed an almost Marxist sentiment at yesterday's meeting of over 200 bishops:
Benedict says that "now with the collapse of big banks we see that money disappears, is nothing and all these things that appear real are in fact of secondary importance." He urges those who build their lives "only on things that are visible, such as success, career, money" to keep that in mind.
How much you wanna bet most Catholics continue to ignore this one while running right along with the "gay unions are false" thing?
BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THE POPE COULD BE DOING Apparently Italian television's much worse than American television. Who knew that was possible? : "Pope Benedict XVI will kick off a week-long reading of the Bible on Italian television starting Sunday, with readers to include three former presidents and Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni. Some 2,000 people will take turns reading the Bible's 73 books, from the Old Testament's Genesis to the New Testament's Book of Revelations, at Rome's Holy Cross in Jerusalem basilica. The pope will record the first reading at the Vatican."
Like two bees trapped in a jar, intelligent Republicans who know Sarah Palin is a terrible dolt and the crazed wackos still supporting the Alaskan governor are currently in a fight to the death. Let's stand on high like Romans watching the gladiators, shall we?
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I stopped praying when in 1996. That's the year I prayed very hard for my parents to not get divorced, to no avail, subsequently prompting me to make the decision to stop thinking magic might help me in some way.
Turns out that God had a very good reason for forsaking me back then: she was saving up all her energy to make millions for a couple of Christian filmmakers!
“I’m not impressed with Hollywood in general. They don’t make a lot of movies that lift our standards and morality.” That’s what director Alex Kendrick told me in a telephone interview on Monday after his new movie "Fireproof" (IDP Films/Samuel Goldwyn) opened with a downright shocking $6.5 million opening weekend.
LA and New York are filled with talented film professionals who spend countless hours and millions upon millions of dollars making movies. The cost of development, production, a director, actors and marketing make the craft of filmmaking prohibitive. So how did a little church in Georgia score the 4th-best gross of the just-completed weekend?
The answer, according to director Kendrick, is prayer. “Before we shot a tough scene, we prayed. This movie was bathed in prayer.” He is serious.
Although Alex and his brother, co-writer and producer Stephen Kendrick, “grew up making silly movies in the backyard with a video camera,” they have no formal training in the business. They are both Associate Pastors at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 3 hours south of Atlanta. They are in “the prayer business” full-time.
Fireproof, starring 80s heartthrob-cum-Christian right icon Kirk Cameron, tells the story of a fireman whose marriage is falling apart. I've not seen it, but I bet the couple stays together. With the help of the Lord, no doubt.
Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia."
The Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. told worshipers that the Democratic presidential nominee's positions on abortion and gay partnerships exist "in direct opposition to God's truth…"
Johnson and 32 other pastors across the country set out Sunday to break the rules, hoping to generate a legal battle that will prompt federal courts to throw out a 54-year-old ban on political endorsements by tax-exempt houses of worship.
The ministers contend they have a constitutional right to advise their worshipers how to vote.
A South Carolina mayor says he was just trying to authenticate information when he used his business e-mail account to forward to colleagues and friends a message disparaging Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Danny Funderburk, of Fort Mills, says he wanted to see if there was "any validity" to the chain e-mail's claim that Obama is indeed the devil.
The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months since Obama secured the Democratic nomination, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry.
There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.
Mayor Funderburk says he's got "no way of knowing" if Obama is the antichrist.
Oh yes. It's a bit grainy, but that's definitely vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin being anointed in 2005 by Thomas Muthee, the scary Kenyan witch hunter we told you about previously whose main claim to fame is running eccentric old ladies out of his town like a damn Miller villain.
Fast forward to 7:30 and then listen closely for the part when Muthee, his hand clutching Palin's shoulder, asks Jesus to protect her from "witchcraft."
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SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, DAN BROWN? "A Rome priest is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the neck and stomach by a deranged man who had just watched the film The Da Vinci Code on television. Eyewitnesses said that Marco Luzi, 25, asked to see Father Canio Canistri, 68, parish priest at the church of Santa Marcella in the San Saba district on the Aventine Hill, and then attacked him with a knife hidden in a cloth. … At [Luzi's] flat nearby, where he lived with his mother Paola, investigators found material on the Apocalypse and the anti-Christ, and the telephone number of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. There was also a large reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, which is at the heart of the mystery in The Da Vinci Code, with a note pointing to one of the disciples reading: 'This is the hand in which a knife is hidden'."
Borat director Larry Charles, on the intention of his new film, Religulous, starring Bill Maher:
'I don't think "debunk" is the right word,' said Charles at a press conference. 'I want to destroy more than debunk, just destroy the whole system.'
FRANCE HATES SCIENTOLOGY "The Church of Scientology faces trial on deletion fraud charges in Paris, with the possibility that the organization, which claims around 5,000 active members in France in addition to a bevy of Hollywood celebrities such as Tom Cruise, could be banned in France if it loses. 'Scientology is a dangerous movement,' Milivudes president Jean-Michel Roulet told ABCNews.com. 'It puts pressure on its victims, it tries to intimidate them and blackmails them.'"
At right is Pastor Thomas Muthee, an insane religious zealot from Kenya who claims to hunt witches. Cute, right? But Muthee isn't just any madman, he's one of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's favorites, as she believes he used his magical powers to help her become governor of Alaska. Seriously!
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Say hello to Miley Cyrus' new boyfriend and church buddy, Justin Gaston. Justin is the ripe age of 20 while Miley is a mere 15 years old, but age is just a number, right? This strapping young lad was on Nashville Star, where he looked good but sang horribly (proof here). But that's not his day job, which you can click through to admire (slightly NSFW).
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