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Christian Group Pressures Lowe's Into Pulling Ads From All-American Muslim

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:20:00 EST

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The whole point of TLC's All-American Muslim — which follows families living in Dearborn, Michigan — is to humanize folks who live in the U.S. and practice Islam. They have close-knit relationships, love football, and feel anxious about the first day of school, just like any other Americans. But home improvement retailer Lowe's has pulled ads from the program following a complaint from the Florida Family Association. The Florida Family Association is allegedly devoted to "improving America's moral environment." Yet the group calls the show "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values." More »

Majority Of Evangelicals Have Premarital Sex Like Normals

Anna North — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:10:00 EDT

Many have suspected that not all Christian young people save themselves for marriage. Now there's data to prove it. More »

Godless Heathen Women Skipping Church More Often Than Ever

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:01:51 EDT

If you're reading this, chances are you're not in church. And you're not alone. According to a recent survey that measured Christian churchgoing behavior among America's women over the last 20 years, we're all getting decidedly less godly. More »

Katy Perry Learned About Birth Control At Planned Parenthood

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:00:00 EDT

Katy Perry is on the cover of Vanity Fair, and inside, she kind of explains the obsession with candy and fruit: She had no childhood. She tells Vanity Fair: "I didn't have a childhood." The only book she was allowed to read was the bible; she couldn't say words like "deviled eggs" "or "Dirt Devil." In addition, Perry reveals that her evangelical Christian parents sheltered her and fed her false information: "Growing up, seeing Planned Parenthood, it was considered like the abortion clinic. I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there. I didn't know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn't have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control." These days, Katy and her parents have a different relationship: "I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. They're excited about my success." Even though Katy has a tattoo that reads "Jesus," her spiritual life is more open. "I have always been the kid who's asked, 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like - 'why?' At this point, I'm just kind of a drifter. I'm open to possibility. My sponge is so big and wide and I'm soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded." [Vanity Fair via London Evening Standard] More »

Forever 21's Bizarre Knockoff Empire

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:55:00 EST

The top row of shirts is by Forever 21. The bottom row is by a small California-based label called Trovata. Welcome to a peek behind the curtain at secretive, cult-y, and very rapidly growing fast-fashion chain Forever 21. More »

Christian Guys on Immodesty, Lust, and the Violence of Women’s Bodies

Lisa Wade, Ph.D — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:35:00 EDT

Robin E. sent us to a downright fascinating set of survey results. Administered by a Christian website, the survey questions were submitted by "Christian girls" who wanted to know what "Christian guys" think is modest. More »

After The Rapture, Who Will Walk All The Dogs?

Anna North — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:40:00 EST

Answer: heathens. One man is setting up a network of atheists to adopt pets after their owners are raptured up to Heaven. Says a skeptic: "I don't know if they should necessarily trust atheists to take care of them." [BusinessWeek] More »

Focus On The Family: Not Down With The Kids. Yo.

Sadie Stein — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST

Conservative Christians are trying to woo the crucial under-30s. With all the panache of Grandma in a cage heel: More »

Sue The Pants Off Them

Maria — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Tahita Jenkins was fired from her job as a New York City bus driver when she refused to wear pants or culottes for religious reasons in May 2007. Now Jenkins is suing NYC Transit for religious discrimination. Jenkins is a Pentecostal whose strict religious beliefs prohibits women from wearing pants. Jenkins refused the option of wearing culottes which she saw as "just another form of pants" and even provided "proof" that her Church was against the bus driver's standard uniform (which apparently doesn't even have a modest calf-length skirt as an option). She was fired despite her religious explanation. Is giving someone the option of wearing a skirt really that big of a deal? Who even sees below the bus driver's waist when riding the bus? Even male postal workers are allowed to wear skirts. [NY Post] More »

More And More Pharmacists Refusing To Cough Up Your Yaz

Moe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:00 EDT

A new pharmacy about to open in Northern Virginia boasts the best Christian gimmick since abstinence pants: They're refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control! Yes, pharmacists who believe contraception is tantamount to "playing God" are um "playing God" again. The cool thing, of course, is that the general trend in this country is that such "mom-n-pop" operations as DMC generally find themselves woefully undercut and eventually squashed by large multibillion dollar chains with buying power and space for 98 varieties of Dorito, although the scary thing about that is that, of course, what if the anti-contraception pharmacists all get together and start their own little puritannical alterna-Walgreen's? Then what? And like, remember when Wal-Mart refused to sell "In Utero"? More »

Not All Evangelicals Are Anti-Choice Or Anti-Dildo

Jessica G. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Evangelical minister Adam Hamilton has written a book called Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White in which he argues that abortion should be available, legal and rare. In an interview with Newsweek, Hamilton says his job as a minister is "to support people no matter what decision they make." And Hamilton is not alone in his beliefs, even though popular notions of evangelicals would have you believe otherwise. (According to Newsweek, "about a third of white evangelicals say that abortion should sometimes or always be legal.") More »

"Should I Wax My Buttcrack?"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:30:00 EDT

It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the wind beneath my wings, Rich, and I dole out advice on stuff like oral yeast infections, Christian friends, and excessive jizz. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.) More »

Oprah Writer Asks: "[Are] Jews and Christians Incompatible?"

Jessica G. — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

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The "Love Issue" of Oprah Magazine — 22 days until Valentine's, ladies — has several essays under the heading "Love, the Great Adventure" about lasting romance. In one, O Henry prize winner Sheila Kohler, an Anglican, writes about her mostly-happy interfaith marriage to a Jewish man (the lovebirds are pictured at left). But her union is not without warts, and Kohler bravely exposes them all. She talks about the minor fights they had "over who would do the dishes and how they would be done," but then gets into messier territory, like her complaint that he doesn't say "I love you" enough. Then, as the kids say, Kohler goes there. "Did the six million dead Jews have to come up quite so frequently?" she ponders. Not only that, in an admitted moment of rage, Kohler shouts at her husband "You're just a stingy Jew!" He later comes back with a comment about how all the pork eating must have diminished her brain function, which leads Kohler to wonder, "Had I married a racist? Worse still, had I discovered that in my heart of hearts I was a racist...Were men and women so very different? Were Jews and Christians incompatible?" More »

Most Famous Christians Instruct Followers To Shop At Victoria's Secret

Moe — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:30:10 EDT

It's not hard to see why televangelist Joel Osteen and his wife Victoria are so big with American Christians. He's all about how you should make lots of money and give it all to him because you worship him as a false idol, even though that wasn't really kosher with Jesus, and now here he comes out in defense of exploiting sweatshop labor so a handful of supermodels can continue to reap eight-figure paychecks for cavorting around with their tits taped together perpetuating unattainable standards of beauty. Not what Jesus would do either! But hey, whatever it takes to keep the spark alive, as the pair told Larry King Tuesday night when Larry asked about why Joel had instructed his followers to start shopping at Victoria's Secret. (Easy coy deflection: "That's Victoria's little secret!" But did they use it? Nooooooo...) More »

Christians Who Spank And The Wives Who Eroti-Blog It

Moe — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:00:55 EDT

We've heard all about Christian punk rock and Christian diet gurus, Christian theme parks and Christian joke rap, but we are eternally indebted to Salon for introducing us to the nascent (and quite possibly not really real) movement that is Christian sadomasochism, also known as "Christian Domestic Discipline." Salon, unfortch, gets all, "stop fucking with us, Christians, we know you can't really be sex-positive, although, OMG, not that we would ever be biased against Christians solely for being Christian, but seriously on the other hand what if we've just stumbled upon the next NAMBLA and we're treating it as a legitimate subculture because it's Christian??" about it. Yeah, we're not going to wrestle with any of that, because, well, as Christian discipline-recipient Debbie Lee put it in her blog, this is exactly the kind of thing the comments section was designed to "discipline":

The only excuse I can muster is that I was hurrying to make the library before it closed. I couldn't argue that this was exactly the kind of thing a discipline was designed to manage. I was taken into the bedroom and told to lean over the foot of the bed with my knees on the bed."

Profiles In Courage: Newt Gingrich Finally Opens Up About Doing It With A Woman Lewinsky's Age The Whole Time He Was Leading Impeachment!!

Moe — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:18:43 EST

Just a warning: we are not going to be able to contain this news to one post, or even seven. We sort of thought this kind of temerity went out of style with Henry VIII, but no! Newt Gingrich, the whole time he was leading the charge to bring down Clinton for splooging on Monica's dress, was cheating on his second wife — the one he was fucking while his first wife was too busy swallowing radioactive juice to fend off cancer to swallow, ugh... you get the point. The Other Woman, former Congressional aide/apparent eye job recipient Callista Bisek, is Wife #3 now, natch — though Newt couldn't well call himself a crusader for Jesus if he hadn't tried to get the church to annul the marriage to Wife #2 on the basis — and maybe we should just rename this entire saga Newt: Natch! — that it should never have happened in the first place, since he was already married BEFORE! More »

Godtube.

eurotrash — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:28:40 EST

Proving yet again, that the Devil has all the best tunes, Christians have no sense of humor, and white men really shouldn't rap no matter how much they think they can, we give you godtube. Bonus points if you find the video explaining that bananas are proof that God exists. More »

Lordy Lordy.

eurotrash — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:38:49 EST

While laughing at the New Peter Pan Guy yesterday, we came across a curious little gem called Restoredmarriages ('For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce. Malachi 2:16'), founded by, yup, the New Peter Pan Guy, Tim H. Corban himself. More »