Billy Graham's Grandson Resigns From Megachurch After Admitting Affair

Via the Washington Post:

Billy Graham’s grandson Tullian Tchividjian has resigned from his pulpit at Coral Ridge Presbyterian, a high-profile church in south Florida, after admitting he had an affair. Tchividjian, 42, has been married to his wife, Kim, since 1994 and they have three children. Many have considered Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin) a rising star in evangelicalism, especially in Reformed circles. He is the fourth Florida megachurch pastor to resign after having affairs, including the son of megachurch pastor Joel Hunter.

In 2009, Tchividjian succeeded the late James Kennedy as senior pastor of Coral Ridge. Kennedy was one of the architects of the Religious Right, a movement of evangelicals who became intertwined in more conservative politics. However, Tchividjian decided to preach less about politics, unlike his uncle Franklin Graham, founder of Samaritan’s Purse. Billy Graham, 96, was one of the most influential religious leaders of the 20th century and an adviser to many U.S. presidents. Tchividjian’s mother is Billy Graham’s oldest child.

The church has issued a statement:

Several days ago, Pastor Tullian admitted to moral failure, acknowledging his actions disqualify him from continuing to serve as senior pastor or preach from the pulpit, and resigned – effective immediately. We are saddened by this news, but are working with and assisting Pastor Tullian and his family to help them through this difficult time, and asking people to join us in praying that God will bring restoration through this process and healing to all involved.

Franklin Graham is Tchividjian's uncle.

RELATED: The SPLC lists Coral Ridge Ministries as an anti-gay group. They note that Coral Ridge helped launch Roy Moore's Foundation For Moral Law.

The Matt Barber "Story"

Truth In Action Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries) profiles hate group spokesman Matt Barber with this notation: "Conspicuous by her absence is Sarah Barber, Matt's wife. Note what one of our VOs says in the feature: Our TV crew asked Matt if we could videotape his family, but he declined — because of the constant death threats he receives from the forces of 'tolerance'."

RELATED: Regarding Barber's claim to have been fired for writing an anti-gay article, Urban Legends provides a statement from Allstate: "Allstate would not terminate an employee for expressing personal religious views on his or her own time. Any allegation suggesting otherwise is false."

Only Christians Went To Heaven After Colorado's Batman Mass Murder

"If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place. On the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ, if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place. For those who are not ‘in Christ’ and see this incredible tragedy, this would be a good time for soul reflection and consider why have you not accepted Jesus Christ. I would urge anyone who is not in Christ to repent of your sins." - Truth In Action hate group leader Jerry Newcombe, speaking on the AFA's daily radio show.

TRAILER: The Price Of Freedom

Right Wing Watch provides this excerpt from the coming Coral Ridge Ministries film. Ooh look! Gay people with their shirts off! Nightmare!

Christian Leaders Denounce Attempts To Decriminalize Homosexuality Abroad

And now we return to the Christian message we're more accustomed to: Dirty queers belong in jail or hanging from the gallows.

Hitler Supports The Day Of Silence

"It’s sad to see groups like GLSEN be accepted by the teacher's establishment and then allow the platform to go into the public schools and try and indoctrinate children. For example, they have something called the Day of Silence. Now they chose April 20 of all days to be the Day of Silence, I looked that up, I was like, 'Isn’t that Adolf Hitler’s birthday?' I looked it up and sure enough it is Adolf Hitler’s birthday. I don’t think there’s a link there but how ironic. But they are using this day as a means by which to promote their lifestyle as if it is a positive thing." - Abiding Truth Ministries hairpiece expert Jerry Newcombe, speaking on their national radio show. (Abiding Truth is the new name for Fort Lauderdale megachurch Coral Ridge Ministries.)

The Immoral Homosexual Agenda Iceberg Is Going To Sink America

(Via Right Wing Watch)

Anti-Gay Group Claims AllOut Lied About Severed Relationship With PayPal

The Fort Lauderdale-based anti-gay group Truth In Action Ministries says that "homosexual activists" are lying about forcing PayPal to drop them. Because they never worked with PayPal in the first place.

The group claimed this week that the accounts for four of those organizations have been disabled -- one of those being Truth in Action Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries). John Aman, a spokesman for the ministry, disputes that claim. "The plain fact of the matter is that we've never had a business relationship with PayPal -- they're not our pal," he tells OneNewsNow. "And I don't think there will be [a relationship] in the future, given what they've said and how they've taken sides with the group that's trying to force business away from PayPal."

Well, golly gee, Mr. Aman, looky what I just found on the website selling your propaganda.

PayPal Boots Four Hate Sites

PayPal has severed its relationships with four notorious hate groups after a petition campaign from All Out called on the money transfer giant to abide by its own mission statement against abetting violence and hatred. Via press release:

The PayPal option has been disabled on the websites of Truth in Action Ministries, Brazilian extremist Julio Severo’s sites, Noua Dreapta, and Dove World Outreach Center—organizations whose regular anti-LGBT hate speech puts them starkly at odds with PayPal’s own ethics policy, which states that account holders “may not use the PayPal service for activities that [...] promote hate, violence, racial intolerance”. AllOut.org has called for ten organizations to be removed, and has attracted almost 40,000 signers from around the world to its petition asking for PayPal to take action. In response, the successful campaign has been dubbed “the latest example of homo-fascism,” by ‘Americans for Truth About Homosexuality,’ a notoriously virulent anti-LGBT group. PayPal said this week it “take[s] very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”

Truth In Action is the former Coral Ridge Ministries, the Fort Lauderdale-based megachurch founded by dead dead dead homophobe D. James Kennedy. Dove World Outreach is the home of Florida's Pastor Terry Jones, the anti-gay asshat who burned Korans on national television, an act that arguably spawned murderous riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Huge props to All Out on this win. Porno Pete, you're NEXT.

Coral Ridge Ministries Changes Name

One of the nation's largest anti-gay groups is dropping its Fort Lauderdale-centric name and becoming Truth In Action Ministries.

Robert Knight: Washington DC Is Secretly Run By Gay Capitol Hill Staffers

This bit of nonsense from Coral Ridge Ministries' Robert Knight was quoted in the linked story about the anti-gay "Awakening" conference I posted earlier today. Right Wing Watch now gives us the video.

PhoboQuotable - Robert Knight

"It's a good thing Barack Obama is not in charge of defending the law of gravity, or we'd all be floating up to an airless death. Allow me to take off the gloves. As one who helped draft the first version of the Defense of Marriage Act, I regard Obama's order on Feb. 23 to Attorney General Eric Holder to abandon DOMA's legal defense as lawless, reckless, arrogant and a violation of his oath of office. I think it is an impeachable offense. [snip]

"Obama often misquotes Scripture, which gives some folks the impression that he's a devout Christian. Maybe he is. But do devout Christians carry water for the culture of Sodom or support partial-birth abortion? This is the man who wants a government monopoly over your most intimate medical decisions and those of your family. By declaring his intention to allow radical judges to find a 'right' to homosexual 'marriage' in the U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama is pouring gasoline on a bonfire that is destroying the legal protections of marriage -- and civilization itself." - Robert Knight, senior fellow with the Christianist American Civil Rights Union, writing for the Washington Times.

PhoboQuotable - Robert Knight

"Outrageous. Unbelievable. Our armed forces are fighting the enemy overseas while this lunatic judge behind our own lines decides to throw a hand grenade right into our own barracks. The arrogance of this judge is stunning. She has decided she is smarter than God, more than 1,163 retired generals and admirals who support the military's policy, the hundreds of congressmen and senators who voted for the law in 1993 and generations of military leaders who believed that morality affects discipline and that homosexual conduct undermines military preparedness." - Coral Ridge Ministries' Robert Knight, as quoted in World Net Daily. Knight adds that a repeal of DADT would result in the "forced re-education of religious soldiers."

RELATED: In case it's not obvious, I'm really enjoying watching these nutbags blow their Jeebus-stacks.

PhoboQuotable - Robert Knight

"In light of federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling on August 4 striking down California's marriage law, let's imagine a worst-case scenario. It goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, where, flanked by leftist newcomers Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, Anthony Kennedy takes his latest plunge into existential mystery and manufactures a constitutional 'right' to force Americans to recognize same-sex 'marriage.' I'm not saying they are going to do this, but what if? What should right-thinking Americans do?

"First, they should announce loudly and clearly that they won't go along with this abuse of language ruse. Does a federal judge have the right to change the meaning of a word? For example, if a law gave special recognition to dogs (a dog license) could Judge Walker, a cat lover, arbitrarily decree that cats are dogs? Clearly not, any more than decreeing the absurdity of brideless or groomless 'marriage' into the law immediately transforms it into the real thing. Creating counterfeits and then forcing them down people's throats is straight out of George Orwell's Newspeak in 1984." - Coral Ridge Ministries spokestwat Robert Knight.

Knight further bleats that legalizing same-sex marriage would be similar to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which stifled dissent of the federal government.

PhoboQuotable - Robert Knight

"Forcing open homosexuality on the armed forces would destroy the volunteer military and bring back the compulsory draft. Since women are now deployed close to combat, and the only legal reason they are not eligible is their combat exemption, a new draft could include our daughters. And some would face pressure to have on-base abortions in order to complete their tours of duty.

"Chaplains would be the first victims of Mr. Obama's homosexualization of the military, followed by anyone who violated 'zero tolerance' policies for homosexual acceptance. Bible-believing Christians would quickly find themselves unwelcome in Barney Frank's new pansexual, cross-dressing military. Other fallout includes family housing, reduction in retention, recruitment and unit cohesion, an increase in homosexual sexual assaults and a boost to overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

"The military is a bastion of traditional values and symbolizes America's strength and independence. Opening the ranks to open homosexuality will accomplish the left's dream - undermining the military and transforming it into a wrecking ball against Judeo-Christian morality." - Coral Ridge Ministries douchenozzle Robert Knight, in an editorial published yesterday by the Moonie-owned Washington Times.

Coral Ridge Ministries To Air Anti-Obama Special Nationwide

This is the trailer from Coral Ridge Ministries' coming anti-Obama television special. Michele Bachmann, Harry Jackson, and a cavalcade of your favorite crazies agree: We're all going to end up like Cuba! Whatever that means!

Coral Ridge Ministries: Don't Turn The Pentagon Into A Pink Palace

Learn2Discern is Coral Ridge Ministries' weekly Two Minutes Of Hate, most of which so far have been about them there evil homersexshuls.

Coral Ridge Congregants: You're Not Anti-Gay Enough, We're Outta Here

Ever since the viciously anti-gay Dr. D. James Kennedy died and was replaced by the not-as-bad-so-far Rev. Tullian Tchividjian, some congregants at the Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries mega-church have been chafing in their pews. Tchividjian, you see, wants to ease Coral Ridge out of political issues such as homosexuality and focus on worship. After Tchividjian, who is Billy Graham's grandson, survived a vote calling for his firing, 25% of Coral Ridge's membership have left to start their own church. No word yet on what they'll call it.

PhoboQuotable - Robert Knight

"It [ENDA] takes away the idea that sex is created by God in two different categories -- male and female -- and it makes it entirely a radical, self-determined persona. The larger problem of this is it turns private sin into a public right. It puts Christian and Jewish employers on the defensive, saying that if you don't give in and accord civil-rights privileges based on behavior that you know is sinful, 'We're coming after you. We're going to fine you. We're going to punish you.' The bill criminalizes God's biblical morality in the workplace." - Coral Ridge Ministries leader Robert Knight. For decades, this Fort Lauderdale-based church and its globally televised ministry has worked tirelessly to repress LGBT people.

Gay Marriage=Giving Dog Licenses To Cats

Jeremy at Good As You found this corker from Fort Lauderdale's Coral Ridge Ministries. I guess we're the cats in this scenario.