One Million Moms Needs A Million Dollars Because Everything Is Just So Horrible

"I know that many are discouraged because of the recent Supreme Court ruling but now is not the time for conservative Christians to retreat from the cultural battlefield. We must stand up for our religious liberties. We need to stand up now, more than ever before. For years, your voice - the voice of conservative Christian America - has not been heard by those in power in our nation’s capital. But we have an opportunity to change that, and that’s why I'm emailing you today. The challenge: AFA has already invested $1 million toward putting our AFR Talk signal on the air in the area west of the Potomac. By the time the project is complete, we will have spent another $1 million. AFR Talk needs to be on the air by January, 2016, because the upcoming national election will really start ramping up around that time. So the amount of money we need now is $1 million.  I trust that you'll give your whole-hearted support to this campaign, which I believe is our best effort to hand off to our children and grandchildren a nation whose culture is guided by the principles and values of the Bible. The secular culture's war against all things Christian, including life and marriage, will only spread and get worse as we are pushed even further out of the mainstream." - One Million Moms head Monica Cole, via email.

McCain Supporter Pastor John Hagee Repeats "Gays Caused Katrina" Charge

Will the same people that leapt on Rev. Wright denounce this asshat?

On his radio show yesterday, right-wing talker Dennis Prager asked Hagee to respond to “the various charges made against him” in a fact sheet put out by the Democratic National Committee. Asked about his comments on Hurricane Katrina, Hagee said “the topic of that day was cursing and blessing”:

HAGEE: Yes. The topic of that day was cursing and blessing. … What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse.

Prager followed up by asking if all natural disasters are a result of “the divine hand” and if there is “any natural disaster that is not the result of sin?” Hagee responded by saying “it’s a result of God’s permissible will” and “that there was going to be a massive homosexual rally there the following Monday,” which he said “was sin”:

PRAGER: Right, but in the case, did NPR get, is this quote correct though that in the case of New Orleans you do feel it was sin?

HAGEE: In the case of New Orleans, their plan to have that homosexual rally was sin. But it never happened. The rally never happened.

PRAGER: No, I understand.

HAGEE: It was scheduled that Monday.

PRAGER: No, I’m only trying to understand that in the case of New Orleans, you do feel that God’s hand was in it because of a sinful city?

HAGEE: That it was a city that was planning a sinful conduct, yes.

Unconvinced by Hagee’s explanation, Prager said “frankly” that critics “can get you” for those comments “because people don’t like to hear that sort of thing.”

You may recall that in February McCain said he was "very honored" to have received Hagee's endorsement, for which McCain had lobbied hard. Since then he has both repudiated some of Hagee's positions and defended others, saying most recently (on Sunday) that he was "glad to have" Hagee's support. McCain has been silent on Hagee's "gays caused Katrina" idiocy.

And since when is Southern Decadence a "rally"?

(Via - Think Progress.)