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• It seems that even Hugh Hewitt realizes there is something wrong with GOP presidential candidates like Rick Santorum legitimizing Bryan Fischer and his bigotry.
• Speaking of Fischer, he says that GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project proves they are afraid of the AFA. So, by the logic, the AFA must be terrified of Ellen DeGeneres.
• It is interesting to see people who don't believe there is any sort of right to privacy in the Constitution start worrying that health care reform will destroy the right to privacy.
• Randall Terry vows to go to court to get his name on the ballot in Kansas.
• Finally, Newt Gingrich wants to know "why does the president behave the way that people would think that [he’s Muslim.]"

Earlier this week, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of a survey showing that "the number of people who say there has been too much religious talk by political leaders stands at an all-time high ... and most Americans continue to say that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of politics."

In fact, the survey found that 38% think "there has been too much expression of religious faith and prayer from political leaders" while 30% say there has been too little and 25% think there has been the right amount.

Given these results, we can't say we are surprised to see Religious Right leaders respond by misrepresenting the findings:

As we have noted several times in the past, Jesse Lee Peterson of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) has carved out a very unique niche as a black right-wing activist who specializes in accusing Democrats, and especially black Democrats, of being racist while defending white people who are accused of racism.

Earlier this year, Peterson made news when he declared that he would like "to take all black people back to the South and put them on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of working." So it comes as no surprise that Peterson has now decided to weigh in on the Trayvon Martin tragedy by declaring that the outrage over his death is not about justice but rather "about getting even with whites and gaining political power": 

"It's hypocritical for so-called black 'leaders' to call for the prosecution of George Zimmerman and accuse the police of racism without knowing the facts. Black-on-black crime takes place every day. And blacks kill whites in far greater numbers than whites kill blacks. Yet, we only see these leaders and their hypnotized black followers worked up when a black is victimized by another race. This is racist and evil.

"Where were the NAACP, Al Sharpton, the Black Caucus and black ministers when black flash mobs were terrorizing the city of Philadelphia and attacking whites and others? It was so bad that Mayor Michael Nutter threatened to jail parents if they were not willing to get their thug children under control. In Kansas City, a 13-year-old white kid was attacked by two black teens who poured gasoline on him and set him on fire saying, 'you get what you deserve, white boy.' If these leaders were sincere, they would condemn crime across the board.

"I've said for the last 22 years that most black Americans are brainwashed. The recent actions of these black leaders and their followers are not about justice—it's about getting even with whites and gaining political power. This is black hatred of white people and a result of more than fifty years of brainwashing by racist civil-rights leaders.

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear three days of arguments over the constitutionality of health care reform legislation and so the Family Research Council's Prayer Team has sent out a set of prayer targets, praying that it will be struck down by the Court and that "we [may] defeat this and every effort to transform America into a Godless, secular, post-Christian state, where the federal government requires taxpayers to fund abortion and other behaviors condemned by God": 

May God's people humble themselves and pray. May He hear and have mercy! May He give persuasive power to the lawyers who support our cause and wisdom and righteous judgment to our Justices. May they rule the individual mandate and the entire law unconstitutional! (2 Sam 23:3: 2 Chr 7:14; Pr 11:30; Is 10:1; 58:6; Jer 29:14a; 2 Cor 5:11; Jas 4:1; 1 Pet 2:10)

Pray that Christians will speak out on this everywhere, representing Christ in word, spirit and deed. May they be given wisdom to convince and win our nation! (Pr 4:7; Is 43:10-12; Mt 10:40; Jn 16:8; Acts 1:8; Tit 1:9; Jude 1:15)

May believers fast and pray. With God's help may we defeat this and every effort to transform America into a Godless, secular, post-Christian state, where the federal government requires taxpayers to fund abortion and other behaviors condemned by God - the opposite of everything our Founders intended and our fathers and sons gave their blood for (Ex 20:4-6; Ps 40:17; Is 54:17; Dan 11:32; Mt 17:21; Eph 6:12; 2 Tim 3:1-14).

May God rush to help and overturn this unconstitutional law (Ps 40:17; 119:126; Jer 1:11-12).

• Towleroad: NOM Announces Starbucks Boycott After Being Smacked Down at Shareholders Meeting.
• Carlos Maza @ Equality Matters: More NOM Hypocrisy: Boycott Starbucks, But Not Anti-Gay Companies!
• Chris Rodda @ This Week In Christain Nationalism: “Monumental” Lies – Kirk Cameron Visits David Barton.
• Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Former James O’Keefe ‘Accomplice’ Reveals ‘Barn Incident’ And Harassment Complaint.
• Greg Sargent @ The Plum Line: Karl Rove: Bin Laden killing was no biggie.

• A new Pew poll finds that 38 percent of voters thing there is "too much expression of religious faith and prayer from political leaders."  Not surprisingly,  55% of Rick Santorum supporters think there is "too little" faith and prayer from political leaders. 
• Ken Cuccinelli hs filed papers to run for governor in Virginia.
• An effort to repeal marriage equality in New Hampshire failed yesterday.
• Randall Terry alleges that Democrats are engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to deny destroy his presidential "campaign."
• Dr. Kevin Lewis, associate professor of theology and law at Biola University, finds it "sad" that Ted Olson is proud of "trying to enact Sodom in the once-mighty Christian nation of the United States."
• Finally, watching Glenn Beck and Jerry Boykin discuss how the "Kony 2012"  is some Soros-backed effort that will turn Joseph Kony into Che Guevara-like figure is honestly one of the dumbest things we have ever seen.

Kirk Cameron was the guest on "WallBuilders Live" today in order to promote his new movie "Monumental" where he explained that the most important lesson he hopes that people take from the film is that faith is always involved in politics -  the question is simply whether we will be governed by the faith of atheists who believe we all evolved from slime or Christians under the revelation of the Bible:

You know what's interesting is that faith is always involved in politics, it's just not always a Christian faith. If you think about it, even those who are secular humanists, they are importing their secular humanist faith and religion and morality and imposing it on everybody else through the laws that they make. So the idea of faith in government is inescapable; it's always going to be somebody's faith, even if it's faith in atheism.

Even the most ardent atheist has faith that there is no God - and that's a blind faith; you have to ignore all of the evidence - but he nevertheless holds his position by faith and that faith informs his decisions. So don't let anyone ever tell you that faith doesn't belong in politics because you can't get away from it even if your faith is atheism.

It's just a question of which is the best faith to have. Do you put your faith in the idea that we all evolved from slime? Or do you put your faith in the revelation that we were created by God in his image and he loves us and has given us a life manual called the Bible?

Last week, a Ugandan gay rights group sued anti-gay activist Scott Lively in US court for allegedly violating international law over his role in Uganda's proposed "Kill The Gays" bill.

So naturally the good folks at Liberty Counsel have stepped up and agreed to defend Lively in this case: 

Liberty Counsel has agreed to represent Rev. Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor who was sued in a Massachusetts federal court by a foreign group called Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG).

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The suit is a direct attempt to silence Rev. Lively because of his speech about homosexuality and pornography ... Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, commented: “This lawsuit against Rev. Scott Lively is a gross attempt to use a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize, speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues. This suit should cause everyone to be concerned, because it a direct threat against freedom of speech.”

James Robison has already made it quite clear that he will not going to give those who oppose his agenda "the liberty and the license to continually assault the word of God, to assault marriage, to assault family, and to literally take your secular theocracy and cram it down our throats."

Today, he returned with a similar message, saying that his opponents "can live in whatever kind of sinful way you want to - you can live in immorality, you can live in rebellion, you can live in greed, you can live in envy - but don't force that rotten lifestyle on me and tell me that's going to be the American way."   Robison vowed to do everything he can to stand up and turn the nation back to God which, of course, starts with the next election when the nation will have to choose between right and wrong and between a belief system that is under God or in direct opposition to God:

Bryan Fischer was on vacation last week when GLAAD unveiled its Commentator Accountability Project, so he didn't get a chance to officially weigh in on the project or his inclusion among the commentators GLAAD is tracking until he returned to the studio yesterday.

And responding was among the first things he did, calling it McCarthyism and a black list and proof that the AFR Talk is the most feared and most dangerous radio network in America because it represented the greatest threat to the "gay agenda." 

Fischer eventually weighed in on some of the past statements he had made that got him included in the project in the first place, and defended them all, claiming that the project itself proves that he is right when he said that gay activists are exactly like Nazis: