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Yet Another Con Man Hailed As a Hero By Religious Right Crazies

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religion and the Brain, Religion Breeds Ignorance, Religion Destroys the Brain, Religion Is a Scam, Religion is anti-Science, Religion Makes You Stupid, Religious Bigots, Religious Brain Damage, Religious Brainwashing, Religious Charlatans, Religious Crazies, Religious Credulity, Religious Cretins, Religious Crooks, Theocon, Theocon Fascists, Theocons, Theocracy, Theocrats

Arthur Goldberg Likens his Embattled Ex-Gay Therapy Group to Weight Watchers

Submitted by Brian Tashman

Before founding the ex-gay therapy group JONAH, Arthur Goldberg was an investor convicted on felony charges and served time in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy. But the con man is being hailed as a hero by the Religious Right now that he is going up against the Southern Poverty Law Center in court, which is representing several customers of his New Jersey-based organization who are suing him for consumer fraud. Goldberg, however, will be unable to represent himself as he has been disbarred.

While speaking to American Family Association president Tim Wildmon and Family Research Council head Tony Perkins on AFA Today, Goldberg denied the SPLC’s claims that he defrauded customers by advertising that his group is able to “cure clients of being gay,” for example by instructing a group of men to “remove their clothing and stand naked in a circle” alongside a nude “counselor.”

Goldberg told Wildmon and Perkins that filing suit against an ex-gay therapy organization is like suing Weight Watchers for failing to lose weight through their program.

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The Increasingly Insane Ravings of Religious Right Loon Bryan Fischer | Obama Antichrist

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Religion Breeds Ignorance, Religion Destroys the Brain, Religious Bigots, Religious Crazies, Religious Cretins, Religious Crooks, Religious Fanatics, Religious Fascisim, Religious Fascism, Religious Fascists, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Insanity

American Family Association Caveman Bryan Fischer: ‘Too Early to Say’ Whether Obama’s the Antichrist
Wouldn’t want to jump the gun
Via:- Charles Johnson

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist? Well, amazingly enough, religious right caveman Bryan Fischer thinks it’s too early to say.

But I sense that he’s leaning toward “yes.”

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Years After Acid Attack Horror, Suicide Stirs Pakistan

by The Age of Blasphemy, posted in Misogyny, Pakistan Acid Attacks, Patriarchy, Religious Violence, Violence Against Women

Years After Acid Attack Horror, Suicide Stirs Pakistan

Declan Walsh in the New York Times:

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Fakhra Younas went under the surgeon’s knife 38 times, hoping to repair the gruesome damage inflicted by a vengeful Pakistani man who had doused her face in acid a decade earlier, virtually melting her mouth, nose and ears.

The painful medical marathon took place in Rome, a distant city that offered Ms. Younas refuge, the generosity of strangers and a modicum of healing. She found an outlet in writing a memoir and making fearless public appearances.

But while Italian doctors worked on her facial scars, some wounds refused to close.

On March 17, after a decade of pining for Pakistan, a country she loved even though its justice system had failed her terribly, Ms. Younas climbed to the sixth-floor balcony of her apartment building in the southern suburbs of Rome and jumped. She was reported to be 33 years old.

More here.

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