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Reuters: Mississippi preacher bans fried chicken from church dinners
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“Pastor Michael Minor stirred a bit of controversy at his northwest Mississippi church when he banned fried chicken from the fellowship hall,” reports Colleen Jenkins for the British news service Reuters. After all, fried chicken is considered by some to be just short of a sacrament, particularly in the South. The traditional meal to serve…
LA Times: Lebanon bans Lady Gaga album as “offensive to Christians”
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Boxfuls of Lady Gaga’s newest album “Born this Way” were intercepted and impounded at Beirut’s international airport by Lebanese authorities late last week as potentially offensive to the country’s Christian population. “Despite having sold millions of copies worldwide, Lady Gaga’s album isn’t for sale in Lebanese music stores for now,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “Instead,…
Strong words fly between conservative, liberal Christians in pro- and anti-Rick Perry media
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In his commentary “More Drooling Idiocy on Rick Perry’s Faith,” it’s not too difficult to figure out where political observer Leon H. Wolf stands. “A fairly good indicator that Rick Perry will make a strong general election candidate is the desperation you can smell in the left’s opening salvo of attacks against him,” proclaims Wolf.…
State bureaucrat OKs church BBQ, but forbids baptisms
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On Sunday, Washington State bureaucrats forbade a local church from holding a baptism in a public lake near the state capitol. Saying that she interprets the state constitution to bar religious use of any state property, the acting director of the state Dapartment of General Administration, Jane Rushford, declined to issue Olympia’s Reality Church a permit to use…
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