Catholics protest the premiere of a lesbian nun movie in NY
WHEN Catholics got wind of the fact that provocative film director Paul Verhoeven’s latest film, Benedetta, contains scenes in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is used as a dildo, Catholic reacted...
View ArticleCrime pays: pastor jailed for smuggling drugs is to profit from a biopic
A MOVIE is to be made about former evangelical pastor John Lee Bishop, of the Living Hope Church in Oregon, who was jailed for five years in 2018 for acting as a drug-runner for a Mexican cartel....
View ArticleVirgin Mary used as a dildo in a new movie about lesbian nuns
VETERAN film ‘provocateur’ Paul Verhoeven, above, hit back at the weekend at Catholics who have condemned his latest movie Benedetta as ‘blasphemous’, not least because it contains scenes in which a...
View ArticlePurity culture parody song lands Christian singer in hot water
I’VE never understood why some folk have such a hard time grasping parody and satire. Today I got to ponder on the issue once more when I learned that popular Christian recording artist Matthew West,...
View ArticleLutherans’ buried horror movie resurrected after almost 50 years
WHEN the Lutherans in Pennsylvania decided in the 1970s to commission a movie about the awful ways in which the elderly are often treated, they chose a promising young filmmaker called George A Romero...
View ArticleUS actor Chadwick Boseman died young for his ‘blasphemy’
WHEN I learned recently that Boseman was posthumously awarded Best Actor by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, I vowed to watch it for two...
View Article‘No gratuitous violence in the Bible, says Christian actor
‘Uh-oh, Catholics gonna hate this,’ said I to my husband Marcus as we watched Moira Rose Schitt, dressed like a Pope, perform a marriage ceremony for her son David and his lover Patrick in ‘Happy...
View Article‘Rosary warriors’ target Catholic college over ‘Satanic’ music
A DEVIL of a row has erupted in New Jersey over a student-run radio station that’s been broadcasting heavy metal music for 35 years. So great is the anger aimed at Seton College’s WSOU – which boasts...
View ArticleFemale DJ arrested after booze-fueled, mixed gender mosque party
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, above, has ordered an investigation after authorities learned that hundreds of young people had converged on a mosque last Saturday to dance and drink the...
View ArticleNetfix’s pro-equality ‘The Prom’ horrifies Christians … and gays
WHENEVER my bartender friend Sammy Kruz, above, and I meet up the conversation immediately turns to movies, and last night he practically ordered me to watch The Prom. This is a musical comedy about a...
View ArticleBorn on this day: Sinatra, who risked all by pouring scorn on religion
FRANK Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998), born in Hoboken, New Jersey, was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th...
View ArticleGay orgy: top Hungarian ‘Christian values’ politician resigns
József Szájer, above, a founder member of Hungary’s hugely homophobic ruling Fidesz party, got himself arrested last Friday after trying to escape from what police bluntly described as a ‘gangbang’. It...
View Article‘Expert’ theological testimony rejected AGAIN in Omooba lawsuit
FURY abounds at Andrea Minichiello’s Christian Legal Centre after an Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a ruling that the testimonies of tw0 ‘expert’ witnesses cannot be heard in a case involving...
View Article‘Hurt’ Hindus want Netflix reps jailed for screening interfaith kiss
ANGRY Hindu social media users and politicians have rounded on Netflix for screening an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s best-selling novel A Suitable Boy – and some are even calling for the jailing of two...
View ArticleAnti-gay outfit angry over judge who disallowed biblical testimony
LAST year, in a case involving ‘persecuted’ Christian Seyi Omooba, dropped by a theatre company for expressing homophobic sentiments, an ‘expert witness’ – ‘renowned theologian’ and Conservative...
View ArticleBorat’s Allah ring and mankini spark Muslim anger in Paris
WHENEVER Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen releases a new comedy video or film outrage frequently follows, and posters for his latest – Borat II-New Filmed Mission – is reportedly being branded by...
View Article‘Jesus’ calls for war against ‘secular extremists’
ACTOR Jim Caviezel received a serious blow to the head by a big ol’ wooden cross when he was making Mel Gibson’s torture porn movie The Passion of the Christ. He was also struck by lightning while...
View ArticleMel Gibson’s sequel to ‘The Passion of the Christ’ unleashes hilarity
AT a time when there’s so little to laugh at in this crazy, COVID-19 afflicted, Trumpite world of ours, über-conservative Catholic actor and director Mel Gibson, above, has sent a tsunami of mirth...
View ArticleA history of fundie fury #1: Pat Boone goes metal, fans go mental
THE idea of traveling back in time to see what filled Christians with righteous anger in past decades occurred to me after a friend and I began boozily reminiscing about the pop stars we worshipped in...
View ArticleUS Christian group furious over exploration of Bible Belt gay life
AMERICA’S Public Broadcasting Service has enlisted openly gay actor Dyllón Burnside, above, to host Prideland, an upcoming series that explores gay life in southern states. The very homophobic American...
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