That god is my hero.

I wish the govt. would strike their tax exemption for that crap.

Not just theirs, but all religious tax exemptions. Tax the church the same as a business - after all, some of these churches are essentially mult-million dollar corporations.

Not every church. I've seen churches and temples that can hardly get by and it's not some BS story to line pockets. They don't profit and can hardly keep the doors open and the people who go WANT the doors open and do legit and good things for their communities.

The "Church" of Scientology is a totally different animal I won't get into. I agree though, some of the big mega-million dollar freak-churches should be looked into as well.

Okay, this is a complete repost of something Kelly Sue DeConnick posted on her site earlier in the day. I would just send you there, but Neil and Wil just did that and it fried her server. So I’m just copypasting on the fly. Everything below is written by Kelly Sue. Here we go:

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Okay, so, Fred Phelps and his family of hateful bigots are getting a lot of press for their planned appearance at (or near?) the San Diego Comic Con. The man lives for attention and confrontation. If you see him there, don’t sneer, don’t scream, don’t confront, don’t point and laugh–DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE. Ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore…

EXCEPT! We need some help in the form of a time-keeper or two, letting us know exactly how long the patron saint of backwards thinking and his family manage to stand and scream in the California sun. Then, by all means, do stare–at your watch! Make a note of what time it is and alert the internet that they’re there/still there. (But do it quietly and from a polite distance, will you?) Go get yourself a cold drink and check back every now and then until we have an approximate time count. Like… here would be good. Or on Twitter, with the hashtag #godlovesbatman

Why? Because in the spirit of love, we are pledging to donate $50 to amfAR if Phelps and his crew actually show up (often they don’t) and $10 an hour additional to amfAR for every hour they stay. And we’ll make our donation in Fred’s name.

We’d love you to join us.

(And we’d really love to be able to post a tally of how much we’ve raised.)

Repost far and wide, my pretties.

EDITED TO ADD:

1. We’ll be donating to amfAR, but Sam and Ginny have both suggested the Human Rights Campaign. Either seems appropriate.
2. Looks like the WBC is only scheduled for 45 minutes. (Lightweights!) If that’s the case, we’ll round up to $100–but times are tough and you shouldn’t feel like you have to do the same or not participate. $7.50 is better than nothing. $57.50 is peachy and cute.
3. There seems to be some confusion–you don’t need to be at SDCC to pledge. We’re doing an online donation via this link.

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This is Warren again. It’s just been mentioned to me that “lots of LGBT folks are anti-HRC,” in which case interested parties might like to donate to NCLR or EQCA instead.

That god is my hero.