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Merry Christmas, Youngs! You Killed God.
Hope you're happy with yourselves.
December 24, 2020 09:00 AM
Splendid news, everyone! Or terrible news, everyone! You know, depending on your perspective. This story came out in the Christian Post last week, so technically it's old news, but we figured all y'all have probably been playing hooky from your Christian Post reading for ... ever ... so it's new news for you.
Anyway, in honor of Christmas, we regret/are thrilled to inform you that the most common category of religious belief among American youngs is now "nope." Indeed, according to the American Enterprise Institute's new study from its Survey Center on American Life, the most common religious affiliation among those 18-29 in America is "none."
YOU DID IT, KIDS! YOU KILLED GOD! Or at least 34 percent of the youngs, who picked "none."
<blockquote>Released Tuesday, AEI's <a href="https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/religious-diversity-and-change-in-american-social-networks/" target="_blank">Survey Center on American Life </a>investigating contemporary religion in the U.S. found that among young adults (age 18 to 29), the most common religious identity today is none. More than one in three (34%) young adults are religiously unaffiliated.</blockquote><p>AND</p><blockquote>Additionally, most Americans say it's not necessary for a person to believe in God to be moral and have good values. Close to six in 10 (59%) Americans say a belief in God is not a precondition to being moral and having good values, while 41% of the public say a belief in God is essential.</blockquote><p>Factcheck those 41 percent who say you have to believe in God to be a good person are idiots. </p><p>AND</p><blockquote>A majority (54%) of Americans say they have not been asked to participate in a religious service in the past 12 months or have never been asked.</blockquote><p>This one is a pretty big deal, actually, and those of you who live in the South are fully aware of why. It seems like down in these parts, maybe in your parts too, people don't ask what you do for a living or where do you summer, they ask where you go to church. And if you do not attend, some people look at you funny. Or at least they used to. </p><p>Overall, over a quarter of Americans are now religiously unaffiliated, and those numbers are only going up. There are obviously many reasons for this, but one of them is clearly that white evangelical Christians tend to be fucking dicks. Oh and by the way, this survey finds that "Christians as a whole fell from 78.4 to 70% of the population between 2007 to 2014, with every major group experiencing a decline." Lot of that drop, we are pretty sure, is kids raised around evangelical Christian dicks leaving for college and never darkening the doors of a church again. </p><p>Take a look around the <a href="https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/religious-diversity-and-change-in-american-social-networks/" target="_blank">survey</a> if you want to, or if you're interested in such things. </p><p>As for us, we are going to celebrate Christmas now, like the sorta Christian heathen we are, because while America may not be a Christian nation, and while the youngs from 18 to 29 may have killed God, it is a fact that thanks to Donald Trump, we are now allowed to say "Merry Christmas" without being executed on the spot, because <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/fox-friends-so-mad-liberals-murdering-baby-jesus-again-on-his-birthday" target="_blank">that's how things used to be,</a> we all remember.</p><p>So Merry Christmas to you and yours, if you celebrate! And if you don't, then we hope you have a good day on Friday ANYWAY.</p><p>The end.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/most-common-religious-identity-among-young-adults-is-none.html" target="_blank">Christian Post</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a><br></strong></p><p><strong>GIVE IT WONKETTE. We mean money. Thank you.</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Healthcare
Well This Is Just A Swell Time For Trump To Cut Healthcare Funds To California Over Abortion
Did you know there is a pandemic? Because there's a pandemic.
December 18, 2020 01:45 PM
Hey! I don't know if you've noticed or not, but there's like a whole pandemic happening. It's been going on for practically a year now. One of the things people definitely need, in the middle of a pandemic, is healthcare. Not only do individuals need healthcare for themselves, they also need other people to have healthcare. Because there's a virus and we don't want the virus to spread. We want people to get treated for the virus and also to get the vaccine, so we can all go back to sorta normal.
Now, sure, that could be said for healthcare in general — that we actually all benefit from everyone having it, even when there isn't a pandemic, because we live in a society — but let's not start a riot here.
California is having a difficult time. It's had more cases of COVID-19 than any other state in the country, and trails only New York and Texas in total deaths. In fact, just two days ago, the state confirmed more than 61,000 cases in a single day.
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<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/" target="_blank">Worldometers</a></small></p><p>It's really, really bad! </p><p>So if you were a normal, compassionate human being, you would probably be like, "Yeah, California definitely needs healthcare. We should definitely not cut off their healthcare funding at this time, particularly for a really stupid reason." But Donald Trump is not a normal, compassionate human being. Obviously. </p><p>That is why, we can assume, he is cutting $200 million in Medicaid funding to California because the state requires employers to provide health care insurance that covers abortion. On Wednesday, Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar explained in a press release that this violates the Weldon Amendment, <a href="https://www.nationalfamilyplanning.org/document.doc?id=1373" target="_blank">which</a> "prohibits federal agencies and programs and state and local governments that receive money under the bill from 'discriminating' against individuals, health care facilities, insurance plans, and other entities because they refuse to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions."</p>
<div id="65613" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="75907f193b4c85b2241d27e57ce50f55"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1339383363338039296" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Nothing like the “pro-life” party eliminating healthcare during a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
California will survive without… https://t.co/0L0py1zUs4</div> — Gavin Newsom (@Gavin Newsom)<a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/statuses/1339383363338039296">1608168853.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>Not only that, but Azar says he will continue to deprive California of Medicaid funding every quarter until he gets his way. This will, of course, be difficult for him to do once he is out in a month.<br></p><p>Via <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/12/16/hhs-disallow-200m-california-medicaid-funds-due-unlawful-abortion-insurance-mandate.html" target="_blank">HHS:</a></p><blockquote>Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) makes two announcements regarding enforcement of federal conscience laws. First, HHS will disallow $200 million in federal Medicaid funds going to California in the upcoming quarter due to the state illegally mandating that all health care plans subject to regulation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) cover abortion without exclusion or limitation. If the State does not come into compliance, additional disallowances will be imposed at a rate of $200 million per quarter. As a result of California's mandate, health plan issuers were compelled to remove coverage exclusions and limitations regarding abortion coverage, which forced employer groups associated with over 28,000 individuals out of plans that until that time had chosen to not cover elective abortions. California's mandate violates a federal antidiscrimination law known as the Weldon Amendment, which protects entities from being forced to provide, pay for, or provide coverage for abortions. California has refused to come into compliance with the Weldon Amendment, despite several demands from OCR as well as offers from OCR to assist it in coming into compliance. </blockquote><p>Just to be clear, it's not an employer's right to tell their employees what they can spend <em>their own</em> money on. Which is what insurance is. It is part of their compensation package — which is why the Weldon Amendment itself is the thing that should be illegal. Once your employer gives you your paycheck or provides you with health insurance, it's not their money any more. Like if I were to buy a dress Rebecca didn't like, she could say "I hate that dress!" but she couldn't say "You <em>can't</em> buy that dress with my money!" Because she paid me, and now it's my money and I can buy any dress I want with it. </p><p>The HHS press release also included a quote from Alex Azar, about how this is meant to protect Americans' "religious freedom and conscience rights."</p><blockquote>"Under President Trump, HHS has worked like never before to enforce laws Congress has passed to protect Americans' religious freedom and conscience rights," said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. "California and the University of Vermont Medical Center have violated federal conscience laws and refused to work with us to take corrective action, so we are now taking action to hold them to account."</blockquote><p>The idea that this has anything to do with violating someone's conscience is beyond absurd. Because unless <em>you</em> are having the abortion, it is not your conscience's business. And just to be clear, as far as employers go — perhaps they should consider that if their employees don't use their health insurance to get an abortion, they will very likely be paying for it with the money they got in their paycheck from their abortion-hating employer. By their logic, this would mean that the employer was "paying for" an abortion.</p><p>There is another conundrum here, which I alluded to in the beginning of the post: A loss of Medicaid funding that severe could actually kill people, particularly at a time when so many are relying on it because they're out of work due to the pandemic. It also very likely means that emergency rooms will be overrun, because emergency rooms have to treat people whether or not they have insurance or can pay. Right now, we obviously need as much space in emergency rooms as possible. </p><p>Now, I know this won't bother "pro-lifers" and their precious, precious consciences all that much, because who cares if born people survive, amirite? They had their chance to get baptized! But perhaps they should consider that some of those people might be pregnant. Or they might get pregnant. And it costs a whole lot to be pregnant and to give birth. <em>Far</em> more expensive than it is to have an abortion, even if they have to pay out of pocket for it. Thus, depriving the state of these funds will very likely lead to <em>more</em> abortions than there would have been otherwise. </p><p>To do this at any time is gross, but this should be a time when we are saying, "You need healthcare? Here! Have all the healthcare you want!" to every state across the damn country. We should be banding together and taking care of one another. What kind of person would say "Yes, definitely take health care away from poor people, during a pandemic, over abortions that other people might have"? What the hell kind of "conscience" is that? </p><p>[<a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/12/16/hhs-disallow-200m-california-medicaid-funds-due-unlawful-abortion-insurance-mandate.html" target="_blank">HHS</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><br><p></p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Religion
Billy Graham's Biggest Mistake Just Grateful Trump Ended Death Penalty For Saying 'Merry Christmas!'
Franklin Graham has Christmas Thoughts. They are very stupid thoughts.
December 15, 2020 03:47 PM
And now it's time for a holiday CHRISTMAS DAMMIT message from Franklin Graham, the unfortunate thing that happened one time when Billy Graham jizzed CHRISTMASSED DAMMIT in the direction of a human woman.
You see, Franklin Graham is reaching the acceptance stage of grief, more than a month after his loser president lost really hard in the election. He's not angry about the result, and he's not disappointed either. He's grateful. And here is why, as he explained on Facebook:
I'm thankful that the president stood against the secularists who wanted to take Christ out of Christmas and that he brought back the greeting "Merry Christmas!"
We cannot imagine what it's like to go to bed at night so scared and stupid that you really think Christmas was under attack and that you were not allowed to say "Merry Christmas" before Donald Trump was president. That somehow you have been liberated from these chains.
SPOILER, Franklin: Christmas, and wishing someone a merry one, has always been fine, but in the free market, companies have always been free to make decisions about which seasons' greetings to offer. The same companies that insist on it today were insisting on it before Trump was president. Likewise, the companies that were trying to move in a more ecumenical direction, encouraging more inclusive greetings like "May the elves on your shelves 69 all night long!" are doing the exact same thing today. Trump did nothing, besides performative bullshit meant to fool our Lord's dumbest faithful into believing he was doing something for them. You know, folks like Franklin Graham.
<p>Graham's message had more in it:</p><blockquote>He gave us a president who protected our religious liberties; grateful for a president who defended the lives of the unborn, standing publicly against abortion and the bloody smear it has made on our nation ...</blockquote><p>Abortion is still legal in the United States, Franklin, at least for now. And we still don't know how many abortions the president has personally paid for, not that we are suggesting that he's ever actually come through on something he said he was going to pay for.</p><p>But yes, Trump did stack the courts with barely legal bigots just jonesing to stomp on the necks of women and LGBTQ people. We'll give Franklin that one. Unfortunately, so far the religious Right can't seem to come up with a case Trump's Krazy Krusades Kourt is willing to take.</p><blockquote>grateful for a president who built the strongest economy in 70 years with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years before the pandemic;</blockquote><p>Barack Obama <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/05/trump-obama-economy/" target="_blank">built that economy,</a> you airheaded fucksock. Also when you have to put "before the pandemic" on at the end like an asterisk, it's pretty clear you're grasping. </p><p>Oh yeah, and about that pandemic ... just kidding, Franklin Graham doesn't have any more thoughts about the pandemic that's killed over 300,000 Americans because of his beloved president's murderous stupidity.</p><p>Tell us more about President Participation Trophy, Franklin:</p><blockquote>grateful for a president who strengthened and supported our military;</blockquote><p>When he wasn't <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/dear-us-military-this-is-what-your-commander-in-chief-really-thinks-of-you" target="_blank">calling them</a> suckers and losers and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-didnt-talk-to-putin-about-russian-bounties-on-american-troops-must-have-slipped-his-genius-mind" target="_blank">tacitly allowing</a> Vladimir Putin to put bounties on their heads.</p><blockquote>grateful for a president who stood against "the swamp" and the corruption in Washington</blockquote><p>Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.</p><blockquote> I'm grateful for a president and a vice president who recognized the importance of prayer and were not ashamed of the name of Jesus Christ.</blockquote><p>Oh yes, Donald Trump, who prayed so much, when his illiterate heathen ass wasn't <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-terrific-at-saying-classiest-bible-verses-almost-perfectly" target="_blank">misquoting</a> "Two Corinthians" or <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/why-did-the-chickensh-t-cross-the-road-to-gas-his-own-people-lol" target="_blank">using an upside-down Bible</a> as a prop literally right after he gassed a priest.</p><blockquote>So as we come to the end of this election season, I look back with a grateful heart and thank God for all of these things.</blockquote><p>Does thanking God count if God doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about? Or does God totally "Return to sender" those prayers?</p><p>Graham's Facebook post ends with his regrets that Americans "got confused and made the election about personalities rather than the policies of the candidates." Which ... nope again, dumbass! Americans voted against Stupid Hitler, both because of his personality <em>and</em> his policies. Regular normal Americans — real Americans — <em>loathe</em> Donald Trump. </p><p>Anyway, we guess we should just be glad Franklin's accepting that Americans did indeed vote against the human shart who will leave the White House on Jan. 20, if his loser ass doesn't escape in the middle of the night sooner than that. <em></em></p><p>And finally, this is just sad:</p><blockquote>President Trump will go down in history as one of the great presidents of our nation, bringing peace and prosperity to millions here in the U.S. and around the world. </blockquote><p>Bless his heart. We'll just let Franklin Graham watch the parades break out in every city in America and around the world the second Trump's ass waddles out of there for the last time and into our repressed memories. History isn't written by the losers, after all, and Donald Trump is the biggest loser who ever lived.</p><p>We've spent long enough making fun of the Merry Christmas/Election Facebook message from Billy Graham's saddest misfire. If you see poor Franklin moping around this season, be sure to wish him a <del>"Happy Holidays"</del> "Merry Christmas, Motherfucker!" and if you also tell him you're a homosexual on your way to make out with Black Lives Matter at the big Antifa Abortion Swap, that might be kinda funny, we are just saying, he might cry.</p><p>Oh! OPEN THREAD! We forgot to say!</p><p>[<a href="https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/3957463454309806" target="_blank">Franklin Graham on Facebook</a> / h/t <a href="https://www.joemygod.com/2020/12/franklin-graham-acknowledges-joe-bidens-win-thanks-god-for-trumps-bringing-back-merry-christmas/" target="_blank">Joe My God</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a><br></strong></p><p><strong>GIVE IT WONKETTE. We mean money. 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Right Wing Extremism
Proud Boys Attack Black Churches, Burn BLM Banners, Cops Think It Just Might Be A Hate Crime
Church leaders have compared the attacks to cross burnings. Which is accurate.
December 14, 2020 09:29 AM
If there is anything the Right loves, it is churches and religion — by which they mean Christian churches and the Christian religion. They are always trying to save America from us godless liberals who won't let them say Merry Christmas, ever, and they are always standing up for the rights of religious people to use their religion to justify discriminating against other people. Conveniently, it seems as though the Bible can be used to justify just about anything — but mostly discrimination. Especially as it concerns cake, slavery or other people's bodies.
The one thing they will not defend, however, are those who use their religion to fight discrimination rather than embrace it. Because that's just wrong.
This weekend, during the big MAGA March To Continue Pretending Donald Trump Won The Election, there was no small amount of violence, mostly related to the Proud Boys. There were four stabbings — though it's not clear who got stabbed, counter-protesters or Proud Boys — and at least one reported gunshot. Thirty-three people were arrested.
<p>And, at one point, some Proud Boys got it into their heads to tear down a Black Lives Matter banner from the Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington DC, a historically Black church, and then set it on fire while cheering and chanting "Fuck Antifa." They also chanted "Whose streets? Our streets," because they can't come up with their own material.</p><p>It is <em>incredibly</em> disturbing to watch. </p><div id="26fe7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2a9907e4a16662cb8d28c77d9e02088f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1337939112649748480" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">The Proud Boys and Trump supporters burn the BLM banner while chanting and cheering in downtown DC: https://t.co/L16azBBhbr</div> — Shelby Talcott (@Shelby Talcott)<a href="https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/statuses/1337939112649748480">1607824516.0</a></blockquote></div><p>The church has since responded, comparing the banner burning to cross burnings and pointing out, correctly, that if those burning a banner were men of color instead of Daddy's Special Proud Boys, they would almost definitely have been chased down and arrested. </p><div id="fa04d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f6fd20dfb711c1c7c4fde6e22e69b639"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1338117721117089794" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">The pastor of Asbury United Methodist Church in DC responds to the burning of the church’s Black Lives Matter sign… https://t.co/DA5BUVH8JS</div> — Jack Jenkins (@Jack Jenkins)<a href="https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/statuses/1338117721117089794">1607867100.0</a></blockquote></div><p>"We are a resilient people who have trusted in God through slavery and the Underground Railroad, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement, and now as we face an apparent rise in white supremacy," wrote senior pastor Rev. Dr. Ianther M. Mills in a statement on Sunday. "It pained me especially to see our name, Asbury, in flames. For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings. Seeing this act on video made me both indignant and determined to fight the evil that has reared its ugly head."<br></p><p>Theirs was not the only church that had its Black Lives Matter sign torn down, either. In an Instagram post, the Rev. Karen Brau of Luther Place Memorial Church reported its Black Lives Matter sign was torn down not once, but twice, and eventually stolen. </p><div id="80675" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b42f9d3c603da6f32c9b1c6012996188"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0;
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</div></blockquote></div><p>Rev. Cornell William Brooks of the Metropolitan AME Church also shared video of the Proud Boys tearing down their sign. In the background, a woman can be heard yelling "Burn it!"</p><div id="ce6ca" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="15f90b59b1020b31134efa85649ee967"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1338124518297100290" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">On my sabbath, I wake up to the disgusting image of #ProudBoys ripping down a #BlackLivesMatter banner from my chur… https://t.co/dihNjVZCTD</div> — Cornell William Brooks (@Cornell William Brooks)<a href="https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/statuses/1338124518297100290">1607868720.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Let us, of course, remind one and all that the Proud Boys like to make it very clear that they are not a racist, white supremacist group, but rather a simple Western Chauvinist group. They think that sounds better for some reason, despite how literally no one has ever used the term "Chauvinist" in a complimentary way. They incessantly remind us their current leader, Enrique Tarrio, is Latinx, and that one of the Proud Boys who went to jail for a brutal assault on left-wing protesters last year is <a href="https://blavity.com/proud-boys-supporters-tweet-picture-of-arrested-member-with-black-wife-to-prove-he-isnt-racist?category1=news&category2=trending" target="_blank">married to a Black woman</a> (who, oddly enough, I was once pretty good friends with). I mean, surely there is a non-racist reason for a bunch of white guys to go around in matching outfits, attacking Black churches and burning Black Lives Matter signs, right? </p><p>A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department told the <a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/12/13/proud-boys-burn-black-lives-matter-signs-at-churches-in-washington/" target="_blank">Religious News Service</a> that they are taking the incidents seriously and investigating them as possible hate crimes. Because, again, surely there could be a non-hate-crime related reason for attacking Black churches and setting Black Lives Matter signs on fire. They just need time to come up with what that could possibly be. </p><p>[<a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/12/13/proud-boys-burn-black-lives-matter-signs-at-churches-in-washington/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Religious News Service</a>]</p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us! Also if you are buying stuff on Amazon, </strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl2&tag=wonkette0f-20&linkId=e6057399a4696aad6e79c000ca483f54&language=en_US" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click this link</a>!</p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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