...is a Republican who seeks "to reconstruct the pre-Christian religion of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European peoples." Um... that sounds vaguely familiar.

A Roman Catholic priest has been showing up outside a Planned Parenthood office in full vestments—where he passes the time yelling at staff, visitors and the volunteers—for two years. It turns out that the Rev. Virgil Bradley Tetherow, or "Father Gabriel" as he's known, has a particular interest in saving the lives of unborn children...

Four and a half years ago, police in Monroe County charged Tetherow with 10 counts of possessing child pornography and 10 counts of criminal use of a communication facility, according to court records. Tetherow later pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal use of a communication facility—a felony. The District Attorney's Office dropped the other charges, and a judge sentenced Tetherow to two years' probation.

"Here's this guy yelling and screaming at us, telling us we're going to hell," said Liz Burcin, a Planned Parenthood volunteer.

You can see why Father Gabriel is concerned: no kids, no kiddie porn.

...by the video cameras we install in bathrooms.

Police say Joseph Moreaux of Lancaster was cited and released on suspicion of peeping by means of an electronic device Sunday after a customer spotted the device hidden among boxes in the corner of the bathroom of the Family Christian Book Store.... Sgt. Dwight Thompson says the recording shows Moreaux hiding the video camera in the bathroom because it was taping as he positioned it.

Thanks to Slog tipper Kevin G.

...by our obscene phone calls. KIRO TV reported on this case in early October:

The pastor of Fircrest’s Liberty Baptist Church has pleaded guilty to making obscene phone calls to female baristas at a coffee stand near his church. Randy Brock, 41, entered the plea Sept. 30. He was sentenced to one year in jail with the sentence suspended. He also was fined $300.

A 21-year-old barista at Café Elite said Tuesday that the calls went on for months and were always from a man with a distinct Southern accent. “Asking sexually explicit questions and questions about people wearing undergarments, and there was heavy breathing involved in the phone call,” she said. She did not want her name used.... At first, Brock told police he was not the one making the calls, but under questioning he admitted making several harassing and obscene calls to Café Elite. He told the officer that the barista wore revealing clothing and that might be the reason he made the harassing phone calls.

And who do you think inspired that barista to go to work in such revealing clothing in the first place? There's a hint buried in the "What We Believe" section of Liberty Baptist Church's website: "We believe that Satan... seeks continually to frustrate the purposes of God and ensnare the sons on man." It seems clear that the devil himself ensnared Pastor Brock and he was the real victim here. Yet according to the "History" section of Liberty Baptist Church's website, Pastor Brock was with the church from February of 2007 "until the Lord moved him on in October of 2009."

The Lord moved Pastor Brock on? That seems a strange way to describe the works of Satan.

Washington:

A youth football coach with the Black Hills Junior Football League was arrested Monday night on suspicion of molesting and attempting to rape a 14-year-old player on his team after he drove the boy and his younger brother home from a game Saturday, court papers state. Derwin Pasley, 32, a coach with the league for nine years, was arrested on suspicion of attempted third-degree child rape, third-degree child molestation and unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation.... According to court records, Pasley was arrested on suspicion of a felony sex offense against a child in Miami-Dade County, Fla., in 1994. He subsequently was acquitted of the two counts of sexual battery of a minor, Olympia Police Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said. In 2002, the Olympia Police Department conducted a criminal investigation into whether Pasley committed a sex offense against a child, but the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office decided not to file charges based on a lack of evidence, Bjornstad said. Bjornstad said the 2002 complaint against Pasley involved behavior that occurred when he was acting in some capacity as a youth pastor.

Colorado:

A former Longmont youth pastor who was convicted last year of sexually exploiting a teenage girl and arrested Monday on suspicion of violating his probation appeared in Boulder County District Court on Wednesday, where a judge set his bond at $50,000. Peter Kim, 41, was sentenced to one year in prison and lifetime probation after pleading guilty in March 2008 to having a three-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met at Longmont's Central Presbyterian church, where he was a youth pastor.

Kentucky:

A misdemeanor charge was dismissed Tuesday morning against a former youth minister and Richmond city building inspector accused of molesting two members of his Anderson County youth group. Gordon H. Lunceford, 47, appeared Tuesday before Anderson Circuit Judge Charles Hickman for a pretrial conference on charges that Lunceford molested two teenage members of the Lawrenceburg First Baptist Church youth group while serving as minister to the group in 1992. Lunceford’s attorney, Frankfort lawyer Guthrie True, filed a motion to dismiss a charge of second-degree sexual abuse against his client on the grounds that the statute of limitations on the charge had expired.

Georgia:

A former Oglethorpe County youth minister is under arrest for alleged child molestation. Investigators say it's not the first time. Forty-three-year-old Norman Pugh is jailed without bond on multiple counts of child molestation, sexual exploitation and making obscene phone calls to a child under the age of 14. Pugh once served as youth minister at the Arnoldsville Baptist Church. He was acquitted in 2006 of molesting a 14 year old girl who attended the church.

Texas:

A teenage trick-or-treater was taken to the hospital after he was struck by a pickup Saturday night, Amarillo police said. Police said the teen, whose age and identity weren't immediately known, was trying to cross in the 8200 block of Western Street with a group of eight to 10 other high school students about 9:40 p.m.... The driver of a Ford Ranger traveling southbound on Western didn't see the teens until it was too late, police said. The driver, identified as a youth pastor, slammed on his brakes and skidded but couldn't stop in time, officers said.

The Scientologists need to get themselves one of these...

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. God of God, light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end. And we believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who together with the Father and the Son is to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Not sure how the Nicene Creed would read after it was translated into Scientology. Any Sloggers care to take a stab at it? And who knows: maybe there's already a Nicene Creed for Scientologists but Zenu—Xemu? Zima?—forbids them reciting it when the cameras are rolling.

A Saudi court has sentenced a Saudi woman, Rosanna Al-Yami, to 60 lashes for her work on a Lebanese news program that broadcast an interview with a Saudi man who bragged about his sex life, losing his virginity at 14, and his collection of sex toys. That man, Abdul Jawad, has been sentenced to 1000 lashes. The female journalist who is going to get 60 lashes? She used to do some work for the Lebanese news program but she had nothing to do with the particular episode of "A Thick Red Line" that featured the controversial-for-that-sandy-shithole sex interview and had nothing to do with setting up the interview.

Kinda makes you want to fly slowly over Saudi Arabia tossing out sex toys and sprinkling bacon bits from an open cargo door.

Ignoring court orders, flouting public disclosure rules, suing to keep public documents out of the hands of the public—the rules just don't apply to them:

A federal judge said sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage may not delay in handing over campaign strategy documents to gay-rights groups that are looking for evidence of anti gay bias as they try to overturn the measure. The sponsors had sought to keep the documents while challenging the order to turn them over in an appeals court. But in a ruling late Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco said backers of Proposition 8 had failed to show that disclosing internal memos and e-mails would violate their freedom of speech or subject them to harassment....

Plaintiffs in the suit said documents from the Yes on 8 campaign might help them prove that the ballot measure was motivated by anti-gay bias, which would increase their chances of overturning it. The measure's sponsors, a conservative religious coalition called Protect Marriage, said voters were entitled to reaffirm the traditional definition of marriage and that the organizers' alleged motives were irrelevant.

The court disagrees—hand over those documents, bigots.

Holy fucking shit:

"Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. This is why they repress such behavior by death... It may be brutal at times, but any culture that is able to produce wave after wave of suicide bombers... is a culture that at least knows how to value self sacrifice."

Murdering gays and lesbians may be brutal at times? It may be? At times? You think? Find out who said it by clicking here.

Many of the urban legends focus on Madalyn Murray O'Hair, a famous atheist who was kidnapped and murdered in 1995. One e-mail that has been circulating since the dawn of e-mail accuses O'Hair of trying to get religious services banned from television and radio. The piece covers other Christian urban legends to, up to and including the Obama citizenship question currently finding favor in many Christian circles.

Why do Christians fear the zombie O'Hair?

...O’Hair’s posthumous powers really shouldn’t surprise us. Labeled by Life magazine in 1964 as “the most hated woman in America,” O’Hair is considered enough of an enemy by many Christians that they are willing to believe just about anything about her. The advent of the Internet only made the rumors easier to spread and harder to correct....Rumors like the ones tied to O’Hair become more powerful when they tap into the hostility and distrust toward government that is widespread among conservative Christians. It’s easy for the average evangelical to believe any rumor that fits this larger political paradigm.

Maybe someone should dress up as Madalyn Murray O'Hair for Halloween and really put the fear into some Christians.

This is one side of America:

The report:

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) In the video, the suspect brandishes a gun telling Advance America worker Angela Montez times are hard and he has no choice.

When she starts to cry, he hugs her. Then she begins talking to him about God and the two of them pray together.

She described the episode later to a 911 operator... "I started crying and praying and telling him don't do this. He's too young to throw away his life. He talked to me a little bit, and maybe after 15 minutes he took the gun out and started crying again," Montez told the operator.

Montez said that she and Smith were both crying as he held the weapon.

This is another side of America:

(CNN) On October 26, a dozen bustling New York City subway stations will be adorned with the ads as "part of a coordinated multi-organizational advertising campaign designed to raise awareness about people who don't believe in a god", according to a statement from the group, the Big Apple Coalition of Reason.

New York City's subway system is one of the busiest in the world with over 5 million riders per day and over 1.6 billion total passengers in 2008, according to the Metro Transit Authority.

Recognizing this, the Big Apple Coalition of Reason decided the "best bang for the buck" was to place posters in popular subway stations to capitalize on the amount of potential viewers, says Michael De Dora Jr., Executive Director of the New York Center for Inquiry, one of the associated atheist groups

The advertisements ask the question, written simply over an image of a blue sky with wispy white clouds: "A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?"

That robber is a descendant of Raskolnikov.

The organizers of Miss California pageant are countersuing former Miss California and prominent Christian martyr Carrie Prejean. They want those fake boobs back.