Atlah Church Is Classified As A Hate Group. It’s Able To Run A School Anyway

In a monthslong investigation, HuffPost spoke with 27 people connected to the church and school, including former students, employees, congregants and community members to uncover stories of a religious leader who spent years psychologically abusing and systematically estranging students from their families. He forced some students to go by new names and fast weekly. He convinced their parents to abandon them. And one incident, caught on tape, divided the church community and led to a police investigation. 

And over the years, those who say Manning abused them have watched as the pastor’s celebrity has grown. 

Atlah Church Is Classified As A Hate Group. It’s Able To Run A School Anyway.

UPDATED::James David Manning isn’t pleased that ‘fags’ are trying to buy his church – LGBTQ Nation

UPDATE::  I'll just leave this headline here as it speaks for itself,,,

BREAKING: Ali Forney Center reaches fundraising goal for buying ‘Harlem hate church’

UPDATE::  So close: Ali Forney Center has already raised $186,073 towards buying antigay ‘Harlem hate church’

One nonprofit group, the Ali Forney Center, has raised $186,073 on its website as part of an effort to buy the church and convert the building into transitional housing for homeless gay youths — the very population, its leaders say, that is most harmed by the Atlah church’s message.

“We ask our kids why they weren’t safe in their homes. … The No. 1 reason is because of the hostile religious beliefs of their parents,” said the center’s executive director, Carl Siciliano.
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A second effort to buy the four-story brick and terra cotta church building been organized by the Rivers of Living Water Ministries, which serves mainly African-American LGBT worshippers. The church’s GoFundMe drive had raised more than $23,000 as of Friday morning.

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If you remember, at the end of January, I posted this tid-bit from Joe.My.God, UPDATE: Ali Forney Center’s Donation Campaign To Buy Harlem Hate Church Tops $75K In First 48 Hours.  It seems that Manning has gone totally bonkers at the thought of a pro-LGBTQI purchasing his house of horrors and turning it into something useful.

This, so-called 'man of god', has such a way with words,,,

“All kind of stuff been spread around,” he blathers, “they’re going to turn this church into a bathhouse, they’re going to turn this church into a homeless building for the sodomites. The sodomites are sick as hell! This is the lord’s house! This ain’t no damn bathhouse! It ain’t no fag house! And before you can ever own this property, hook or crook, men who are fags with testicles will be carrying babies in their testicles and giving birth to them through their anus.”

As though that wasn’t enough food for thought to chew on for the afternoon, he added:

“That’s how impossible it is for you to get this house. When you start carrying a baby in your bags and birthing that baby through your ass… then you can own this house! But until I see you pull a baby out your ass, you ain’t gonna pull this church out from underneath us. Boom shaka-laka goes right there! And all you fags can go to hell!”

James David Manning isn’t pleased that ‘fags’ are trying to buy his church – LGBTQ Nation

See also::  BOOM LOWERED: State Court Orders Harlem Hate Church Be Placed At Public Auction Over Unpaid Bills

Church leader Pastor James Manning said in a phone conversation with DNAinfo New York that the foreclosure was mostly over unpaid water and sewage bills and vowed to fight the order, claiming his church’s tax exempt status means he doesn’t have to pay.

“I assure you, it’s about a water bill and a tax that can’t be levied against this church,” Manning said. “I think it’s a land grab quite frankly.” What Manning didn’t say is that there are nine federal tax liens against him totaling more than $355,000 from as far back as 2002. He also owes New York State for more than $28,000 and other creditors more than $30,000, public records show.

According to city records, the Internal Revenue Service released a federal lien against Manning in 2006 and the Bank of New York Mellon was assigned that lien in 2010. The church does receive $186,000 in tax exemption benefits from New York City, records show.

January 31, 2016::End of the day round-up (pg 2)

David Barton: Thomas Jefferson Would Like Ted Cruz for President

It now seems clear why Barton and WND brought out The Jefferson Lies now. This rather transparent attempt to claim Jefferson as a Cruz supporter comes just as Iowans caucus next week.

No, Franklin Graham, LGBTQ Children Are Not The Enemy 

Genetically Engineered crops and seed saving myths.

Firstly, by the 1930s, commercial hybrid crop varieties began to proliferate. When one replants second generation seeds from hybrids, one gets a mixture of inferior varieties, so it was in farmers’ best interest to buy new seeds each year. This was especially true for corn farmers, who had by and large been relying almost exclusively on hybrids for roughly a half a century before GE technology came along.

Secondly, buying seeds each year grants farmers certain quality assurances which would let them be confident that either their seeds would be of high quality, or that they’d at least have some recourse of action in the event that the seeds didn’t perform as advertised.

Thirdly, the plant patent act of 1930 meant that plant breeders could procure intellectual property rights on certain varieties of seeds. If everyone just bought the seed once and then made as many copies as they ever wanted, the patents would become meaningless, and there’d be less incentive for innovation in plant breeding. In principle, this is not all that different from software licensing agreements and other forms of intellectual and/or artistic copyrights in which unchallenged piracy would ostensibly permit unlimited copies to be made for free, in which case the concept of intellectual property rights would be rendered meaningless.

BBC - Earth - Found: an ancient crocodile as long as a bus 

Some say POE. some say no,,, Christians Against Dinosaurs Want You To Know They’re ‘Fighting Big Paleo For Christ’ (VIDEO)

UPDATE: Ali Forney Center s Donation Campaign To Buy Harlem Hate Church Tops $75K In First 48 Hours - Joe.My.God. 

AMAZING! On Thursday we learned that Harlem’s infamous “Jesus Would Stone Homos” hate church will be placed to public auction on February 24th due to over $1M in unpaid debts. Late Friday afternoon the Ali Forney Center, which serves homeless LGBT youths, announced a campaign to buy the building and the donation drive has already rocketed above $75,000. AFC founder Carl Siciliano tells us that a huge chunk of the donations have come from the JMG community. Let’s keep that thermometer rising!

This pastor is trying to boycott literally every company that accepts gay people · PinkNews

He said: “I want to call for a national boycott against sodomy in America.

“What we need to come to terms with, and God has shown me this, is that the Sodomites with a Sodmite in the White House, think they now have America under their absolute control.”

“But Almighty God has revealed to me that we are in a mega majority, those of us who are Bible believers. I want to call for a boycott, and here’s the level at which the boycott should be understood.

“If you know of a business that is owned by Sodomites, for instance Tylenol… we’re not going to buy Tylenol anymore.

“There are many others, General Millsand many other organisations that will out themselves as being sodomite friendly. We need to understand that we can boycott them.”

Unfortunately, Mr Manning uploaded his video to YouTube, which is owned by Google – one of the 379 firms who signed a Supreme Court employers’ brief earlier this year, calling for equal marriage.


This pastor is trying to boycott literally every company that accepts gay people · PinkNews

Pastor Who Says Starbucks Puts Sodomite Semen In Lattes Added To SPLC Anti-Gay Hate Group List - The New Civil Rights Movement

Manning's newest claim to fame!!  My guess, he's as proud as a peacock to be included,,,

Though the overall number of Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated hate groups (like neo-nazi groups or the KKK) fell dramatically nationwide, the number of anti-gay hate groups increased in 2014, from 40 to 44. In 2010, SPLC named only 10 such groups.

Heidi Beirich, director of intelligence for SPLC, isn't sure whether the growing number of designations reflects improved tracking or an actual increase in anti-gay organizations. Either way, the tone of anti-gay rhetoric appears to be worsening.

“The rhetoric is becoming much harsher for sure,” Beirich recently told the Texas Observer. “I think some of the groups are becoming harder-line, whether we’ve listed them or not, because they’re losing on a lot of fronts.”

Pastor Who Says Starbucks Puts Sodomite Semen In Lattes Added To SPLC Anti-Gay Hate Group List - The New Civil Rights Movement

Joe. My. God.: Harlem Hate Pastor: Christians Must Be Willing To Kill To Stop Sodomites

Major H/T to Joe Jervis for finding this gem and then listening to it,,,

"If we're going to win this battle for the lord God almighty, two things are going to have to happen in terms of our battle strategies. We've got to be willing to die for what we believe. If you believe the word of God, then there is no way you will not die willingly for the cause of Christ. But the other thing - if we're gonna win this battle against Obama, the long-leggy mack daddy, the quasi-Muslim freak, the vice president of both death and hell, against the sodomites, against racism - we're gonna have to be willing to kill as well. You can try to arrest me, saying that I'm inciting murderous behavior. Go ahead and try. See if that will stand up in court. Let me tell you something, if you're not willing to kill for what you believe, if you're not will to kill those that are diametrically opposed in great evil against you believe, then you're not worthy of his service. You gotta be willing to kill. You gotta be willing to die." - Harlem Pastor James David Manning, in a YouTube clip published today.

Joe. My. God.: Harlem Hate Pastor: Christians Must Be Willing To Kill To Stop Sodomites

Continuation of,,,Hyperbole gets you no where

H/T: Dave Foda for this story

NY pastor: Justin Bieber is trans and ‘cut off his breasts’ because Obama’s ‘evil spirits’ misled him

“We’re talking about young girls, 6 to 10 years of age,” Atlah World Missionary Church Rev. James David Manning said in a YouTube video that was posted on Friday. “They can be led or influenced to cut off their breasts once they get into puberty. They can be led to have operations — like Justin Bieber — they can think that the best choice for their life is to cut off their breasts.”

“And then by the time they reach the age of 20 years old, they say, ‘I wish I had never cut off my breasts, I wish I had never mutilated my flesh, I wish I had never cut off my penis, I wish I had never done that, I was just young. And the people in the church or the people in the media said or gave the impression that I had a right to choose any kind of sexual orientation that I wanted to choose, and so I cut off my penis or I cut off my breasts.’”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest::Shit on the Floor

The Little Mermaid - Under The Sea

 Creationists Freak Out Over Evolutionary ‘Back To The Sea’ Super Bowl Commercial (VIDEO)

99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall by Atticus

Rick Perry's Comparison Of Homosexuality To Alcoholism Is Nothing New From The Anti-Gay Right

 Then Rick Santorum jumped to Perry's defense. The problem with that, Santorum once said, in regards to "redefining" marriage, "It’s like saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well, you can call it a glass of beer, but it’s not a glass of beer. It’s a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is."

Which later morphed into this inane analogy:  “I can call this napkin a paper towel,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “But it is a napkin. And why? Because it is what it is. Right? You can call it whatever you want, but it doesn’t change the character of what it is.”"

Now we have Mike Huckabee throwing his two-cents into the ring, Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing,,,

Human Rights Campaign statement regarding Rick Perry's comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism.

Others that suffer from head in ass syndrome

Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema recently got in trouble with his own party after he, among other offensive remarks, compared gay people to alcoholics. So did top Religious Right leaders Mat Staver and Tony Perkins. Robert Jeffress, a Texas pastor close to Perry, also “equates being gay with alcoholism or a genetic proclivity toward violence,” according to the Dallas-based D Magazine.

Stories I will be contemplating for next week::Unicorns, War On Little Free Libraries, Evidence that Jonah was Swallowed by a Whale, and another Bad Analogy

Time for more crazy headlines

Remember it's not so much the story, but what the headlines imply

U.S. Government to Give $313,000,000 to Muslims for Home Mortgages

I was kind of curious about this headline so did a we bit of checking.  It is fairly "accurate" if you look past the hyperbole it is meant to cause.  What is in error, "According to the GAO, Obama’s administration will be handing over more than $300 million tax dollars to Muslims to help pay their mortgages. $110 million of this money will be used as loans for businesses located in the West Bank."

When in actuality, this is what was stated, "First, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) along with PIF and other entities have committed to lend $485 million to the Affordable Mortgage and Loan Company (AMAL) to support mortgages for low- and medium-income borrowers in the West Bank. OPIC has committed to lend about $313 million; PIF has committed,,,."

Notice, it say OPIC and not tax dollars.  OPIC is operated on a self‐sustaining basis at NO NET COST to American taxpayers, although OPIC is appropriated administrative funding, and reauthorized on a regular basis, by the U.S. Congress. 

And to be clear, OPIC has been in existence since 1969 through an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, and the agency began operations in 1971, during the Nixon Administration.

Brother Copeland Prays Against Ebola Virus at Family Community Church in Sacramento,Calif., on Oct. 18, 2014.

Starbucks is "ground zero" for spreading Ebola and other diseases,,,

Why?

"Because of the clientele,,,Generally upscale sodomites who,,, sit there with their computers,,,it's a meeting place, they exchange a lot of body fluids,,, Especially the Starbucks in the urban areas,,,a large number of the sodomites and the LGBT crowd that usually and continue to approach the idea of sex and intercourse and dating on a lower, less-visible, less social scale because of the nature [of] what they want to do and who they are, the reason why they're fighting so hard to get public recognition and legality of what they're doing so they don't have to stoop to dark-alley measures that [they] have to seek after for having sex."

Need I say more?

Liberal lunacy: Animal rights group seeks “personhood” for chimpanzees

This one is not only bizarre but interesting as well from a strict legal standpoint; I will be interested in the ruling of the Court when it comes down.  West would have done well to leave the issue of abortion out of the discussion had that not been his target in the first place.

It’s time for an “American jihad”

Nothing says "freedom" like forcing others to adopt our culture, beliefs, values, and politics,,,

Among the many definitions of jihad are a "war or struggle against unbelievers" and "a crusade for a principle or belief." Given those definitions, I believe it's time for an American jihad.

An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens the certain knowledge that our Constitution is a sacred document that better defines and preserves the liberty and autonomy of human beings than the charter of any other nation on earth.

The Constitution, along with the miracle of our nation's founding and the providential history of America fighting and winning war after war against oppressive regimes, proves our manifest destiny not only to preserve our borders and safety and national character at home, but to spread around the world our love of individual freedom and insist on its reflection in every government.

“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

It seems that birther extraordinaire, James David Manning is enjoying his yearly, fifteen of national fame. As you may recall, Manning, the head of ATLAH World Missionary Church, made headlines in February with his bizarre campaign against the gay community.

According to Manning, President Obama has unleashed gay demons upon the black male community "hoping to influence as many black males to subscribe to ideals of homosexual perverted LGBT as possible." This has led to the outing of Jason Collins and Michael Sam which in turn is "encouraging more black men to come out of the closet."

The white homo is now moving into the black neighborhoods, looking for black men that have been converted into homosexuality. Black woman let me say something to you: You will have a very hard time competing against a white homosexual male, he’s usually got money, a white homo usually has an American Express card, he usually has an opportunity at the theatre, homos love the theatre, they love to go out to dinner parties, they love that kind of a thing. As a black woman you can’t compete not only with the financial strength of a white homo, black sister, this is devastating, black people need to rise up en masse and recognize the utter destruction that Obama is going in to destroy the black family with his homosexual statements and release of demons that he has done.

Manning also offers his praise for the presidents of Uganda, Nigeria and Gambia.




What is interesting to note in regards to this screed is pointed out by T. Steelman, writing for Addicting Info:

There is some argument about the “absent black father” stereotype. The Myth of the Missing Black Father by  Roberta L. Coles and Charles Green stresses that, while many black fathers are absent, that is only “one slice of the fatherhood pie.”

“The problem with “absence,” as is fairly well established now, is that it’s an ill-defined pejorative concept usually denoting non-residence with the child, and it is sometimes assumed in cases where there is no legal marriage to the mother. More importantly, absence connotes invisibility and non-involvement, which further investigation has proven to be exaggerated.”

Apparently Pastor Manning doesn’t read much beyond his bible. And certainly not scholarly reports that debunk his theories.

That was last month,,,

From Joe Jervis of Joe, My God,

Friday, March 14, 2014, "Pastor James Manning Strikes Again: "Jesus Would Stone Homos" Billboard Appears In Harlem"

Today Manning upped the Christian Love™ with the above sign.  According to Manning's YouTube [since deleted by YouTube] clip posted this morning, Christians who refuse to stone homosexuals to death are "advocating lawlessness." He goes on: "Stoning of the homos is now in order. Stoning is still the law." We'll stand by for Christian leaders to denounce Pastor Manning, but don't hold your breath - there was nothing but silence last month.

So is this the so-called "religious freedom" everyone is clamoring about?  Violence and hatred veiled behind the guise of the Bible.  I would hope not, but sadly too many seem to forget one simple passage from the same book this man gets his hate, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

And Mr. Manning, Jesus never stoned any one.  I don't know what Bible you are reading,but you may want to avoid the conservative one.