Christian Right Lawyer Nailed for Kiddie Porn

On her Facebook page, Lisa Biron describes herself as a "torch bearer of religious freedom."   She's also known for being an attorney for the Christian Right law firm, the Alliance Defence Fund, an anti-gay outfit that considers itself an anti-ACLU.

But right now Lisa may be about to add child pornographer to her C.V.

A Manchester lawyer took a teenage girl to Canada, had her engage in sexual activity and convinced her to let it be filmed, according to federal indictments.

FBI agents swiftly arrested Lisa Biron yesterday morning as she awaited a hearing on child pornography charges at Manchester’s district court. About 9 a.m. FBI agents entered the courtroom, told Biron to leave her belongings and took her into an adjoining conference room where she remained for several minutes before coming out in handcuffs.

So, Lisa was out on bail on earlier kiddie porn charges when she supposedly drove this young girl to Canada to make even more kiddie porn.

Editing Jesus

A gaggle of Christian conservatives is fed up with Jesus and all his silly, liberal ways. So they're writing a new Bible, one in which Jesus is edited into one of them, a conservative.

Screw biblical inerrancy, Jesus was wrong. That line, "forgive them Father, for they know not what they do"? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Never should've said it. Doesn't belong in a conservative Bible at all. It's gotta go. From AlterNet:

In an effort to rid the Good Book of "liberal bias," the group has set up the Conservative Bible Project, which aims to rewrite the Bible from a modern, conservative perspective.

"Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations," the project's Web site asserts.

...The "forgive them father" quote "is a favorite of liberals but should not appear in a conservative Bible," Conservapedia states.

And evidently many of Jesus' other teachings -- from the "turn the other cheek" lesson, to his disdain for profiteering -- will also no longer be acceptable in the conservative Bible.

"Socialistic terminology permeates English translations of the Bible, without justification," the Web site states -- a strange assertion, given that English versions of the Bible date back at least to the 16th century, while socialism as a concept was formed in the 18th century.

..."The insane hubris of this really staggers the mind," writes Rod Dreher at Beliefnet. "These right-wing ideologues know better than the early church councils that canonized Scripture? They really think it's wise to force the word of God to conform to a 21st-century American idea of what constitutes conservatism? These jokers don't worship God. They worship ideology."

I think this is wonderful. The nutty Christian Right tacitly admitting Jesus, the man they worship, call Son of God, and vow to obey, was plainly a liberal. So instead of changing their ways to be closer to God, a liberal, they're going to change God (or at least his son) to reflect their image.

It was bound to happen. This sort of thing inevitably happens when you let crazy people loose, especially crazy fundamentalists (of any faith).