Colorado Springs and neighboring Denver Colorado are home to dozens of fundamentalist Christian organizations including James Dobson's Focus on the Family. Many of these groups, including Focus on the Family, are openly hostile to queers, independent women, immigrants and the poor. So it should come as no surprise that this environment gives rise to some of the most violent hate crimes in recent history.

Last week skinhead John Thill and an accomplice shot and killed black immigrant Oumar Dia and shot and wounded Jeannie Van Velkinburg, a mother of two. On November 12, skinhead Matthaeus Jaehnig, the son of a minister, shot and killed Officer Bruce Vander Jagt.

Perhaps these young men were never taught that Jesus was black.

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With a little help from the fertility drug Metrodin God blessed devout Baptists Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey with a litter of seven. "God could have given us one, but God's entitled to give us seven. It's my commission to raise them," said mother Bobbi McCaughey.

We would be more inclined to call it a miracle if she'd grown 5 additional tits.

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Gary Busey, newly married and born-again was busy last month recording an album of spirituals called "Forest of Angels." A horrible motorcycle accident in 1988 nearly killed the promising actor.

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Afraid that the term "Halloween" could be construed as religious the school board in Hillsborough, New Jersey renamed the holiday "Fall Festival Celebration." Not quite clear on the concept they also renamed Valentine's Day "Special Person Day."

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Reverend Henry Lyons hired Bernice Edwards for a top public relations job at the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. Her qualifications? She was a convicted embezzler. Together Lyons and Edwards are charged with taking $1 million dollars in contributions with which they bought a waterfront home and a diamond ring. Lyons denies any illegal activity.

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Loose screw Pat Robertson told his 700 Club viewers on October 27th that converting to Islam "is nothing short of insanity" because it means embracing "the religion of slavers" who sold Africans. Robertson's spokesperson Patty Silverman said his words were taken out of context.

Islamic organizations are demanding an apology from Robertson.

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Eager to bring others to Christ members of Greece's elite anti-terrorist squad videotaped their efforts to "baptize" an Albanian immigrant. With gunfire going off in the background the video shows the anti-terrorists pushing a man into the mud and "baptizing" him with retsina, an impertinent Greek wine. No one knows what eventually became of the man.

The video begins with an anti-terrorist looking into the camera saying, "This can be erased, right?" Since the video has come to light two men have been suspended and others are under investigation.

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