Deviant Roundup

Even Stephen King couldn’t make this shit up:

A SKELETON or a zombie might kill you. But going to a rave could imperil your eternal life. Secular haunted houses are incompetent to address these dangers. Besides, they celebrate a pagan holiday. So this October, hundreds of churches around America hosted their own horror shows, to rival Halloween.

In “hell houses”, sometimes known as “judgment” or “reality houses”, young actors depict the consequences of drinking, partying or being gay. Women who are casual about sex might reconsider once they see how it leads to a bloody late-term abortion, for example.

Apparently this idea goes back to 1972, when Jerry Falwell staged the first Hell House.

And in other news from the moral majority:

The Republican party today was assessing the potential political fallout from a sex scandal that has forced one of America’s most influential evangelical Christians to resign.

The Rev Ted Haggard, who is married with five children, stepped down yesterday as head of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals and as senior pastor of the New Life church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after being accused of paying for sex with a male escort.

You can see why he was tempted. The ’scort is the guy on the left, and my oh my, even to a straight guy, he’s the hotness.

I mean really, what red-blooded Christian male hasn’t dreamed of knockin’ boots with Skeletor James Olmos?

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