On the first Sunday after a gay marriage ban passed in California, activists rallied in defiance, including hundreds of protesters outside an Orange County megachurch whose pastor brought Barack Obama and John McCain together last summer for a “faith forum.”
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“They told such obvious lies. They used their lies to deceive the public,” Todeschini said of the church.

“I mean, after over 2000 years of telling people about a man named Jesus being the son of God born from a virgin mother, curing lepers with the touch of his hand, walking on water, and dying and then coming back to life, as well as informing people that the world is only several thousand years old, the first woman was made out of a rib bone, that the phenomenon of self-consciousness was conferred upon the human species by a talking snake in a tree - you know, all these facts - it is just shocking that the church would suddenly resort to such obvious lies.”

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