- LGBT activists working with Soulforce open a dialogue with Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in Maryland.
- Timothy Kincaid continues to methodically and intelligently disassemble “pro-gay marriage defender” David Benkof, who despite claiming to have ties to the gay press, has been dropped by the last gay publication to feature him. Kincaid also picks apart Benkof’s latest article, which attempts to prove that monogamy is not a gay family value. In the mean time, Benkof finds an ally in being cited on Peter LaBarbera’s website.
- Jason Kuznicki ponders the ramifications that a cure for homosexuality would present.
- The Orange County Register endorses marriage equality.
- Truth Wins Out will join the Coalition for Equality in Asheville, North Carolina to counter an Exodus conference to be held there July 15-20. A schedule of events can be seen here.
- According to RWW, Janet Folger is set on becoming a martyr. Convinced that Colorado’s anti-discrimination Bill (SB 200) – which prevents discrimination against LGBTQ persons in public accommodations – will make it illegal to distribute her anti-gay book “The Criminalization of Christianity,” she intends to fly out to Denver to “break the law.” She then poses the possibility that she will be writing her next column “from a jail cell.”
- Disgraced former pastor Ted Haggard returns to Colorado Springs.
- Peter LaBarbera is very concerned about a Congressional hearing concerning Transgender discrimination in the workplace, because he says it will force businesses to advocate “gender confusion.” But for LaBarbera, this cloud has a silver lining: “when most people see ‘big bulky men in dresses’ they immediately ‘recoil.’”
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I read Janet Folger’s little screed and couldn’t stop laughing. She does have a flair the dramatic.
Why would she get arrested? Unless she beat somebody over the head with the book? Peed on the floor or caused some kind of out of criteria disruption?
Why does she think her stupid book is that important to anyone?
I was reading Harry Jackson’s article on his experience with SoulForce’s family outing.
Jackson, in several broadcast inteviews made it sound like the families’ were there to start a riot, threatening him, sending him hate mail and other wise interfering with his free exercise and will.
Folger is engaging in the same exaggerations.
Are these people that desparate?
And besides, what part of defamation, libel and slander don’t they understand isn’t protected?
So they engage in unprotected speech to complain that their rights to it are compromised?
Ya know….if the results of their slander and libel weren’t so bad, this sh** would be SO funny!
I worry about the potential of “curing” babies in the womb (this creates so many potential disastrous consequences), and I know this could happen at some point in the future, possibly the near future. But I don’t know how much I trust William Saletan’s opinion on the matter. Some of his other writings, like the one saying Santorum turned out to be right about gay marriage leading to more acceptance of polygamy and incest, bothered me quite a bit and seemed to be stretched thin to make his point.
https://www.slate.us/id/2191504/pagenum/all/
Are they going to crucify Janet Folger upsidedown like St. Peter? Ae they going to gourge out her eyes like St. Lucy? Or burn her alive like St. Joan of Arc? If she thinks getting arrested makes her a martyr then she needs to read the Lives of the Saints.
Why is it that the religious fanantics (of any modern religion) feel persecuted in the US? Please! This country has more varieties of religions than any on Earth! Just the number of various Christian sects is more than there are Elvis impersonators! And no matter how fanatical they may be, unless they are violating a law that involves abuse of minors, they are pretty much left alone to go about their business.
And why do they object to gay marriage? If their church doesn’t offer it, then they don’t offer it. If two Jews (who want to stay Jewish and not convert to Catholicism in any way) want to get married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City by a Catholic priest, it isn’t going to happen! No one is going to cry fowl on that. If two Catholics who wish to remain Catholic want to get married in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, it isn’t going to happen. These religions have protections by law to administer their faith according to their customs, traditions, and beliefs. And most religious institutions have some rule or canon that states marriage performed within their religion must be between members of that same religion. (I won’t go into mixed marriages…that’s another ball of wax).
But if an AFRICAN-AMERICAN Catholic couple want to marry in St. Patty’s in NYC, and they are denied, and it is proven that it is soley based on their race, THEN SOMEONE COULD CRY FOWL. Same case for the Mormon Church and all religious institutions for that matter.
So Ms. Folger thinks that her opposing homosexuality is thereby going to make her a martyr; this is an insult to the true martyrs who gave their lives for God. Even if they arrest her, I don’t think anyone needs to call the Vatican Hotline and petition her to be declared a martyr much less a saint.