United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie follows the mammon money underwriting Republican activists’ two-pronged effort to divide mainstream churches with partisan misinformation over hot-button issues, and then to convert the wreckage into taxpayer-subsidized Republican front groups with religious-sounding names….
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Bloggers Dissect Maggie Gallagher
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While guest-blogging at the conservative Volokh Conspiracy, anti-marriage activist Maggie Gallagher’s intellectual and moral shallowness were laid bare as she persistently declined to offer coherent responses to reasoned criticisms, and resorted to scare tactics and a quack history lesson instead…
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Today at Ex-Gay Watch, Exodus President Alan Chambers agreed with me that homosexual and heterosexual sex crimes deserve equal punishment, and that the Kansas Supreme Court was right to overturn laws to the contrary. As it happens, that position is…
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At age 18, Matthew Limon — a developmentally disabled young man — engaged in voluntary sexual activity with a 14-year-old male. This followed two prior cases where Limon was prosecuted as a juvenile for having sex with someone younger than…
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The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds, and perhaps thousands more in indirect support, from an online gambling company and indicted lobbyist…
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Given John Smid’s numerous dubious claims — about his ordination, his education, his qualifications, and the mental-health activities of Love In Action — I just thought his ongoing vice-leadership of the Exodus board was worth noting.
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From Queer Day: CBS has again refused to air United Church of Christ’s gay-inclusive television commercial saying it amounts to “advocacy” and therefore cannot be aired because it runs counter to a network policy against advocacy ads. UCC president Ron…
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Are You Sexually Compulsive?
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From Patrick Yaeger of Queer Visions: Are You Sexually Compulsive? Many in the gay community still equate sexual promiscuity with gay liberation in general. Irresponsible nonsense. Within the gay community, sexual addiction runs rampant. The reasons are obvious given the…
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Rescuing Jesus From the Right
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Here are recent writings by others on the growing corruption and apostasy of the religious Right, and efforts at renewal offered by other Christians who haven’t sold their souls to lobbyists.
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Defining Anglican Homophobia
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Courtesy of blogger Father Jake: Andrew Linzey is one of the editors of Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report (Amazon link). He is also a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of…