Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and feelers — and those who live out Christ’s mission to love thy neighbor.
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LA Times Profiles Concerned Women for America
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Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America. While it cites conservative critics of the CWFA’s ideological extremism and incivility, the article at no time balances its coverage…
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Bishop Yvette Flunder of the United Church of Christ finds hateful rhetoric, redefined “moral values,” fear, intolerance, exclusion, racism, sexual bigotry, zeal for war, and anti-Islamic prejudice growing among the leadership of America’s “official” Christian churches. Flunder contrasts this fraud with the…
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From numerous other blogs: Liberal columnist Jennifer Barnett Reed of the Arkansas Times demands the return of her Christian faith, stolen by amoral, greedy, hypocritical, and idolatrous forces within the religious right. Well done. Reed’s commentary methodically spells out examples…
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United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie links to this Washington Times story about Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. The Academy apparently admits political idolaters and white-collar thieves from the religious right, but kicks out a top student and varsity…
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Last week I discussed the Exodus media blog’s distortion of hate-crimes statistics — and its unapologetic republication of violent threats against gay people. On Friday, Exodus blogger Nancy Brown — speaking for the organization on its main web site —…
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BigFib.com Parodies PeopleCanChange.com
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BigFib reports that People Can Change has launched two websites: MostPeopleChangeBack.com and ChristiansCanChange.com I wish! The world could use some exgay activists who are broad-minded and honest enough to launch such sites.
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Sfweekly.com lampoons a trio of Northern California ex-gay ministries. One group helps parents reinforce their own stereotypes about “the gay lifestyle” that they imagine their adult children to be living. Group leader Carol has no qualifications in counseling or medicine,…
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Christianity Today Redefines Secularism
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Based on a single unidentified survey, writer David Klinghoffer helps Christianity Today redefine “secularist” as irreligious and unethical. Secularism, as I see it, is a separation of church and state that acts as religious Americans’ single strongest shield against one…
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Testing BlogJet
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I have installed an interesting blog client for Windows — BlogJet. Let’s give it a whirl….