For two years as a teen-ager, I was a born-again Christian and an evangelical. By age 18, however, my faith had matured toward a politically independent Roman Catholicism. Later, my faith would be challenged further. Whether I qualify as a…
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From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy theories, strawman arguments, sexual putdowns, stigmatization, and affirmations of antigay discrimination to a new low…
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The Unwelcome Mat At Exodus’ Front Door
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As recently as the mid-1970s, television confined its depiction of homosexuals to suicidal whimperers and psychopathic lesbians. This bizarre caricature has faded from mainstream culture and from many if not most places of worship. It remains alive and well, however,…
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Author: ‘Gays Reclaim Jesus’ Words’
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Fenton Johnson, author of “Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), reflects thoughtfully and deeply upon his own faith journey in a Los Angeles Times commentary. Johnson applies his observations on faith and tradition to gay Christians’ quest for…
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In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights instead of fairness in civil marriage. Reinhard also said that any comparison of racial discrimination…
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N.Y. Media Ignore Violence Prompting Gay School
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Both the editorial board and columnist Steve Dunleavy at the New York Post call the New York City public schools’ announcement of a predominantly gay high school “un-American,” “insane,” “idiotic, socially wrong, morally wrong and politically suicidal.” Dunleavy says several…
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Having already helped remove harassment-free zones from a northwestern Pennsylvania high school, the American Family Association is battling to silence a Gay-Straight Alliance that has formed at the school. In April, allies of the AFA cornered and taunted a student…
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Concerned Women: Daily Propaganda
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Concerned Women for America has issued its daily selection of propaganda. The headlines below are verbatim from CWA; the summaries are mine. In Their Own Words: Homosexual Activists Redefine Marriage And FamilyCWA presents misquotes of countercultural gay leftists as if…
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The July-August 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin reports about financial troubles at the antigay Traditional Values Coalition. According to the article, “Christian Crusaders? Or Not? Fledgling Group Purports to Represent ‘Christian Seniors,’” a new TVC front group called the…
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Lee Bockhorn, associate editor at The Weekly Standard, summarizes the predicament of the anti-gay-marriage movement: In the upcoming battle, defenders of marriage must find a public voice–someone (probably, though not necessarily, a politician) who isn’t afraid to suffer the disdain…