Alert reader Timothy brought my attention to a very ugly article published at the Agapepress today regarding events last December. (As if the fundamentalist media recycling favorite anecdotes as news is uncommon…) The article is about local parent David Williams…
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Religious Right Slips Up Again
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Shhhush… don’t tell anyone but the religious right’s charade slips up again regarding their motives for supporting the ex-gay cause. (Hint: It has to do with providing them an excuse to justify discrimination against the millions of gay Americans content…
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I apologize for the high number of off-topic posts this last 48 hours but I felt we could use a new thread on which to discuss this nonsense about “one-sex marriage.” With a simple Google I found Concerned Women For…
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Antigay Mother’s Day
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It’s Mother’s Day… a day for phone calls, greeting cards, flowers and chocolates. But what can you do for your mother, when an antigay denomination has convinced her to cut you off? Joe Riddle ponders this from a very personal…
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Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas, and Exodus media blogger Nancy Brown, frequently applaud the political activism of people like Alan Sears (Alliance Defense Fund), the Rev. Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention), and D. James Kennedy of the Center…
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What Were You Doing During Inauguration Week?
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Exgay leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas spent the week in Washington celebrating with a who’s who of the religious right. Thomas met, saw, or had his picture taken with: Coral Ridge Ministries leader D. James KennedyFMA co-sponsor Rep. Marilyn…
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Earlier this month, Exodus exgay leader Alan Chambers joined Concerned Women for America in offering support for antigay protest group Repent America — specifically, for its disruption of a gay entertainment festival in Philadelphia. A few other evangelicals, however, are…
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Off-topic: ‘Are Liberal Christians Phony?’
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David Batstone is the executive editor of Sojourners, an evangelical Christian magazine with a history of pro-life, pro-human-rights, antipoverty and antiviolence activism rooted in the Bible. (Disclosure: I worked for Sojourners in the late 1980s.) When he’s not on tour…
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Christian Libertarians? Sometimes Not
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Jon Rowe comments that Christian Reconstructionists have infiltrated libertarian circles by labeling themselves “Christian libertarians.” Unlike real libertarians who wish to eliminate big government, however, the relabeled Reconstructionists seek to replace government with theocracy. Dispatches from the Culture Wars elaborates…
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Founded as a day for Americans of all faiths, the National Day of Prayer is now closely tied to Focus on the Family. It is headquartered in Focus offices, James Dobson’s wife is the chairman, Focus is compensated for “services…