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What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…cation World Magazine (not to be confused with the conspiracy-theory-laden website WorldNet Daily) suggests as much when it reports that evangelicalism’s celebrities are becoming more and more citified: Just 10 years ago, you would have chosen James Dobson’s Colorado Springs, Rick Warren’s Orange County, and the Wheaton-Willow Creek axis in Chicagoland as the epicenters of evangelical activity—suburbs or exurbs all…. Now, the shepherds are heading…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

…ual scene he sets. I interviewed creators and users of Christian sexuality websites and asked whether the sexual nature of the content worried them. Surprisingly, no one seemed very concerned. How are they so confident that these websites are wholesome rather than obscene? The Barna Group has its answer, based on the “Porn Phenomenon” data: “Turns out, it’s more a question of function than form. If it’s used for sexual arousal, it’s porn. Simple a…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…nd to ensure Anusara’s survival from the onslaught of the scandals. On her website, Birney added fuel to the fire, claiming that Friend “decided to ‘heal’ his students with ‘sex therapy.’” Friend responded in a February 8, 2012 interview with Waylon Lewis at Elephant Journal. He confirmed that he had had sexual relationships with married employees and teachers and that Anusara, Inc. had violated federal regulations regarding employee pension funds…

Fighting (Over) Words: What is an Evangelical Feminist?

By Julie Ingersoll

…, when I first read about the leadership training for conservatives at the website Smart Girl Politics and at the Smart Girl Summit, I thought it was leadership training for girls—probably homeschool and Christian school girls. No. Girls, as in adult females. Sponsors of Smart Girl Summit include tea party-oriented Freedom Works, Fairtax, and American Majority, as well as a host of others you can see here. Confirmed speakers at the summit include…

The Pope’s Dubious Holocaust Remembrance

By Evan Derkacz

…w killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies!” And he put the number of Jews killed at “200,000 to 300,000.” Straight from the Holocaust denier’s handbook. You’d think the pope would’ve been humiliated by these statements since the interview aired on the very day that he lifted the excommunication of Williamson and three other SSPX bishops. The pope and his supporters of course claim that he had no idea that Williamson held these vie…

The “Spaghetti Dinner” Clause That Launched The Latest Religious Freedom Suit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…eneral public.” That sentence, along with a note on the attorney general’s website clarifying that “houses of worship” may be considered places of public accommodation, prompted ADF to file suit. (In an uncharacteristic missed opportunity to stir up conspiracy theories about the “gay agenda,” ADF neglected to mention that Attorney General Maura Healy was not only a member of the legal team that brought marriage equality to Massachusetts more than…

Why Pro-Life Voters Shouldn’t Trust Trump on Abortion—And Why It Doesn’t Matter

By Neil J. Young

…ican primary last week, conservative pundit Erick Erickson declared on his website that he will never vote for Trump because of the candidate’s support for Planned Parenthood’s services excluding abortion. Other conservative activists—like the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore—have made similar vows, unconvinced by Trump’s claims to have abandoned his previous support for abortion rights in favor of a thoroughly pro-life position. Citing…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Crimes reports that police in Beirut are using messaging apps on the cell phones of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challen…

Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…ns themed around fear. In the first four weeks, 173,000 people visited the websites and more than 10,000 clicked a button indicating they made decisions for Christ, said Mark Appleton, BGEA’s director of internet evangelism. The article goes on to relate how a teenager named Donmere who happened upon one of the sites began chatting with a volunteer, saying “I’m not really a religious person, but I don’t know who else to turn to but God.” According…

New Challenges to Gay Marriage Bans From Within States & Denominations

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ttle-noticed move by much of the media (and even hard to find on their own website), The Disciples of Christ voted at its general assembly in Orlando, Florida this month to affirm LGBT people as members and leaders in the denomination. On the heels of that move, 85 retired United Methodist clergy announced they would defy their denomination’s ban on performing same-sex weddings. “We will refuse to treat people as inferior, second-class citizens of…