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Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…ls but adorned with flowers and foliage; a “Western room,” with cowboy-boot-and-gun decor; and a “Victorian Sitting Room,” which also has flowers and foliage. The ministers will also perform weddings at ski resorts and outdoor locations. They have performed weddings on boats, on horseback, on roller coasters, and in hot air balloons. None of this seems specifically Christian or at all traditional, but there is a minister involved. The website note…

8 Bill Maher Statements For UC Berkeley To Consider Before Commencement

By Nathan Lean

…it’s not just physical abuse against women that Maher is mouthy about. He offers an array of sordid words and phrases to describe them, like bitch, cunt, and “dumb twat.” In an interview with Larry King, Maher said: “I’m for racial profiling… I talk about it.” When King asked if Maher would stop a black man driving a Porsche in Beverly Hills, Maher backtracked: “Not a black — no, no, no, no — not a black man. I’m talking with a terrorist situatio…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Francis using “the fertile mother” as a metaphor for the church in his end-of-synod speech: “The ‘fertile mother’ is made up solely of men — men whose authority is based on their capacity to be both male and (in theory, at least) celibate…Add to that the unseemly, if not deeply pathological, reality that a significant number of these bishops, who cannot decide whether gays and lesbians have gifts to offer to the church, are themselves closeted ga…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…ct of despair.” That recognition of human grief and the epilogue on the God-loss read to me as very pastoral. A theologian who read this book—very theistic—once she read the manuscript, she said, “You have to say something to us who hate giving up God.” And she said, “I love waking up in the morning and seeing the sun shine and the sky blue and the birds in flight and saying, ‘Thank you God,’ and you’re taking that away from me.” You write “theism…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…he history of Western civilization from the Greeks to the present (chapters 18-21) is an unparalleled tour-de-force of anti-theistic debunking. But I want to leave some fields untilled to reward those curious readers who will want to peruse the oeuvre for themselves. Although—to borrow the lingo of my students—“this book rocks,” it also has its shortcomings. For one thing, it is a curiously unbalanced novel, with creepers of subplots wilting off b…