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New Challenges to Gay Marriage Bans From Within States & Denominations

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eir 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 God,” Fado said. The clergy could face revocation of their credent…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…merican brothers and sisters… Meanwhile, a resolution about the tragedy in Orlando noted that “we regard those affected by this tragedy as fellow image-bearers of God and our neighbors.” Tweets from SBC leaders expressed regard for the LGBT community affected by the slaughter in Florida. The contrast with the 2009 resolution was remarkable. Far less noted, but an equally important indicator of sentiments among evangelicals is one of the two length…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…e after a man with a long gun killed 49 people in a queer club in Orlando, Florida six years ago. Maybe Congress could have acted then to make it more difficult to buy a weapon that can easily kill so many people. But they didn’t. And now five more people are dead and twenty-five more injured. The system is working perfectly. And late 2022 is bearing the fruits of a violent summer and fall. Did you know that twice as many transgender people were m…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…went further by voting, at its plenary assembly meeting in (appropriately) Orlando, Florida, to greenlight the Committee on Doctrine to amend the ERDs so that they explicitly ban the provision of gender-affirming care in Catholic medical systems. As Brian Fraga tersely puts it in National Catholic Reporter, “It’s unclear how many Catholic health facilities currently provide gender-confirming medical treatment.” However, he did add that according t…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that I knew of in those days [and I didn’t even know] if there was one in Orlando back then. So for me, as a 19-year-old kid, Exodus was the safe place. When I walked in, they didn’t beat me over the head with a Bible, they were a bunch of people who said, We get it. You’re welcome here and you can struggle along with the rest of us. The negative, or detriment, of Exodus is the same as the church, which is plugged into the tree of the knowledge o…

Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

By Joanna Brooks

…October 18 debate. Huntsman’s headquarters had previously been located in Orlando, Florida. The move to New Hampshire may signal that Huntsman has given his campaign a shorter horizon and that Team Huntsman is devising an exit strategy that will salvage the candidate’s credibility. But why did he enter the race at all? That’s the question Mo-politicos are asking this week. Is he, like Mitt Romney, another Mormon son trying to fill his father’s…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…nks. You have to determine that on your own.” Haggard’s weekly Oval Office phone calls and grip and grin NAE photo ops with former President George W. Bush are now mere vestiges of an old life, prior to what he calls the “crisis.” At New Life, which Jeff Sharlet described as “not just a battalion of spiritual warriors but a factory for ideas to arm them,” worship services were extravagant multimedia, fog machine-choked productions, in which Haggar…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…armed against. War in the name of faith is a recurring theme, as with cell-phone videos of beheadings. Krieger reads such rage within a dichotomy of “fundamentalist repression” and its opposite, freedom. Alhough she prefers the phrase “over-pervy libertinism” as, for her, the dichotomy is spread wide, with ISIS on one end and the antinomian carnival of de Sade’s vacation home at the other. That’s a freedom worth fighting for, she implies, but it i…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…bravery. The law that passed in June—which is, I think, best explained as cheap populist scapegoating—has served to activate and embolden widespread homophobia, which seems to me to have been previously often latent (the homophobia I encountered in Vladimir 10 years ago was none too aggressive). Phenomena like “Occupy Pedophilia” have appeared on the scene. Although it’s hard to say exactly how common anti-LGBT violence is in Russia, it should be…