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Man-made Breasts, Or, Grace in Graceless Times

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n has a spotty past – including a breast enhancement, paid for by the Miss USA contest itself, and now, topless pictures. Alicia Jacobs, Entertainment Reporter at KVBC in Las Vegas, has seen all six of the photos and says some are much more revealing. Alicia believes the flicks may have been taken after Carrie’s pageant-financed breast augmentation about six weeks ago. Liberal blogs have exploded with the news, chastising Prejean for her apparent…

When the Church’s LGBTIQ Loss is the World’s Gain

By Mary E. Hunt

…s advocates – during these times of transition in the Presbyterian Church (USA).” Over the years, Jane was brought up twice on ecclesial charges for presiding at same sex marriages. Even when convicted, the local authorizes refused to impose the penalty. History and the Supreme Court proved them all prophetic. The ordination ban was eventually modified so that local Presbyterian churches are free to select their own ministers regardless of sexual…

Identity Theology: Political Correctness with a Halo

By Carlos Wilton

…tion of women has the enthusiastic support of nearly every member of the PCUSA. Ordaining bodies within the PCUSA may not categorically bar women from ordained service. In fact, The church’s 1990 Brief Statement of Faith declares that “the Spirit… calls women and men to all ministries of the Church,” elevating the ordination of women to confessional status. By contrast, when the PCUSA’s General Assembly voted to begin ordaining LGBTQ people severa…

Super Bowl Sunday, American Holy Day

By Gary Laderman

…d fateful day had healing power and religious meaning. In a September 2002 USA Today article accompanied by an image of the flag-raising, journalist Erik Brady wrote that “Ballparks and stadiums became town squares where much of the ritual of public healing took place… Ballparks became home to sacramental ceremony,” places that he later refers to “miniature gardens of Eden.” This Eden does not require the creation of God but instead has sacred vit…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…-like on their concerns about scripture. The year I was coming out to my PCUSA congregation was the same year the denomination had voted to approve the ordination of non-celibate gay clergy, so this was a live discussion. I had a different perspective on it because I got to see how that conversation was playing out in churches that were not very accepting. What I realized was that even though there have been three-plus decades of conversation and…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lt Lake City this week, she complained about the “relentless torrent of accusations and hatred against anyone who speaks, no matter how civilly, for marriage.” One of those “torrent[s] of… hatred” happened recently as Gallagher testified before a House committee on the Defense of Marriage Act. GetEqual cornered Gallagher in the hallway on the way to the hearing to give her an “Anita Bryant Bigotry Award” for “her work to undermine and overturn pro…

God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…that her multiple marriages and divorces are typical of Americans, her refusal to do her job undermines the law, and our collective rejection of God’s sexual standard, especially regarding divorce and remarriage, has “doomed” us to legally recognized same-sex marriage. WBC holds a view of divorce that wasn’t all that uncommon even a generation ago. Divorce is not permissible for church members; though, realistically, it is unavoidable if a spouse…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…e pro-queer side. Pollster/strategy consultant Amy Simon went before large numbers of liberal Christian leaders in battleground states to say, in effect, “Please don’t duck what your own religion has to say about this. Try behaving like Jesus for once.” And Simon was only one of many out there, working hard and bringing in sheaves of religious voters for equal rights. It seems to have worked. 8. Body of this Death It wasn’t just gay bodies that go…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…od’s chosen nation and in the shadows of the glossy fantasy of Main Street USA. Are these two shocking stories exceptional because they are the result of sick individuals who are so outside the norm they have nothing to do with everyday life in America? Or are they so exceptional because they point to patterns and impulses deeply ingrained in two of the most sacred, and hyper-masculine, institutions in American life: sports and the military? Foo…

Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…uring the Haitian earthquake crisis, when it partnered with Islamic Relief USA to send food and medical supplies. The Church has its reasons—religious reasons—for being modest about humanitarian efforts, as it has explained here. And I had suspected all along that the LDS Church would have been proceeding on the Pakistan crisis in its characteristically quiet way. But when our largely conservative faith community risks being drawn into a misdirect…