Search for "Seguros de vehiculos en California llama ahora al 888-430-8975 Entidades aseguradoras Seguros contra todo riesgo para vehiculos Que cubre un seguro de auto Agencia de seguros para autos Agencia segura Comparador de seguros"

Freedom Through the Eyes of Bishops and Filmmakers

By Peter Montgomery

…ecisions that will be handed down this month in marriage equality cases on California’s Prop 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Lori rejects the notion that equality in civil marriage is a form of accommodating pluralism, saying “It’s a funny kind of pluralism that doesn’t make room for Christianity and Catholic values. For genuine pluralism, we would have complete freedom to exercise our mission according to our own rights.” In other word…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…8, shortly after earning an MA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Schneider began his editing career at Killing the Buddha, an online religion magazine. As a writer, Schneider has brought a clear-eyed enthusiasm to his commentary on the Occupy movement for The Nation, Harper’s, and The New York Times. He has also written about the largesse of the Templeton Foundation and profiled the anthropologist Gabriella Col…

“Like sunshine in the darkest abyss I’ve ever experienced.”

By Joanna Brooks

…? I grew up in a very conservative and religious community in Simi Valley, California. My circle of friends and family members were mainly other Mormons. It was really, really sheltered. And I remember hearing things like “gay people are disgusting and immoral” and “AIDS is God’s punishment for homosexuality.” When I learned my young son was gay, I remember thinking, “But he’s nothing like those homosexuals! Either he’s not gay, or everything I kn…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…fe’s grave. Garlow is, after all, the pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, California, and helped lead the fight to pass Proposition 8 in the state, denying marriage equality for gays and lesbians. He’s also remarked that Satan is behind the marriage equality movement and that gay people don’t really want to get married, we want to destroy marriage. He even used the occasion of 9/11 to compare children who lost their parents that day with gay pare…

The Third Party Publicity Stunt

By Sarah Posner

…position to same-sex marriage at the annual spring meeting, happing now in California, or face the consequences. “We respectfully warn GOP Leadership that an abandonment of its principles will necessarily result in the abandonment of our constituents to their support,” read their letter, obtained by NBC News. Dateline, February 12, 1998: At a closed-door convention of conservative leaders in Arizona last week, James Dobson, who heads the multimedi…

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

By Jay Michaelson

…of Marriage Act? What is the relationship between the US Constitution, the California constitution, and a voter initiative that defines certain rights? And yet, these questions are surely not the real issue. Nor is the bundle of rights that is conferred by legal marriage. Yes, in Edie Windsor’s case, the denial of those rights cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars. And, as I was interviewed by two local television stations this week, I was ask…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ll somebody. What do you think about laws, like the one recently passed in California (currently on hold), banning ex-gay therapies? Is that the answer? On one hand, I think reparative therapy is horribly damaging to folks and I think the psychological community has a certain responsibility when there is overwhelming evidence that this kind of therapy not only doesn’t work but does lasting damage to people—to their faith, their self-esteem, their…

Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality

By Nicole Greenfield

…ood on the issue to performing a gay wedding the first day it was legal in California. Within a week, all my speaking engagements for a year got canceled. Our major donors pulled out and I had to let all five of my staff members go.” Rob Bell is, of course, a different kind of pastor than Bakker and in a much different situation. Propelled by the success of megachurch fame and a slew of New York Times bestsellers, and no longer tied to a congregat…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…ound zero.” The film also includes footage of Engle’s pro-Prop. 8 rally in California at which he warned that allowing same-sex couples to get married would unleash “sexual insanity” and a spirit “more demonic than Islam.” Williams does not delve deeply into IHOP’s dominionist worldview, but IHOP officials tell him about the ambitious goals they have for their 1,000-person staff: a vision of one million new Christian soldiers who will win one bill…

Ex-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…anizations fighting to keep DOMA and prevent Prop. 8 from reinstatement in California. All of these events are clear indications that the tide is turning against those who try to sell the lie that gay and lesbian people can simply “pray away the gay” or get enough “reparative” therapy to change their sexual orientation. If all this isn’t proof enough, Peter Montgomery has already pointed to a new poll here on RD, conducted by conservative Christia…