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Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

A participant in the first study to use the term “ex-gay” to describe gay-to-straight change has called the study into question. In 1980, E. Mansell Pattison and his wife Myrna Loy Pattison introduced the term “ex-gay” to the psychological literature via an article published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.* In that study, they claimed that 11 men participating in a crisis hotline at the Melodyland Christian Center, pastored by Ralph Wilkin…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…quick to “disconnect” (as Scientologists put it) from you? Because I was a high-ranking Sea Org member at the time, there was no other reason for me to leave other than being a Suppressive Person. I wasn’t kicked out. I was offered a choice between leaving and spending a couple of years incarcerated on a ship as punishment. I said no, and I left. You refer in the book to some tenets and practices of Scientology, like silent birthing rites, that yo…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…t as a story of the Ancient Hebrew people’s relationship with God. And the New Testament is the story of the early Christian church’s relationship with God. The Bible is a compilation of human stories. I believe that the controversy comes down to whether or not we believe that these stories should be taken literally or whether they can be interpreted. So what does the Bible say about homosexuality? The Old Testament has a law that says “no man sha…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…tice uprisings of 2020. In this conversation, RD gets the scoop on the soon-to-be-published report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-wing Think Tanks and the Legislative Attack on Higher Education [now published], which identifies the key actors behind this response, exposes their strategies to reimagine the university as a vehicle for far-right perspectives, and the robust political infrastructure they’ve built to advance the right-wing agenda. We al…

Fundamentalist-Led Texas History Standards Get ‘D’ from Conservative Think Tank

By Lauri Lebo

…te spokeswoman Amy Fagan said. “We support education reform and are definitely critical of the status quo. We support school choice and more options for parents — including high-quality charter schools and voucher programs. And we are particularly big on smart accountability and high-quality standards.”…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…personal identities like being female and approved politics like being pro-choice to feel inevitable. Alas, many human beings have other ideas about which identities matter most and what those identities mean, and generally speaking they do not like being told what should matter to them and how. The final contradiction at the heart of cultural progressivism is its desire to create frictionless solidarity amongst marginalized groups. The idea is t…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…s generous, that God is loving, that God is forgiving… And to enter into a new kind of quality of life with God right here, right now. So let’s bring some heaven to earth, let’s work to get rid of the hells on earth right now, let’s become the kind of people who love our neighbor… And that, for Him, it was immediate and urgent about this world. And, sort of, what happens when you die… He talks a little bit about, but He’s mostly talking about this…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…leanest copy I have ever turned into my publisher. I wanted the sisters to feel comfortable with the re-telling of their stories and so I let many of them read sections of the book before it went to press. What I forgot is that so many Catholic nuns spent decades of their lives as grammar teachers. I have never seen so much red ink in my life. If I learned anything writing this book it is that nuns love a good pun. But the truth is that apart from…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…hite evangelicals, but I’m talking to white liberals too. You would not be feeling what you are feeling right now without video, and I want you to own that.” He added, “I’m lamenting the fact that Breonna Taylor’s name is not mentioned as much as George Floyd’s, but one of the reasons why is that we don’t have video.” “It’s easy to imagine that Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend must have done something wrong,” Johnson continued, “the police wouldn’…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…y famous evangelicals whose reputations are on the line, but even some rank-and-file pastors, Christian college professors and administrators, and those who run and work for evangelical ministries might not be regretting their support for the “no enemies on the right” approach that has clearly characterized the conservative, mostly white evangelical mainstream for decades. To be sure, puncher of protesters, evangelical radio host, fascist children…