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Expelled Ugandan Bishop Ministers to LGBT

By Richard A. Lindsay

…line, and the audience laughed. Retired Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, 78, was playing to a sympathetic crowd at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center on Tuesday night, May 25. The delight of the audience and the esteem in which they held him is not the typical reaction Senyonjo has received since he began ministering to LGBT people nine years ago in his home country of Uganda. Receiving his theological t…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…, said Akin himself is a victim of a “forcible assault.”) Given that Romney, Ryan, and others in the GOP establishment are trying to push Akin away (Akin is now saying he won’t go to Tampa), there’s been a lot of discussion of whether Akin is more radical on abortion than the GOP can countenance. As Think Progress has reported, Akin and Ryan have been co-sponsors of several anti-abortion bills in Congress, including a “personhood” bill and one tha…

Conservative and Liberal Voices Combine to Condemn Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…emberlin, Incoming President of the National Council of Churches of Christ USA, Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, the General Minister and President of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, and Melissa Rogers, the Director of Wake Forest University Divinity School’s Center for Religion and Public Affairs. What’s troubling about their signatures, however, is that each of them sits on President Obama’s advisory council for the…

Good Without God: The Ethics of Atheism

By Becky Garrison

…an at any time in human history. The Not For Sale Campaign, one of the driving forces behind this documentary, brings together a wide swathe of people including faith groups, students, teachers, artists, and the business community to mobilize together for this common cause. Time will tell if this grassroots movement for good can produce real results. …

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…more information on the differences, go here. Panel 8.2 3 page comic below, “Lunch on K Street,” depicts the lobbying process in DC. Panel 9: Paraphrased from an actual lobbying firm’s Web site. Panel 10: For more info, visit Open Secrets here and here. Page 2 Panel 2: (top, horizontal): More info here. Panel 3: More background on WINEP here (a little out of date, but still relevant). Also for more about the Brookings Institute go here. Panel 4:…

The Woody Allen Problem: How Do We Read Pacifist Theologian (and Sexual Abuser) John Howard Yoder?

By Stephanie Krehbiel

…f Christian intellectuals. Mennonites were proud to claim him. Small wonder, then, that Mennonite church leaders wanted nothing less than to deal with the evidence, mounting throughout the 1980s and 90s, that Yoder was a serial sex abuser. Many of his victims were women students at what is now the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), and at the University of Notre Dame, where he was also employed. Dozens of women lodged complaints with s…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ht now. When the parliament passed Spain’s same-sex marriage law on June 30, 2005, I said that our country would from that moment on be a fairer place. And I honestly believe that this has been the case. Our Constitutional Court ultimately upheld the act, and today all parties in the Spanish parliament accept legal gay marriage as a matter of course, as do most people in my country. It is important to note that only a few decades ago, Spain was an…

The “Gay” Princess Di Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ble to be called ‘The Princess Diana Bible’. Revision Studios in New Mexico, USA will fund the new translation of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight. Mitchell also hopes to adapt the book for a two-part mini-series, ‘The Gay Old Testament’ and ‘The Gay New Testament’. “There are many different versions of the Bible, I don’t see why we can’t have one,” said Mitchell. Aside from a little problem figuring out the “begat…

The Good Bishop Is Right—The Time for Church Debates on Homosexuality is Past

By David Gillespie

…eturned to the church of his birth and upbringing, the Presbyterian Church USA, and has found a large measure of peace and comfort in doing so. Belief Cannot Argue with Unbelief What isn’t apparent in the manifesto, but what is absolutely necessary to it, is the theological journey Spong has been on. I don’t think we, regardless of our faith commitments, can really understand the manifesto in its fullness, nor really concur with it, without first…

In the Trenches with the HRC, Working for Transgender Inclusion

By Rev. Erin K. Swenson

…ransgender people since 1994, and as a pastor with the Presbyterian Church USA, I would like to offer a correction to Garrison’s misleading statement about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). I am a member of HRC’s Religion Council, a much sought after transgender trainer and a writer for their outstanding curriculum, Gender Identity and Our Faith Communities. I know quite a bit about the real commitment HRC has to trans issues and am eager to invite…