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A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…e for religious homeschoolers. Harris’ book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, which promoted parent-supervised “courtships” instead of “secular” dating, was published in the same year. Its popularity—the book was a Christian bestseller—and Harris’ name recognition helped bring SGM to greater prominence among evangelicals. Mahaney eventually appointed Harris as his successor as senior pastor of CLC in 2004. The two men now boast ties with some of the bigges…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…s reports, by the way, that the U.S. lawmakers have rejected requests from Ugandan LGBT rights advocates to meet with them. Malawi: Challenge to Anti-Gay Law Reuters reported this week that the United Nation’s AIDS task force will join human rights groups in a legal challenge to Malawi’s laws criminalizing homosexuality. Felicia Kilembe, a spokesperson for the Malawi Law Society, said “Our argument is that as long as same-sex relationships are con…

Patience with Frank Schaeffer?

By Becky Garrison

…s reports linking the Family to the anti-gay legislation being proposed in Uganda. Regardless of how one interprets select Pauline verses and a few lines from Leviticus, how can anyone claim to follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and yet turn a blind eye with others are murdered simply on the basis of their sexual identity? Along those lines, given these recent revelations coupled with the C Street scandals, how can any religious leader cont…

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…the same way we see Paul Cameron; the two of them in our view consciously promote easily provable false defamations. They don’t seem to care at all what the truth is.” Lively is also the co-founder and spokesperson of Watchmen on the Walls (WOW)—another hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Talk2Action has referred to Watchmen as “a quasi-religious anti-gay hate group which calls homosexuality ‘inherently evil.’”) Lively’s “c…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…0,000 in America alone). Others sought to work in countries like Russia or Uganda that criminalize same-sex desire, wanting to work as missionaries among sexual minorities. Without gay Jesuit priests and brothers, who give their time and their talents despite the Church’s demonizing them, Jesuit high schools, universities, clinics and parishes would suffer. Consider more, the countless number of heterosexual couples that these gay Jesuits and othe…

Williams Boards the Ugandan Johnny-Come-Lately Express

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…finally spoke out against the anti-homosexuality bill still pending in the Ugandan legislature. Now, joining Warren on the “better-late-than-never” bandwagon is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph over the weekend, Williams spoke against the bill: “Overall, the proposed legislation is of shocking severity and I can’t see how it could be supported by any Anglican who is committed to what the Commun…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ues of human sexuality — especially homosexuality, where governements like Uganda’s are trying to make it a capital offense just to be gay. Baden said the Reconciling Ministries Network is working hard to open dialogues with church leaders in countries like Africa to educate them on the realities of being gay or lesbian. “We’re having deep conversations on human sexuality especially in places where we haven’t always been able to have these convers…

A More Perfect Union

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…cted. The approximately three million members in Kenya and nine million in Uganda do not begin to approach the 20 million in Nigeria, making Peter Akinola, Nigeria’s archbishop, one of the most influential men in the entire Anglican Communion and a fierce opponent of gays. Where Lambeth could once summarily dismiss the voices of bishops from Third World countries, as was clearly the case at the 1978 conference, it can no longer do so; their number…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…with Scott Lively, the evangelist known for provoking an anti-gay panic in Uganda that led to the introduction of the Anti Homosexuality Bill there, and who claims a link between Nazism and homosexuality: In an online column, Fischer defended Lively’s preposterous and debunked “history” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a col…

Harry Jackson Fundraises for Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…nd to friends. He said some videos would feature anti-poverty activists in Uganda and the West Indies complaining that needed aid from the U.S. is being held hostage to the Obama administration’s efforts to promote LGBT rights internationally. Also speaking was Aaron Manaigo, a political strategist Jackson has hired to run the campaign. Manaigo described himself as having gotten into politics as one of the “young gunslingers” for the late dirty tr…