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Evangelical Writers Take Homophobic Hipster Pastor to the Mat—Sort Of

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an go, letting Driscoll’s promise suffice. A promise, that is, to set up a website on which he and his wife will blog about their forthcoming book and, we are encouraged to believe, clear up the whole “misunderstanding” that piqued Evans’ ire and prompted the elders at Mars Hill church to insist that he “do better by hitting real issues with real content in a real context.” Surely, “I messed up” is a lot clearer and much quicker than a promised we…

A Libertarian Split Over the Hitching Post Case

By Sarah Posner

…fer “wedding ceremonies of other faiths,” as Jeremy Hooper documented, the website was recently changed to offer only “a traditional Christian wedding ceremony.” Sarah Jones of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State notes the city has not threatened the Knapps with arrest or imprisonment, adding “Americans United has been clear all along: No church can be compelled to offer religious services to same-sex couples. The First Amendme…

The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…ear their fingertips on guitar strings and scream unintelligibly into microphones. All the elements of the indie scene announce themselves: the spiky haircuts, the leather, combat boots, the wide eyes, the acne. At one recent show, Matt Koldinski… took the mike and did something that would be unthinkable at most hardcore shows. Panting and solemn, he appealed to his audience of peers to come up to him after the show, to talk about their problems a…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…harged three times with violating the law as authorities seek to block her website, Children-404, where gay teens are encouraged to discuss their experiences of homophobia. The site still can be accessed outside Russia, but inside the country the site displays an October closure order. Xenia Loutchenko, a Moscow commentator who writes on church affairs, says Putin and an inner Orthodox circle are driving the air of social retrenchment, not any gra…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…e role of CBST given the rise of the internet and their active and engaged website, their role in Pride in New York City, and their very visibility. I regret I can’t answer. I have no information about the impact of that tool of communication and public visibility. Not having studied the impact of CBST’s impressive website, I assume it must have expanded the potential of membership recruitment. In the earlier days it was by the chance of knowing s…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…Grandview. These sermons, Herrington said, were recently removed from the website, but in them Bickle “talks about Jesus killing all the heads of state and there’s a part at the end of the first sermon where he says he saw an angel in his bedroom and had an ‘open vision’ that tanks were rolling across America,” Herrington said. Herrington briefly attended IHOPU and later worked in IHOP’s marketing and editing department, proofreading 30 years of…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ents such as Gay Pride. In an interview published on the Church’s official website, Kirill said: “[Isis] is creating a civilization that is new by comparison to the established one that is godless, secular and even radical in its secularism.” “We can have parades for the sexual minorities – that is supported – but a million French Christian protestors defending family values are broken up by police,” he added. Kirill said because the “godless civi…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…etition that a group of Dominican evangelicals posted to the White House’s website earlier this month. A group of Catholic bishops in the Dominican Republic have urged Medina’s government to formally complain to the U.S. about Brewster’s “conduct” that includes visiting schools and attending public events with Satawake. A group of intellectuals and religious leaders in the predominantly Catholic country earlier this year urged Medina and the Domin…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…sed on sexual orientation or gender identity,” according to the campaign’s website. “By sending tweets to the pope, we want to move him to speak out against these laws, many of which have been supported by Catholic leaders and people in these nations,” said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, the organization that launched the project, in a press release last week. “We need a powerful, faith-based statement from Pope Franc…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…[frame] to the obedience of Christ.” (italics added) The film competition website provides a glimpse of just what a culture transformed by Christian Reconstructionists would look like. There are no women depicted as faculty, presenters, or leaders in any sense; the overwhelming majority of winners in every category since 2004 are male (though occasionally there are “teams” that include a female member). Phillips and others, in discussions on his…