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NPR Report on “Ex-Gay” Therapy Omits Crucial Details of Source’s “Journey Into Manhood”

By Warren Throckmorton

…changed from gay to straight. Oddly, the report omitted mention of the gay change group Wyler co-founded, People Can Change. The main outreach of PCC is the Journey into Manhood weekend. JIM promotes the usual reparative therapy concept that men are gay because they do not have a secure sense of masculinity, most often because they were too close to their mothers and did not bond well with father. The NPR report notes Wyler’s self-diagnosis but ob…

In Praise of Gay Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o serve as a leader in an LDS congregation in San Francisco.” All of these changes have been made because LGBT people were faithful to an institution that has historically despised and rejected them. Progress comes from making changes within, not protesting outside the doors. I completely understand the mindset of those who would question my membership in a club where many of its members wish to eliminate me altogether. I feel exactly the same way…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cent Court ruling recognizing the ability of transgender people to legally change their gender means that gay people who want to get married should just change their gender. “Why do we need to pass a law on civil unions for homosexual couples, and to engage in a lengthy semantic debate around what ‘marriage’ means today?’ she asked. “Why must we embark on a bitter parliamentary battle on the value of the family, to decide whether certain reforms w…

Hope & Change in a Racist Nation: A Necessary Disillusion

By Peter Laarman

I now live in a tiny state whose motto is “Hope.” When the pandemic struck, our governor reached out to RISD grad Shepard Fairey with a request to produce another of his patented images. He promptly delivered one that is dubbed RI Angel of Hope. Fairey’s Angel is not a bad piece by any means, though some wags have asked whether the angel is meant to be a sly representation of our feisty governor herself. Unfortunately for Fairey, no subsequent wo…

My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…e, their 2018 conference invitation is telling: We live in times marked by change, but there are places where gender equality is being systematically overlooked. The Catholic Church is one of them. Today, women are asking why the Church is so slow in recognizing their value and opening governance and ministerial roles to them; roles that incorporate their faith, gifts, expertise and education into structures of authority at all levels. Our world i…

Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…eligious progressives want to play. Nor do I think society benefits when exchanges between theists and atheists are conceived in terms of the analogy of a sporting match. So let’s change the analogy. Suppose I were a scientist developing an astronomical theory. Suppose a rival scientist with a different theory points out a problem with my theory—some observation it can’t account for. I think about his concern and realize he’s right. And so I sit d…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…he didn’t understand why young adults—the millennials—were leaving the mainline denominational churches for the contemporary non-denominational worship centers. He argued that when he was a young adult, the late 1960s and early 1970s, that his peers stayed at their churches and forced the change. Obviously, times are different and sentiments have changed. Parker went on to remark that “Black millennials are extremely innovative and easily find alt…

“Ex-Gay” Common Ground More of a Killing Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Now, not so much. Sin, like gender, is often a social construct and can be changed. However, gays and lesbians don’t need to rely on changing social norms to change views on homosexuality. The Bible, when read in context, condemns homosexual acts that use or abuse another person like prostitution, rape, or pederasty. Loving, committed, gay or lesbian relationships are never condemned. To say that the Bible condemns homosexuality based on these pas…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…r every day, even if we don’t realize that it’s been asked of us. Time has changed, but other transformations are in our future. In the decade ahead, the effort to bring affordable, high-speed internet to rural and developing regions will be a major project. A few players—Facebook (using drones) and Google (using balloons)—are leading that effort. Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are the railroad magnates of their day, building a unive…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hts Campaign’s annual dinner, at which he said he thought the Church might change its mind on same-sex couples marrying the way he had changed his own mind on the issue. The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports that Kaine recounted that “as a result of his Catholic faith, he had a ‘difficult time with the idea of same-sex marriage,” but that changed during debate over an anti-marriage constitutional amendment campaign, which passed with 57 per…