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Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gh.” Even though opposition to same-sex marriage seems to be cooling its heels at number three, it’s presence is still felt in just about all aspects of the “value voters” belief system. With abortion remaining at the number one spot, it’s clear that all things sexual continue to occupy the minds of those who seem the most opposed to anyone actually having sex. It’s interesting to view the “value voter” summit in juxtaposition with a new survey co…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…rch’s treatment of California Indians clearly sends the message that they believe that evangelizing is saintly behavior even if it means the destruction, domination and the stealing of land of indigenous people. Speakers had no expectation that the canonization mass would not go forward, but they suggested it would backfire on the church by stoking continued outrage among indigenous people and draw closer scrutiny to church doctrines and practices…

Gay: The Superior Lifestyle

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nt,” she continued. “The homosexuals get it — it’s a struggle between our religious freedoms and their right to do what they want to do.” Ah, there’s the old canard that always gets trotted out by those on the religious right — it’s gays vs. God! Those filthy gays and lesbians want to end our “religious freedoms” — which is the code phrase for “they want to pass hate crimes laws that make it illegal for us to call them the filthy sinners they are….

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…is also highly critical of the SBC Executive Committee’s failure to adopt relatively modest reforms over a twenty-year period, concluding that “very little was done to address sexual abuse within SBC churches.” And, according to the Washington Post: Evidence in the report suggests leaders also lied to Southern Baptists over whether they could maintain a database of offenders to prevent more abuse when top leaders were secretly keeping a private li…

Jennifer’s Body and Why I Like Buffy’s Body Better

By W. Scott Poole

…ame the archetypal “vamp” who used sex to lure men to their deaths while Adele Farrington, in a pre-Code romp called The Devil’s Bondwoman (1916), portrayed a woman whose sexual appetites were so insatiable that she attracted Satan himself. By the 1940s, a comic book entitled Madame Satan [see image left] told a similar story to adolescents of a seductive woman who, using Satan’s supernatural power, attempted to lead men to destruction. Doesn’t th…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…s.” What conference-goers won’t do is hear from is LGBT people. Last week Eliel Cruz, president of the Intercollegiate Adventist Gay-Straight Alliance, criticized his church for planning a conference in Africa “to talk about LGBT people without allowing them to share their stories or perspectives.” Cruz wrote: The break-out session titles help show just how extreme and one-sided this conference will be. For example, “Alternative Sexualities: A Di…

Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit

By Jay Michaelson

…social construct, and the feeling of truth may be merely the feeling of a belief held for a long time. If you’re raised not to eat pork, the simple act of eating can induce a feeling of guilt “deep down,” even if one has long ago ceased to keep kosher. Guilt has nothing to do with substantive merit—as gay people know all too well. The emotive response of guilt remains long after the mind, heart, and spirit have all reconciled themselves to the rea…

RDPulpit: McCain Attack Ad is “Hopeless“

By Daniel Schultz

…emous” and “beyond offensive” to suggest that liberal Christians couldn’t tell the difference between a presidential candidate and a messiah. “The McCain campaign is willing to make a mockery of our faith to feed people’s fears,” Vanderslice fumed. As it happens, I share Vanderslice’s outrage. It’s one thing for a candidate to claim religious bone fides, and another to attack the faith of one’s opponent. But it is still another actually to pervert…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…us freedom” complaints which aim to use an individual or business’s “sincerely held religious belief” to discriminate against LGBT people. All of which prompts the question: Is “religious freedom” the last frontier of legally permissible discrimination? Those opposed to LGBT equality are keenly aware that federal law does not protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace, housing, education, or public accommodations. As such, right-wing…

How to Make Nones and Lose Money: Study Shows Cost of Catholic Sex Abuse Scandals

By Kaya Oakes

…’t see myself in the church,” she adds, “but with people from the church.” Elizabeth told me that discovering a family member had been abused by a clergy member “marked me with a certain set of stories.” While she identifies as Christian, she does not attend any organized form of worship. Kyle, who was in seminary when the Boston abuse cases were at their height of media coverage and now considers himself only loosely Catholic, says that he no lon…