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The United Methodist Church to LGBTQ People: You’re ‘Sacred,’ But Not Welcome

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…who hold a powerful voting block) applaud its stance. However, the overall numbers among its American delegates and within the American population reveal a growing support for LGBTQ rights within the public and religious sphere. The denomination has a full communion relationship (mutual recognition of shared beliefs) with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which has openly gay bishops. It has also agreed upon an Interim Eucharist S…

UPDATED: Warren is… Heterogeneous on Gay Marriage; In Hot Water for Equivocation

By Bill Berkowitz

…e founder of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, told OneNewsNow, a news service sponsored by the American Family Association: This man who’s been called the next Billy Graham, who I really respect with all my heart and love what he’s doing in Africa, is falling into a trap that is emblematic of the problem that the entire church is facing in this generation. And that is that we love the applause of men more than we love the work of God and the…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…he issue was about “providing equality in the way that the public receives services from the state” and civil marriage was not a matter for churches. “I have my own beliefs as a member of a church, as to how the church role fits in,” he said. “But in terms of civil society, the services which are provided, I don’t believe that it is for those of us who are in the heterosexual majority to tell people who are in the homosexual minority that they’re…

Meet the Real Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ss went on a media-spree hurling the pejorative term “cult” at millions of American Mormons, the Daily Beast’s McKay Coppins has unearthed evidence that Jeffress may have been encouraged by Perry campaign supporters.) The Times article offers a nuanced look at Romney’s thirteen years of service as a congregational pastoral leader (bishop) and regional administrator and pastoral leader (stake president) in Belmont, Massachusetts, during which time…

Conservative Christians Struggle With Christianity

By Lauri Lebo

…of their faith in exchange for reinforcing Holy War notions against fellow Americans? *** Back in Philadelphia, a city founded on the concept of brotherly love, Witold “Vic” Walczak, the ACLU-PA’s legal director who oversaw Frankel’s memorial service, closed with a message urging action rather than judgment. Perhaps he missed Beck’s admonishment. Or perhaps he doesn’t care much what Beck has to say. Sniffling back tears, Walczak asked those gather…

Obama Quietly Declares June “LGBT Pride Month”

By Nick Street

…ud of,” Peter LaBarbera told One News Now, the online news division of the American Family Association. “The fact is people have left the lifestyle,” said LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. “People have overcome homosexuality—I think that’s something to be proud of.” “President Obama has committed his administration to support for the activist homosexual agenda,” was the lede at Life Site News, for a story that was pi…

Bishops, It Is Nobody’s Fault But Your Own

By Kate Childs Graham

…al letter on peace set goals that remain unfulfilled” by the Catholic News Service (the “news service” created by the USCCB) suggested that while the anniversary of the document has gone uncelebrated: …that doesn’t mean the bishops’ core messages — challenging the world’s nuclear powers to rid their arsenals of nuclear weapons and discussing the importance of peacemaking in everyone’s life — has been lost, according to some of the country’s leadin…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…that it’s endorsed by the leaders of the LDS church. How does providing a service to Mormons hurt the Mormon church? Especially since that service—helping faithful Mormons meet and marry other faithful Mormons—is in line with the church’s goals and objectives? The church has been happy to leave LDSSingles.com alone; why is it going after Mormon Match? The church also objects to the fact that the company is using a picture of the Salt Lake temple…

Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality

By Mary E. Hunt

…ker go out the window when some best their brothers in training and at the service academies. Besides, the emphasis on teamwork means that brute strength and a sharp brain will get the job done. From what I hear, not much will change on the ground because women are already doing combat jobs. The potential of 200,000 combat-related jobs opening to women only reveals how much discrimination there has been until now. More than 20,000 women have serve…