A Letter to the Religious Left on the Victory of Obama
Pastor Dan addresses the Religious Left with suggestions, words of caution, a plea for compromise and a more broadly-conceived coalition than any to date.
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Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect
It has become common to blame the black community for the passage of California’s same-sex marriage ban. A look at the statistics and logic put the lie to this seductive and simplistic narrative.
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Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad
Soulforce, an organization dedicated to changing the hearts of those who discriminate against LGBT people based on religious belief, takes the message to conservative colleges and learns, firsthand, the eleventh commandment: Thou Shalt Not Trespass on Campus.
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Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party
While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.
Read MoreBusy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’
RD News Round-Up—November 24, 2008: Religious Right’s ‘Obama Watch’; RaptureReady.com getting readier; Focus on the Family’s ‘I Stand for Christmas’ campaign; Proposition 8: The Aftermath; Huckabee’s revenge; Christian doctrine cures OCD?
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The “Guilty” AIDS Sufferers
According to Zen, ignorance is the grand-daddy of suffering. That some AIDS victims are “innocent” and some not is not only ignorant, but the antithesis of compassion.
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Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church
In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?
Read MoreChristianity and Condoms
The United States has exported its contradictory and confusing HIV prevention strategy to Africa: Abstain, Be Faithful, Condoms (ABC). Herewith a modest proposal to reconcile Christianity, identity, and HIV prevention…
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The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life
Who is that tattooed, pierced kid with the pink hair and the “You Will Not Mock Our God” T-shirt? How confusion about evangelicalism has obscured the Catholic influences of pro-life youth.
Read MoreRDPulpit: The Intolerance of Tolerance Movements
For a good feminist “lesbian” must always trump “gay” in the alphabet soup of acceptance and tolerance.
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