Religion Dispatches
The day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. OK, it didn’t…
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“For me, as a queer person of color and an Asian American who is also gay, I often feel like I’m never able to bring the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today or gay today? In the LGBT community, even where I feel really safe, I rarely hear anything that affirms my cultural background or the racism of notions of beauty in the community.”
Read MoreA realist’s strategy?
Read MoreScouts may officially welcome gay leaders, but leave door open for church-based troops to do their own thing.
Read MoreA NOM activist is very taken with the power of her anti-gay testimony.
Read MoreBut takes a hard line on promiscuity—otherwise known as “dating”?
Read MoreDueling press conferences make it clear God will have a big role in marriage push.
Read MoreCount on US religious right leaders to raise hell about human rights ruling.
Read More“We increasingly look prejudiced, and not a little stupid, on this issue,” GOP insider admits.
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Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation.
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