O’Donnell Disowns Former “Ex-Gay” Associate
Either through luck or just a familial trait of pure stubbornness, I somehow managed to avoid getting involved with any “ex-gay” ministries…
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Progressive Faith Leaders Rally to Keep Heat on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Obama’s Faith-Based Advisory Council member, Harry Knox: ‘We must not wait on the courts. The Senate must not pass the buck on justice. The time for repeal is now.’
Read MoreAre Republicans Going Soft on Gay Marriage?
The National Organization for Marriage is left hanging in the wind.
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Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church
Preaches a message focused on love.
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The Trials of Janie Spahr
Ecclesiastical trials conjure up images of hooded inquisitors torturing poor souls, demanding them to recant on penalty of being burned at the stake. Although church hearings no longer result in a sacrificial barbecue, the tradition of the ecclesiastical trial is alive and well in many modern…
Read MoreAs Gays More Accepted, Religious Opponents More Vocal
A tidal wave of change in the opinion of religious communities toward LGBT inclusion is met by even more strident opposition by some conservatives.
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Beyond Adam and Eve
When people discuss the rights of lesbians and gays in contemporary U.S. culture, and across religious denominations, the abbreviation “LGBT” is used as a shorthand: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. But are transgender people really being taken into account? What’s the state of the struggle, where…
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Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights
A virtual conversation among RD contributors Anthea Butler, Candace Chellew-Hodge, and Peter Laarman about Judge Walker’s momentous ruling on Prop. 8, on the backlash from the right, and on the contest between religious belief and belief in the rule of law.
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Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?
If by “abomination,” we mean a cultural prohibition—something which a particular culture abhors but another culture enjoys—then the term makes sense. But in common parlance, the term has come to connote something contrary to the order of nature itself, or God’s plan.
Read MoreWill Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?
Not so fast.
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