#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality
The massacre of 49 individuals in an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12 has ignited…
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Repent, Hillary: Trump’s Evangelical Backers Play the Sin Card
In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as,…
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Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins
“That’s the good news of Christianity for me. It’s not that you can be happy and whole, but rather that life is crap and you don’t know the answers. It’s good news to be freed from the oppression that there’s something that’s going to make it all better.”
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Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng
“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 MoreIs Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?
Assessing the evidence that he’s not a card-carrying member of the religious right.
Read MoreEvangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing
But this idea of the Christian life as “struggle” with “baggage” is a ruse to keep the queers in the closet.
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Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies
Not everyone on the religious right believes that Lila Rose is acting out God’s will, let alone laying down her life. After all, Lila Rose lies in order to get the footage she seeks.
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The Religious Implications of Nudity
Embodiment is a theological issue of some currency. Sometimes it is treated as if it were a women’s issue, but we all share this—at times frightening—humanity. We only want those we trust most intimately to see us naked. To touch us in certain places.
Read MoreAmericans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle
A roundup of the week’s religion headlines.
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Bad Faith: The Catholic Hierarchy’s Pointless Campaign Against LGBT Rights
If you are the Catholic parent of LGBT daughter or son, you know firsthand that it is your child’s sexual identity, and not a belief in the Immaculate Conception, that puts them at risk for beatings and taunting. We find it reprehensible when a legacy of discrimination is invoked by those who themselves advocate repression. Archbishop Dolan and his colleagues should stop pretending that they face anything like the intolerance that our children do.
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