Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family have steadily increased the volume of their antigay press releases this week. One item in particular seems brazen in its defamation of author Judith Levine.
At this point, I can’t keep up with all the propaganda. I’ll tackle what I can over the next couple days. But […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA, Focus on the Family/FRC
For two years as a teen-ager, I was a born-again Christian and an evangelical. By age 18, however, my faith had matured toward a politically independent Roman Catholicism. Later, my faith would be challenged further.
Whether I qualify as a Christian today depends on whether the person requesting my religious affiliation presumes to define “Christian.” To […] Read more »
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy theories, strawman arguments, sexual putdowns, stigmatization, and affirmations of antigay discrimination to a new low for the year.
NYC to Open First Gay Public High School“School comes despite the fact that […] Read more »
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As recently as the mid-1970s, television confined its depiction of homosexuals to suicidal whimperers and psychopathic lesbians. This bizarre caricature has faded from mainstream culture and from many if not most places of worship.
It remains alive and well, however, in some quarters.
According to Exodus chairman Alan Chambers, antigay 1970s popular culture was already too tolerant […] Read more »
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Fenton Johnson, author of “Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s
Journey” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), reflects thoughtfully and deeply upon his own faith journey in a Los Angeles Times commentary.
Johnson applies his observations on faith and tradition to gay Christians’ quest for equal treatment before God as well as civil law — and to the Christian Right’s battle against […] Read more »
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In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights instead of fairness in civil marriage.
Reinhard also said that any comparison of racial discrimination and antigay discrimination “confuses an immutable trait (race) with a behavior (homosexuality) whose nature and origin […] Read more »
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Both the editorial board and columnist Steve Dunleavy at the New York Post call the New York City public schools’ announcement of a predominantly gay high school “un-American,” “insane,” “idiotic, socially wrong, morally wrong and politically suicidal.”
Dunleavy says several times that he has “no problem … with a person being gay.” But in the next […] Read more »
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Having already helped remove harassment-free zones from a northwestern Pennsylvania high school, the American Family Association is battling to silence a Gay-Straight Alliance that has formed at the school.
In April, allies of the AFA cornered and taunted a student who participated in a Day of Silence vigil organized by tolerance advocates.
The AFA also is […] Read more »
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Concerned Women for America has issued its daily selection of propaganda.
The headlines below are verbatim from CWA; the summaries are mine.
In Their Own Words: Homosexual Activists Redefine Marriage And FamilyCWA presents misquotes of countercultural gay leftists as if they represented the values of mainstream and conservative gays seeking to get married. How odd: One does […] Read more »
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The July-August 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin reports about financial troubles at the antigay Traditional Values Coalition.
According to the article, “Christian Crusaders? Or Not? Fledgling Group Purports to Represent ‘Christian Seniors,’” a new TVC front group called the Christian Seniors Association may represent a latch-ditch effort by conservative fundraiser Richard Viguerie to raise money […] Read more »
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