From gay culture blog QUEERTY: A Swedish court convicted him under hate crime legislation but the ruling was appealed; Sweden’s Supreme Court has now utterly disgraced itself by overturning the conviction. Is it even imaginable that if a preacher had…
Don’t Just Read About the Religious Right…
…instead, take action. Visit Religious Right Watch, then consider becoming involved in Talk To Action.
I still haven’t had time to read the December cover story and related articles thoroughly. Among the items of interest are stories about the Founding Fathers’ intent on religion in government, Christian Reconstruction, the religious right’s growing “orbits of influence,” a conservative-Christian media…
While I congratulate Swedish pastor Ake Green on his acquittal by his country’s supreme court, I reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s assertion that calling homosexuality a “cancerous tumor on all of society” represents “the biblical view of homosexual behavior.” Freedom of speech…
Open Forum: Discrimination
Facts solicited: Do same-sex-attracted persons suffer from discrimination? (Cite current examples and provide links.) Opinions solicited: Should it be illegal for private individuals or organizations to discriminate? Should it be illegal for government agencies to discriminate?
On his personal blog, Randy Thomas of the Exodus national office cheers Brown University columnist Carman McNary for protesting alleged “drunken orgies” organized by the campus “Queer Alliance.” Thomas says he wants “these folks” — the “gay identified community” —…
Both Exodus president Alan Chambers and Exodus lobbyist/political organizer Randy Thomas have gotten in the habit, lately, of calling themselves, and fellow conservative Christians, “godly.” Latest example: Thomas’ otherwise innocuous promotion of GodlyCreativePeople.com, a site that no doubt has good intentions but immediately…
Neither liberals nor the ACLU have espoused “compassion” for Islamic terrorists, nor sought to ban Christmas. But Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas apparently needed someone to grumble about yesterday. So, on his blog, he reprinted far-right agitprop without checking the facts or identifying any…
These less grievous sins of course include the time Agape editor Jody Brown thought herself too busy to bless a staff writer after they sneezed. [ok I made that up] But in all seriousness, the religious right usually has the…
Stephen Bennett seems to have different numbers than “mister not-so-straight mathematics” Alan Chambers. Perhaps Bennett’s numbers are from 2003 since that was the last time Chambers claimed ex-gays numbered in the “thousands.” (+22:28) I am one of thousands of men…