The Catholic Bishops will be voting on guidelines for ministry to gay parishioners. And the drafted guidelines show both the difficulty with the church’s conflicting principles and how the Catholic position varies from that of evangelical based ex-gay ministries.
The Church (along with some other Christian churches) has both a desire to be in ministry […] Read more »
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On Friday, Love in Action announced a settlement in which the state of Tennessee agreed that the facilities did not need to be licensed and agreed to pay the organization’s attorneys’ fees and expenses in the lawsuit. Read more »
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey has just decided that gay couples are entitled to all the rights that heterosexual couples have… but do not have a claim to the institution of marriage. The legislature of that state now has 180 days in which to decide whether to change the marriage statutes to include […] Read more »
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From NARTH’s Political Correctness Gone Amok: The Latest Controversy (October 10, 2006):
“The bottom line,” said NARTH President Joseph Nicolosi, “is that NARTH’s mission has nothing to do with any social issue others than same-sex attraction. Our mission is to defend our clients’ rights to assert their own values and say, ‘Gay is not who I […] Read more »
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I failed to notice that I had made this page an open forum.
So the protest of Ex-Gay Watch’s policy against using quotation marks around “ex-gay” was allowed. I have unbanned Randi Schimnosky.
I am sorry for acting so aggressively.
I remain disappointed in our commenters for demanding politically correct labeling, for expressing intolerance toward sexual strugglers, […] Read more »
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Which was going to be the first ex-gay group to come out and suggest Mark Foley enter a conversion program?
We finally have our answer, PFOX. It took long enough…
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From Pastor Brenda:
God’s love and favor depends on my behavior.
All ministers are people of God and can be trusted.
Material blessings are a sign of spiritual strength.
I can work my way to heaven.
Problems in my life are a result of some kind of sin.
If it’s not in the Bible it isn’t relevant.
A strong enough faith will […] Read more »
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Katherine Hawker is pastor at Evangelical United Church of Christ in Webster Groves, Missouri.
Writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month, Hawker contrasted local mainline churches that celebrate World Communion Day to foster Christian unity and charity, with the religious-right lobbies and megachurches down the road that foster division and partisan vitriol within local communities.
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From BeliefNet author Diana Butler Bass via Straight, Not Narrow:
“Making sexuality a political issue, as much of the Religious Right has done, distracts from a host of other issues, such as poverty, war, and environmental concerns. But it also obscures the fact that Christians agree (as my friend and I do) on many things regarding […] Read more »
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Denver Post columnist Cindy Rodriguez discusses some reasons why followers of Focus on the Family obey the organization’s advice — and vote against their own families.
Rodriguez’s own bias is obviously Democratic. Read more »
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