Pat Robertson spouted more extreme anti-gay rhetoric today as he railed against a church with a gay pastor, saying that gay Christians and Christians who support gay rights are defying the Bible. Speaking on The 700 Club, Robertson said, “To have a church saying [homosexuality] is not a sin, it’s okay, they’re leading people down…
MATT Humility and compassion appear to be the driving forces behind the efforts of Matt Stolhandske, a board member of Evangelicals for Marriage Equality, a coalition of Christians who support same-sex marriage, who recently launched an online campaign to raise money in hopes of covering a fine incurred by a straight couple that refused to…
Dan Haseltine, the lead singer for the hugely popular Christian rock band Jars of Clay, is under assault by Christians for his pro-gay Tweets, reports ChristianToday.com. In a series of short posts on Twitter last week, the Grammy Award-winning singer, having just watched 12 Years a Slave, noted that, “The treatment of people as less…
Since 1640, the Pilgrim Press has published cutting-edge books that challenged convention and irritated church and crown. That edgy tradition continues as Pilgrim Press announces the release of Queer Clergy: A History of Gay and Lesbian Ministry in American Protestantism by Minnesota author, RW Holmen. The book chronicles the journey of gay and lesbian Christians…
I wish we in the LGBT community were better at speaking to Christian conservatives in language that they could relate and connect to. When the “tenants of Christian faith” card is played with regards to the lives of LGBT Americans, we in the community generally don’t respond to these charges in a way that religious…
From Media Matters For America comes their latest post on PolitiFact giving a “false” rating to the conservative media myth that ENDA discriminates against Christian businesses: Conservative media outlets have repeatedly asserted that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) – federal legislation that would ban employment discrimination against LGBT workers – discriminates against Christian businesses, but…
BURLINGTON, Vt.– The NALT Christians Project (NotAllLikeThat.org) has been launched, giving Christians everywhere an opportunity to rise up and proclaim their unconditional love and support for their gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends and family members. This new movement, inspired by Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project, encourages LGBT-affirming Christians to upload videos that unapologetically express their full…
