Without a doubt, Uganda’s pending law to impose the death penalty on homosexual citizens is the worst case of African heterosexism I’ve heard about lately. Which isn’t to say there aren’t plenty of other cases! Here are a few. Reuters News Service reported this disturbing
The LGBT community in Uganda is part of a global minority, a family, a tribe. When one part of the community is under threat of state and extra-judicial violence as we witnessed here in Uganda, the global LGBT community is called to act. What we
The top two people in the United States government slammed the Ugandan “Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009” at The Family’s National Prayer Breakfast on February 4 – and President Barack Obama described the Bill as “odious”. And an American gay group described the President’s remarks as
Sir Elton John has made headlines claiming that Jesus was gay. The quote in the Sun was: JESUS was GAY – according to the gospel of SIR ELTON JOHN. The singer makes his controversial claim about the Lord in a new US interview that will
There is an excellent essay titled, “The Fundamentalist Agenda,” by Davidson Loehr. Although there are parts within it with which I don’t agree, it deserves to be read in its entirety, as it gets at the root of the exclusion of all those who don’t
Marriage can’t bear the weight of our culture’s expectations for sex today. Sex as defined in America is ruining marriages. After poring over redundant discussions about sex, monogamy, biology, evolutionary anthropology, and clinical studies, I’m not convinced that the difficulty is based in something inherent
Thirteen months ago Sightings commented on a report by the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, and its unsurprising finding that most theological seminaries do nothing to prepare future ministers to deal with sexual issues. They do almost as little on economic issues.
“I don’t even know why she is here, she isn’t even really gay.” As I heard a gay male staff member speak these words about a bisexual volunteer at a prominent LGBTQ youth community center, I began to recognize the truly in-between space in which
Weird situation at church yesterday. A group of us were sitting around talking, waiting for our weekly men’s group to begin, and there was this plastic bucket sitting on the table in front of me, filled with condoms. All kinds of condoms. Colored, textured, lubricated,
Not too long ago, I found myself in the midst of having one of those “difficult conversations.” Not that I was uncomfortable with the topic being discussed – quite the contrary. It was one of those talks with a friend enduring some difficult circumstances where