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Barriers to Authentic Sexuality

Sexually intact and emotionally healthy people really don’t care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes! And sexually intact and emotionally healthy people don’t in any way demean Gay people or seek to deprive Gay people of civil rights that accrue

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Victory

Matthew 5:44 “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Just as Jesus perceived blessings where the world saw persecutions, he understood that our victory over the

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Biblical Literalism

Lauren Ashley, self-proclaimed Miss Beverly Hills, now rejected by Hills officials, is drawing more media attention as an oracle than anyone else since another would-be Beauty Queen, Carrie Prejean, spoke. Both commented on homosexuality. We news-scanners find issues connected with it to be the most

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Africa Screams

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

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Our Obligation to LGBT Ugandans

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

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Jesus Was Gay?

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

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Fundamentalism and Homophobia

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

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Sex is Ruining Marriage

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

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Sexuality

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.