Category Archives: Society

Books

Let Them Hit Bottom

There are clear signs that right-wing dominance is waning. But it’s not time for us to celebrate or think that their fall is irreversible. It’s time instead to make sure we aren’t under them, trying to prop up their egos, while they fall. It’s time

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Dear Larry Craig: Now You Know

Dear Larry Craig: Now you know what it’s like. I don’t say this in a mean way, I’m just pointing out a simple fact: Now you know what it’s like. You already knew what it’s like to be terrified of being found out. You already

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There’s Money, Not Bigotry, in Our Genes

There’s big, big money available for anyone who’s ready to find the source of all human problems in our genes. It can construct whole institutes and enormous buildings. You’d have thought that with all that money around we would have found a genetic cause for

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Persecutions and the Fullness of Life

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:19) Many Christians seem to believe that whenever a Christian

Silence

Hiding the Family Values Gang’s Sexual Addictions

You’re just waiting for the next “Family Values” Republican to get caught with his pants down, aren’t you? They’re being exposed fast and furiously now that bloggers can do an end run around mainstream media enablers. It’s hard to keep up and keep score, but

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A Speech Before Congress

If I had to make a speech before congress, what would I say? I am a Christian who grew up in the southeastern United States. As such, I grew up with certain cultural biases. Biases which needed to be outgrown. It took seven years of

Pride celebration

Those June Gay Lifestyle Expos

It wouldn’t be the first time that someone pointed out that Gay Pride Festivals aren’t gay pride festivals anymore. They’re no longer defiant statements that affirm against mainstream bigotry that LGBT people are proud and healthy anyway. They’re now concerned with being liked by the

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The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

It has been almost 10 years since I came out. Listening to many of my GLBT Christian friends agonize over how to talk to the straights in their lives about their sexuality, I realize that most of them go about it in the same ineffective