Background: In August, gay and lesbian people attended a meeting on the repeal of SB 48 – The Fair Education – that mandates inclusion of gays and lesbians in history lessons. They were asked to leave the meeting as the church expressed its desire to
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag
Trust can be a noun, but it is also a verb. We can have a thing called trust, but trusting is what we do when we exercise it. A flaccid lump with no muscles can do nothing. Human beings cannot float around freely the way
Even while foaming at the mouth in its antipathy toward same-sex marriage and defamation of Gay people, the Vatican is dancing as fast as it can in relation to its many sexual scandals. “Sex” provides much of the root of homophobia: Such as the fear
Homosexual behavior violates the commandments of God, is contrary to the purposes of human sexuality, distorts loving relationships, and deprives people of the blessings that can be found in family life and in the saving ordinances of the gospel. Those who persist in such behavior
For the first time in its 120-year history, Unity is offering spiritual resources specifically targeted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and their families and friends. Paula Coppel, Unity vice president of communications and publishing, announced the new online LGBT resource center, located at
Over many years, ample evidence has been presented that homophobia that is linked with many clergy’s interpretation of selected Bible verses that has been enmeshed, if not fused, with their views of Christianity and “morality,” is not going to be swayed or altered by appeals
“People of different faiths — or no faith — and those political objectives will seek to use the preacher not only to advance their agendas, but to get him to compromise his, which is primarily sharing a message not of this world. “Secretly recorded conversations
Sightings authors often comment on religion in the United States rather than “the rest of the world,” but through the years have shown regularly how artificial or at least permeable such geographical distinctions are when it comes to religion. Philip Jenkins, Mark Noll, Lamin Sanneh,
“And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” (Mark 3:25) Particularly in the last several years we have seen the Church increasingly fractured by polarization attendant upon such variables as differences in biblical interpretation, degree of inclusivity