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August 2012

August 13, 2012

Are only Christians allowed into heaven? (VIDEO)

Forgive if you've already seen the video below. But this weekend I was involved in...

August 12, 2012

Victory, spoils, and the aftermath of the Gay Wars

Relative to last time's A gay reader confronts a Catholic bishop in an airport, I...

August 10, 2012

A gay reader confronts a Catholic Bishop at an airport

I just got this in from reader Mike Moore (whom you might know via his...

August 08, 2012

The Catholic Church and the “sin so grievous it cries out for vengeance.”

Last week I received this email: Hi John--I check in on your blog daily, but...

August 06, 2012

10 things drag queens know

Here are ten Truths of Life that every drag queen not only knows but constantly...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

May drag queens have the final say on being gay and Chick-fil-A? [VIDEO]

Ah, art. For when regular words can't even come close to expressing the whole. If...

July 30, 2012

Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse: “Reject gays and eat at Chick-fil-A.”

I've been ignoring the whole Chick-fil-A thing because there's only so much stupid a person...

July 15, 2012

Married fundamentalist Christian out of the closet at 40

Hi John - Though I live in New Jersey and work in New York City,...

July 06, 2012

I’ve loved me some gay-condemning fundies

A quick thought relative to yesterday's Are anti-gay Christians my "brothers and sisters" in Christ?...

July 05, 2012

Are anti-gay Christians my “brothers and sisters” in Christ?

Got this in yesterday: Dear John, I stumbled across your blog while doing other research...

July 02, 2012

Southern Baptist Convention Elects Its First Gay President

The largest Protestant denomination in the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention was founded in...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Four letters: Tell me again, evangelicals, how God approves of what’s done to gay people in His name

I thought I'd share with you these four letters recently written me. You'll see that...

June 27, 2012

Hello, gay Christians in China!

Hello from America to my Chinese friends! My name is John Shore (or, in Chinese,...

June 23, 2012

We’ve decided to pull this story

We've determined that it's in the best interests of some of the key players involved...

June 20, 2012

As Alan “Pray Away the Gay” Chambers ties his tongue in a knot …

Alan Chambers of Exodus International (the flagship "pray-away-the-gay" organization) has just published "Defining Exodus –...

June 19, 2012

Her letter: “My boyfriend, ex-gay ministries, and the church: FAIL”

Anyone still clinging to the idea that "ex-gay" ministries are anything but cruel absurdities would...

June 15, 2012

Episode 2 of my podcast: Booted from my church for being a heretic

Hi, guys. Here's the second episode of my podcast. It's about how I suddenly became...

June 13, 2012

It’s not about the gay issue; it’s about restoring our devastated mountaintop

"If you're not with us you're against us." "What you call the middle ground I...

June 11, 2012

Christians and LGBT Equality: There Is No Middle Ground

(This post first appeared on my blog at JohnShore.com, where it was shared 10,200 times.)...

June 10, 2012

“It’s no sin to be gay.” See how easy that was, Andrew Marin?

So let's be clear about this: Andrew Marin makes his living dancing around in the...

June 09, 2012

Me thinks the lady doth protest the right amount

This won't make sense to you unless you've read yesterday's Symphony of a Thousand, but...

June 07, 2012

Symphony of a Thousand

The struggle for LGBTQ civil rights is like a great symphony now being played. The...

June 02, 2012

A Taiwanese Christian lesbian everyone should know

Due to pressures exerted upon her by church leaders in her country, Ting Lin has...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Biola president Barry Corey uses bully pulpit to threaten Biola QueerUnderground

I recently heard from one of the founders of Biola QueerUnderground, the group of LGBTQ...

May 30, 2012

Leaving gay-bashing pastors in the darkness, buried in their dirt

So here we have yet another pastor calling for the death of all gay people....

May 28, 2012

She’s losing her faith

This came in today: John, I have been reading your blog for a while now...

May 25, 2012

Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State writes IRS about Pastor Charles Worley

Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has...

May 24, 2012

One of Pastor Worley’s disturbing flock defends him [Brain-frying VIDEO]

(If you arrived here via a link in my HuffPo piece on Americans United contacting...

May 24, 2012

Godly tip for the day: Don’t murder a family

Okay, so I am not going to start making a habit of showing you these....

May 23, 2012

“The enemy is deceiving you that homosexuality is alright [sic].”

I get these all the time. I have no idea why I thought I'd share...