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2010-10-08T10:07:51-08:00

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Worst Trucking Slogan EVER

Last updated on: October 8, 2010 at 10:07 am By John Shore

Truck drivers are so weird. Read more

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2010-10-05T19:49:43-08:00

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Does Fred Phelps Work for Al-Qaeda?

Last updated on: October 5, 2010 at 7:49 pm By John Shore

I found myself wondering (because that’s how bored I get folding laundry) who funds Fred Phelps. It’s known that its traveling picket show costs Westboro Baptist at least $250,000 a year. That’s a lot of scratch for a small family church to choke up every year. There’s no way those people have that kind of money. So who, I wondered, is bankrolling Westboro? I expected a simple Google search to answer that question. It didn’t. If the source of Westboro’s... Read more

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2010-10-05T07:34:46-08:00

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Why Do Women Stay in Abusive Relationships?

Last updated on: October 5, 2010 at 7:34 am By John Shore

Here on my blog I have a page called, “7 Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships.” Its text comprises a series of my posts—there run together as one whole piece—in which I delineate and explore those seven reasons. Yesterday I was pleased to learn that the entire “7 Reasons” essay was cut and pasted into a members forum on Our Place, a (more…) Read more

2010-10-01T05:48:06-08:00

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Wings on a Pig

Last updated on: October 1, 2010 at 5:48 am By John Shore

Being gay isn't like other "sins" at ALL. And here's why. Read more

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2010-09-30T10:36:48-08:00

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Married Christian Struggling With Gay Desires Responds to Comments

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 10:36 am By John Shore

Today I received an email from the man who wrote the letter featured in yesterday’s “Letter From a Married Christian Man Privately Struggling with Homosexual Desires.” He asked if I would share it, and of course I agreed to. Here it is: (more…) Read more

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2015-01-13T14:33:40-08:00

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A married Christian man struggles with homosexual desires

Last updated on: January 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm By John Shore

In my inbox this morning, I found the following letter: Hi John, I’m am married man with kids who my whole life has lived with homosexual tendencies. Scared and still am for most of my life of someone finding out. I have hidden it, and no one in my straight life knows of this side of me. I don’t understand why I was born with this—and yes, I feel it is something you are born with, and not something you... Read more

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LGBT and Christianity

2010-09-29T07:39:34-08:00

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My Writings on Christians/Christianity and Gays

Last updated on: September 29, 2010 at 7:39 am By John Shore

Hey, team. For a while now I’ve been getting inquiries from people wondering what (else, usually) I’ve written on the relationship between Christians/Christianity and LGBTerites. This is just to let you know that at the top of my blog there is now a tab to a page, Christians/Christianity and Gays, whereon I’ve listed links to most all of my posts along those lines. Thangya. Thangyaverymuch. Read more

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2014-12-28T18:59:46-08:00

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Words Do Matter; Bullying Does Matter: An Interview with the Executive Director of The Trevor Project

Last updated on: December 28, 2014 at 6:59 pm By John Shore

In September of 2010 I interviewed Charles Robbins, then executive director and CEO of the Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. After publishing my recent post The Gay Teen Suicide Rate and the Christian Condemnation of Gays, I contacted Mr. Robbins, figuring if anyone would know about gay teen suicide, it would be he. My interview with him is below. Before getting to the interview,... Read more

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LGBT and Christianity

2010-09-28T06:06:14-08:00

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Want to Know About Religion? Talk to an Atheist.

Last updated on: September 28, 2010 at 6:06 am By John Shore

From this article in today’s Los Angeles Times: If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an atheist. Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey that measured Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists and agnostics knew more, on average, than followers of most major faiths. In fact, the gaps in knowledge among some of the faithful may give new meaning to the term “blind faith.” (more…) Read more

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2021-09-28T12:38:11-08:00

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The Gay Teen Suicide Rate and the Christian Condemnation of Gays

Last updated on: September 28, 2021 at 12:38 pm By John Shore

It’s a fact that gay teenagers are about thirty percent more likely than straight teenagers to take their own lives. It’s a fact that the vast majority of Christians believe that being gay is a profound moral failing, a foul aberration, a repelling, unnatural offense against God that fully warrants as punishment an eternity spent in hell. Asserting that those two facts have no relationship cannot possibly be anything but intellectually dishonest. It’s like someone who sews robes for the... Read more

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