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May 2020

May 27, 2020

Individual Conversion Stories Aren’t As Impressive As You Think

Would Cook urge these same Christians to read books written by LGBTQ individuals about their...

February 2020

February 20, 2020

Evangelical Speaker: Gay Men Are Nice, Straight Men Are Rapey

If straight women are indeed marrying gay men because they're nice while straight men are...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

Evangelicals and the Gay Gene

f the motivation for the search is to prove to bigots that being gay is...

July 2019

July 03, 2019

Why I Desperately Want the U.S. to Win the World Cup

I'm still not a sports person, but I desperately want the U.S. women's national team...

June 2019

June 05, 2019

Creation Museum Upset that Museum Conference Was Trans Inclusive

There's no reason for gender inclusive bathrooms and preferred pronoun badges to "completely eclipse" the...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

Wilson: Accept Slavery, or Accept Homosexuality

In 1997, Wilson published a booklet defending antebellum slavery as a time of unparalleled racial...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

Christianity Today: Use Hospitality as a Hook to Catch Your LGBT Neighbors

The article is written by Rosaria Butterfield. Butterfield has a very strange (and fairly uncommon)...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

WORLD Magazine’s Joel Belz: Keep the Gays Out of Church Ministry

WORLD Magazine founder Joel Belz recently world an opinion piece titled "Gay, but Celibate." In his...

September 06, 2018

Gay Girl, Religious Taboo

Reading Perry's story, I'm struck by the reality that LGBTQ support groups in schools can...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

Should LGBTQ Affirming Ren Fair Programs Have Parental Warnings? Absolutely Not.

In our current era, many of those who oppose homosexuality argue that they only on...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

That Ohio Bill Does More than Require Teachers to Report on Transgender Students

This legislation would isolate transgender Ohio children and render their rights moot---and place their ability...

June 05, 2018

Dear Justice Kennedy: You Don’t Get to Erase History Just Because You Don’t Like It

Justice Kennedy, it would seem, finds it offensive that religion was once used to justify...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

U.S. Christians Are Being Persecuted, Says Fox News

Much of what is alleged to be discrimination is simply U.S. society (or part of...

April 19, 2018

“Transgender Rules” and the Doublespeak of Anti-LGBT Rhetoric

I recently perused an article titled "Transgender: Bringing Clarity to a Confused World," by Owen...

April 05, 2018

50 Shades of Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

Within evangelicalism today, there seem to be two disparate ways of talking about LGBT individuals...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

Concerned Women for America’s Bizarre “Esther Moment” Rhetoric

The story of Esther is not the story of a political group that put a...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Answers in Genesis’ Tone-Deaf Rainbow Tussle

In other words, Answers in Genesis' message to the LGBT community is "the rainbow is...

February 21, 2018

Wyoming Lawmakers: Same-Sex Marriage Is an Unconstitutional Establishment of Religion

Lone and Edwards' argument is as follows: Secular humanism is a religion; same-sex marriage is...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

“Teens Twice as Likely to Identify as Atheist or LGBT” Evangelical Magazine Warns Youth Pastors

It was the inclusion of those two specific identifiers that brought me up short. In...

January 16, 2018

Straightness Is Not Neutrality. Neither Is Maleness, or Whiteness

Straightness is not neutrality. Think about it---that is what Staver is alleging. That a straight...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Why are Millennials Leaving Christianity? Fox News Has No Idea.

It is worth exploring the reasons for the decline in church attendance beyond evangelicalism. But...

December 12, 2017

The Gay Rights Cake Case and Evangelicals’ Self-Defeating Last Stand

Stetzer comes close to hitting on an important reality when he notes that evangelicals have...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

Shifting Evangelical Views on LGBT Issues Leave Questions Unasked

Asking too many questions is perhaps why I am a lapsed evangelical. Still, what answers...

October 2017

October 05, 2017

When American Adherence to the Death Penalty Gets in the Way of International Human Rights

The United States has twisted itself into a pretzel on this issue---and I'm not just...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Bryan Fischer: The Rainbow Flag Is a Hate Symbol Just Like the Confederate Flag

Durham Public Schools already has the equal opportunity policy Fischer claims to want. Students are...

August 07, 2017

U.S. Muslims Are More Accepting of Homosexuality than Evangelicals

Trump's rhetorical lambasting of Muslims for being intolerant of homosexuality isn't actually about ensuring that...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

Texas’ SB 3 and the Death of Small Government Conservatism

The entire point of section (b) of Texas' Senate Bill 3 is to limit the...

July 11, 2017

Shades of Sexual Deviance: Doug Wilson and the Tale of Two Boxes

Wilson seems almost confused as to why his critics object to his ministering to sex...

July 04, 2017

Evangelicals and the “Problem” of Transgender Names

Using a transgender person's chosen name is basic human decency. When individuals refuse to do...

July 03, 2017

Evangelicals Switch Terms on Gay Rights

Why would those at LifeWay design the survey this way? The answer likely rests in...