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News (USA)
Residents are outraged that their local paper is publishing paid articles calling LGBTQ+ people groomers
The newspaper is publishing paid ads calling LGBTQ people child sex abusers alongside city announcements so locals have to read hate speech to get the news.
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Commentary
Catholic & Southern Baptist leaders are making faith more about their politics than God
America has become more secular and less religious. So religion has responded by becoming more political, and conservative causes are used as the litmus test.
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Bias Watch
Pastor says he’s a Christian first, Republican second. Then he started screaming “white power!”
Pastor Jesse Hursey claims he isn’t racist, despite being caught on video yelling “white power” moments after speaking in front of thousands at a pro-Confederate event.
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News (USA)
College kicks out trans student for having top surgery
After he had the surgery in secret, the school said he violated it student code against sexual misconduct.
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News (USA)
Church won’t host dying man’s funeral because he has a gay son
A Baptist church in Tennessee refuses to discuss their refusal until after the man is dead and buried.
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News (USA)
This Baptist preacher was arrested after he tried to have sex with a 14-year-old boy
This isn’t the first time his lust for boys has landed him in legal trouble.
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News (USA)
Baptists threaten to expel churches if they knowingly hire LGBTQ people
Some Baptist “leaders” appear more willing to tear their denomination apart than grant rights to LGBTQ people.
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News (USA)
These shameful colleges are the absolute worst for LGBT students
Over half of the schools on the list have received religious exemptions from laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex or gender identity.
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple named co-pastors of D.C.’s Calvary Baptist Church
This isn’t the first Baptist church to hire an openly gay minister or even to have lesbian co-pastors, but it is still known for making history.
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News (USA)
How religious are erasing, embracing us after Orlando
“Singling out people for victimization because of their religion, their sexual orientation… must be offensive to God’s ears. It has to stop.”
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News (USA)
Gay man pens perfect response to homophobic church that rejected him
He was shattered to receive a letter from church officials, scolding him for “embracing the homosexual lifestyle.”
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News (USA)
20-year-old kicked out of church for “embracing the homosexual lifestyle”
Last weekend, church officials forbid him from ever again entering their holy establishment until he begs God for forgiveness.
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News (USA)
Southern Baptist Seminary to discuss transgender issues
A conference hosted by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will focus on what it calls the “present crisis” of gay and transgender issues.
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Life
Arizona pastor predicts ‘AIDS-free world by Christmas’ if all ‘homos’ are killed
TEMPE, Ariz. — A pastor in Tempe, Ariz. said Sunday that if humanity wants to have an “AIDS-free world by Christmas,” then gays should be put to death as God has ordered in the scriptures.
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News (USA)
Kentucky Baptists sever ties with LGBT-friendly Louisville church
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Baptists on Tuesday chose to sever ties with a Louisville church that is open to performing same-sex marriages. Baptist leaders from around the state gathering in Bowling Green for the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted overwhelmingly to end their longstanding relationship with Crescent Hill Baptist Church…
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Life
At religious liberty conference, pastors told to hold the line on gay relationships
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than a thousand evangelical pastors and others – gathered for a three-day conference to steel the resolve of Christians who preach that gay relationships are sinful – were asked a simple question: How many live in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage?
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News (USA)
Kentucky Baptists want to sever ties with gay-friendly Louisville church
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Baptists will vote later this year on whether to sever ties with a Louisville member church that says it is open to performing gay marriages. A committee of the Kentucky Baptist Convention voted Thursday to end its relationship with Crescent Hill Baptist Church. The Louisville church last year announced that …