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Come out of the woods, Christian soldiers: World War Gay has ended
Unaware that their cause had been lost, a small number of Japanese soldiers deep in the jungles of the Philippines continued waging guerrilla warfare against an imaginary enemy years after World War II had ended. Via dropped pamphlets, newspapers left everywhere, and even relatives at the jungle’s edge hollering at them through bullhorns, the diehard […]
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What would Jesus do if invited to a gay wedding?
I’ve recently been invited to a couple of gay weddings. So — what with being Christian and all — I asked myself the famous, “What would Jesus do?” (Which I don’t too often ask myself, actually, since Jesus could, for instance, raise people from the dead and turn water into wine, whereas I can barely […]
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Yielding to censorship: Missouri school bans books that are ‘contrary to the Bible’
The school board in Republic, Missouri, voted 4-0 recently to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” and another book, Sarah Ockler’s “Twenty Boy Summer,” after a local resident complained that the books teach ideas contrary to the Bible.
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Sorry, Pat Robertson, but homosexuality was not the sin of Sodom
In response to New York marriage equality, post-mortem televangelist Pat Robertson has come out strong with a warning: America is defying God, and it could be facing his wrath, much like the ancient city of Sodom that the Bible alleges God destroyed with “fire and brimstone.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Why is the Bible used to justify so much judgement in society?
In honor of LGBT Pride Month, actress-turned-lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow tackles the subject of homosexuality and the Bible.