Reading Time: 4 minutes In some ways, the malign influence of Christianity makes the entire planet unsafe—the alliance between US fundamentalists seeking to bring on the Second Coming and Jewish fanatics in Israel and Palestine is just one example, and it nicely demonstrates that the outsize power of America gives its many fundamentalists global reach, too. This is why […]
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Posted inSexuality
Normalizing sexual diversity: How ‘meh’ can save the world
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have twin boys who turn 12 in a week. Having worked our way through the first two seasons of Netflix’s Locke & Key, we were happy to see the new season drop the other day. The series is certificated 15 in the UK, but it’s pretty appropriate for them. I am no puritan, but […]
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The Anglican Communion debates inclusion of LGBT members
Reading Time: < 1 minute From July 26 to August 8, 2022, bishops from across the Anglican communion will come together for the 15th Lambeth Conference. Once again, the issue of sexuality and same-sex marriage continues to cause deep divisions within this global body. As reported by the UK based Church Times, bishops will vote on the divisive Resolution 1.10 […]
Posted inLGBTQ
The ‘A’ in LGBTQIA: It doesn’t stand for ‘ally’
Reading Time: 3 minutes The LGBTQIA+ acronym has taken multiple forms and inspired many debates over which identities should be included. But having the “A” (one of them, anyway) stand for “ally” is not the way to go. Typically, we sort the letters as such: L = lesbian G = gay B = bisexual T = transgender Q = […]
Posted inLeaving Religion
The core reason homosexuality and Christian belief are incompatible
Reading Time: 8 minutes In 2021, an Ipsos poll of participants from 27 countries found that 80% of people recorded themselves as heterosexual, with 3% gay, 4% bisexual, 1% asexual, 1% other (non-binary, trans, fluid etc.), and 11% didn’t know or wouldn’t say. In the whole scheme of things, that’s a lot. For example, if you were designing the […]
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Christian hate-preacher calls for the execution of ‘every single homosexual’
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a series of increasingly disturbing statements in a sermon on Sunday, Christian hate-preacher Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Texas said all gay people in the United States should be charged with crimes, tried, and executed. (It’s not the first time this church has endorsed execution.) He also claimed they were all either […]
Posted inEducation
A Christian school had kids write letters persuading a friend to stop being gay
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Christian Academy of Louisville in Kentucky told students to write letters urging a fictional gay friend to renounce homosexuality. The assignment, which was due on Thursday, came to light after a parent of one of the students shared screenshots of the rubric with a friend, who then posted them online. The assignment was apparently […]
Posted inSex & Gender
Faith and sexuality collide in Finland
Reading Time: 5 minutes Two court cases about faith and sexuality have been dubiously characterized as “shocking” and “a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for freedom of speech throughout the Western world,” according to human rights lawyer Paul Coleman of the conservative, religion-promoting Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADFI). Though the ADFI’s characterization may sound a bit overwrought (and is), it’s, […]
Posted inReligion
Christians’ secret weapon against same-sex marriage
Reading Time: 4 minutes A pastor thinks he has the argument to make the public realize that homosexuality is disgusting.
Posted inPhilosophy
Washington Post Piece On A Limitation of Classical Liberal Discourse
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an unfinished piece by Jeremiah Traeger, who used to write here, that I just found in the “Drafts” section. This is obviously somewhat out-of-date and not wholly topical, but it may be of some use. Who knows where he was going with it, but here it is as far as he got it… […]