President Bush has responded to a coming-out letter from a Bush family friend, Charles Frances, founder of the gay-straight Republican Unity Coalition. Said the President: “I knew you were gay. I didn’t know how to bring it up. Let me just say we’re better friends than ever. Let me also say, I reserve the right…
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that private sexual behavior between consenting adults applies to same-sex couples just as it applies to opposite-sex couples has given encouragement to gay Americans and their families and has infuriated leaders of the Religious Right. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said Americans don’t want homosexuals “as partners in their…
“The Pride Game” by Joel Belz, World, June 28, 2003. “Line in the Sand” by Joel Belz, World, July 19, 2003. “Christ and Commitment” by Marvin Olasky, World, June 7, 2003.
“The Gospel vs. Scripture?” An interview with Walter Brueggemann by Julie A. Wortman, Voice of Integrity, Winter, 2003. “Telling Our Stories: Good Words Offered About Good Sex” by Anonymous. “Being Normal May Hurt Us All” by Frank Faine. “Sexual Ethics on the Margin Shaped by Personal Experience” by Jim Sauder, Dialogue, Fall, 2002.
American military action in Iraq is opposed by many gay and lesbian groups. Among these is the largest GLBT organization, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Other antiwar groups: the National LGBT Program of the American Friends Service Committee, Jews Against the Occupation, Al-Fatiha (gay Muslims), the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission,…
Evangelical ethicist Lewis B. Smedes has died at age 81. A best-selling author who had taught at both Calvin and Fuller Theological Seminaries, Smedes was an outspoken advocate for gay Christians. In the mid-90s he served as a keynoter at both the eastern and western summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned.
“Initial Empirical and Clinical findings Concerning the Change Process for Ex-Gays” by Warren Throckmorton, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, June 2002, Vol. 33, No. 3.
Campus Crusade for Christ has no room for a gay hero. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center terror, Campus Crusade joined with many others in heralding the heroism of Father Mychal Judge, the New York City Fire Chaplain who was killed by toppling rubble while ministering to his fallen comrades at Ground Zero…
“Dallas has become the new capital of American evangelicalism.” So says the cover of Christianity Today (May 21). Says CT: “Dallas, Texas, has more megachurches, megaseminaries, and mega-Christian activity than any other American city.” According to CT: “In places like Wheaton and Colorado Springs, Christianity is perceived as an influential subculture; here it is the…
The Bible and Homosexual Practice by Robert A. J. Gagnon (Abingdon, 2001), 520 pp.