Both Right-wing religionists and Left-wing GLBT activists have called for a boycott of the film, End of the Spear. The film presents the true story of the murders of five evangelical Christian missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador a half-century ago. Their widows stayed on and eventually reached out to their husbands’ killers who, along…

Same-sex couples in the United Kingdom are now entitled to full legal benefits under the Civil Partnership Act that went into effect in December. Evangelical Alliance UK warns that the new legal provisions will morph into a marriage law in the near future. And EAUK is outraged over the Government’s allowing a reference to God…

Hurricane Katrina proved to be an even bigger “blame game” inkblot for the projections of preachers than for those of politicians. Though he made his fame decades ago with end-of-the-world predictions in his The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey said (on the Trinity Broadcasting Network) that Katrina shows that “the judgment of America has…

“Ex-gay” leader Frank Worthen and his wife Anita led a workshop on “Making Your Marriage Work” at this summer’s Exodus “ex-gay” conference in Virginia. Frank Worthen discussed the problem of “ex-gays’” same-sex fantasies while they try to make love with their wives. He said it would be prudent for the couple to wait a year…

“I’m not going to kick gays,” he said, complaining that the Religious Right “uses gays as the enemy. … I think it’s bad for Republicans to be kicking gays.” These were the words of George W. Bush while planning his run for the Presidency. He did not realize that Doug Wead was secretly recording his…

One in four gay voters chose to re-elect President George W. Bush. The exit poll numbers “stunned and baffled many gay activists,” according to the gay New York Blade (Nov 12). But many rank-and-file gay people were not so stunned. The Blade reported that gay voters say their backing of the President “has miffed some…

On August 3, voters in Missouri easily passed a state constitutional amendment to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples Antigay activists in Ohio and North Carolina claim to have enough signatures to put the same sort of antigay constitutional amendment on their state ballots this fall. According to Tony Perkins, a spokesperson for the Religious Right’s…

A little under half of American evangelical Christians (48%) “say a candidate’s support for gay marriage would disqualify him from getting their votes.” This finding was reported in the “Go Figure” feature in the June issue of Christianity Today, It was also reported that only 44% of evangelicals give Jerry Falwell a “favorable” rating while…

Opposition to same-sex marriage is bipartisan. Both President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry oppose marriage for gay couples. They each support a constitutional amendment to ban such marriages (Bush supports a proposed Federal ban and Kerry supports a proposed Massachusetts state ban.) But each also says that he favors some other legal arrangements…

“The court’s logic is persuasive.” So began The New York Times editorial in support of the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that applies the rights and responsibilities of marriage to same-sex couples. Said the Times: “The ban [against gay marriage] is simply about prejudice, the court concluded, much like state laws barring interracial marriage, which lasted…