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…
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.
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…
Rosalind Rinker died in Redmond, Washington on January 11 at age 95. She had been a missionary with the Oriental Missionary Society, a staff worker for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and was the author of many books on Christian life, including her bestseller, Prayer: Conversing with God.
The formerly “ex-gay” U.K. organization, Courage Trust, in changing its focus from attempted sexual orientation change to the integration of unchanged sexual orientation with an honest life of Christian discipleship has been forced to resign from Britain’s Evangelical Alliance. In a joint EA/Courage press release on March 6, it was stated that at “a meeting…
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and James Dobson were quick to blame gays and lesbians, among others they can’t stand, for the terrorist attacks on September 11. Jerry Falwell said this on Pat Robertson’s “The 700 Club” television show: “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the…