In a politically wise move this week, Democrats in the House voted to pass the “Respect for Marriage Act,” which would defend same-sex marriage from the whims of a right-wing Supreme Court bloc that has no respect for legal precedent. By forcing votes on this bill, they also revealed how the Republican Party has shifted on […]
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Anti-LGBTQ writer claims she’s being ‘silenced’ for her Christian faith
The only decent thing I can say about this essay in the New York Post is that it’ll give people hope that any awful article they write can get published if they just aim low enough. Sophia A. Nelson implies that the most persecuted religion in the country is… Christianity. It starts with the headline—”Christians […]
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Canadian church criticized over event to ‘protect’ kids during Pride Month
Summerside Community Church in Prince Edward Island, Canada is rightly being criticized for promoting an anti-LGBTQ event designed to help “protect” kids during Pride Month, implying that there’s something those children need protection from. In a now-deleted post on their social media accounts, the evangelical Christian church advertised a webinar between Pastor Kevin Cavanaugh and […]
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The transgender swimming ban is not about sports
FINA, the international swimming federation, has banned trans women from competing in women’s categories for the sports it governs. Within days of this announcement, a raft of other sporting bodies had announced reviews of their policies for transgender inclusion, and the International Rugby League banned trans women from competition, pending “further research.” The decision has […]
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The Supreme Court rewarded religious schools. Maine lawmakers fought back.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers in Maine had to cover the costs of private religious education even when Christian indoctrination was front and center. It was a horrible decision loudly derided by church/state separation advocates. But state lawmakers may have found a way to nullify its effects. Carson v. Makin involved a […]
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The ‘A’ in LGBTQIA: It doesn’t stand for ‘ally’
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 = […]
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The core reason homosexuality and Christian belief are incompatible
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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New IFB church member arrested for threatening to kill LGBTQ people
On Friday, 27-year-old Tyler Dinsmoor was arrested by the Oak Harbor Police Department in Washington after threatening to kill LGBTQ people at the Anacortes Pride Parade the following day. According to court documents, Dinsmoor posted on social media that he “might not make it through this f** month,” and he “was 9mm away from fedposting […]
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‘Benediction’ offers no ‘good word’ about war
Combat ruins good character. So wrote Jonathan Shay in Achilles in Vietnam. In this psychological classic, he synthesized state of the art PTSD knowledge with a deep dive into Homer’s epics. In Benediction, writer/director Terence Davies reaches the same conclusion with his portrait of Siegfried Sassoon, British poet of the Great War. Davies also reminds […]
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Bishop revokes “Catholic” title from school over its BLM and Pride flags
What does it mean to be Catholic? You might say attending Mass, confessing your sins, receiving the sacrament, and other Precepts. If you read the news, you might even say being Catholic now requires you to oppose abortion as well as LGBTQ rights, given how many Democratic politicians and Catholic educators have been punished for […]