Sometimes, if you want to hear an interesting story, all you need is the right prompt. And this one on Twitter, asking people to share the worst church service they ever attended, was enough to inspire them to share all kinds of troubling anecdotes. There are so many responses, it’s hard to share them all, […]
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Kindergartner kicked out of Baptist school after adoption by lesbian couple
A Baptist school in Louisiana kicked out a child who was about to enter kindergarten because she was recently adopted by lesbians. It’s the latest example of Christian love in action. The story is even more tragic when you realize what the child has been through. Five-year-old Zoey already lost both of her biological parents, […]
Posted inEducation, Religious News
Public libraries face new attacks from conservative Christians
A few stories about conservative Christians coming after public libraries: Voters in Jamestown Township, Michigan chose to defund the library, depriving it of 84% of its 2023 budget. Unless that decision is reversed, the Patmos Library will be forced to shut down sometime next year. The reason the vote failed? Because conservative Christians in the […]
Posted inArt, Law, Religious News, Theater
A Texas church illegally performed ‘Hamilton’ to spread anti-gay bigotry
The Christians at The Door McAllen church in Texas are ignoring that pesky “Thou shalt not steal” commandment this weekend and illegally staging a production of the musical Hamilton. You can even see a preview of the show in this sermon from August 3 at the 27:10 mark: Update: The Church has taken down the […]
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Matt Powell: The government should execute certain drag queens
Creationist Matt Powell wants the government to murder drag queens because he falsely believes they perform sexual acts in front of children in libraries. That was only one of the hateful, lie-filled comments he made in a video he purposely uploaded to a non-YouTube site in order to evade punishment. Powell usually makes himself look […]
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Evangelical Christian furries are worried they’ll be targeted for their faith
Here’s a problem you never knew existed: Christian furries are worried people will come after them… for being Christians. That’s the premise of a Religion News Service article by Riley Farrell, who spoke with leaders of the Christian Furry Fellowship (“Bringing the Good News to the Furry Fandom”) about the two things they feel obligated […]
Posted inReligious News, Sex & Gender
Female pastor’s pro-LGBTQ views censored in book about female pastors
The suggestion that female pastors might be accepting of LGBTQ people has created an absurd controversy in a small Christian sect after a passage from a new book was censored. It involved a book published last month called On Holy Ground: Stories By and About Women in Ministry Leadership in the Mennonite Brethren Church. The […]
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Dear Christians: Please stop using Jesus to spread hate
I am tired of people advocating for the rights of the “unborn” at the expense of the living, especially when those affected are predominantly women, those socialized as women, and people with uteruses. Statistic after statistic of the real implications and harms of anti-choice restrictions continues to be ignored, not to mention the disproportionate effect […]
Posted inLeaving Religion, LGBTQ, Sexuality
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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A corporate apology for how we’ve been celebrating Pride Month
Dear Valued Customers, First off we just wanted to say, “our bad!” Our company (which sells so many products!) has been trying to celebrate Pride Month and the results have been mixed, to say the least! We’re just so bursting with Pride that the LGBTQ community has finally been accepted into the mainstream that we […]