Ruminations on biblical studies, technology, economics, and sports from Jason A. Staples
If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know about Mark Regnerus, sociologist from the University of Texas at Austin and Ph.D. graduate of the fine UNC-Chapel Hill sociology program, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenager and a few excellent articles on early marriage (which I blogged [...] Read more »
In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans’ declaration that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law has set up a “civil war between the church and the gay community” reflected common misunderstandings of the foundations of US government. Part Two dealt with how [...] Read more »
In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans’ declaration that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law had “set up … the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community” reflected common misunderstandings of the foundations of US government. Today, we’ll look [...] Read more »
In the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case challenging the Washington, DC law recognizing gay marriages, DC pastor Anthony Evans has declared a “civil war between the church and the gay community“: “[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community,” [...] Read more »
Alternet has posted an article, “What Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to ‘Cure’ Me of Homosexuality,” in which “a young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being ‘rehabilitated’ by the Christian Right,” taken from “My Nightmare Experience at Teen Challenge,” which was posted on the “Truth Wins Out” blog. (And is that right? Should it [...] Read more »
