Exploiting LGBT suicides, exhibit A: David Barton
This is a perfect and, in my opinion, not unrepresentative example of how some evangelicals not only don’t care about LGB suicides, but also exploit them to advance an anti-gay agenda. David Barton, an...
View ArticleHate is easy in the abstract
This is a nice essay at We Give a Damn by Matthew, who was raised to use the Bible as a defense of homophobia. An excerpt: I admit it. When I was a teenager, a young man who saw the world in terms of...
View ArticleFred Phelps and conservative Christians: Not so different
I recently watched The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary about a high school girl of the same name from Lubbock, Texas, raised in a very Republican and conservative Southern Baptist family....
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Kansas apologizes for Fred Phelps [Wikimedia Commons]As I was writing the previous post, I kept wondering if I was being overly harsh in comparing mainstream conservative Christians to Fred Phelps –...
View ArticleLosing your virginity is like drinking spit, apparently
Trigger warning: rape/sexual assault. You know, sometimes I feel like I’m exaggerating the awfulness of what I was taught about sex, like it couldn’t possibly be as bad as I feel it was. After all,...
View ArticleBrandon Davies and BYU’s strange definition of “honor”
LDS (Mormon) owned Brigham Young University just dismissed Brandon Davies, a key player on their #3 ranked men’s basketball team, for violating the school’s honor code. Davies was apparently dismissed...
View ArticleShut up and smile
Via Jesus Needs New PR, a video from a Baptist marriage retreat originally posted at Christian Nightmares: Notice how only the husbands are interviewed about the retreat, while the wives say not a...
View ArticleAnn Voskamp and Jesus as lover: Perspective from the Puritans, pt. 2
Part 1 The crux of the controversy over Ann Voskamp’s book revolves around accusations that she wants to have “intercourse” with God. Everyday Mommy, the blogger whose post sparked the debate, argues...
View ArticleMark Driscoll Apologism Bingo
Image by jaycoxfilm, CC license Since Mark Driscoll’s last round of public queer and trans baiting, I’ve wanted to make a bingo card of some of the ridiculous excuses some Christians make for why...
View Article[AWH Classic] Good people do terrible things
Kansas apologizes for Fred Phelps [photo from Wikimedia Commons]I have a few more comments on the Doug/Jared Wilson fiasco. Perhaps needless to say, I don’t agree with the general consensus that the...
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