Another Dead Boy

There is something deeply wrong. We must demand change. We must enable teachers to do the right thing. We must teach our children tolerance. Read more

Wasting Prayer on Hate

I’m not a deeply religious person, much less a theologian. But I wonder, like so many other lay persons who don’t have direct access to God the way that Dr. James Dobson and other evangelicals profess to have, does each human being on Earth receive an allocation on the number of prayers we can execute in a lifetime? Or is it an endless supply whereby some prayers can be wasted.

Praying for rain to sabotage a political event would fall into the waste category. So would “praying away the gay,” the theme of a Focus on the Family-sponsored conference promoted by the church that GOP vice-president contender Sarah Palin attends.

“You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality,” reads the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

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Praying for Rain

It was reported earlier on gayagenda.com that Stuart Shepard, correspondent for the Focus on the Family network and a Dobson crony, mused on bothering God about prayers for some biblical rains to wash away Obama’s convention speech in Denver this month. Read more