Why Are They Proud?

Peter LaBarbera, who runs Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, said he disputes “their definition of ’conservative,’ which would have the movement’s Founding Fathers rolling in their graves.” Read more

The Religious Right’s “Right to Kill”

Focus on the Family, one of the lead religious right groups, published an article yesterday, opposing adding gender, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity to the existing Hate Crimes law that already covers race, religion and national origin. 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.

Read the rest at stevecharing.blogspot.com.

Opposing Ex-Gay Activist

For at least a decade, the antigay political organizations Focus on the Family and Exodus International have promoted the myth that their opposition believes sexual orientation is determined by a single “gay gene.”

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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