LGBT

Christian counselor cites ‘religious freedom’ right to tell gay youth offenders they’re going to hell

Politics /

Bro. David Wells, of the Pleasant View Baptist Church in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, was told he could not longer offer youth counseling at the Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Bowling Green unless he signed an agreement promising to refrain from telling any juvenile inmates that homosexuality is “sinful.” Wells refused and had his counseling […]

Christian counselor cites ‘religious freedom’ right to tell gay youth offenders they’re going to hell Read More »

Presbyterian Church’s Ordination of Gays Bittersweet

Politics /

On October 8th, the Presbyterian Church (USA) – the more liberal and tolerant branch of the denomination – conducted its first openly gay ordination. This momentous event was the culmination of a long and arduous struggle against the church’s ecclesiastical heterosexism, which previously prohibited the ordination of sexually active unmarried Presbyterians as church officers. Amendment

Presbyterian Church’s Ordination of Gays Bittersweet Read More »