In December 2014, a tractor-trailer traveling down Interstate 71 in Ohio struck and killed Leelah Alcorn. Alcorn, who identified as transgender, had posted a suicide note on her Tumblr in which she described her isolation, desperation, and depression—feelings she blamed, in part, on the “conversion therapy” her conservative Christian parents forced her to undergo. Alcorn’s…
Do “Unnatural” Acts Cause Natural Disasters? Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, recently warned Orlando, Florida, that it was courting natural disaster by allowing gay pride flags to be flown along its streets. “A condition like this will bring about … earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor,” he said, apparently referring to his belief…
Cynthia Nixon’s 30-point loss to Andrew Cuomo last night is nonetheless being touted as a win — for elevating critical issues of racial and economic justice in New York and ousting a clique of Republican-enabling Democrats from the state’s senate. But there’s another accomplishment she can point to, and that’s bringing the reality of nonbinary and gender nonconforming people…
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The following is a confidential report on several candidates being considered for our church leader. Adam: Good man but problems with his wife. Also one reference told of how his wife and he enjoy walking nude in the woods. Noah: Former pastorate of 120 years with not even one convert. Prone to unrealistic building projects….
Christine Hallquist is a former energy executive who has stepped out from behind the CEO desk to step into the Vermont governor’s race. She’s married, and a parent. She’s a long-time Democrat running to unseat a Republican governor in a state where that party has held the seat since 1963. She’s also a transgender woman…
God knows all about me. Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy. ~ Jeremiah 1:5a God has a plan for my life. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and…
1. All-or-nothing thinking – You see things in black-or-white categories. If a situation falls short of perfect, you see it as a total failure. When a young woman on a diet ate a spoonful of ice cream, she told herself, “I’ve blown my diet completely.” This thought upset her so much that she gobbled down…
1. Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. 2. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. 3. Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them…
Shortly after becoming a Christian in 1969 at sixteen years of age, Stevens-Pino wrote “For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)”, a song that was translated into 11 languages and became widely known and sung in charismatic Christian churches. After seven years of marriage Marsha came out as lesbian. She was ostracized and…
Shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, mussels, all these are an abomination before the Lord, just as gays are an abomination. Why stop at protesting gay marriage? Bring all of God’s law unto the heathens and the sodomites. We call upon all Christians to join the crusade against Long John Silver’s and Red Lobster. Yea, even Popeye’s shall be cleansed. The name of Bubba shall be anathema. We…
Four novice nuns were about to take their vows. Dressed in their white gowns, they came into the chapel with the Mother Superior, and were about to undergo the ceremony to marry them to Jesus, making them “Brides of Christ.” Just as the ceremony was about to begin, four Hasidic Jews with yarmulkes, long sideburns,…
Father Norton woke up Sunday morning and realizing it was an exceptionally beautiful and sunny early spring day, decided he just had to play golf. So… he told the Associate Pastor that he was feeling sick and persuaded him to say Mass for him that day. As soon as the Associate Pastor left the room,…
1. Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim her nails, and give her new clothes. Then she’s yours. ~ (Deuteronomy 21:11-13) 2. Find a prostitute and marry her. ~ Hosea (Hosea 1:1-3)
The gender-neutral Mx. is used as a title for those who do not identify as being of a particular gender, or for people who simply don’t want to be identified by gender. Though the earliest print evidence dates to 1977, the word has only recently become popular. Pronounced to sound like mix or mux, the…
A transgender student at a Florida high school can use the men’s restroom during his senior year, a federal judge says. The judge ruled last Thursday that 18-year-old Drew Adams can use the men’s restroom at Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida when classes resume next month. Citing a district policy, the school…
Depression remains one of the most pressing issues in the country, and one of the most overlooked. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, at least 16.2 million people in the US suffered at least one episode of depression. Women are more prone to be depressed than males, or at least double the rate…
It is wrong – and dangerous – to believe literal truth can be found in religious texts. Human beings, in nearly all cultures, have long engaged in a rather strange activity. They have taken a literary text, given it special status and attempted to live according to its precepts. These texts are usually of considerable…
by Isaac Archuleta As a shame-filled 20-something, I would recite the New International Version of Philippians 1:20 as my prayer for perfection: “I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life…
My parents were raised Lutheran in Germany and East Prussia, but joined the Mormon church while single in their late twenties after much investigation. They were drawn to the aspect of living prophets and genealogy (saving your ancestors) and eternal families. So I was born and raised in the Mormon church. As a child growing…
For many years I have been on a journey. This journey began with my being raised in a Congregationalist church. Then I became “Born Again” and became an Evangelical. That was followed by my being “Baptized in the Holy Spirit” with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Thus I became a Pentecostal/Charismatic preacher for 34…
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline US 1-800-273-8255 Canada 1-833-456-4566 Trans LifeLine – All Ages 1-877-330-6366 Wonder drug: Ketamine can lift you from deep depression within minutes of administration There is no shame in having suicidal feelings. There is no reason you should not ask for…
June 18, 2018 – It was just a month ago that Pope Francis told a man that God had made him gay and that God loved him. But now the pope says that gay couples can’t be considered as families. In unscripted remarks Saturday to the Forum delle Famiglie, an Italian lay movement representing Catholic…
June 3, 2018 – by Brother Lawrence Damien Cos It is Pride Month here in much of the USA. The following is an article I wrote to celebrate that fact. I was on Facebook when I came across an article on Baron Von Steuben who was a famous American general back in the American Revolution…
Gloriously Free is the first documentary ever to explore the world of gay immigration and the desperate search of five men to find welcoming arms outside their countries of birth, where persecution and hatred of alternative lifestyles may lead to torture or death. Gloriously Free is the first documentary ever to explore the world of…