By Rosaria Butterfield In 1996, when Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), I grieved with my people. I was an atheist then, and lived in a monogamous lesbian relationship, working as a tenure-track professor specializing in English literature and Queer Theory. Seventeen years later, in the summer of 2013, the Supreme Court…
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) Will the United Methodist Church soon have to drop the “United” part of its name? A group of 80 pastors is suggesting that the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination is facing an imminent split because of an inability to resolve long-standing theological disputes about sexuality and church doctrine. But more than lamenting the current divisions, the…
Irreplaceable is a new documentary by Focus on the Family International. Tim Sisarich, of Focus on the Family New Zealand, himself a young father of three boys and a girl, hosts this journey literally all over the world. Running on the premise that the family in our culture is broken, Sisarich travels to many different…
By the Rev. Dr. James W. Miller Special to The Layman Splayed across the front page of Google on day one of the Olympics was a string of images of athletes tinted by a rainbow, a less than subtle prod at Russia for criminalizing homosexual behavior. NBC’s coverage of the games began with discussion about…
By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) A fledgling organization that opposed the Boys Scouts of America’s decision to accept openly gay Scouts announced Tuesday (July 9) it will launch an alternative group with a Christian worldview. “It’s our vision to be the premiere national character development organization for young men which produces godly and responsible husbands,…
By Viola Larson It’s helpful when LGBTQ organizations admit where they are really headed in their advocacy, as More Light Presbyterians has done with their recent article, “In-Laws and Out-Laws.” The article is written by Donna Riley who is an author for MLP. She is also bi-sexual, a Presbyterian deacon and a teacher of engineering…