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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 3:46pm By Chris HallIf you want to keep your children from being exposed to massive amounts of sex and violence, the one book that you shouldn't give them is the Bible. No matter what translation you're reading, the Bible is chock full of murder, incest, rape, and...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 1:18pm By The Woodhull Freedom FoundationThis month's column is by B.A. Carrington, who describes herself as a "progressive, martini-swilling, skeet-shooting lady." She's been investigating the religious right from the inside for ten years. I silently rode down the hotel...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 11:09am By Margaret WadeSoft penises are delightful in many ways, and they have their uses even for those of us who nearly always experience them firsthand in their firmer state. But the fact of the matter is that, through all the many, many centuries of phallus worship,...
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Friday, August 7, 2009 - 1:27pm By Chris HallJesus is Lord; he can never ever be a Lady. In a nutshell, that's the message of Christians who are outraged at Jesus, Queen of Heaven, a play that will be performed as part of Glasgay, a gay and lesbian arts festival in Glasgow, this year. The play...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:04am By Chris HallThe story of Bryce Faulkner, the young student who recently disappeared and who is thought by his friends to have been forcibly taken to an "ex-gay" ministry, has gotten a lot of attention and sympathy on queer and feminist sites recently...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 8:00am By Louis ShackletonThe Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University By Kevin Roose Grand Central Publishing $24.99, 336 pp. “I wouldn't go to any of those schools. Yale, Harvard, Princeton. No way. I heard they have naked...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 12:51pm By Chris HallIf you were God, how would you feel about all those Christians who insist that you're a homophobic tyrant? There's one possible answer in the second episode of the new season of Brian Keith Dalton's Mr. Deity. For those who aren't familiar with Mr....
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Friday, June 19, 2009 - 1:32pm By Chris HallManifested Glory Ministries, a church in Connecticut, has found itself the focus of controversy because, using YouTube, they allowed the outside world to see what goes on inside their church. The church put up a video of an extremely violent...
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Friday, April 10, 2009 - 10:28am By Chris HallEpiscopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson said on Monday that the biggest obstacle to gay and lesbian rights is the prevalence of archaic religious beliefs in the three Abrahamic faiths. In a statement that would almost have sounded more appropriate coming...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 11:06am By Margaret Wade"Sex is like Super Glue. It's a spiritual thing, an emotional thing," says Rev. Ed Young, pastor of a Christian mega-church with five locations across Texas and a television ministry. He is one of many who, during the last year, have had...
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Monday, March 2, 2009 - 6:00pm By Margaret WadeThe connection between sexuality and spirituality is so strong and so ancient that the first “coin” ever minted granted access to sacred sex rites. The shekel in ancient Sumeria represented a bushel of wheat donated to the Temple of...
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