The Vatican released a document on Monday calling for the church to welcome and accept gay people, unmarried couples, people who have divorced, and the children of those less than traditional families. NBC News reports that the document, which was prepared after a week of discussions at an assembly of 200 bishops on the family, […]
A new craze is hitting the internet identified by the hashtag #BurnWhiteJesus. Otherwise known as the “White Jesus Picture Challenge,” it calls upon people to post online videos of themselves burning pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a white man. The religious education website Patheos writes, the challenge “seems to be a recognition that the common […]
Mission America’s Linda Harvey wants to celebrate Banned Books Week by having conservative activists pressure school libraries to offer her to stock “Maybe He’s Not Gay,” her book on ex-gay pseudo-science. As Right-Wing Watch reports, during her Friday radio commentary, Harvey called progressives modern-day “Nazis” who “only want certain ideas available” to the public. On […]
A Tea Party radio host launched a vicious attack this week on an Episcopal Church minister in Virginia over a recent sermon regarding social justice. The ultra-conservative WorldNetDaily is reporting that “Sarah Kinney Gaventa, associate rector at St. Paul’s church in Ivy, Virginia, was preaching last Sunday about Peter’s confession of Jesus Christ as the […]
A Mississippi Tea Party Republican congressman, Rep. Steven Palazzo, sent Bibles donated by a constituent to every member of Congress, according to TPM. Palazzo included a letter sent with each copy of the Bible, stating the book was intended to help his colleagues with their decision-making that read in part:. “On a daily basis, we contemplate policy […]