From the SF Weekly via the Huffington Post: If the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Hunky Jesus Contest on Easter just wasn’t enough to piss-off the Catholics, next Sunday’s world premiere of the documentary "Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption" at the Castro Theatre probably will. The film follows 108 Productions’ revival of Terrence Mcnally’s play Corpus [...]
When it comes to the presidential election of 2012, religion seems to have become a far more important issue than it has ever been in the past. After all, we have read one article after another (there are literally 1,000’s online) talking about ‘dominion’ theology and how some candidates, like Perry and Bachmann might have [...]
(Image by Remon Rijper via Flickr) A new campaign called ‘Believe Out Loud’ has been launched to encourage Christians to not only support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people but to speak out and not be silent. The new movement is primarily targeting mainline denominations hoping that their influence and voices will heard and make [...]
Articles about the horrible Ugandan anti-gay bill that would subject homosexuals to prison and death have been circulating on the internet for more than a month. Yesterday the NY Times did a hit piece on the issue but the real target of the article was American pastors and Christian leaders both directly and implied. It [...]
Image by Philocrites via Flickr More than 75,000 gay marriage supporters have signed a petition to strip churches that were involved in the repeal of Maine’s gay marriage law of their tax exemption. According to this gay support group: “The IRS clearly forbids churches from participating in political campaigns in any form.” There were many [...]
(Picture by Xosé Castro via Flickr) Two law professors are backing a proposal that would force business owners involved in wedding services (flowers, cakes, dresses, invitations, decor, and etc.) to ‘come out of the closet’ and post a warning if they oppose homosexual marriage. This proposal is not before any state legislative body yet but [...]
(Picture- San Francisco protest via Wikipedia) Two ‘Class A’ heavy hitting lawyers, Ted Olson and David Boies, filed an appeal today in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco hoping to overturn the California Supreme Court decision yesterday that ruled in favor of Prop 8-the traditional marriage amendment. Thousands of Gay activists demonstrated in San [...]
