So you say you don’t hate gay people, Part I

August 4, 2012 By 59 Comments
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One thing I have heard a lot recently is Christians who oppose marriage equality insisting, over and over again, that they are not homophobic. They don’t hate gay people, they love them, they really really do! Or at least, that’s what they say. And I remember being there – I remember saying the same thing, [...]

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Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts: Losing the Boy Scouts

March 29, 2012 By 31 Comments

In Part 1 I discussed the recent media attention given to opposition to the Girl Scouts, in Part 2 I discussed the longer roots of this opposition, and in Part 3 I discussed how my perceptions of the Girl Scouts have changed. I’m now going to turn to the Boy Scouts. Even as I was [...]

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The “Homosexual Agenda”

March 21, 2012 By 24 Comments

I was (probably unwisely) perusing the conservative Catholic blogosphere, and it has started to get to me. I’ve read numerous blogs talking about the “homosexual agenda” that is taking over the country and oppressing everyone else. I remember being taught this growing up, to the exact minutia. Reading about it now, though, it makes me [...]

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Transgender Individuals, Bible Believing Christians, and Discrimination

November 21, 2011 By 18 Comments

Growing up, I believed that I belonged to the most discriminated against group in the United States, not because I wore skirts or because I was homeschooled, but simply because I was a Bible believing Christian. I believed that our rights were being eroded year by year, that government crackdowns on religion were just around [...]

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