PASTOR Martin Ssempa, the odious creature who played a major role in helping Uganda to draw up a vile anti-homosexuality bill, is smarting over the fact that the draft legislation has been shelved. Commenting on a statement issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which urges Uganda to engage [...]
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TWO Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that prominent Atlanta, Georgia, pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex. Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta once marched against gay marriage and hosts an “ex-gay” ministry. The suits, filed yesterday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual [...]
THERE is a chilling feature in the latest issue of the US magazine, Details, which suggests that the practice of casting out “demons of homosexuality” from mainly young gay folk in Pentacostal and evangelical churches in the US may be far more common than people might imagine. The truly shocking part, says the writer Matt [...]
TOMORROW sees yet another attempt by a bunch of featherbrained Christian fundies to convince America (and no doubt the rest of the world) that homosexuality is “a lifestyle choice” which, through the power of Jesus, can be “cured”. The event, at the Metropolitan Church of God in Birmingham, Alabama, is being organised by the crackpot [...]
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FOCUS on the Family, one of the US’s most virulent anti-gay outfits, is facing a cash crisis and is ceding its contentious “Love Won Out” conferences about homosexuality to another religious organisation. According to this report, a “serious budget shortfall” at Focus has prompted the barmy Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea. Founded [...]
ANYTHING that even vaguely pleases right-wing Christians has to be regarded with deep suspicion – and we are extremely concerned to learn at the weekend that a report issued by the American Psychological Association has received a cautious welcome from Bob Stith, a fundamentalist Texan pastor and a key player in the deeply-discredited “ex-gay” movement. [...]
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