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. [...]
WE have just learned of the death of James Kirkup, the British poet who was reluctantly catapulted to notoriety in the 1970s after his homosexual poem, The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name, landed Gay News and its editor, Denis Lemon, in the dock for “blasphemous” libel. Kirkup died at his home in Andorra [...]
Ted Haggard, 52, one of America’s most influential evangelists until allegations of gay sex and drugs brought about his spectacular downfall in 2006, is “still struggling with his sexuality”, according to a documentary that will be aired in the US on January 29, 2009. The leader of the National Association of Evangelicals until his fall [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
