Philadelphia Woman, Now Married to Jesus, Consecrated By Catholic Church As...
I guess she's not going on a honeymoon anytime soon.
View ArticleA Voting Glitch Almost Kept This Church From Approving Marriage Equality
Over the course of two days, the Anglican Church of Canada supposedly rejected a resolution allowing marriage equality... but then reversed that decision.
View ArticlePope Francis Excommunicates Priest for Supporting Women, LGBT People
All this talk of a progressive new Pope may have been jumping the gun.Writing for the National Catholic Reporter, Brian Roewe reported this week that Pope Francis has excommunicated an Australian...
View ArticleGive Pastor Perry Noble Your Money… or You’re Stupid
Pastor Perry Noble of NewSpring Church in South Carolina tells his congregation that they’re stupid if they don’t give him (*ahem* I mean, God) money:I love the half-hearted applause at the 2:30...
View ArticlePastor Punishes Gay Church Member Because Other Members of the Congregation...
Pastor Mark Brewer of Crosspoint Wesleyan Church in Fredericton, New Brunswick had to deal with a potential crisis this past week.One of the finest members of his church, 20-year-old Colin Briggs, had...
View ArticlePope Francis: The Church Has No Right to ‘Interfere Spiritually’ With LGBT...
Building a reputation as the most LGBT-friendly Pope in history, Pope Francis said in an interview published today that the Church should not interfere spiritually with LGBT people, nor seek to cause...
View ArticleBecause if Anyone Knows About Clinging to Sacred Theories…
Reader DeAnne was driving through Huber Heights, Ohio when she passed Free Methodist Church… and turned around to double check the sign… and turned around again just to get a picture.It was worth it....
View ArticleBecause You Can Never Have Too Many White People in Your Church…
Makeda Pennycooke, executive pastor of operations at Freedom House Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, sent an email to church members this week introducing a new policy regarding which people she...
View ArticleCatholic TV Program Answers the Question, ‘What the Hell?’
Karl can’t catch a break.Thanks to a tip from reader Ed, I can present to you the following video clip from an Eternal World Television Network (ETWN) program describing Hell, as best as the Catholic...
View ArticleAsk Richard: How Was Church on Sunday, Richard?
I went to church yesterday.Don’t worry, I’m still your friendly neighborhood atheist, and “neighborhood” is the operative term here. I’m literally the friendly neighborhood atheist because back in...
View ArticleIs Pun.ctu-ation Im!portant?
Is punctuation important? For the First Christian Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, it’s a question mark.(Photo by Courtney Kirkham)
View ArticleChurch Celebrates Marriage Equality With Rainbow Communion Bread
Revolution Church, a liberal congregation in Minneapolis, served rainbow-colored communion bread at services recently to celebrate Minnesota passing marriage equality.Pastor Jay Bakker of the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Church Refuses to Marry Heterosexual Couples Until Gays and...
Green Street United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina says it won’t perform any marriages between opposite-sex couples until same-sex couples can legally marry in the church as well.The...
View ArticleNew Pope, Same Old Homophobia
White smoke finally billowed over Vatican City today to announce that Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had been selected as the new Pope.There’s already a bit of controversy surrounding his...
View ArticleVatican Buys Europe’s Biggest Gay Bathhouse
The Catholic Church recently bought a $30 million share of real estate in Rome — including the largest gay sauna in Europe.Have they no shame?! (Wait, don’t answer that.)An advertisement for the gay...
View ArticleDid the Pope Resign Because of Gay Vatican Networks?
Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise retirement may have been influenced by a “network of gay prelates within the Vatican,” according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. [Original article in...
View ArticleAtheists and Believers Respond to Westboro Baptist Church with Unity,...
On their way to Hollywood to peddle their drug of addiction, hate, outside the Academy Awards Sunday night, half a dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church paid a morning visit to my home town 50...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church’s Transphobia Has Never Been a Secret
I am so tired of writing to extremist Christians who believe they know transgender people better than transgender people know themselves. You’re probably tired of reading them.But a recent post from...
View ArticleMormon Church Defends LGBT Protections — As Long As Religious Groups Can...
At a press conference in Salt Lake City today, Mormon church officials requested a truce with the LGBT community.The Mormon church will support nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people in matters...
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