How lots of us — even straight people — commit sodomy every day “False Prophet!” “Abomination!” “Sodomite!” Reading insult after insult on my Facebook ads, I realized I may have made a mistake. Marketing my new book giving hope to gay Christians, I targeted conservatives. After all, liberals didn’t have much of a problem to solve — they’d mostly accepted LGBTQ people as they were…

Many proponents of LGBTQ+ rights are concerned when right-wing leaders make anti-gay remarks. Here’s why Franklin Graham’s recent example needn’t cause alarm, but contentment. Capping off Pride Month, Franklin Graham posted on Facebook about how horrible such a celebration is. His comment included, It’s like setting a month aside to…

This week, a New Jersey court fined a conversion therapy organization a penalty of up to 3.5 million dollars and ordered it to stop practicing conversion therapy. Its leaders were banned from leadership positions in non-profit organizations. …

Should Straight Allies Remain at Non-Affirming Churches? A friend asked me to participate in his company’s Pride Month “Ask Me Anything: I’m Queer” event. The program was an open period for people to ask questions giving the LGBTQ+ members of the company to respond. The question I was asked centered around straight people attending churches that speak…

Understanding Pascal’s Wager Helps Us Respond to Gay Christians I read an email from a father to his son about being gay. The father implored him to choose a life of celibacy and faith over what he was sure a life of sin and separation from God. Stan Mitchell, pastor…

A Christian Scholar’s Changing Views Toward Inclusion. — “I wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, but now I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do.” It’s not every day you hear that from a conservative evangelical Christian author, scholar, or pastor…

Catholic Response to Pope Frances’ Statement on Gay Unions Shines a Light on How Protestants Treat Their Churches LGBT+ people around the world struggling with integrating faith and sexuality can learn a lot from recent responses from Catholic leaders concerning the pope. Pope Francis made news and history with his…