Tag: Christian

Christian Alarid, a 24-year-old staff sergeant in the Air Force, recently teamed up with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau to surprise his boyfriend, Shayne Barnes, 27, with a surprise proposal that led to a picturesque seaside wedding on the same day! Barnes, who just recently completed his service in the U.S. Marine Corps as a corporal and is now a full-time student at Hawaii Pacific University, thought he was participating in a photo shoot, but little did he know...

World Cup champion and out lesbian Ashlyn Harris is spilling more tea, and it’s spilling all over former USWNT teammate and top defender Jaelene Hinkle. Harris blasted Hinkle on Twitter Monday for claiming in an interview last year that the team was “not a welcoming place for Christians.” Hinkle, our team is about inclusion. Your religion was never the problem. The problem is your intolerance and you are homophobic. You don’t belong in a sport that aims to unite and...

A devout Christian mother walked her son down the aisle wearing a rainbow sash after a difficult time accepting his sexuality. Vanessa Hall is an author in Australia and she wrote about her son Lachlan on the website Love What Matters. His father died when he was eight-years-old, and the two are very close. He went to dance school and tried dating a girl for three years, but he eventually came out to his mother. She wrote that she had to know...

Bryan Fischer is affiliated with the American Family Association, which has been designated as a hate group. You can always count on ultra-conservative kook Bryan Fischer for an outrageously homophobic soundbite. The Fundamentalist Christian pundit brought up gay sex Monday as host of Focal Point on American Family Radio, which is run by the American Family Association, Media Matters reports. Fischer broached the subject by defending fellow Christian homophobe Franklin Graham’s recent remarks that Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality is “something...

The religious right is upset that out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken the nation by storm. Evangelical leaders are claiming the small town Indiana mayor isn’t actually a Christian because he is gay. They’re particularly perturbed he’s had the temerity to challenge holier-than-thou Vice President Pence’s conservative brand of evangelical Christianity and President Donald Trump’s lack of “Christian values” despite being embraced by the religious right. Buttigieg has made it a point to mention his faith during his media appearances...

Pennsylvania's Clarks Summit University, a Christian school, has denied a student from finishing the last six hours of his bachelors’s degree because he is gay. To be clear, the university kicked him to the curb not for having a boyfriend or engaging in a gay “sexual relationship” as the school’s student handbook prohibits. No, after accepting Gary Campbell’s money to take two classes, the school contacted him after learning he is gay and informed him he’s not welcome as a student...

Michael Neri is a drama teacher in England, and he’s pretty popular. His Talking Props Theatre School that he set up in 2014 had a good enough reputation for a Christian woman to sign her kids up. But when she learned that Neri is gay, she texted him to pull the kids out. Her reason? She’s worried that theater lessons with a gay man will “influence” her children with “unconventional ideas.” That is, she thought he’d turn her kids gay. And as if...

"Masturbation is homosexuality," says Coach Dave. "You’re having sex with a man." A Christian crusader known as “Coach Dave” is preaching that men who masturbate are basically engaging in gay sex with themselves. Dave Daubenmire, a former Ohio high school football coach who was sued by the ACLU for forcing his players to pray, now shares his biblical interpretations online through his own Pass the Salt ministry. “Masturbation is homosexuality,” Daubenmire tells his followers in a recent video. “You’re having sex with...

Christian campaigner Linda Harvey branded gay sex "dead-end" and "degrading". A US radio host has claimed that God makes children gay as "punishment" for abortions. Linda Harvey, a columnist for far-right Christian website World Net Daily, made the comments during a speech at the Bringing America Back to Life Convention this week, the New Civil Rights Movement reports. In the speech, Harvey, who has previously urged rparents to reject their gay children and attempt to 'cure' them, said that God was 'corrupting'...

Lead by the Jesus is Lord group protestors say the bill discriminates against them because they don't support LGBTI Thousands of Christian protestors have converged on the Philippines’ to protest an anti-discrimination bill that would protect LGBTI people. Politicians have been working on versions of the SOGIE Equality Act for 20 years and last year it passed the Congress last year with a unanimous vote. SOGIE stands for sexual orientation and gender identity. But now the bill faces an uphill battle in...

A Canberra couple who vowed to divorce if same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia have backed down on their promise. In 2015 Nick and Sarah Jensen said they would not want to be associated with any new definition of marriage if the law changed. “My wife and I just celebrated our 10-year anniversary. But later this year, we may be getting a divorce,” Mr Jensen wrote for Canberra’s City News. “The decision to divorce is not one we’ve taken lightly. And certainly,...

Conservative Christian Pastor Steven Anderson is back at it again, this time around calling for an execution of all gays by Christmas of this year. How lovely. He echoed something similar three years ago, saying that it would be an AIDS Free Christmas if all the gays were killed. Steven is a pastor who resides in Tempe, Arizona, where he delivered a sermon at his church stating that gays need to be put to death in the name of God by...

Jessica Lundquist and Tiffany Steinberg recently returned to the Huntington Beach pier in Orange County, California to celebrate their second anniversary in the same place where they held hands in public for the very first time. Unfortunately, while they were out celebrating, they were approached by an unfamiliar man. Lundquist said, "he got uncomfortably close...he said that we were 'unnatural' and we were going to hell for our actions...we were just trying to get away from the conversation." More from OC Weekly: The...

Last week, a video went viral of a coffee shop owner throwing out an offensive Christian group handing out anti-abortion propaganda. The video went all over the internet and sites like Instinct covered the situation. Now, the man himself, Ben Borgman, is sharing his thoughts on the situation. Borgman spoke with the Huffington Post about the incident and about his perspective on Christianity. “I know Christians, and they don’t confront people in the street, or in a place of business,” he said. “They...