Tag: Christian

The incident was caught on camera and posted to Facebook A gay coffee shop owner kicked a Christian group out of his store. The video of the event shows him telling them he felt offended by their presence. The Christian group had been handing pro-life pamphlets out in the area. They stopped in at Bedlam Coffee. Caytie Davis was one of the people in the group. She explained: ‘We had nothing on us, we weren’t distributing anything. We bought coffee and went upstairs.’ Davis claims...

An Irish Christian mother has written an emotional letter to the DUP’s Jim Wells about her two gay sons. The letter was written to the adamant homophobe by Elaine Somers. She thanks her mother for advice which she cherishes and says Jesus taught her that her gay sons are precious. Writing to the Health Minister, Somers refers to the fact that Wells cut ties to the National Trust over an installation including rainbow badges. Somers also says that Wells can’t say he has...

Ark Encounter, a fundamentalist Christian theme park that boasts a “life-size Noah’s Ark,” will light that ark up every night with a rainbow as a way to “take back” that symbol from LGBTQ people. Normally, when a building is lit up in rainbow colors, the owners of the building are trying to express support for LGBTQ people. The White House was lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate Obergefell v. Hodges, which ended state-level bans on people of the same...

A Christian pastor in North Carolina has been amazed by the reaction to one of his recent blog postings, in which he wrote about what his reaction would be if any of his children grew up and told him that they were gay John Pavlovitz is an 18-year local church ministry veteran. He is currently the pastor of a house church community called North Wake House Church, and also a volunteer at North Raleigh Community Church. He is married to wife,...

U.S. Women’s soccer player Jaelene Hinkle has never been shy about her devout Christian faith, even if it meant ruffling feathers. But this week 24-year-old has mysteriously withdrew from the U.S. Women’s National Team, citing “personal reasons.” And even though she has not confirmed why, speculation is running rampant in sports journalism as well as right-wing Christian media circles that she wants to avoid having to wear a rainbow-colored jersey with the word “Pride” in place of her name on...

Bakery owners who refused to make a ‘gay’ cake have lost a court appeal, after claiming it is a sin to print pro-gay messages. The owners of Ashers Bakery in Belfast were found guilty of unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation and political or religious grounds, after the company in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland refused to bake a cake showing the message ‘Support Gay Marriage’ above an image of Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie. Despite losing its initial case, the bakery owners took their case to the Belfast...

A right-wing columnist has claimed that God sent a hurricane to ravage America because of gay people. Hurricane Matthew has left a path of destruction across the Caribbean, killing nine people and displacing thousands from their homes in Haiti. It is heading towards the coast of Florida, sparking warnings of damage. But one columnist for Trump-backing website Shoebat has claimed that the storm was sent by God to disrupt this weekend’s Orlando Pride celebrations. Andrew Bieszad wrote: “Florida is a nice place, but it...

In a new thread titled My Christian husband of one-and-a-half months just told me he is gay. I don’t know what to do, a distraught wife shares he tale of woe with the entire Internet. “On Wednesday, after much pushing from me, my husband confessed that halfway through our dating relationship, he met with twice and ‘only kissed’ a man that slipped him his number in the bathroom of a movie theater while we were on a date,” the woman begins. Learning...

This question has haunted me for the past 10 years or so and I have yet to find an answer to it. Who am I? I could say I am a regular guy, but there is always something behind this statement. None of us are just plain regular. We all have impressive life stories, our own demons to fight with and drama that we need to overcome, but what truly makes you special it is not what you need...