Tag: God

Pete Buttigieg (Instagram) and Al Sharpton (TwitterRight-wing bloggers lost their (rhymes with kit) this week, as the Reverend Al Sharpton tweeted out a clip of his recent appearance on Msnbc’s “Deadline/WhiteHouse” with Nicole Wallace. In the clip, Sharpton addresses what he believes to be the biggest hurdle presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, has in winning over African American voters. That hurdle is homophobia. Reflecting on his recent, symbolic dinner with Buttigieg at Sylvia’s Soul Food Restaurant in Harlem, Sharpton acknowledged that...

While faith communities are slowly becoming more welcoming of LGBTQ people — in general and within their congregations — many religious groups are still preaching hate, appealing to children through cartoons. It was one such cartoon — a video put out by the Jehovah’s Witnesses telling a young girl how to preach to a classmate with two moms — that inspired a gay YouTube to create his own cartoon about God and gays with a message of love and acceptance. Olly...

I am father Donovan and I am 38 years old. I would like to keep my anonymity because as you will see, my situation is far from common. I was born in a religious family and we have always cherished the Christian teachings and followed them by the letter. As I grew, I knew I was going to follow in my father’s footsteps and become a priest in our small community and this is exactly what I did. I...

I am in this business for over 9 years and if there’s anything that I’ve learned so far is that people will do anything to hang on to their beliefs, regardless of how malicious can be within their small community and, on a larger scale, in the entire society. I’ve got the chance of talking to all sorts of people, coming from all corners of the Globe and from all social grounds. This is how I’ve discovered that, when...