Fear is the only plausible explanation for why Baylor University is allowing Turning Point USA a platform on campus next month, according to Skye Perryman. Perryman, who grew up in Waco, Texas, and whose father was a professor at Baylor,…
Healing from LGBTQ exclusion requires acknowledging past pain
The faith experiences of many Queer Christians have unfolded in churches that once described themselves as “welcoming,” “inclusive” or “loving” yet stopped short of full affirmation. Some of those congregations have since changed. They now perform same-gender loving weddings, ordain…
Support for LGBTQ rights steady for most Americans
For more than a decade, PRRI has been tracking American attitudes about nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals, religiously based service refusals, and same-sex marriage. In our latest report, we find that while solid majorities of Americans continue to support nondiscrimination protections and…
States weigh ‘pro-family’ laws on gender, speech, conscience, TPUSA
“Pro-family” groups affiliated with Focus on the Family are working to move state legislatures to the right with bills that grant “conscience rights” to medical workers, restrict students’ speech, define humans as male and female, promote Turning Point USA in…
Here’s what’s wrong with Baylor hosting a TPUSA event
Let’s be crystal clear about the double standard at work at Baylor University. University regents and administrators are still running scared of LGBTQ inclusion but they’re perfectly fine with hosting the bigotry of Turning Point USA on campus. In case…
Rapidly passed Kansas law targets trans residents
A new Kansas law requires the driver’s licenses of transgender people to match their sex at birth and restricts them to using public bathrooms corresponding to their assigned gender. Senate Bill 244 initially went into effect Feb. 26, shortly after…
US LGBTQ identification holds steady at 9%
About 9% of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual, according to Gallup. That percentage is unchanged from last year but remains more than double the 3.5% from 2012, the first year Gallup measured…
Mohler praises Trump for ‘moral clarity’ in State of the Union
Southern Baptist thought leader Al Mohler agrees with President Donald Trump that Democrats are “crazy.” The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary used his Feb. 25 column in World magazine to say the president’s rambling two-hour State of the Union…
Tennessee bill would allow LGBTQ discrimination
The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a measure that would clear the way for private citizens and businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples. House Bill 1473 asserts that government agencies alone are required to recognize the legality of same-sex…
I am Black, queer and Baptist Christian
Being Black and gay is living life on the margins. My Christian identity is centered on my love for my community. While having proximity to whiteness (interracial marriage with a loving husband) has informed my vocational mission, I know it…
Mohler fronts campaign to overturn Obergefell
Southern Baptist influencer Al Mohler is part of a new national campaign to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, alleging gay rights are bad for children. The “Greater Than” campaign announced this week says it is “a…
Paula Stone Williams to run for mayor of her town
One of the highest-profile transgender religious leaders in America has filed to run for mayor of her small Colorado town. Paula Stone Williams is a pastoral counselor who previously served as president of the Christian church planting organization Orchard Group…