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R.I.P. Charles Colson: Nixon Aide, Convict, Evangelist, Anti-Gay Zealot

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Apr 24, 2012
Charles Colson, who was involved in the Watergate scandal and a strong opposer of gay rights, died at the age of 80 last weekend.

Brazil One Step Closer to Passing Anti-Homophobia Bill

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Dec 9, 2011
Brazilian legislatures are coming close to passing a new legislation that would prohibit homophobia and give more protection to transgender people.

Evangelicals Losing Interest in ’Reparative Therapy?’

By Kilian Melloy | Wednesday Jul 20, 2011
Evangelicals may be losing faith in the idea that gays choose their sexual orientation and can be converted to heterosexuality using so-called "reparative therapy."

Is Religious Right Conceding on Gay Rights Issues?

By Peter Cassels | Monday Mar 28, 2011
The head of the Southern Baptists is among a growing number of conservative & evangelical Christians who’s conceded that gay marriage is inevitable. But there’s another movement to make the U.S. a theocracy. EDGE explores the coming triumph & challenges.

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy

By Steve Weinstein | Wednesday Oct 27, 2010
Bravo to Sharlet for a follow-up expose of the Christian-inspired shenanigans by politicians, military officers, lobbyists and various hangers-on in a D.C. mansion. Especially of interest: C Street’s key in role in the Ugandan gay holocaust

Minister, once gay, aims to heal evangelical rift

By Jay Lindsay | Thursday May 13, 2010
Bill Henson is used to skepticism in his mission to bring together gays and evangelical Christians.

Ted Haggard Starts a New Church

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday May 13, 2010
Ted Haggard, the evangelical leader who in 2006 left the megachurch he founded when it became known that he had been seeing a male escort. has founded a new church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Ugandan Anti-Gay Meeting a Resounding Flop

By Steve Weinstein | Monday Jan 25, 2010
At long last, some good news out of Uganda: The nation’s most prominent homophobic pastor overreached. When he showed gay porn at a meeting in support of a virulently anti-gay piece of legislation

Is GOP Reconsidering Its Old-Time Religion?

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Jun 26, 2009
Sex scandals, the economic crisis, environmental damage... are even Christian Republicans beginning to question some old-time GOP and evangelical dogmas?
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