Morgan Lee of Christianity Today’s “Quick to Listen” podcast interviews Shirley Mullen. a historian, philosopher, and president of evangelical Houghton College in upstate New York. Here is a taste: What does it mean for ministries and organizations that might require […]
Fairness for All Act
Illinois senator Dick Durbin compares religious institutions who “discriminate” based on sexual orientation to the KKK. That’s not helpful.
I caught a little of bit of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act. I did a brief post on it this morning after I learned about a constituency of Black Christian leaders who reject the Act and […]
57 Black Christian leaders endorse Fairness for All
As I type, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the Equality Act. As I have noted several times at this blog, I do not support the Equality Act. Instead, I join the National Association of Evangelicals, Council for […]
Michelle Bachmann: This week revealed the “greatest attack” on the “foundations” of America that “we have ever seen in 400 years”
Michelle Bachmann, the new dean of Regent University’s school of government, visited MAGA evangelical Jim Garlow’s “election integrity” prayer meeting this week. You can watch it here. (It was posted on Eric Metaxas’s Rumble page). Bachmann warns the pro-Trump evangelical […]
CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals
On Saturday night I published a post on the Trump evangelical response to the former president’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. You can read it here. Let’s check-in on them today: The Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd […]
Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah reintroduces the Fairness for All Act
I’ve been covering this all day. Here is a taste of Kelsey Dallas’s reporting at Deseret News: Utah Rep. Chris Stewart reintroduced legislation Friday that aims to reduce anti-LGBTQ discrimination and, unlike the competing Equality Act that passed the House […]
Will the Democrats add religious exemptions to the Equality Act?
I wrote about the Equality Act this morning. I share Jonathan Rauch’s perspective here. I believe the Fairness for All Act is the best way forward. Here is a taste of Rauch’s piece: For religious and faith-based organizations, the House […]