Queer Christian Fellowship
The Queer Christian Fellowship is part of the The Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Queer Christian Fellowship is part of the The Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read a Sept. 8, 2010, Huffington Post column by U.S. Sen. Robert Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, criticizing Focus on the Family for opposing a bill he introduced that would combat bullying.
John L. Selders Jr. is an ordained minister and bishop in the United Church of Christ and is the organizing pastor of Amistad United Church of Christ in Hartford, Conn.
Read a Sept. 29, 2010, column at Religion Dispatches by Candace Chellew-Hodge, founder and editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians. Chellew-Hodge criticizes a campaign by Focus on the Family against anti-bullying legislation.
This Sept. 29, 2010, article in The Christian Science Monitor includes information about the recent spike in youth suicides linked to bullying.
Pamela Taylor, a Muslim columnist for The Washington Post’s On Faith blog, discusses the 2010 suicides and bullying in this Sept. 30, 2010, post.
See Ellen DeGeneres’ Sept. 30, 2010, response to Tyler Clementi’s suicide.
Read an Oct. 1, 2010, entry on the Reconciling Ministries Network blog suggesting that an anti-gay climate in society creates bullies and is fueled by church policies that call homosexuality incompatible with Christian values. It’s written by the Rev. Troy Plummer, executive director of the network, which mobilizes United Methodists to transform their church and the world […]
Read an Oct. 4, 2010 column by the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, R. Albert Mohler in which Mohler reiterates support for the Christian position against gay rights but strongly questions the harsh approach of many Christians to gay people.