I loved this cartoon from Russell’s Teapot (ht The Redheaded Skeptic, click for a bigger version). I’ve often thought that if literalist Christians in this country really, truly believed that the Bible is completely divinely inspired, inerrant, and literally true, most of them would be living completely different lives.  After [...]

Stacey Blahnik Lee*, a trans woman of color, was murdered in her home in Philly two days ago.  The Philly Daily News published an article (which has now been taken down from the paper’s website) on Stacey’s death that was deeply disrespectful of her as a human being and perpetuated a [...]

Some recent religion, gender, and sexuality blog and news happenings.  The shocking number of gay teen suicides in the past months has brought a lot of attention to homophobia and anti-gay bullying: South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint says openly gay people and pregnant single women shouldn’t be allowed to teach [...]

This is a perfect and, in my opinion, not unrepresentative example of how some evangelicals not only don’t care about LGB suicides, but also exploit them to advance an anti-gay agenda. David Barton, an evangelical minister and a “professor” at Glenn Beck’s “university,” cites high rates of suicides and shorter [...]

From Ta-Nehisi Coates’ post on Tyler Clementi, a reader left this comment: This strikes me as a rather typical college prank gone horribly wrong. Unlike Laura Ingraham, it doesn’t sound like the roommate planned out the event in a calculated way. It’s easy to imagine a college kid spontaneously thinking, [...]

[Disclaimer: I'm aware that Dan Savage has written a lot of problematic stuff about trans people, and other groups - this isn't an endorsement of any of that but rather a riff off this one column.] Dan Savage writes a fantastic, brutally honest reply to an anti-gay Christian who took [...]