A new report documents the trend of evangelicals like Rick Warren exporting sexuality issues to Africa, whose clergy, in turn, support the minority antigay view in mainline denominations, weakening them. The author of the report speaks with RD at length about what he found.
Richard Cohen, leader of a program that advocates the “changing” of homosexuals to straight, disavows anti-gay legislation in Uganda, but doesn’t see the connection between it and his own missionary efforts in that country.
Scott Lively, the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries and the author of the the weird book The Pink Swastika, is declaring war against the Southern Poverty Law Center, while taking his anti-gay crusade overseas.
As state laws waver on gay marriage, some conservative Christians say their status as husband and wife is compromised. Heartfelt vows, a private contract and a few witnesses are all that’s required to be married in God’s eyes, they say.
