Christian Right

David Kato was one of 100 homosexuals whose name, address, and photo had been published in a Ugandan paper urging readers to kill them.

David Kato, an openly gay human rights activist and advocacy officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was attacked in his home in Mukono, Uganda, on January 26, and died on his way to the hospital. Kato had received death threats since October, when a local newspaper, Rolling Stone, published his photo alongside a cover story that charged homosexuals with recruiting children.

Creationist textbook publisher, who once got caught doing a sloppy revision of its materials, wants to submit “supplemental materials” for the classroom.

Colson’s dishonest call for civility.

A mythical American history with Protestant sensibilities and heroes.

Anti-choice congressman says abortion is “bigotry.”

As Catholic sex abuse scandals once again dominate headlines from Boston to Belgium, and even the fast-track canonization of Pope John Paul II is marred by questions of culpability, the role of the Catholic hierarchy in enabling clergy abuse seems indisputable, admitted even by die-hard church partisans like the Catholic League. But what’s less understood is how these same patterns persist in today’s Church, where demographic shifts and a dwindling priesthood may be creating a new set of scenarios for abuse. The story of Katia Birge is a case in point.

RD would like to see a tallit on the basketball court.

Klingenschmitt claims to have exorcised the demon of homosexuality from at least one servicemember.

Religious right funder reflects on her support for Christian Reconstructionism.