In 1974, the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its list of mental health disorders. This inflamed many conservatives, especially the Christians among them, who were now mobilizing in the public square against what they believed was a growing tumor of secularism. – Jonathan Merrit
I’ve been giving some thought lately to how to explain to well meaning folks why the Alliance Church doctrine is so messed up. I think it’s harmful…
When Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote that the “Michigan anti-equality campaign is the last gasp of desperate bigotry” I felt reassured. On my view, if a church chooses to see homosexual behaviour as a sin, that church is anti-gay. And, on my view, being anti-gay is bigotry. Similarly, if a church chooses to see trans people…
One idea for trying to research the harm done to gay and transgender people who grow up in the Alliance Church is to research folks who have left the church. It’s possible, for instance, to publicize a call out to folks who: grew up in the Alliance Church, and made a choice to leave because…
President Obama and the US Surgeon General oppose conversion “therapies” …
One hundred years ago you could probably get away with raising your child to hate themselves…
In recent conversation with an Alliance Church pastor from Alberta, I made the following formulation of the argument toward the Harm Hypothesis …
