by Soulforce Admin
This article was reprinted with permission from The Advocate. The director of programs for Soulforce Equality Ride sees this year’s event as all the more important given the political backdrop it will happen against.
To read the full article, please follow this link: http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Commentary/Oped_While_the_Candidates_Run_We_Ride/
by Soulforce
Our executive director, Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, was interviewed for the As I Am video podcast. You can watch the full interview (Skype quality) below.
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Soulforce was featured prominently in a recent LA Weekly article covering the connection between TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie and the anti-LGBT group Focus On The Family.
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, landed in a heap of trouble when news broke on Friday that he spoke at a June 30 Focus on the Family event in Orange County.
Focus on the Family’s longtime anti-gay agenda is ugly and widely known.Soulforce, the gay rights organization that exposes anti-gay religious groups, notes in a special report that FOTF has pushed such ideas that homosexuality is a mental disorder caused by family problems and bad parenting, that gays want to destroy marriage and the family, that same-gender parents are unfit and seek to hurt children, that homosexuality can be prevented by parents and cured through ‘reparative therapy,’ and that gays are sick, ungodly people who want ‘special rights,’ not civil rights.
Mycoskie, who lives on a sailboat in Los Angeles, says he simply didn’t know about these things.
by Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “Third Installment: Obama, Congress and Budgeting the Biblical Way”.
This is the third installment in a series about how we care for one another. As we await the deliberations of our bi-partisan Congress regarding the federal budget and listen to the righteous indignation of our elected officials with one another, I am reminded of the meanings of the words righteousness and righteous in the ancient sacred texts of the Jews and their citations by Jesus Christ as recorded in the Christian Bible.
Since our politicians are invoking these words and sentiments – righteousness and righteous so frequently, I thought it might help to understand what it really means to be righteous.
Read the full article on The Huffington Post & help us spread the word with your e-mail lists.
by Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “Willow Creek Drops Exodus International, ‘Ex-Gay’ Ministry’”.
“Every wall is a door. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end requires courage. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is a red letter day at Soulforce, where I work. We practice relentless nonviolent resistance to religious oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their families and allies. One of the organizations with whom we have worked, Willow Creek Community Church, has finally ended its formal relationship with Exodus International.
News that the South Barrington megachurch (30,000 members) and its co-founder, Bill Hybels, have severed affiliation with Exodus, the world’s largest ex-gay ministry was under the radar until late June.
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by Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “TOMS Shoes Founder Steps On Gay Toes”
Recently, Blake Mycoskie, founder of Tom’s Shoes, issued a public apology for his affiliation with Focus on the Family, the megawatt fundamentalist Christian power brokerage founded by Dr. James Dobson. Blake said he did not know the extent of Focus’s anti-gay beliefs and efforts and that if he had known, he would not have agreed to present at one of their events.
Media reports now indicate that Blake has distanced himself from Focus on the Family and their leaders have responded that it is a shame that he separated from them since all they want to do is help people and win them to Jesus.
And, Blake could have helped them do that but for the interference of a bunch of pesky gay people who called him into account for the company he was keeping.
I appreciate Blake’s apology and the need for space he has created between Focus and his organization. I hope he takes a break to reflect and then I hope he will take advantage of the media attention he has garnered to go back and help transform Focus on the issue of gay people.
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by Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “The Separation of Church and Hate.”
My hometown newspaper, the Abilene Reporter News, recently carried my new, all-time favorite political cartoon by Branch. It depicts Governor Rick Perry holding a newspaper with the headline, “Perry prayer event to be sponsored by prominent anti-gay group. Perry responds to the headline by saying, “Show me where in the Constitution it says anything about the separation of church and hate.”
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