Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “Would Jesus Discriminate?: Responding to Uganda’s Gay Death Penalty Bill”

If David Bahati succeeds in passing the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda, we need to pray for our own deliverance in the United States. Analysts tell us that at least 10 African nations will follow his lead immediately. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Uganda are already in hiding or on the run. Children, women and men infected with HIV/AIDS are being denied treatment. Zimbabwe is already on a parallel track. We don’t think of Bahati in the same way that we think of Mugabe of Zimbabwe — one smiles and says he loves gay people. The other reeks of violence. Yet, they are the same wolf at our door.

If Bahati succeeds, we will have allowed him to set the gold standard for wide-spread consumer adoption of sanctioned genocide of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. He and his USA-based radical fundamentalist/evangelical cronies have achieved critical mass in Uganda (more than 90 percent of the people say that homosexuality is a sin and a crime). His message has been clear, consistent and unwavering — the three tenants of great marketing.

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Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “A Gay Firing Fiasco & Opportunity at Belmont University.”

I’ve been thinking this week about the abrupt resignation/termination of a young, successful women’s soccer coach at Belmont (Baptist) University in Tennessee. She is a lesbian with a partner. They are having a baby. She told her team about the baby and was immediately removed from duty or removed herself from duty under duress.

Her student-athletes were devastated, asked the administration to reinstate her and, when denied, held protests on campus. The media got involved. A major donor called for her rehire. The President issued an apologetic statement for his failure to comment sooner, soothing in tone, but with no reinstatement commitment.

So, things are a bit of a mess at Belmont.

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Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, our executive director, recently published an article on The Huffington Post entitled “Coming Out Is An Act of Love.”

I am grateful for the life and vision of a pioneer named Dr. Rob Eichberg. He wrote Coming Out is an Act of Love and co-founded The Advocate Experience, a really intense workshop on learning to live with full integrity.

Our family attended a series of Experience workshops after my son, Joshua, came out in 1988 in Abilene, Texas. Joshua and my partner, Sue, went to a workshop led by Dr. Eichberg. My daughter and I went to a workshop led by Eichberg’s colleague, Honey Ward, who continues to lead them today. I am grateful for Honey and her skill in blowing open the closet in which I was living out my fundamentalist Christian religion. I believe I would have lost my faith in God without her intervention. I know I would have lost my son.

Until the Advocate Experience, I confused God with religion and religion with truth. A tragic mistake.

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Our co-founder Mel White recently recorded an “It Gets Better” video; take a look!

Ray Boltz, an award-winning with 2 RIAA Gold Certified albums, recently announced a new project on his blog. Two songs on this new project, TRUE, give nods to Soulforce.

You can listen to “Who Would Jesus Love?” and “Don’t Tell Me Who To Love” embedded in the article announcing the project launch.