Evangelicals

Human rights advocates stated that a pledge signed last Friday by religious leaders that they won’t abide by laws supporting gay marriage or abortion "perpetuates the fallacy that equality and religious liberty are incompatible and that civil rights are another burden on religious people."  

Two smiling child models featured on an atheist billboard are actually Evangelical Christians, it has been claimed. The boy and girl can currently be seen next to the slogan "Don't Label Me" on adverts funded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and endorsed by Prof Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist. The posters form part of a campaign urging parents not to define their children by their own faith, which some...  

Here we go again! Religious-based heterosexual supremacists are continuing their millenia-long subjugation of LGBT people. The Manhattan Declaration has been released, courtesy of Good As You. Here is an excerpt:No one has a civil right to have a non-marital relationship treated as a marriage. Marriage is an objective reality—a covenantal union of husband and wife—that it is the duty of the law to recognize and support for the sake of justice...  

Children on atheist billboards 'are actually Evangelical Christians' (Matthew Moore, 21 Nov 2009, Daily Telegraph) Two smiling child models featured on an atheist billboard are actually Evangelical Christians, it has been claimed. The boy and girl can currently be seen next to the slogan "Don't Label Me" on adverts funded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and endorsed by Prof Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist.  

A who's who of Christian right leaders, including Chuck Colson and Tony Perkins, have partnered with a handful of more moderate religious voices, including National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson and New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, to release a document that reasserts the primacy of three culture war issues for Christians in the public square: abortion, marriage, and religious liberties. A handful of those who signed...  

Photo via Getty Images There's no doubt that to pass climate and energy legislation, a diverse constituency is needed. A big boost could come from the evangelical community, many of whom hit the Hill recently to lobby for passage of a bill now. Led by Richard Cizik, who got booted from the National Association of Evangelicals for being too liberal on climate change and gay rights, evangelicals are after similar-thinking Senators who are...  

Katharine Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, Texas, decided to answer the questions in a new book from religious publisher FaithWords, "A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-based Decisions."  

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has adopted a new pro–liberalized immigration stance that is creating ripples among its conservative membership. Although NAE had touted its board's supposedly unanimous backing, at least one prominent NAE member, the Salvation Army, has apparently already disavowed it. Professing to represent 30 million U.S. evangelicals, NAE has just over 40 member denominations, the largest of...  

The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins's latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan “Please don't label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, ...  

*The religious group Hmmmr is refering to is the evangelicals, Pat Robertson (the late) Jerry Falwell...* Evangelicals have never been referred to as `neocons', whatever the name you wish to give them... Everyone knows - except for you apparently - that on the left, `neocon' is a euphemism for `conniving Jew' *Jewish people in the U.S. tend to be Democrats.  Their history is defending minorities and this is more accepted in the Democratic...  

Last week, the National Association of Evangelicals passed a pro-comprehensive immigration reform (aka amnesty) resolution, and Leith Anderson from that group - in Congressional testimony - strongly implied that all NAE members supported the resolution. His testimony included this: We actually had a vote today on this resolution with leaders in the National Association of Evangelicals and there was no dissent... On the board there are 75...  

The Salvation Army has announced that it does not endorse the National Association of Evangelicals' recent lobbying for amnesty and an increase in foreign labor importation.  

SAO PAULO, Brazil - More than 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling.  

Exciting news on the IGIF front as we continue to gear up for our "Floater's Freedom" celebration. Always looking to expand, I'm proud to (finally) announce our first concert production outside of sunny SXSW. A week from today (Nov. 13th) we'll be presenting Evangelicals and Holiday Shores at Glassworks in Louisville! This will be the first time I've seen Evangelicals since our stellar SXSW party last year and the very first time I've ever...  

Teacher union leaders are warning schools to vet the charities they support after complaints from parents about a scheme to send gifts to the developing world run by an evangelical Christian group. Under Operation Christmas Child, schoolchildren are