Warren Throckmorton
Wallbuilders blames unnamed news source for error about pediatricians
Remember when David Barton and Rick Green told their audience that the leading pediatricians association in the nation urged school staff to stop indoctrinating kids into homosexuality? The initial response from Rick Green to a listener was to claim that there was nothing wrong in what they said on the broadcast when they referred to…
Read MoreMichael Brown: Here is a taste of next month's NARTH conference
The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality claims to be a scientific organization. However, a review of their website finds lots of anti-gay advocacy. In the past, when I bring this up with NARTH supporters, what I have been told is that they do it because the APA does it. While I…
Read MoreAmerican Family Association Takes Aim at Critic of The Response
The whole article is up at Religion Dispatches. The American Family Association has taken aim at fellow religious conservative Brannon Howse over his criticism of the AFA’s recent sponsorship of GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry’s The Response prayer meeting. Earlier this week, Jim Stanley, program director of AFA’s radio network, American Family Radio, sent notices…
Read MorePulpit Freedom Sunday: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
Pulpit Freedom Sunday is this coming Sunday. Religious right groups want ministers to preach about politics on Sunday to the point telling their flocks who they commend for various political offices. I hope this does not catch on. It may be Constitutional, but it doesn’t seem good. Churches have a job to do that can…
Read MoreOn David Barton's claim that Unitarians were "a very evangelical Christian denomination"
David Barton told Liberty University students in their September 9 chapel that Unitarians were at one time “a very evangelical Christian denomination.” In his effort to define what he called modernism, he said this about the Unitarians the late 18th and early 19th century: And the example of that is what happens when you look…
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