{"id":877,"date":"2011-07-18T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=877"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:27:52","slug":"lgbt-faith-news-pray-away-the-gay-or-teach-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/07\/lgbt-faith-news-pray-away-the-gay-or-teach-about-it.html","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Faith News: Pray Away the Gay&#8230; Or Teach About It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know it&#8217;s an election cycle when there&#8217;s even more gay-related religion news than usual, beyond the usual headlines about marriage, parenting, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/popewatch-kentucky-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-vatican-dropped-benedict-rejects-irish-bishop-resignati.html#ixzz1STVK8UbF\">ordination, DADT in the military<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>On that topic, two stories in particular are rocking Christian America&#8217;s &#8220;is gay OK?&#8221; fault line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/18\/amid-bachmann-controversy-many-christians-cool-to-conversion-therapy-for-gays\/\">Amid Bachmann controversy, many Christians are cool to conversion therapy for gays<\/a> (CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0714\/California-becomes-first-state-to-mandate-gay-history-in-curriculum\">California becomes first state to mandate gay history in curriculum <\/a>(Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(P.S. You can also check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/california-lgbt-curriculum-is-indoctrination-critic-says\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Catholic News Agency&#8217;s predictably negative view <\/a>of the California story.)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts &#8212; respectfully and relevantly &#8212; in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it&#8217;s an election cycle when there&#8217;s even more gay-related religion news than usual, beyond the usual headlines about marriage, parenting, ordination, DADT in the military, etc. On that topic, two stories in particular are rocking Christian America&#8217;s &#8220;is gay OK?&#8221; fault line: Amid Bachmann controversy, many Christians are cool to conversion therapy for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[20,14,13,341,165,293],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-catholics","tag-christianity","tag-evangelical-christians","tag-gay-rights","tag-lgbt","tag-rep-michele-bachmann"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LGBT Faith News: Pray Away the Gay... 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