Aug 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Persecution, Politics, Rebecca Barrett-Fox |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Today’s post is written by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, professor of sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she...
Aug 10, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Righting America |
by William Trollinger To say that Ken Ham devotes a great deal of energy and time to vilifying gay marriage and LGBTQ rights is an understatement. As we noted recently, over the past year Ham – who apparently has no comment on, say, immigrants, refugees, or white...
Jul 6, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Fundamentalism, Jesus, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues |
by William Trollinger If one goes by what Answers in Genesis (AiG) CEO Ken Ham says on social media, he seems obsessed with the LGBTQ community. Of course, Ham writes blog posts on how wonderful the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter are, how they are attracting...
May 22, 2017 | Christian Right, Church, Creationism, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, LGBT Issues, Politics |
by William Trollinger Sunday was Bill’s fifth of five classes at Westminster Presbyterian Church here in Dayton on the history of Protestant fundamentalism. As was the case the first four weeks, there were approximately thirty people in attendance, and the discussion...
Dec 23, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christmas, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Jesus, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Secularism |
by William Trollinger It may be the Christmas season, but at Answers in Genesis (AiG) fighting the culture war is a 24/7/365 operation. See, for example, AiG’s gigantic Ark, which has been lit, not in Christmas colors, but in rainbow colors. As Ken Ham has explained,...
Jun 20, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Culture War, Gay Marriage, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Ark Encounter is scheduled to open on July 7 near Williamstown, Kentucky. The public relations campaign is in full swing, with billboards (including one here in Dayton) and press releases and interviews with journalists and – as reported in...