Is Christianity Homophobic?

Is Christianity Homophobic?

By Patrick J. Buchanan That "loving Jesus means hating gay people" is "proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts." So declares Dan Savage in his review of Jeff Chu's "Does Jesus Really Love Me: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America" -- on page one of The New York Times Book Review. Who is foremost among those who have made Continue reading...

A Godless Party Expels the Creator

By Patrick J. Buchanan The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. For the first time -- and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words -- there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our Continue reading...

On the Chick-fil-A Front of the Culture War

By Patrick J. Buchanan Two weeks ago, Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, an Atlanta company famous for its juicy chicken sandwiches, appeared on "The Ken Coleman Show" to air his biblical belief that those who champion same-sex marriage are risking divine retribution upon us all. "We are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to Continue reading...

The Antietam of the Culture War

By Patrick J. Buchanan It took Joe Biden's public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after Joe told David Gregory of "Meet the Press" he was "absolutely comfortable" with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural elite if he stuck with the biblical view that God ordained marriage as solely between a man and woman. The biblical Continue reading...

The Coming Church-State Wars

By Patrick J. Buchanan Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, "Kick 'em out!" Let them go to Continue reading...

The Death of Moral Community

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The opponents (of same-sex marriage) have no case other than ignorance and misconception and prejudice." So writes Richard Cohen in his celebratory column about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's role in legalizing gay marriage in New York state. Now, given that no nation in 20 centuries of Christendom legalized homosexual marriage, and, in this century, majorities in all 31 Continue reading...

Don’t Tell! — on Rep. Eric Massa

by Patrick J. Buchanan "Beginning in March 2009 ... male staffers complained that their boss touched them in a sexual manner, came up with reasons to have staffers travel alone with him on overnight trips and expressed a desire to have sex with men working in the office." Continue reading...