Stories tagged with: human rights campaign

• Homosexual activist group targets Bapt. schools

  by Will Hall, Baptist Message, posted Friday, January 15, 2016 (8 years ago)

  ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- The homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign has targeted 23 institutions of higher learning with Southern Baptist ties in a report that also names 35 other colleges and universities with distinct Christian identities.

  Released just before the 2015 Christmas season, the report, "Hidden Discrimination: Title IX Religious Exemptions Putting LGBT Students at Risk," asks Obama Administration education officials to increase reporting requirements for these 58 schools because each was granted "exemptions of interest" relating to either "gender identity" or "sexual orientation" or both. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The gauntlet thrown

  by William Perkins, posted Tuesday, November 18, 2014 (9 years ago)

  Mississippi editor William Perkins urges Baptists to rise to the challenge posed by the Human Rights Campaign's media initiative in the state to normalize homosexuality. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Missional culture engagement

  by Chas Rowland, posted Friday, November 14, 2014 (9 years ago)

  VICKSBURG, Miss. (BP) -- The struggle to engage culture is more important in Mississippi than ever as the Human Rights Campaign has recently launched an aggressive homosexual marriage PR campaign of television commercials to run throughout the state. Amid this campaign, there is a subtle debate within Baptist life about the most Christ-honoring way to deal with the current "culture wars." Read More

• Pro-gay ad blitz aimed at Miss. Baptists

  by David Roach, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- A public relations blitz by the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign aimed at convincing Mississippians that homosexuality is not inconsistent with Christianity has been deemed inaccurate and dangerous by Baptist leaders in the state. Read More