Queer Youth and Religious Debates Over Sexuality

Last month, Harvard Divinity School hosted, "Queer Youth and Religious Debates Over Sexuality," a panel that discussed, as the titled suggests, queer youth in the United States and their relationship to religion and the church. The panel consisted of leading voices on the subject, including Dr. Mark Jordan, a prolific author on the role of homosexuality in American religion.

The video of the event is finally available on the HDS website, but I thought I would repost the video here to facilitate further discussion on the subject of youth, religion, theology, and sexuality.

Video after the jump.

"Christian" Nation in Danger?

I am not sure why, but people still send me annoying chain letter emails; particular those of the "evangelical" variety. Ones that advise me to boycott our currency if they stop printing "In God We Trust" on the currency, or to make sure we protect this "Christian nation" by not letting Congress remove "one nation under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and so on. The most recent chain email I received was an argument to prove that the United States is indeed a Christian nation, by listing the preamble to all the state constitutions; they all mention "god" or "almighty god" in their preambles (they really do, look them up).