Richland, Washington â€" A Christian florist in Washington has countersued the state attorney general for violating her rights of conscience and religion in declining to decorate the homosexual wedding of a longtime client. As previously reported, Baronelle Stutzman of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland was leveled with a lawsuit in March by State Attorney General Bob [...]
Phoenix, Arizona â€" Lawmakers in the Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill this week that seeks to expand protections for the free exercise of religion, sending the legislation now to the Senate for a vote. Votes for and against SB 1178 were generally along party lines, with a final outcome of 32 to 24. [...]
Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows by Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service Published May 22, 2013 06:55PM MDT Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.†Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium ...
The right to follow a particular religion is a fundamental one for Americans, but the ACLU says it does not grant a free pass to discriminate against LGBT people. read more
Over the next two weeks, 133 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students and allies â€" many of them rejected by their families after coming out â€" will be awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships from two Seattle organizations.
While "Beyond The Candelabra" is currently gaying-up Cannes in a very big way (check out our report from the film's press conference here), most of us will be waiting until next Sunday night to watch the Liberace biopic on HBO. However, once Cannes comes to a close there will be all sorts of gay heading to film festivals that are actually near you: The summer queer film festival nears! At the ...
Over the past few days, news surrounding the charges trges that have been brought against Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, has spread quickly, with emotional responses ringing out from all sides. As TheBlaze previously reported, the high school senior was arrested in February after a relationship she had with a younger, female student at her school came to light. Her girlfriend, now 15, was not of legal age to be ...
At a press conference this afternoon at NYPD headquarters, Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly addressed a recent spate of anti-gay hate crimes, which included the murder of Mark Carson at the hands of a stranger in Greenwich Village this weekend. Kelly told reporters today that while hate crimes are down 30% overall since last year, crimes against homosexuals have increased by more than ...
As anti-gay violence rises ...
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