Recent Religious Headlines [T11R-4]
share: digg facebook twitter [...] the Austin American-Statesman reports that legislation that would bring state law in line with the U.S. Constitution faces a questionable future in the Legislature, which has been reluctant to provide legal protections to citizens based on sexual orientation. In 2003, the nation's highest court ruled that Texas could not stop people of the same sex from ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Vatican official told a United Nations body on Tuesday (March 22) that people who openly object to homosexual behavior are at risk of losing their human rights when they are prosecuted or stigmatized for their beliefs.
There are many people, both on the right and on the left, who claim that Christianity is incompatible with queerness. I strongly disagree. In fact, I am convinced that Christianity, at its very core, is a queer religion.
More Presbyterian churches than ever support accepting LGBT ministers. For the first time ever, voters in the Presbyterian Church (USA) who favor dropping exclusionary policies against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender are in the lead in a nationwide vote.
At the end of the two-hour town hall meeting at the LGBT Community Center, nobody looked particularly content. No party was recognized as victorious; little news awaited breaking; no obvious sound bites emerged to shape future discourse.
Religion Dispatches (RD) â€" an online magazine based at Emory that relates religion and pressing modern issues â€" received two grants totaling $200,000 from the Arcus Foundation and the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC).
The Crystal Cathedral has asked choir members to sign a controversial "covenant" stating that God intends sex to be between married heterosexuals. That covenant has angered some current and former choir members who have viewed the document as "anti-gay," though...
What is troubling about the Anti-Gay App Hubbub is the apparent ease with which we're willing to surrender our story to a computer manufacturer.
SB 1993 was recently struck down in the Illinois Senate Human Services Committee. The bill would have allowed religious organizations to deny a child's adoption or foster care with a prospective parent if the adult practiced a different faith or are atheists or agnostics.
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