Recent Religious Headlines [T11R-4]

Equating it with what he called the “extremist homosexual agenda,” Philadelphia Metro Task Force co-founder Jim Schneller implored Mayor Robert Frost to “veto” an ordinance adopted Wednesday night during the regular council meeting.
Societal standards should be independent of systems of belief Since the Enlightenment, the first time people could question religion with only a mild fear of being burned at the stake, organized religion has worked diligently to maintain its hegemony over morality. In order to maintain that hegemony, religion used a baited, philosophical question to stir [...]
Some parents say they have evidence the federally-funded National School Chaplaincy program is being used to push religion to public school students.
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.
Activist groups protested the Catholic Church for its stance against marriage equality and remembered hate crime victims at the annual Easter parade in New York City.
Georgianna Reyes presented the Rainbow Center's 'Out to Lunch' lecture Wednesday afternoon. Reyes, who works for DePaul University in Chicago, spent her time trying to reconcile sexual orientation and religious affiliation. In a world that often explic...
When Michael Cox learned that a controversial anti-gay church infamous for protesting the funerals of soldiers killed in combat was staging a demonstration at his high school it felt like a double insult. The Meade High School senior is the son of an active duty serviceman with more than two decades in the military. And the 18-year-old is openly gay. "My first reaction was I didn't believe it ...
Measure would have barred private agencies from discriminating against prospective parents based on sexual orientation.
A South Carolina lawmaker plans to reintroduce a state hate crimes bill after a vicious antigay beating was caught on tape earlier this month.


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