No doubt you have heard about the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. The Court has ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to all of the same rights as heterosexual couples, and that effective immediately, gay couples can legally get married in any state. Ever since the ruling on June 26, 2015, many gay couples […]

Religions across America are coming to terms (or not) with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed marriage equality as the civil law of the land. While some worry about the implications of the ruling for religious leaders, the text of the decision references the reality that the U.S. Constitution, upon which the ruling […]

The Supreme Court has spoken on same-sex marriage. Some would think that the highest court in the land would have the final word on the law in this regard, but some voices from a post-marriage equality nation are quite the opposite. Texas  – “Numerous lawyers stand ready to assist clerks defending their religious liberties,” says […]

Love wins on the hill this week as the U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry everywhere in the country. What is not as clear to many of the people that celebrate the result, though, is how the court determined that the right to marry a partner of […]

Now that you’re legal and you have the license and the ring, the next step is to arrange with the church for the wedding ceremony, right? Right. In most faith denominations across the country, same-sex couples are not welcome to wed in the chapel, nor are they permitted to benefit from the blessing of the […]

As America prepares to ponder whether they will vote a former First Lady into the Commander-in-Chief’s chair in the oval office, a First Lady of years past serves as a sort of posthumous poster child for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities. In the modern world, a notorious movie director has always […]

An apologizing evangelical walks in his first Pride Parade, and experiences an overwhelming outpouring of love and acceptance from those in attendance. While he has been a long-time stalwart support of full inclusion and equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) communities in the faith space, he had also been consistently warned […]

North Carolina third grade teacher Omar Currie saw the familiar signs of bullying in his classroom. A group of kids singled out a boy and called him gay, a girl or a woman in all their references. The teacher intervened at first, but the cruelty continued with ongoing taunts that the boy was gay and […]

A Nebraska woman is suing all homosexual people in federal court. A Swedish peace group sends mixed signals to gay Russian sailors in a message that calls for greater efforts toward peaceful resolution of conflict, as well as for improved treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Russia. Litigating for God In […]

Civil rights struggles throughout time have never come easy, or quickly. Women have agitated, educated and organized for full and equal rights for well over a century now. While some countries see rapid change in the past decade in progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, others nations still lag far behind, in […]