100 faith leaders send President Obama a letter blasting religious exemptions
100 clergy and faith leaders have sent a letter to President Obama urging him not to include religious exemptions in an imminent executive order that keeps federal contracts from discriminating against...
View ArticleGuest column: Diversity requires mutual respect, not jealous ranking of...
Sierra Mannie, a University of Mississippi senior, wrote a commentary picked up by Time eirlier this month titled, “Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture.” Here’s a portion: “I need some...
View ArticleIs support for marriage equality leveling off?
(AP) – A new survey from the Pew Research Center indicates American support for same-sex marriage could be leveling off after several years of dramatic growth in acceptance of equal rights for gays and...
View ArticleHRC, LGBT Baptists attend Southern Baptist convention
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and a small group of LGBT Baptists attended a conference put on by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission. The meeting, titled “The...
View ArticleGay rights, religious freedom debated at Colorado Capitol
DENVER (AP) – There’s a growing conflict between religious groups and gay rights advocates over penalties in discrimination cases. The issue plays out March 9 in Colorado, with Republicans proposing...
View ArticleKansas Senate passes religious protection bill
TOPEKA – A proposal in Kansas for protecting religious groups on public college campuses that want to restrict memberships to like-minded believers is advancing in the Republican-dominated Legislature,...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook says anti-gay religious freedom laws are dangerous
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook said that so-called “religious objection” legislation being introduced in a number of states is dangerous and bad for business. The bills, like the one enacted last...
View ArticleRepublican N.C. governor says he won’t back religious exemption bills
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory said March 30 he isn’t backing bills giving exemptions to court officials who don’t want to perform gay marriages and offering other religious protections to...
View ArticleThe latest developments on religious objection laws
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has urged lawmakers to send a bill to his desk by the end of the week to clarify the intent of a new religious objections law that critics fear could allow...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage opponents urge Supreme Court to go slow
WASHINGTON (AP) – Same-sex marriage opponents acknowledge they face a tough task in trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow states to limit marriage to a man and a woman. But they are urging the...
View ArticlePlaintiffs: Mississippi law takes sides in religious debate
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Gay rights groups and others are asking a federal appeals court to keep blocking a Mississippi law that would let merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs to deny...
View ArticleMarginalized groups join forces to fight the Trump administration’s attacks...
Orlando – On Jan. 29, amid of flood of hurried information and the confusion that comes along with it, more than 1,000 people of Orlando (and those who love them) convened upon the Orlando...
View ArticleNevada senators move same-sex marriage update closer to ballot
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – Religious organizations and individual clergy members would have a constitutional right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages in Nevada under a proposal state lawmakers are...
View Article‘Wife Swap’ switches family with gay, black dads with heterosexual, religious...
Above: (Image from Instagram @terrell.and.jarius ) “Wife Swap” featured a family headed by gay, black dads for the first time on its April 25 episode. Terrell and Jarius Joseph, who hail from Atlanta,...
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