LGBTQ & Human Rights - Page 24 of 26
May 9th, 2012
Journalist Dan Savage ruffled more than a few feathers a couple of weeks ago when he made a speech at a high school journalism convention in Seattle about how Christians use the Bible as a weapon against LGBT teens.
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April 24th, 2012
Pastor Ken Hutcherson of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, thinks Christians have a special calling: to take back the rainbow from the LGBT community.
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April 17th, 2012
Within one week, the Arizona legislature has passed measures banning abortions after twenty weeks and legalizing the teaching of Bible classes in public schools. Is this a dangerous precedent?
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April 2nd, 2012
A district court in Maine has released an internal document from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) outlining the group's strategy for fighting marriage equality.
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March 30th, 2012
Religious activists rallied in San Francisco on March 23 to protest a new federal requirement that would force insurers of religious-affiliated institutions to provide free contraception for employees.
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February 23rd, 2012
The model of "Christianity as masculinity" has developed into a sort of religious trend of late, as if to counteract rapid social changes in gender and sexual identity.
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February 16th, 2012
Catholic and evangelical Protestant church leaders are getting ready to fight U.S. president Barack Obama on birth control mandates for employers, despite a mandate to exempt religious organizations.
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February 13th, 2012
On Monday, 13 February, Washington State legalized gay marriage when Governor Christine Gregoire signed into law a marriage equality bill passed by the state Legislature.
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February 6th, 2012
In a surprising about-face, the breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood after a national outcry.
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