Presbyterian Clergy Call for an End to Ban on Gay Scouts

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is actively considering an end to its decades-long ban on gay scouts and leaders. If...

Mr. President, How About Trans People?

President Obama made history by mentioning gay rights and the Stonewall uprising in his inaugural speech last week. Sadie Croft, an...

Longing for Safe Homes, Churches and Nations

Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC), read Isaiah 55:6-11 at President Obama’s Interfaith Prayer Service at...

Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall

When President Obama used the word “gay” in his Monday inaugural address in reference to sexual orientation, it was a first...

We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Back

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Jeanne Manford: “I Have a Homosexual Son and I Love Him.”

Jeanne Manford, founder of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), died last week at 92. PFLAG now has...

Prominent Evangelical Leader Supports Same Gender Relationships

Tony Campolo describes Rev. Steve Chalke as “one of the most prominent preachers in the United Kingdom, and an icon among...

How Same Gender Marriage Strengthens All Our Marriages

In a National Public Radio interview with The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, he discusses how...

Enough of Silence and Erasure

Nineteen-year-old Giles Joslyn took his life in his family’s home on January 5, 2012. The principal of Muscatine High School in...

Epiphany: Prayers to God to Soften My Heart

I stopped regularly attending church the Sunday after Easter in 2009. I had tried diligently to find a church community to...