Showing posts with label Equal Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Equal Rights. Show all posts
Monday, July 1, 2019

Five ways people of faith have led LGBTQ advocacy efforts since the 1969 Stonewall riots

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  June 28 marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, often deemed as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ rights movement. On June 28...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sally Steenland: Repairing Christianity’s damaged brand

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  One of the saddest and most damaging consequences of the Religious Right’s grip on partisan power over the past three decades has been the...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Sally Steenland: There’s more than one way to start a revolution

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  At a time when religion is a damaged brand to many people—especially the young—and when it seems synonymous with intolerance and bigotry r...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Charles C. Haynes: For most Americans, gay equality trumps religious objections

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  In the wake of two favorable Supreme Court decisions, gay-rights proponents got another boost this month with the release of State of the ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Joseph O. Patton: The Great Pretenders

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  Every self-described progressive or person of conscience is quick to tell you how they support social justice and equality. I sure as he...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Joseph O. Patton: No merit badge for bigotry

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  I could spin all sorts of cheerleader-esque rhetoric in response to yesterday’s monumental decision by the Boy Scouts of America. After ...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Gary Palmer: What is the end-game for support of same-sex marriage?

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  When announcing his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama defended his position by saying that his thinking has evolved on the is...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Larry M. Elkin: Evolving under pressure, Obama endorses gay marriage

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  There are two ways, sharply contrasting yet not mutually exclusive, that we can look at President Obama's declaration that he now supp...