Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap
At People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog this week, I posted highlights…
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Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap
LGBT news from around the world
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A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America
My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us.
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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?
“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders–some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves–will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”
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For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town
The International Organization for the Family rolled out its “Cape Town Declaration” in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the “critical role” of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization.
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Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire
At the fire site, chaplains have carried flowers and photographs through the fencing to create a makeshift shrine, because the building is still sealed off from the public.
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Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap
APCOM produced an animated video about the Yogyakarta Principles, which have provided a foundation for…
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Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights
If you have the privilege of being able to “wait and see” how the Trump administration comes after your family, please use that safety to speak out.
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The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery
Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected.
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Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump
To many, Catholic support for Trump feels like a repudiation of the Catholic social justice tradition.
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