by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured, Religion
40 years ago, two nuns, Ann and Marika Jane Savage-Lewis, were outed as being in a relationship by their local newspaper in their small Welsh town. It resulted in them being physically thrown out of their church and hounded out of town. Today, they get to tell...
by admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured, Religion
A year ago, Mormon church leaders released new guidelines for their parishioners: Mormons in same-sex marriages could be kicked out of the church and prohibited from baptizing their children. It even dictated that those children could not seek baptism as adults...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Featured, Religion
For many in the LGBTQ+ community, seeing words like “pastor” or “Evangelical” in the same headline as “homosexuality” or “LGBT” can be triggering. After all, one can only read so many articles about anti-LGBTQ+ preachers or be told that one’s lifestyle is a sin...
by admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured, Religion
Ever since Pope Francis issued a public apology for the church’s treatment of gays, it’s sparked a lot of controversy in regards to religion and homosexuality. Among those controversies is the recent rise of Christians who identify as being gay. According to a...
by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Religion, Transgender
In an overwhelmingly positive voice vote Reform Judaism embraced sweeping transgender rights policies. It’s the largest Jewish movement in the country and these are some of the most far-reaching policies adopted by a mainstream religious organization in the...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Religion
While people consider Pope Francis to be relatively progressive, the Catholic Church remains conservative in many ways. Monsignor Krzyzstof Charamsa came out in newspaper interviews in Italy and Poland, where he is from, announcing that he was proud to be a gay...
