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When Conservatives celebrate votes to oppose same-sex marriage, they’re overlooking the financial bonanza that same-sex marriage can bring to a state.
A new study dispels some common myths and should help the religious left understand its growing political power.
If adding sexual orientation to the hate crimes law saves just one life, it brings redemption (and safety) to us all.
Bishop Spong, a compassionate theologian and wise religious leader, has declared that he is finished arguing over whether or not gays and lesbians should be fully welcomed in church and society. What's his logic?
Here’s hoping the president will do the right thing in the wake of this week’s promises to LGBT Americans.
Michael Moore has a talk with Sean Hannity about forgiveness, love, and al Qaeda. No surprises here.
Forgiveness? Social justice? Not in the new conservative Bible, where the “full free-market meaning” of the Good Book is now revealed.
The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary thinks so. But here’s why he’s wrong. And why his own statement is more profane than he thinks.
It's not as if churchgoing has been a reliable indicator of a president's goodness, but still, it might be politically useful for Obama to sit in a pew from time to time.
This weekend’s premier religious right gathering saw same-sex marriage score low in a poll. Has something significant happened?
We want our heroes, blameless, pure...even sexless. But even Jesus was human.
In Canada getting married to your same-sex partner is just a matter of filling out the paperwork. So we did.
The truth is that Americans’ lives and wallets are both in danger if we don’t reform health care. A proposal to out-negative the naysayers.
Or, as I would have titled this post, if not for the delicate sensibilities of the RD editors, "God Breaks Wind on Lutherans."
The Institute on Religion and Democracy tells us that the ideal of romantic love is weakening the bond of marriage. Perhaps they’d like a return to the whole “women as property” thing? Or is it that marriage is solely for procreation?
Don't confuse AAA with AFA: one is a venerable roadside assistance company that gladly offers family discounts to gay and lesbian couples, the other is a right-wing group that would like to strand vulnerable people by the side of the road.
No matter what Welton Gaddy might hope, anti-gay religious groups are not interested in finding common ground on marriage equality—they need the conflict to fill their coffers.
Columnist Dan Gilgoff, in reporting on the conflict between gays and ex-gay ministries, forgets that there are, in fact, happy, healthy, gay Christians.
A new campaign from the religious right, “The Civility Project,” aims to solve difficult social issues with politeness. What’s the real agenda here?
It's great that the former president is speaking out against unequal treatment of women but why did it take him 60 years to leave the SBC?
Bishop Harry Jackson, pleading for the president to maintain the ban on same-sex marriage, calls it the number one domestic issue. But what about, say, the unemployment rate? Will the ban help those without jobs?
While many expected LGBT issues to be at the forefront of controversy at the Episcopal Church’s General Convention, presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori stunned some participants by taking aim at narrow notions of salvation.
Instead of praying for “foundations of Satan” to be wiped from the U.S.A., we might instead dedicate ourselves to praying that our own selfishness and tribalism be wiped from the entire planet.
In another stunner from the right wing, a best-selling conservative author discovers that gays can be Christians too.
After pursuing a dialogue with David Gushee, in response to a suggestion from a commenter on RD, I realize that Gushee's "welcoming" church model, though imperfect, is a sign of progress, not regress.