marriage equality

Many rejoiced after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-same marriage nationally in late June. Others jeered. But whatever a person’s take on the Court’s ruling, Americans at this historical moment…

Christians are just too gullible. That’s the message from Ed Stetzer, writing at Christianity Today, about internet hoaxes masquerading as news that duped Christian readers who then shared them widely…

Plus news from Turkey, South Korea and more, in RD’s Global LGBT Roundup.

Today Americans United for the Separation of Church and State launched a new project, Protect Thy Neighbor, aimed, organizers said, at the overuse of religious exemptions in legislatures and the…

Last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn remaining state laws banning same-sex couples from getting married generated apocalyptic responses from America’s Religious Right and their…

AL.com reports that Win Johnson, the director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of Courts in Alabama, which operates the state’s judiciary headed by Chief Justice Roy Moore, has written…

As she scaled the flagpole on the state capital grounds in Columbia, South Carolina this morning to remove the Confederate flag, Bree Newsome recited Psalm 27 (“the Lord is my light and my salvation…

Today’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, striking down state bans on same-sex marriage, is an ode to love—and the law. Authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was joined by the Court’s four…

Mexico: Catholic bishops perform anti-marriage-equality exorcism At conservative journal First Things, intern Matthew Young contrasts the “weak” opposition from Irish church leaders to the marriage…

Vatican: Pope will meet married gay activist; warns against “secularism and relativism” A Paraguayan LGBT organization announced that it has received and accepted an invitation to meet with Pope…