Gender & Sexuality
Leave Amy Grant alone
By Tyler Huckabee — December 22, 2022
(RNS) — There is nothing left to kick her out of. She’s free.
Friction over LGBTQ issues worsens in global Anglican church
By Chinedu Asadu, David Crary Of The Associated Press, and Catherine Pepinster Of Religion News Service — December 7, 2022
(AP/RNS) — The divide came into the spotlight four months ago at the communion’s Lambeth Conference, typically held once every decade to bring together bishops from the more than 165 countries.
Asexual Latter-day Saints face an added dilemma: Finding their place in a tradition focused on marriage
By Loretta LeMaster and ben Brandley — December 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — Recent years have put more attention on LGBTQ people’s struggle for acceptance in the LDS church, but asexual Latter-day Saints face unique challenges.
Some churches leave UMC through formal process; others are suing
By Yonat Shimron — December 6, 2022
(RNS) — Legal action — or the threat of legal action — represents a new strategy on behalf of churches that want to leave the 6.4 million-member United Methodist Church.
Over the weekend, fusions of faith and extremism at drag show protests across country
By Jack Jenkins — December 6, 2022
(RNS) — Nazi sympathizers waved Christian flags at multiple drag story hour events.
Why I stay: LGBTQ people of faith find ways to belong where doctrine rejects them
By Kathryn Post — December 6, 2022
(RNS) — 'You don’t have to give up your faith to be who you are,' said one LGBTQ Christian.
Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized
By David Crary, Mariam Fam, and Edna Tarigan — December 6, 2022
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — LGBTQ people routinely are rejected by their families, denounced by Islamic authorities and limited to clandestine social lives.
For Indonesia’s transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace
By Sharyn Graham Davies — December 6, 2022
(The Conversation) — Indonesia has criminalized same-sex sexuality, but trans people are finding support in some trans-inclusive mosques and churches.
Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on campuses – and courts are deciding
By Charles J. Russo — December 6, 2022
(The Conversation) — Yeshiva University’s legal case has garnered national attention, but several similar cases are underway.
Orthodox Judaism can still be a difficult world for LGBTQ Jews – but in some groups, the tide is slowly turning
By Orit Avishai — December 6, 2022
(The Conversation) — Orthodox Jewish communities are still difficult places for many LGBTQ people. Yet the view, once ubiquitous, that Orthodox tradition is incompatible with their identities is gradually shifting.
LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges
By Yonat Shimron Of Religion News Service and Giovanna Dell'orto Of The Associated Press — December 5, 2022
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP/RNS) — Tensions endure at many of the hundreds of US Catholic and Protestant universities.
Eastern University on hold from CCCU after dropping ban on LGBTQ faculty
By Yonat Shimron — November 14, 2022
(RNS) — The school has amended its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement.
Birmingham ministries host LGBTQ-affirming student fair amid Samford pushback
By Kathryn Post — November 4, 2022
(RNS) — The event takes place months after Samford University disinvited LGBTQ-affirming ministries from its annual ministry fair.
Calvin University board votes to keep faculty who disagree with stand on sex
By Yonat Shimron — November 2, 2022
(RNS) — Many professors at the 146-year-old school no longer hold that sex outside of heterosexual marriage is sinful. The university gave them permission to dissent on that issue.
Will the Supreme Court recognize a religious right to abortion?
By Mark Silk — October 26, 2022
(RNS) — We’ll find out soon enough.
