LGBT and religion
Georgia bill aims to protect religious liberty. Opponents say it’s a license to discriminate
By Jeff Amy — February 23, 2024
ATLANTA (AP) — That religious protection bill resurfaced Thursday eight years after lawmakers passed a different version of the measure.
A new biopic about King’s mentor Bayard Rustin has lessons for today
By Andre Henry — December 6, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Rustin’ reminds us what makes nonviolent revolutions powerful.
Church of England synod moves forward with a test of prayers for same-sex couples
By Catherine Pepinster — November 15, 2023
LONDON (RNS) — The vote follows the House of Bishops’ agreement last month to commend ‘Prayers of Love and Faith,’ a collection of prayers and readings for use in existing services. The bishops also approved the prayers as the basis for stand-alone services for gay couples.
‘Refusal to engage’: Gen Z sees gap in support of LGBTQ+ rights among faith groups
By Josh Packard and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza — January 3, 2022
(RNS) — Those looking for accepting communities may need to look outside of traditional houses of worship.
Across Africa, major churches strongly oppose LGBTQ rights
By Chinedu Asadu, Mogomotsi Magome, Rodney Muhumuza, and Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu — October 20, 2021
In Ghana, home to a diverse array of religions, leaders of major churches have united in denouncing homosexuality as a “perversion” and endorsing legislation that would, if enacted, impose some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ policies in Africa. In Nigeria, the umbrella body for Christian churches depicts same-sex relationships as an evil meriting the lengthy prison […]
Court: If bias rules have exceptions, faith groups qualify
By Peter Smith — June 18, 2021
(AP) — A ruling Thursday that favored Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia was far from the constitutional gale wind that would have reshaped how courts interpret religious liberty.
Students at Catholic colleges leave with less positive attitudes toward gay people than their peers – but that’s not the whole story
By Christa Winkler, Musbah Shaheen, and Zach Hooten — June 3, 2021
(The Conversation) — A survey of over 3,000 students found that how much students' appreciation of gay, lesbian and bisexual people increased during college varied by their school's religious affiliation.
Eugene Peterson authorized biography backs up that ‘yes’ on LGBTQ inclusion
By Jonathan Merritt — March 15, 2021
(RNS) — When Peterson died in 2018, many wondered what he actually thought about same-sex relationships.
Religious freedom protects our right to worship. It doesn’t protect discrimination.
By David W. Key Sr. — March 9, 2021
(RNS) — People of faith look the other way as legislators codify discrimination in the name of ‘religious liberty.’
Study finds that queer Christians quit the church twice as much as others
By Kathryn Post — November 6, 2020
(RNS) — A study in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion strongly associated queer identity with a decision to attend church less frequently or stop going altogether.
On LGBT and women’s equality, stark statistical reality is coming for white evangelicals
By Ryan Burge — August 7, 2020
(RNS) — As a social scientist who is also a pastor, I’m sympathetic to the view that God can change young people's hearts on these hot-button issues. But I see no evidence of divine intervention in the data.
Arizona artists win suit over same-sex wedding invitations
By Jacques Billeaud and Jonathan J. Cooper — September 17, 2019
(AP) — Though the state Supreme Court said its ruling is limited to custom wedding invitations, the justices addressed a larger question of religious freedom and LGBT rights than the Colorado wedding cake case.
United Methodist court upholds Traditional Plan’s ban on LGBTQ clergy, same sex marriage
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 26, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — Seven of the 17 petitions that made up the Traditional Plan are unconstitutional and will not be added with the others to the United Methodist Church’s rulebook.
Lodging for spouses becomes Anglicans’ latest battleground over LGBT clergy
By Catherine Pepinster — April 2, 2019
LONDON (RNS) — A university that customarily offers hospitality to convening clergy is bucking the archbishop of Canterbury's attempt to ban same-sex spouses of gay and lesbian bishops.
Pizzeria ordered to pay $4,500 for booting gay rabbinical student
By Paul O'Donnell — February 27, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Though Israel is considered a bastion of gay rights, the case cast a harsh light on this religiously conservative capital's sometimes ugly treatment of LGBT people.
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