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Catholic charity in India says it will recruit transgender people to fight bias
By Josephine McKenna — October 20, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The decision by Caritas could have implications for Indian society and the rest of the church.
Cool with contraception, Americans divide over transgender bathrooms and wedding services for gays
By Lauren Markoe — September 28, 2016
(RNS) A Pew Research Center poll takes on the religious liberty versus discrimination question.
Preserving the public middle ground on religious liberty, LGBT issues
By Jennifer A. Marshall — September 2, 2016
(RNS) Some say that when it comes to LGBT issues, there is no middle ground. Not true, says Jennifer A. Marshall: 'the United States was made for this.'
Religious traditionalists and LGBT activists should check their passions and compromise
By Jacob Lupfer — August 24, 2016
(RNS) A California bill to protect LBGT rights on college campuses has sparked a raucous debate.
Texas judge blocks Obama transgender bathroom rules
By USA Today — August 22, 2016
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Texas has sided with school districts opposing the Obama administration's directive on transgender bathrooms, temporarily blocking the directive just before on the first day of school in Texas Monday.
US judge says funeral home had religious right to fire transgender worker
By RNS staff — August 19, 2016
(Reuters) A federal judge ruled that a Detroit funeral home that 'operates as a ministry' was exempt from a law protecting transgender employees because of its owner's Christian beliefs.
GOP platform: Plenty for evangelicals to love
By Kimberly Winston — July 19, 2016
(RNS) The Republican Party platform promotes traditional marriage, the First Amendment Defense Act, the sanctity of life and other issues championed by religious conservatives.
Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 14, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical Christians are more likely to believe gender change is morally wrong.
Why civil rights and LGBT equality are joined at the hip
By guest — June 1, 2016
(RNS) The black community and the LGBT community are not mutually exclusive and neither “community” is monolithic. We are interconnected by our humanity.
Israel’s first transgender beauty pageant a rare show of tolerance among faiths
By RNS staff — May 28, 2016
TEL AVIV (Reuters) Israel's first transgender beauty pageant brought together contestants from the Holy Land's main faiths in an unconventional show of tolerance and coexistence.
In a red state, the culture war shifts
By Bobby Ross Jr. — May 27, 2016
EDMOND, Okla. (RNS) In a state where appeals to traditional values have long resonated with voters, the public is angry and willing to boot incumbents over underfunded schools, crumbling infrastructure and failing health and prison systems.
Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students
By Jesse James DeConto — May 26, 2016
(RNS) A small, but growing number of transgender students seek out divinity school precisely because it is a place where they can wrestle with questions about their place and purpose in the universe.
Why the culture wars rage on
By Trevin Wax — May 24, 2016
(RNS) Transgender rights are the latest flare-up, pitting those who view freedom as flourishing within the body we’ve received, and those who view freedom as overcoming and redefining the body.
How the politics behind the bathroom wars hark back to old race-baiting
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — May 19, 2016
(RNS) Officials in many Southern state governments believe the only way they can win re-election is to focus attention on an enemy. Transgender people, it seems, are the scapegoat of 2016.
3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate
By Jonathan Merritt — May 14, 2016
Conservative Christians are repeating the same mistakes they once made in the fight over LGBT rights and marriage. As a result, they are doomed to lose gender debates.
