Riverside Reverend Does Right

(The Reverend Brad R. Braxton, Ph.D.) The Riverside Church in the City of New York stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers throughout the United States who suffer from social and legal discrimination based upon their sexual identity.
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White and Black Gays: How to Move Forward Together

The National Black Justice Coalition is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering black LGBT Americans.
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In monastery's ashes, a 'cleansing by fire'

LOS ANGELES: On Tuesday, the monks met with their insurance agent.

Like thousands of other residents of Southern California, the seven Benedictine Anglican monks who lived at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House, on a breathtaking ridge 1,250 feet, or 380 meters, above the Pacific in Montecito, were coming to terms with what they had lost in the fires that have swept across Southern California since Thursday.
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Double Standards and Hints of Violence

One day after State Senator John Campbell announced he is going to introduce a gay marriage bill this legislative session, Campbell received a threat.
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Ex-Gay Michael Glatze Wants All to Accept Freedom-from-Freedom

While gay-affirming Americans rallied for the freedom to marry in 300 cities last week, ex-gay activist Michael Glatze vented some misplaced resentment and boasted that he was glad to be free of his past desire for sexual honesty and for individual freedom.
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GOP Pundit: ‘Armband religion is killing the Republican Party’

Armband religion is practiced by people who wear “faith” on their sleeve, for the world to see, and not in their hearts.
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Views on Prop 8

After the passage of California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in California that stripped LGBT people of their constitutional right to marry, many clergy and people of faith around the country have been offering solace and encouragement to their lesbian, gay and bisexual congregants and neighbors.
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Remember: Faith Communities Can Save Transgender Lives

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20, 2008) is set aside toremember those lost to anti-transgender violence in the last year.
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S.F. Gays Practiced Peaceful Defense against Violent Theocrats

After the passage by antigay Californians of antifamily Proposition 8, peaceful rallies for gay equality and the freedom to marry were held in more than 300 U.
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What to Do about Churches that Abuse Taxpayer Handouts?

The United States government has a long history of subsidizing churches, indirectly, for benefits that churches and other ostensibly non-profit organizations are perceived to provide to communities.
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California Supreme Court May Yet Find Prop 8 Unconstitutional

CNN remembers: In its May 15 ruling legalizing gay marriage in California, the [California Supreme Court] justices seemed to signal that a ballot initiative like Proposition 8 might not be enough to change the underlying constitutional issues of the case in the court’s eyes.
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Stonewall 2.0?

That's a phrase that has been only very recently birthed, refering to the passing of Prop 8 in California as a catalyst for a new phase in LGBT activism, similar to how the Stonewall riot in 1969 birthed the initial phase.
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Trouble at Focus on the Family

Call it karma, but Focus on the Family is now in big trouble. At the group’s peak, it had nearly 1,500 employees.
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The Winds of Change

Few people at the three Proposition 8 protest rallies I attended — two in New York and one in Chicago – were familiar.
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Psalms Of the Soul

A new feature we're bringing to Straight, Not Narrow is to share what LGBT churches and ministries are doing to reach out and make a positive impact in their communities.
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‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Hartline: Gay Protests Caused California Wildfires

Last week, so-called “ex-gay” activist James Hartline tried to swift boat me on an op-ed I wrote about race and Proposition 8.
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From Suicide To Success - One Person Escapes The ‘Ex-Gay’ Trap

This morning, our website received an uplifting letter from a person who shed the bondage of the so-called “ex-gay” trap: “I personally was a virgin at 36yo waiting for God to heal me of my homo “iniquity”.
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"Shake It Off and Move Forward"

That's the advice offered in a post on Bilerico that reflects on the aftermath of Amendment 2's passage in Florida.
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S.C. priest: No communion if you voted Obama

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman, a Roman Catholic priest in South Carolina, doesn't want his parishioners taking communion if they voted for Barack Obama, at least not until after they do penance for it.
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