Support for marriage equality has increased rapidly in recent years. A new research report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life describes just how and why that support has changed so rapidly in the USA. The opponents of…
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Catholic Lawmakers Promote R. I. Marriage Equality.
Once again, Catholic lawmakers have been prominent in victories for equal marriage, notably in Rhode Island – often described as the “most Catholic” state in the US. In the previous, failed attempt to get legislation through the legislature, this was…
Gay Marriage: Where Next?
The passage of marriage equality in Uruguay will take to fourteen the number of countries where equal marriage applies country wide, either by legislative means (eleven), or de facto by court ruling (Mexico, Brazil). Several more are preparing to follow.…
David Blankenhorn: “Defend Marriage – Support Equality”
When the California Supreme Court a few years ago heard an appeal against the constitionality of Proposition 8, the promoters of the propostion, and opponents of gay marriage, could produce only one supposedly expert witness to argue their case before…
Warm Welcome for “Seventh Gay Adventists”
It’s not only in the Catholic Church that ordinary people are accepting gay and lesbian people in the pews and rejecting disordered doctrine, or only in the more liberal denominations and geographic areas. I’ve written before about “Seventh Gay Adventists: A…
Bishop Gene Robinson, Then and Now
At Huffington Post, Rev Susan Russell reflects on the dramatic progress in public responses to gay bishops, from the time of the election of Gene Robinson in New Hampshire, to his retirement this month, just nine years later. 2003 In…
Catholic Rebellion on Gay Marriage: US – and Italy
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, the US Catholic rebellion against their bishops was widely noted. Most notable in Minnesota, where the bishops devoted huge sums of cash and energy to entrench marriage discrimination in the state constitution, but also…
350 Maine Clergy Say “Vote Yes for Marriage”
A constant weakness in campaigns for marriage equality has been the ability of its opponents to portray themselves as standing up for marriage, supported by religion – and our side as somehow against marriage, and anti-religious. This is patently ridiculous:…
Churches and HIV – learning lessons from the USA
There’s an interesting new report from the USA discussing the failure of African-American Churches to deal with the high rates of HIV within the black population of the USA, and how this failure can be turned around by churches. How…
US Catholics Agree: Gay/Lesbian Relationships Morally Acceptable
Numerous survey results have consistently shown that in the US and elsewhere, Catholics generally support legal recognition of same – sex marriage, more strongly than other Christian groups, but still by narrow margins. What these slim majorities hide, is that…
