A pastor with ties to Republican Senator Ted Cruz has claimed that God created the deadly wildfires in California to punish the state for accepting gay people. Kevin Swanson has a history of making anti-LGBT statements. Last year, he claimed that Hurricane Harvey was a ‘punishment’ from God for Texas rejecting an anti-trans law and that…
Americans are conflicted over whether Christians like Colorado baker Jack Phillips should have the right to refuse service to queer customers. In handing a narrow victory to a Christian baker who refused to make cakes for a gay wedding, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to punt a bigger question down the road: whether Americans can use religion to justify discrimination against LGBTQ people.
Sometimes progress can be a painfully slow slog; and sometimes it happens with shocking speed. Watching the video of Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds performing for 30,000 screaming fans at the LoveLoud Festival, it was impossible not to be struck by how far we’ve come, how fast our society has transformed, and how radically different our future will be…
In January, a colleague of mine at Human Rights Watch predicted that 2018 would be the “year of the courts” for LGBT people’s rights. Seven months into the year, courts around the world have indeed come down with important rulings that help secure those rights. Their decisions show that judges in many countries…
The attorney general’s new ‘Religious Liberty Task Force’ will ensure that the Trump administration’s program of discrimination against LGBT people and others continues unchecked. Sadly it is no exaggeration, no hyperbole, to say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a holy war on LGBT people, LGBT equality, and LGBT rights on Monday.
The idea that gay people can be ‘cured’ is nonsense, but boy is it persistent nonsense. Despite the best efforts of experts, campaigners and lawmakers, faith-based groups that believe it’s possible to ‘convert’ gay people into heterosexuals continue to operate on the fringes of society.
It was a controversial yet common refrain about suicide, Mormons and LGBT people in Utah, this time from daytime TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. “The leading cause of death for Utah kids, ages 11-17, is suicide,” she said during an episode that aired last month. “Suicide in Utah has increased 141 percent because of the shame they feel from the Mormon Church.”
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