President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military is a disgraceful move that reveals his prejudice and ignorance. The president’s directive is tragically reminiscent of the objections made by those who also opposed the addition of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians to the military. Despite these objections, our army has integrated and grown stronger.
Pope Francis has endorsed civil unions between same-sex couples for the first time since becoming pontiff in 2013. In the book Politics and Society, which consists of 12 printed conversations between the pope and French sociologist Dominique Wolton, he discussed his feelings on marriage equality and explained that he prefers using a different term to describe the union of gay people.
This week, a group of the country’s most prominent evangelical figures released a document condemning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those who affirm them in what they called the Nashville Statement. Read the list of signatories and you’ll recognize the names — presidents of some of the country’s largest seminaries and pastors of burgeoning evangelical churches.
A tweet about gay culture with a heartbreaking twist has gone viral for the best reason. The tweet, which was only written yesterday but has since been retweeted nearly 30,000 times was written by a man from the US. “Gay culture is being a teenager when you’re 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live,” he wrote.
“While there are lots of books about how to plan your gay wedding, there are virtually none that address what to do after the honeymoon is over,” begins author and psychotherapist Michael Dale Kimmel. After seeing hundreds—maybe a thousand—gay couples wrestling with the institution of marriage, he came to recognize that two men in a marriage have different needs and different dynamics than heterosexual and lesbian couples. “There are a lot of aspects of heterosexual marriage that don’t work particularly well for us.
Some of the right wing commentators most desperate for attention blamed the Houston flood on its lesbian former mayor. Among them floating that brilliant theory was Ann Coulter. She, like the Rev. Bobby Jeffress of First Baptist, have been largely marginalized by mainstream media for their stupid comments and have learned that to get the attention they thrive on, they have to say stupider and stupider things.
The Illinois Legislature last week approved tax credits for donations to private school scholarships, but failed to protect vulnerable children and minority employees. Illinois must exclude from the scholarship program schools that discriminate against the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. The new program prohibits private schools that avail themselves of the scholarships from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin, but it does not include a mandate that they protect LGBT students and staff from discrimination.
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