Natick churches targeted with anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism; churches respond with support for LGBTQ+ community
Last Saturday, vandals tore down Pride flags, replaced them with a "Christian flag" and left leaflets with anti-LGBTQ+ messages and a banner that read "Jesus is King" at two churches in Natick,...
New lawsuit attacks protections for LGBTQ kids in foster care in Vermont
The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a federal complaint against the Vermont Department for Children and Families' requirements for foster parents to support LGBTQ youth. The conservative Christian law firm's case alleges...
Op/Ed: United Methodist Church now open to LGBTQ+ Methodists
Earlier this month, United Methodist Church delegates voted to repeal its church's long-held exclusionary stance of its LGBTQ Methodists — meaning, church doctrine, polity, and social standing.
The news...
United Methodist Church reverses decades of anti-LGBTQ policies
From a 40-year-old ban on LGBTQ clergy to a redefinition of marriage as being between "two people of faith," delegates at the United Methodist Church's recent General Convention have reversed decades of...
Op/ed: The right to an abortion is a queer issue
France has just enshrined abortion rights in its Constitution. What's wrong with the US?
We have collapsed the church into the affairs of the state. For example, the recent...
Boston Cardinal praises Pope’s directive to bless same-sex couples, but not as ‘endorsement’ of...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley last week praised Pope Francis's recent directive allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, though the cardinal qualified the praise as not an endorsement...
Protest against Worcester Diocese’s anti-LGBTQ school policy held tonight
A protest against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester's recently announced anti-LGBTQ school policy will take place this evening, Wed., Aug. 23, at the Diocese Chancery on the corner of Elm and...
Catholic schools in Worcester, MA prohibit all LGBTQ+ student expression
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts has a new policy, starting this school year in 21 of its schools, to make students "conduct themselves at school in a manner consistent with...
NH Catholic school ousts teachers supportive of LGBTQ community
The removal of LGBTQ-supportive teachers St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, New Hampshire, has sparked outrage among the school's community, according to a report in the Boston Globe:
Pope Benedict XVI’s era of homophobia comes to an end
Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, died over the Christmas holidays and was laid to rest this week. Many Catholics will recall the legacy of his papacy with mixed feelings.
