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Adventist Pastor Forced To Resign Over Step-Daughter’s Wedding
Recently, Brett Hadley, a Bible teacher, pastor and drama coach at Highland View Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Maryland, was forced to resign. The reason: he participated in the wedding of his step-daughter, who entered into a same-sex marriage. When the family planned this event as a family dinner, no one guessed it would result in…
Read MoreSaints Bring Hope On World AIDS Day 25th Anniversary
World AIDS Day, which marks its 25th anniversary this year on Dec. 1, supports everyone affected by HIV. The day is dedicated to prevention and treatment, and honors those who died of AIDS—more than 25 million people worldwide. First held in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first global health day for any disease. …
Read MoreThis Is Not The Progress We Deserve
The LGBT movement has made a strong case that gays are just the same as everyone else, and furthermore, our same love deserves equal rights. In the meantime, we are watching the clock unwind on racial justice. The same week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, they struck down Section 4 of…
Read MoreCatholic Coalition Supports Theologian Criticized By Rome
Equally Blessed released the following statement in response to the criticism of Just Love, by Sister Margaret Farley, a Catholic theologian emeritus at Yale University, released today by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “We are saddened, but not surprised that the Roman Catholic hierarchy has found fault with the valuable…
Read MoreSay “I Do” To Marriage Equality
Say "I Do!" to Marriage Equality
Read MoreCatholic Bishops, Knights Of Columbus Must Cut Ties To NOM
Equally Blessed, a coalition of four Catholic justice organizations, today called on the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, to publicly disassociate themselves and their organizations from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). The group wrote to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New…
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