Four states cast votes for marriage equality

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As the nation heads to the polls tomorrow, voters in four states will consider ballot initiatives on same-sex marriage. In Minnesota, supporters of marriage equality have organized to defeat Amendment 1, which would limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman. Catholics for Marriage Equality make this simple argument against the amendment:…

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Marriage Equality Gaining Support In Maryland

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  A new poll has good news for marriage equality in Maryland, with a growing majority of state voters saying they would vote in November to uphold a state law legalizing same-sex marriage. Perhaps just as significantly, support among African-Americans voters has gone up in the past six months. In November, Maryland voters will face…

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Sex, God, Race And AIDS

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Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, Huffington Post It’s been 30 years since AIDS came into focus and dominated the Metropolitan Community Churches with funerals, grief, and love. We were a young, growing, international church. Even with gay men dying weekly, our membership held strong across the country, and churches were being born across the world. Many…

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We Have Faith: LGBT Clergy and People of Faith Speak Out

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By Peggy Gillespie, Co-Founder, Family Diversity Projects We Have Faith: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clergy and People of Faith Speak Out, a museum quality traveling exhibit, is in previews starting during PRIDE and is already booking up in churches, synagogues, schools, universities, and libraries beyond the fall premier venues in New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis,…

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Bishop Gene Robinson’s Keynote Address at MLP Dinner

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Bishop Gene Robinson, Diocese of New Hampshire, addressed over 300 people at the National MLP Celebration Dinner in Pittsburgh, PA. “So the real question for your church and mine is this,” he said, “If you’re not in trouble for the gospel you preach, is it really the gospel?” It was not that many years ago…

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Tony De la Rosa’s Story Of Courage

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By Auburn Seminary John 16:2 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” Tony is the Interim Executive Presbyter for the Presbytery of NYC. Listen to his calm conviction as he speaks about his faith and identity. “People often wonder how I could be serving a church which…

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