California Faith for Equality

07/12/2018

In addition to LGBTQ people and same-sex couples, the amendment would also impact interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other qualified parents to whom an agency could have an objection.

House Republicans want to protect adoption agencies' "sincerely held religious beliefs."

07/05/2018

Many religious traditions teach liberating messages about gender and sexuality that people barely talk about. As women of faith, q***r and straight, we are appalled that religion is so often hijacked to spread hate, because we know the truth: Our respective traditions hold deep wisdom that can advance the flourishing of all creation.

Religion is often hijacked to spread hate, but our faiths teach liberating messages about gender and sexuality.

02/26/2018

The owner said that letting a le***an couple stay at her hotel would have "defiled the land."

02/26/2018

As faith leaders from across Georgia, we believe it is time to move past the political debates over religious exemptions and discrimination that have divided our state legislature over the past three years. Our state has struggled to make sure that the rights of people of faith are protected in a wa...

02/18/2018

I just signed this emergency petition telling Republicans in Congress that we need more than their thoughts and prayers to stop gun violence. I think you should too.

02/15/2018

As people of faith, we cannot limit ourselves to ministering to the survivors and burying the victims any more. We must stop the sacrifice of innocent lives to the idol of brutal weapons. Nations have done so before. We must do so now. We call on the Florida legislature take positive action. This mu...

01/24/2018

Dear White Evangelicals, I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy. For eight years they watc...

01/19/2018

“This policy makes a mockery of religious freedom by turning faith into a weapon to discriminate and harm people simply because of who they are or the health care services they need. It’s outrageous and dangerous to make care for an LGBT person, a woman or anyone else dependent on the personal beliefs of a doctor or emergency care worker rather than on medical necessity.”

– TFN President Kathy Miller, on a Trump administration policy that favors health care workers who refuse to do their jobs if they have religious or moral objections to certain services or to the individuals receiving them.

HOUSTON – A Trump administration plan to protect healthcare workers who refuse to provide services on religious grounds is raising the concerns of civil rights advocates. A presidential order has authorized the creation of a "Conscience and Religious Freedom Division" of the Department o...

01/03/2018

Thank God for the many open and affirming churches in the world who challenge this rejection of the Gospel truth that God loves all people. Yet another symbol of how "American Christianity" has lost its moral standing, More concerned with being a "political" movement rather than the church of Jesus Christ.

There are many open and affirming congregations across the US and the world. www.gaychurch.org. Of course both the United Church of Christ and Metropolitan Community Churches are well known and I am proud to Pastor one of the largest congregations here in the US, Cathedral of Hope.

Megachurches across the US are preaching rejection of LGBT people, a study has found.

12/13/2017

12/06/2017

The press secretary said the president's devotion to so-called religious liberties extends to businesses hanging signs about refusing service to LGBT people.