A recent poll shows a huge shift in American attitudes toward gay marriage, from a 32 percent approval in 2004 to 53 percent today. I am one of those people who changed their minds.

I've always avoided the subject of the Westboro Baptist Church, for a few reasons. For one, I didn't want to write something in anger, which has proven difficult to manage at times.

Yesterday, the Ohio Senate passed by a single vote a radical bill that would strip most of the state's public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. [...]

State officials are investigating whether religious agencies that receive public funds to license foster care parents are breaking anti-discrimination laws if they turn away openly gay parents.

here's Boehner's absurd criticism of Obama: "A spokesman for Boehner's office criticized the administration change of position.

Radio Report and News Article: Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - NPR All Things Considered:

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is examining whether "gay-only" guesthouses breach new laws designed to prevent people being treated unfairly in the provision of goods or services.

After getting a daylong earful of hateful speech against gays and lesbians during a hearing on the bill, one Maryland lawmaker—Democratic Sen.

...if Republican elected officials* in Iowa get their way:

David Kato knew he was a marked man.

Devout Christian hotel owners who refused to allow a gay couple to share a double room acted unlawfully, a judge at Bristol county court ruled today.

"a music video for lgbtq kids everywhere - now available on itunes"

If David Bahati succeeds in passing the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda, we need to pray for our own deliverance in the United States. [...]

Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is on a glide path to passage. With Olympia Snowe joining Scott Brown and Lisa Murkowski as fully supportive of the standalone bill, at least 61 votes are in hand, and Harry Reid filled the amendment tree to minimize any possibility of amendments.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in a recent interview with Big Think that he believes the country is at a point where it will soon be acceptable to elect a gay president.

"As Congress prepares to hold a vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Liz Cheney — who had come out in favor of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell earlier this year — reiterated the need to lift the ban during a speech sponsored by the National Center for Po …

Drag Queens and Kings.

In 1948, the idea of interracial marriage in the United States was almost unimaginable. The few polls on this topic at the time showed that Americans were nearly unanimous in their disapproval of it.

"Today, one position has emerged as the clear preference of the majority of Americans," FiveThirtyEight reports. "Seventy-five percent of Americans support open service, 17 oppose any service, and only 8 percent support the compromise position of 'don't ask, don't tell.'"

When a majority of troops told Pentagon interviewers this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it represented a sharp break from the past when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women in t …

For the last 10 years sexual orientation has been included in a list of discriminatory grounds for executions – gay rights activists say the vote to remove that listing is "dangerous and disturbing."

Please note that I took the word "Angry" out of this series and replaced it with "Proud". I am deeply saddened by the hate for the homosexuals in this world, but at the same time, despite those posts on here saying things like

It is no secret that bullying in schools is nothing new, but stories around it and the results of it are increasing in occurrences and severity. In November 2010, students wore shirts announcing their straight pride, which is fine. This was in answer to gay pride.

One of the conversations that came up over coffee this morning was Hollywood's portrayal of gay characters. I thought I would share some of what we talked about here with you on this series.

In response to a gay-straight alliance week designed to fight bullying, some high school students in Chicago wore t-shirts for "straight pride" that included a Bibical passage advocating death for gay people.

...that's just what happened recently in Raleigh at the Cameron Village shopping center to a couple of women who were being affectionate with each other when a guard happened by.

Let's pull up a chair and have a little chit chat. People don't want to have homosexuality rubbed in their face, yet they almost force it out of you sometimes.

We hear it in the news, we see photos of the result of it and tombstones are left in the wake of it.

Recently I conducted a poll on here asking some pretty basic questions regarding gay rights. Though you can visit the article yourself for more detailed information, I am going to summarize here what the poll showed and do some follow-up on the subject.

"I didn't want to become a proficient liar," she said.

Two articles / videos: President Obama Films 'It Gets Better' Video To Combat Gay Bullying

I sat in a bathroom, closed doors and my girlfriend was a couple rooms away. I had just disappointed her. My heart was feeling pain.

A FEDERAL appeals court on Wednesday granted the Obama administration's emergency request for a stay against a lower court order lifting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring openly gay service members.

In a Monday interview with the Washington Post, Jarrett said of the family of the teen, Justin Aaberg: "These are good people. They were aware that their son was gay. They embraced him, they loved him, they supported his lifestyle choice."

Christianity has been both a flag ship and a target in the last couple of years. As we come near to an election values of candidates are looked at more on the moral ground then the economic. So I asked myself, if God, the center stone for several of the morality good vs.

New York City police arrested seven gang members accused of beating a new recruit who they discovered is gay, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced.

If someone was getting beat for wearing a rainbow necklace, would you walk on by feeling they deserved it because they must be gay? If a student was getting their books knocked out of their hands because they were carrying a Qur'an, would you laugh?

...[Tyler] Clementi's death last month, following suicides by several other homosexual teens in recent weeks, has also prompted a sharp debate in religious communities, a discussion that includes an unusual degree of soul-searching in addition to the more typical defensiveness.

"Words have consequences, particularly when they come from a faith leader," Joe Solmonese, president of HRC, said in a statement.

Thousands of people took part in Africa's biggest Gay Pride event in Johannesburg on Saturday, aimed at drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals across the continent.

Organisers said more than 18,000 people took part in the protest in the economic capital of South Africa, the only country in the continent which allows same-sex marriages.

A recent case in Texas points out one of the problems that arise when one state won't recognize the marriage laws of another:

Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a "faggot," according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back.

In the late 1700s, something disturbing happened to marriage in Western societies: It began to change. Young people had revolutionary new ideas about the institution and what it meant to them.

Justice has been served. As most of you are probably fully aware, District Chief Justice Vaughn R. Walker, ruling on the case Kristin M. Perry v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has overturned California's infamous "Proposition 8," which banned gay marriage within the State.

A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The lack of support for legalizing gay marriage amongst conservatives is surprising because the push to legalize gay marriage serves conservative aims.

HONOLULU (AP) -- After deliberating for weeks, Hawaii's governor has vetoed a bill that would have permitted same-sex civil unions.

Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder from Bioethics Forum have unearthed a 2007 study in which a doctor from Cornell University defends the practice of surgically cutting girls' clitorises. Disturbing, but his follow-up treatment is even worse..

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Seven years after the Episcopal Church caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, it has done the same thing again — only this time with a woman.

A "Conservative Action Alert" by Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt has gone out stirring up a rumor claiming Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a lesbian. The White House is trying to snuff the issue, denying that Kagan is gay.

All the news had been good for Constance McMillen, who was supposed to bring her girlfriend to her school's privately sponsored prom on Friday. Except that prom was a decoy.

Many people claim that Muslims never speak out against extremism.. Of course this is totally false. One such example is Irshad Manje-- a devout Muslim, but despite numerous death threats she is also a voice for reform in her faith.