The Last Frontier for Gay Rights
For The Washington Post Magazine, Tiffany Stanley, managing editor of Religion & Politics, reports on the struggle for LGBT rights in rural Alexander County, North Carolina. She profiles Mitchell Gold, one of the county’s biggest employers and a gay-rights activist, whose lobbying of religious groups to accept the LGBT community has been a hard sell for local evangelicals. Stanley writes, “What was happening in Alexander County was a version of the debate unfolding in recent years in towns across the country, places where the laws have swiftly changed but deeply held beliefs have not.”