LGBT
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Report
With New Pope, a More Open Catholic Church?
Alison Donohue teaches college writing in Hawaii, but her preference is to be back in a Catholic school, an environment where she spent more than …
By Michael O’Loughlin![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Brintnall-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Essay
What Marriage Equality Isn’t
The Supreme Court’s recent decisions concerning same-sex marriage have been heavily touted as victories for the LGBT community. The material benefits that accompany marriage and …
By Kent L. Brintnall![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DOMA-584-x-3801-257x208.jpg)
Essay
The End of DOMA and the Dismantling of the “Straight State”
Advocates for marriage equality came away from yesterday’s Supreme Court pronouncements on same-sex marriage more jubilant than battered. But there was plenty of hurt to …
By Sarah Barringer Gordon![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/O’Loughlin-584-x-380-correct-257x208.jpg)
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Being Gay at a Catholic University
When I was a student at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 2005, a group of gay students organized with the aim of …
By Michael O’Loughlin![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ChuGettyImages_83721671-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Review
Surveying a Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in AmericaBy Jeff ChuHarperCollins, 2013 Of all the songs in the “dog-eared …
By Win Bassett![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SupremeCt.-584x380-257x208.jpg)
Report
Same-Sex Marriage Comes to the Supreme Court
On March 26 and 27, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases—one challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the other California’s Proposition …
By Calvin Massey![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gaga-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Profile
Idol Worship: The Beatitudes of Lady Gaga
One evening in the spring of 2011, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady Gaga, rolled down the window of her car to …
By Xarissa Holdaway![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Churchsign.GettyImages_83545366-584-x-3803-257x208.jpg)
The Table
Why My Church Avoids Taking Political Positions
It’s surprisingly tempting for pastors like me to devalue, of all things, Jesus. I was in a conversation just the other day with an awesome, …
By Dave Schmelzer![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Large-Mormon-diversity-257x208.jpg)
Essay
2012: The Moment of Mormon Diversity
While he officially secured the Republican nomination last March, Mitt Romney’s primary victories in January 2012 all but guaranteed that, for the first time in …
By Max Perry Mueller![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1017-Frykholm-Gerber-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Review
To Be Straight, Thin, and “Healthy”
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical AmericaBy Lynne GerberUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011 Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed …
By Amy Frykholm