Category: Inclusion

While the Justices did not grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans blatantly, I, like so many in our community, was hoping the case would render once and for all a cease-and-desist order; thus, resolving the God versus Gay rights dispute for those who want to codify discrimination against us under the guise of religious freedom.

Pope Francis is the consummate flip-flopper of our time. He doublespeaks on issues - first he defends the abusive priest and now he doesn't. He embraces the LGBTQAI community and then he doesn’t. His pastoral demeanor cloaks the iron - fisted church bureaucratic that he is.

Because topics of race in this country are too often talked about in black and white terms, the history of discrimination against other minority groups gets overlooked. Case in point, the Japanese-American internment is not talked about and not often taught, if at all, in American history books.

while UMC states that we have and are of the same sacred worth as heterosexuals, and that the church is committed to the ministry of all people regardless of gender identities and sexual orientations. However, the church also views queer sexualities as sinful.

Scott Lively is accused of persecuting LGBTQI people abroad, resulting in the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill he helped engineer in Uganda, which is a crime against humanity under international law.

you wonder if he were a white student standing naked and obviously in distress along Cambridge Common in Harvard Square would he have been so dehumanized and humiliated.

Boston was once an intellectual haven with activist circles of feminism in its heyday. Today it is mostly a forgotten history, which is one of the reasons for “Left on Pearl” documentary.

Black little girls of my era weren’t seen on television. Before my era, watching old black and white films of the cherubic child star of the 1930’s, Shirley Temple, only reminded me I could never be America’s little darling.

Looking at the arc of Graham’s public ministry, from the 1950's to the present, the outpouring of grief has overlooked his damaging and damning messages toward and about LGBTQ Americans.