An interfaith gathering of healing and solidarity

The Islamic Association of Greater Hartford (known more colloquially as the Berlin Mosque) at 2:30 p.m. this Friday. Faith leaders will join to oppose the hate and stereotyping of Muslims, immigrants, Hispanics, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community of the recent bruising election. The community will also collect non-perishable food items for the poor and …

Sister Dolly Parton? Preach it!

Dolly Parton went on Larry King recently to reiterate that Christians aren’t put here to judge — really any one, but particularly members of the LGBTQ community.

Welp, we have some more work to do on the Pope

Just kidding. I mean who am I to work on the Pope. but some remarks he made yesterday were disappointing, and not just to the LGBTQ crowd. In a private meeting with bishops from Poland, Pope Francis said that  schoolchildren are being taught they can choose their gender as part of what he called an “ideological …

We are, in fact, one community

Here. Read this, a joint statement from Muslim and LGBTQ groups that condemns the horrible shooting in Orlando.

Bobby Jindal shows his stripes

Earlier this month, Gov. Jindal’s Executive Order BJ 15-8 essentially cleared the path to discriminate against the LGBTQ crowd, just ‘cos. This order seeks to accomplish what an earlier Louisiana state bill addressing so-called “religious freedom” tried to do, but it was rejected by the state legislators. Read what the National Organization for Women says …

If “religious” people can raise money for a pizza joint…

…what might we all do for runaway/homeless youth? Check this out. And then please consider donating to the True Colors Fund. For more on people donating to a pizza joint (Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana) that won’t (knowingly) cater any wedding for the LGBTQ community — and good Christ, who orders pizza at a wedding, …

So while we’re on the issue of “religious freedom”…

(Which of late has been a legal notion best interepreted as “screw you, my religion is better than yours“): (With a side order of “My religion tells me to hate you.”) (To which the only response is: “Baby Jesus is crying, yahoos.”) The Republican-controlled Indiana House of Representatives has passed a bill that would, as …