John Becker

Bristol Palin couldn't let President Obama's historic endorsement of marriage equality pass by last week without throwing in her two cents. In a post on her blog, she tried to turn a story about a civil-rights milestone into one about how she, her mother, and other "Christian female" presidential...

This morning The Washington Post published a disturbing story about Mitt Romney's high-school days at an elite college preparatory school in Michigan:

Mitt Romney ... spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student...

Billy Graham -- I can't bring myself to call him "Reverend" -- issued a statement Wednesday through the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in support of Amendment 1, the constitutional marriage discrimination amendment being put before North Carolina voters next Tuesday. According to Martha Waggoner of the

Is it just me, or are these news items becoming a daily occurrence?

Here's the latest, courtesy of popular LGBT blog Joe.My.God: The office of Baltimore Cardinal Edwin O'Brien required that a pro-marriage-discrimination letter authored by the cardinal himself be read aloud at Mass this past weekend...

Unless you happen to be married to a citizen of a foreign country, re-entering the United States after a trip abroad, adopting a child, or dealing with the death of a spouse (and if you are, my condolences), if you're one half of a legally married same-sex...

Even among the virulently anti-gay American bishops, Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt stands out. More than perhaps any other prelate in the country (with possible competition from New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan), Nienstedt has turned the fight against marriage equality into an all-out crusade. He's inserted a prayer...

Last night the Human Rights Campaign released a slew of previously sealed internal documents from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's largest, most visible, and most insidious group of marriage discrimination proponents. The documents, marked "confidential," were unsealed yesterday afternoon in Maine as part of that state's...

Last week, The Huffington Post reported on a new guide issued by Third Way, an "influential centrist Democratic group," for the purpose of helping lawmakers previously opposed to marriage equality take a public stance in support of the cause without earning the dreaded "flip-flopper" moniker. (Not a bad...

If there was any doubt that homophobic bigotry is the official institutional policy of the Roman Catholic Church, there cannot be any longer.

National Public Radio and The Washington Post reported Friday that Pope Benedict XVI dove smack-dab into the middle of the battle over marriage...

Here we go again.

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento has decided to de-fund Francis House, a local nonprofit agency serving the city's homeless population, because its new director is pro-choice and supports marriage equality.

According to the article, the diocese said as much...

An esteemed Hispanic theologian is the latest victim of the American Catholic Church's apparent campaign to shame and marginalize LGBT people and silence the voices of those who support them.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported last week that Christian Brothers University has withdrawn its support for the seventh annual Gerard A. Vanderhaar...

As we all know, the leaders of the American Roman Catholic Church are engaging in an all-out campaign of spiritual bullying and religion-based bigotry against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, couples, and families:

• New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, recently elevated to the rank of cardinal, made the (ultimately...

Pittsburgh bishop David Zubik caused quite a stir when he recently remarked that by requiring employers and insurers to cover contraception and other FDA-approved reproductive health benefits without an additional co-pay, "the Obama administration [is telling] the Catholics of the United States, 'To Hell with you!'" Zubik's incendiary...

Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign was rocked last week when his second ex-wife, Marianne, revealed to ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross that in 1999, the former Speaker confessed a six-year affair with a staffer and asked her for an open marriage so his relationship with his mistress...

I must confess that I'm truly baffled by the level of support I'm seeing among my friends for presidential candidate Ron Paul. While the number of Paul fans in my circles is relatively small, he nonetheless enjoys the highest level of support from my LGBT-identified and equality-supporting friends out of...

Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt, the same bishop who turned the Catholic Mass and that church's holiest sacrament into a weapon with which to bludgeon LGBT people, does not want dissent within the clerical ranks when it comes to same-sex marriage.

In a dictatorial move, Nienstedt essentially...

Today is truly a momentous day in human rights history. This morning President Barack Obama issued the first-ever executive memorandum dealing with the subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights worldwide and directing federal agencies working overseas to "promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons." Later,...

Our society has made remarkable progress in the fight for LGBT equality in my lifetime. The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was completed this year, and most Americans support ending discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace. In 2010, for the first time, two separate...