In a move anticipated ever since the Minnesota Vikings drafted punter Jeff Locke last month, the team cut punter and fierce LGBT rights supporter Chris Kluwe on Monday morning.

Kluwe announced the news on Twitter, writing "So long, Minnesota, and thanks for all the fish!"

For the past several months, equal marriage supporters around the world have watched with excitement as a marriage and adoption equality bill winds its way through France's parliament. The French people strongly endorse same-sex marriage, and support for the right of married gay and lesbian couples to jointly...

As I paged through Monday's New York Times, a surprising headline greeted me: "Dolan Says the Catholic Church Should Be More Welcoming to Gay People." I was incredibly intrigued, of course -- considering that Dolan is notorious for homophobic comments -- so I read on.

Don't get me...

There have been a few moments in my life -- walking along the winding path down to Omaha Beach, standing in the soul-crushing silence of the gas chamber at Auschwitz, planting my feet on the spot where Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech -- where I swear I...

For Western Christians, Catholic and Protestant, the seven days between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday are the most solemn and sacred days of the entire liturgical year. In fact, that week is so sacred that it's been known as Holy Week since the third century and is commemorated by...

John Eastman, chairman of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, shockingly and patronizingly denigrated adoption in an interview with the Associated Press, calling it the "second-best option" for families.

Eastman wasn't discussing...

President Obama isn't the only one making major marriage equality news today: The American Sociological Association, the national professional organization for sociologists in the United States, has just weighed in on the challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 currently before the U.S. Supreme...

The Associated Press, the world's leading authority on journalistic style, circulated an internal memo Monday afternoon offering guidance to writers, editors, students and public relations specialists on how to correctly talk about same-sex couples. Leaked yesterday, the memo seems to outline a set of rules for gay...

Pope Benedict XVI announced today during a meeting of Vatican cardinals that he will resign the papacy effective Feb. 28. In a statement issued at noon today Vatican time (6 a.m. Eastern Time), the pope wrote, "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I...

Matt Moore is an "ex-gay" blogger for the Christian Post who has written extensively about homosexuality and his alleged journey out of the so-called "gay lifestyle."

"Although I have same sex thoughts on a daily basis, I do not, in any way, feel compelled to ever return...

May 9, 2012, the day that President Obama completed his personal evolution on marriage equality, is a day I will never forget as long as I live. Despite the fact that a flurry of media reports and online chatter that day had led many reporters and LGBT activists,...

This week the Ugandan parliament is expected to begin debating the draconian and barbaric Anti-Homosexuality Bill, also known as the "kill the gays" bill. The proposed legislation -- partly inspired and unabashedly endorsed by several prominent American evangelicals -- would incarcerate LGBT...

By any measure, last week's election marked a watershed moment in the history of the LGBT civil rights movement. The most pro-LGBT president in American history was reelected, marriage equality won at the ballot box for the first time (in three states!), Minnesota beat back a proposed amendment...

Last week Bishop David Laurin Ricken became the latest member of the Catholic hierarchy to enter the political arena when he informed the 300,000-plus members of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., that voting for candidates whose positions contradict any so-called "non-negotiables" of Catholic teaching "could put [one's] soul...

In 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized marriage equality, finding that the state had no compelling reason to "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry." Minor adjustments were presumably needed in the many agencies...

Is it just me, or does it sometimes feel like there's a new story about anti-LGBT spiritual bullying from the Catholic Church coming out every single day?

Here's the latest: Right on the heels of a statement from San Francisco archbishop-elect Salvatore Cordileone that sexually active LGBT Catholics are...

This week's news that Anderson Cooper had finally come out of the closet brought a smile to my face. Sure, it wasn't a watershed moment like the 1997 coming-out of Ellen DeGeneres, but it does carry significance. After all, his show is viewed every night by millions of people...

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