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  • Catholic bishop: Same-sex marriage ‘endangers religious liberty’

    YAKIMA, Wash. — Same-sex marriage “jeopardizes freedom rather than expands it,” and “endangers our religious liberty and the right of conscience,” according to Bishop Joseph Tyson, the Catholic bishop of Yakima, Wash.

  • ‘Religious liberty’ for me — but not for thee

    Religious Liberty is a buzzword within conservative circles, with organizations like the National Organization for Marriage, Focus on the Family, and the designated hate groups the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, attempting to assert that granting full equality to LGBT people would infringe upon individual religious freedom…

  • Holy Wars are not about traditional human values of freedom and equality

    You can hold all the traditional values you want, but nothing will make those values rational, sane or relevant to reality, if they have been born of superstition. Sadly, in the eyes of the religious conformists, it seems that rational values are non-traditional. The upsurge in violence and intimidation against LGBTQ people and other minorities is not just physical, it is soul destroying.

  • U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal on Christian group’s discrimination suit

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from Christian groups in a federal lawsuit that challenged a discrimination policy of the California State University system.

  • Rational argument is not immune to religious manipulation

    There has been so much effort put into overcoming the religious authoritarian control over human societies and individuals. … Our achievements towards the freedom to live our lives in natural harmony with each other, without being persecuted for whom we love or wish to marry, is threatened in many cultures, by ignorance…

  • Appeals court rules against Georgia counselor who wouldn’t work with lesbian client

    ATLANTA — It might pale in comparison to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision against Proposition 8, but the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled on another gay rights case this week.

  • Freedom to Marry vs. NOM on who should decide who gets married

    Jeremy Hooper at Good As You calls our attention to Sunday’s televised “debate” on same-sex marriage between Freedom to Marry President Evan Wolfson and National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown.

    • 2011

  • Catholic bishops vow to defend religious liberty, fight gay marriage

    U.S. Roman Catholic bishops on Monday vowed to defend their religious liberty, and in calling the growing acceptance of gay marriage an attempt to marginalize their faith, launched a new website aimed at promoting traditional, heterosexual marriage.

  • Why I get a nagging feeling every time I hear the phrase ‘religious liberty’

    I almost understand the argument of “religious liberty.” But then comes that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that just won’t go away – the feeling that “religious liberty” is just another way of saying “allowed discrimination” and that some folks will use the phrase to deflect attention from the victims of this “allowed discrimination.”