Religious Persecution News / LGBTQ Nation

If Leviticus 18 had never been written, would western religions still be anti-LGBTQ?

Prior to the concept of a single God and the creation of holy texts, condemnations against same-sex sexuality were relatively rare.

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Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is tied to Roy Moore

History determines how we frame current events.

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Is Saudi Arabia banning transgender people from religious pilgrimage to Mecca?

Reports say the conservative Muslim country has stopped issuing visas to transgender people.

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Texas pastor prays for God to ‘finish the job’ of killing LGBT people

“These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now.”

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Religious oppression and abuse still pervasive in the LGBTQ South

Those of us living in the South are very aware of the multi-generational religious oppression and abuse that many LGBTQ people face coming from our Christian families, churches, and communities. For many LGBTQ people living…

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The Religious Right’s campaign to strip all citizens of religious freedom

Turn on any cable news show and you'll hear conservatives, particularly the Religious Right, giving long tirades about religious freedom and how the Left is seeking to strip it away from good God-fearing Americans. But if…

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Bullied, gay student suspended after tearing pages from personal Bible

RICHLAND HILLS, Texas -- The American Humanist Association, an atheist rights advocacy organization, has sent a complaint letter to a Texas school district, claiming that administrators violated a student's First Amendment rights when they suspended him…

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Alan Keyes: Gay rights leads to incest, bestiality, persecution of Christians

Conservative political activist and author Alan Keyes returned to “Dr. Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program on Thursday where he made the case that there can be no such thing as a “right to…

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Maryland pastor declares LGBT people and supporters are ‘worthy of death’

A recent town hall meeting sponsored by the Maryland Family Alliance, a coalition working to defeat Maryland's marriage equality law, has inflamed the gay marriage debate on news that a local pastor declared that LGBT people…

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Love is just as biblical as hate

Never forget that the bible was used to justify the Crusades, the Inquisition, and burn heretics. It has been misused to persecute Jews, support Hitler, and fuel the Holocaust. In American history, the bible was used…

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