Marriage and Family

Religious study: Gays not "godless" "Christian bashers"

This breaking news in from The Barna Group -- a chronicler of religious life and habits, particularly of the Christian variety: Gay folks' attitudes about spirituality aren't much different from strai  read more »

Petitioners to Mormons: Soften gay marriage stance

group of current and former Mormons at odds with the church's position on gay marriage and its political activism to ban it has launched a Web site asking the faith to soften its stance.The site, htt  read more »

Obama Signs Memorandum Expanding Benefits for Same-Sex Couples

The extended benefits include an option for employees' domestic partners to be added to a government insurance program that pays for long-term conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Gay Loggers for Jesus to march in Bozeman

City officials have approved a parade request for the Green Coalition of Gay Loggers for Jesus.
They're all lumberjacks, and they're o.k.

Christian conservatives fight expansion of hate-crimes law

Conservative Christian leaders are fighting a bill that would provide federal hate-crimes coverage to gays and lesbians, prompting questions of who, if anyone, should be protected by such laws.

Hookers for Jesus founder, Christian rocker wed in Vegas

Annie Lobért, who founded Hookers for Jesus, and musician Oz Fox of the Christian band Stryper said their "I do's" at the Church of South Las Vegas in front of an applauding crowd and an audience on  read more »

Abortions More Frequent For Private Religious School Students

There's an interesting new study reported in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior showing that unwed pregnant teenagers and women in their 20s who attend or have graduated from  read more »

Would Jesus be silent on porn?

The latest installment in the American obsession with gay marriage comes from Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who said in the Miss Universe competition that she opposes gay marriage and was immediate  read more »

SoCal pastor protests ban on gay marriage

The pastor of a San Marino church has said he will not perform any more wedding ceremonies in California until the state's same-sex marriage ban is overturned.The Rev.  read more »

Backers of Gay Marriage Trumpet the Mormon Church's Work Against It

As more states take up the debate on same-sex marriage, some advocates of legalization are taking a very specific lesson from California, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dominate  read more »

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