‘I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.’ –Mitt Romney to Newsweek magazine when asked if he personally had performed ‘posthumous baptisms’ on anyone. Man, when the sh*t hits the fan, GOP Clown Car occupant Mittens is right there in the path of flying feces. He has studiously avoided speaking about his Mormon faith [...]

Today is MLK Day. I am proud to count myself among the many people working for social justice today who stand on the shoulders of Martin Luther King, Jr. Too many people think King’s statements regarding justice are only about race and the African-American community – thus excluding the LGBTQ community. But King said that, [...]

You can’t make this stuff up. In addition, several of those charged have the surname of Mullet. That said, the acts described here are definitely a hate crime. A federal grand jury in Ohio returned a seven-count indictment on Tuesday that charges 10 men and two women with federal crimes related to what the feds [...]

What century is this? This story intrigues me because it makes me wonder how many houses of worship are this racist in this day and age? At Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Pike County, Kentucky, an inter-racial couple, Stella Harville, who is white and who was baptized there and a member of the church as a [...]

Opponents of marriage equality often rely on “time immemorial” type excuses for their anti-gay bias, saying that marriage has been defined as a relationship between one man and one woman for so many thousands of years. How many thousands of years, however, has never been agreed upon. For this reason we’re accustomed to hearing contradictory [...]

Here’s how you throw down against the religion-based bigotry. In the last week we’ve seen embarrassing public spectacles by political leaders and purported men of god in the  media pushing a vote on a marriage amendment, such as Sen. James Forrester,  Johnny “two locks don’t go together” Hunter, and Donald “Faggots!” Fozard. That recent pitiful [...]

By Eric Ethington This past week, I read an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about an openly-gay man in San Francisco who has just been named as a member of the Bishopric in his local Mormon congregation. Needless to say, I immediately tracked him down for an interview. Most of our readers know that [...]

What with people all of a sudden “believing” that Obama is a Muslim, and the efforts by some fringe anti-Constitutionalists to prevent the building of an Islamic community center in Manhattan, a story about Ramadan on National Public Radio last week really captured my interest.  Not because it perpetuated the tired “Muslim = enemy” meme, [...]

The anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called “BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN’T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION (sic) OF CHURCH AND STATE?”.  It features FPIW’s Executive Director Joseph Backholm and appears to be one of a series (in progress) of video responses to each of the FAQs posted on the FPIW [...]