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HRC Lauds Removal of Provisions in Bill Allowing Churches to Engage in Partisan Political Activity
The Human Rights Campaign lauded action in the House Ways and Means Committee that stripped provisions from H.R. 4250, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, that would have allowed partisan political advocacy by churches and other houses of worship.
World Religions and the Struggle for Equality
Much has been written about the Vatican’s “Instruction” refusing to allow openly gay men enter Catholic seminaries. The first press leaks about the document coincided with the formation of a new effort by the Religion and Faith Program at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in the summer of 2005 that had a twofold mission: (1) to equip religious leaders and lay people alike to speak out about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality from a faith perspective and (2) to work with people of faith to change the conversation about LGBT equality from within their faith communities.
HRC Religion and Faith Director to Address the United Church of Christ 50th Anniversary General Synod
Harry Knox Will Deliver Message on the Future of GLBT People in the Denomination
Religious Right’s Desperate Last Attempts To Stop Hate Crimes Bill
Extremists Embrace White-Supremacist Filmmaker, Invoke Virginia Tech Massacre, Lie About Congressional Record and Use Christ’s Name in Vain
Human Rights Campaign Responds To Catholic Church Barring Same-Sex Couple From Receiving ‘The Body Of Christ’
Human Rights Campaign Religion and Faith Program Director Harry Knox issued the following statement today in response to the Catholic Church barring a lesbian couple from receiving communion.
God and Gays: The Movie
On this week's The Agenda with Joe Solmonese, hear from the stars of a new documentary on GLBT people and spirituality, God & Gays: Bridging the Gap. Turn to XM Radio channel 120 on Monday from 6-8 p.m. ET.