The Republic of Ireland is holding a referendum today to decide whether to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. If the vote turns out in favor, it will be a remarkable historical […]
Ireland Comes Home For Equality
I’m relying on your common decency…
A lot has already been said by people far more eloquent than I about the bigoted mess caused by Indiana’s new right to discriminate law. So rather than try to add more […]
How Many Deaths Will It Take?
The morning paper greeted me with the following heart wrenching headline at the top of the opinion section “Deadly Persecution of a Gay Man.” I immediately felt ill, my stomach turned, I […]
A Balance Between LGBT Rights and Religious Liberty Misses the Point
This article has been making the social media rounds for the last twenty-four hours. A doctor in Michigan told a lesbian couple she prayed about it, and felt she could not be […]
The Magdalene Laundries: An Extreme But Horrible Example of a Religious Free Pass
When LDS leaders talk about religious liberty, the examples they share almost exclusively deal with an institution’s liberty to discriminate against individuals, which is really the thing that irks me most. The tension […]
