United Methodist Church ends 40-year ban on LGBTQ+ clergy
The church has long been divided into factions over its stance on homosexuality and gay clergy and even weighed splitting into two separate churches over the issue.
May 1, 2024
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Mormon Church cracks down on trans members, may group them with child abusers
The church has never been friendly to transgender people, but new policies make it even less so.
August 26, 2024
Mormon Leader Denounces LGBT Families as 'Counterfeit'
A member of a church governing body rails against 'counterfeit and alternative lifestyles.'
April 7, 2015
Methodist Bishops Back Choice on LGBT Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage
Bishops recommend that the church allow individual clergy members and regional bodies to decide on these policies.
May 5, 2018
David Archuleta Gave a Master Class in the Mormon Coming-Out
There's a reason many members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints add caveats, pleas, and apologies to their announcements of queerdom.
June 15, 2021
Mormon Church Formalizes Punishments for Trans Members
A new church handbook lays out plans to crack down on gender transition, be it medical or social.
February 19, 2020
Escaping Westboro: Former Church Member Lauren Drain Reveals What Made Her Change
In this exclusive interview, former Westboro Baptist Church member Lauren Drain talks about what she's sorry for, and what she believes is really the source of Fred Phelps' homophobia.
March 14, 2013
Rainbow Flags Torched Outside N.C. Church
The scorched rainbow remains were discovered by church members the following day.
April 12, 2016
Louisiana Church May Split From Conference Over LGBTQ+ Stance
Because some churches are performing marriages for all parishioners and allowing LGBTQ+ people to serve as clergy members, one church is discussing leaving the conference.
October 27, 2022
'Angels' Block Westboro at Orlando Victim's Funeral
Four Westboro Baptist Church members showed up to protest the funeral, but they were largely outnumbered by supporters.
June 20, 2016
WATCH A Phelps Family Member on Leaving the Church Behind
A former member of the Westboro Baptist Church, known for its extreme antigay views, talked with Rosie O'Donnell about being convinced he was going to hell after leaving the family behind.
March 12, 2012
N.C. Church Members Charged With Beating Gay Man to Banish 'Demons'
Five members of the Word of Faith Fellowship face kidnapping and assault charges.
December 11, 2014
Former Westboro Member Poses for NOH8 Campaign
Former Westboro Baptist Church member Lauren Drain posed for the pro-equality NOH8 campaign, calling the church a "cult."
February 10, 2013
PHOTO: Antigay Harlem Church Curses All LGBT Supporters
Any church or church member who supports LGBT people should be cursed with 'cancer, HIV, syphilis, stroke, madness, itch, then hell," according to the ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem.
August 2, 2014
2008 People of the Year: Bruce Bastian
The WordPerfect cofounder and former Latter-day Saints church member donated $1 million to the No on 8 campaign amid the Mormon Church's swath of destruction.
January 11, 2009
How Two Phelps Family Members Become 'Betrayers'
Two of the Westboro Baptist Church family members have left and issued an apology for what they'd done.
February 7, 2013
LGBT Clergy to Methodist Church: 'God Called Us' Here
More than 100 clergy members have come out in a challenge to the church's anti-LGBT policies.
May 9, 2016