Anti-Bullying Nonprofit Launches Campaign to End Religious-Based Bullying
NEW YORK — Leading Christian advocate for LGBTQ affirmation in faith communities, Justin Lee, will join the team at the Tyler Clementi Foundation as the anti-bullying nonprofit launches its effort to end religious-based bullying. Through the True Faith Doesn’t Bully Campaign, Lee and the foundation will work to change the conversation about LGBTQ people in congregations across the […]
Roberta Kaplan Joins Faith In America Board
Press Contacteliel@faithinamerica.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Roberta Kaplan Joins Faith In America Board New York, NY, April 12, 2016 – On the heels of winning the historic case in Mississippi ending the ban on same-sex couples right to adopt, Faith In America is proud to announce Roberta Kaplan will be joining our board. “Roberta Kaplan is […]
Lance Bass: “Mississippi Anti-LGBT Bill Is Religious Homophobia As Legislation”
Press Contacteliel@faithinamerica.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mississippi, April 4, 2016 – While all eyes have been on North Carolina’s draconian anti-LGBT legislation, the Mississippi House introduced House Bill 1523 (HB 1523), which would allow individuals to deny LGBT persons services, housing, and even employment. HB 1523 is a response to the gains in LGBT equality across […]
Watch this very moving film at the petition “Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is not a sin!”
I believe the time has come to end the harmful teachings by some religious denominations that being gay (LGBT) is a sin, or whatever words they use to demean, call evil, and cause enormous pain to LGBT people, especially our youth. More and more people are changing their minds….from evangelicals to Presbyterians to Catholics to […]
N.C. ‘Christian leader’ compares LGBT individuals to excrement
Welcome to the “Christian” group lobbying for N.C.’s bigotry-filled RFRA measure Tuesday, April 6, 2015 Faith In America News Release In a 2008 article posted at the socially conservative web site, RenewAmerica, Rev. Mark Creech said that putting gay civil rights on the same plane as religious liberty would be like giving fecal matter the same importance as […]
When misguided religious teaching gives way to truth
Monday, April 25, 2015 By BRENT CHILDERS Faith In America executive director As the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear marriage equality arguments today, we’d like to look beyond today’s formality hearing to that day when the majority of the court decides the matter. For all of our supporters who have been with the […]
Supreme Court justices must not fear ending debate and closing minds
…to prejudice, misunderstanding and fear. Tuesday, April 26, 2015 By BRENT CHILDERS Faith In America executive director Listening to the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments today for marriage equality, it is worth noting that attorney Mary Bonauto began her comments by talking about a stain of unworthiness that is placed on gay people by state […]
News Release
March 31, 2015 Heritage Foundation says American Muslims should be free to discriminate based on Islamic teaching Heritage needs history lesson: America doesn’t sanction religion-based bigotry Faith In America, a nonprofit organization working to end religion-derived derogation toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, is demanding the Heritage Foundation explain its position that Muslim business […]
Schools should never sanction or embrace religion-derived derogation toward minorities
Faith In America hopes members of the Catawba County School Board attended one of the performances of “Almost Maine” that was presented Thursday through Saturday at the Salt Block Theater in Hickory, N.C. The school board should also make a public statement about the school system’s support for inclusion and diversity as worthwhile educational objectives. […]
Educational institutions must not sanction hostility toward minorities
Immediate Release January 17, 2015 Duke University and Maiden High School have bowed to different forms of bigotry Faith In America today expresses its deep disappointment in Duke University’s decision not to allow a Muslim prayer to be broadcast from its campus tower and stands with students who would like the prayer call broadcast weekly […]