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State of Religion

More Light Presbyterians Commend Obama Administration Stand for Global LGBT Rights
This is an amazing moment and a historic shift in global equality work, in the tangible efforts to decriminalize the lives of LGBT people around the world. Read more here >>

Holiday Season Boycott?
Longtime benevolence ministry, the Salvation Army, is answering to anti-LGBT practices through a US nationwide call to boycott. Read this statement considering why or why not you might make this stand. Read more here >>

Why Religion?

We recognize that oppression is most often rooted in religious belief and ideologies of power in which women, people of color and non-gender conforming (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) people are subjugated and subjected to the violence of exclusion. You will find us most often in dialogue with religious leaders, denominations and institutions who discriminate in polity, policy or practice. We are committed to decriminalization of sexual minorities by all church and state sanctioned organizations worldwide.

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News to know

Feb. 2nd - Ask Pepperdine University to Recognize LGBT Student Club

Jan. 30th - HUD Bars Housing Discrimination

Game Over

Jan. 27th - Soulforce Equality Ride – We’re Off to a Great Start!

Jan. 22nd - Equality Ride Co-Director Writes Op-Ed in the Advocate

Jan. 16th - PFLAG: A Letter from a Soldier to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Ask Pepperdine University to Recognize LGBT Student Club

At Pepperdine University, a private institution affiliated with Churches of Christ in Malibu, California, university administrators have refused to officially recognize the school’s only LGBT club, Reach OUT. The administration has claimed that the messages sent by Reach OUT, which functions similarly to a Gay-Straight Alliance, conflict with university policy on sexual activity, despite the …

By Equality Rider Ryan Barnette I remember the game well. A kid would pick up a ball on our elementary school playing field. We would then yell, “He’s the queer—get him!” We chased him through the football field, around the swing sets, and onto the baseball diamond, where we finally knocked him over and jumped …

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