(SFGate) Seven Bay Area gay and transgender pastors were reinstated into the national Lutheran church on Sunday after being barred for two decades from serving in the denomination. It was a day of mixed feelings for the “Bay Area Seven” – the Revs. Jeff Johnson, Megan…

(USA Today) A Lutheran pastor ardently critical of allowing gays into the clergy is on leave from his Minneapolis church after a gay magazine reported his …

(USA Today) A women’s softball coach in Memphis said her team was banned from a church league after learning she was gay.

(HRC Back Story) LGBT movement icons, Frank Kammeny, Fr. John McNeil, Sister Jeannine Grammick, and Charlie Chiarelli, John McNeil’s husband. The following post comes from HRC Religion & Faith Program Coordinator Joanna Blotner: American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) honor WWII vets, Frank Kammeny and John McNeil, at Friday’s Reception This past Friday, HRC’s Religion and Faith Program was honored to co-host a fundraiser with DignityUSA to support the completion of a documentary project capturing the life and legacy of John McNeil, an ordained Catholic priest and psychotherapist and a pioneer in LGBT advocacy.

(GLAAD) Bishop Christopher Senyonjo , chaplain of Integrity Uganda, culminates his coast to coast USA speak out against the “anti-homosexuality” bill in Uganda in New York City. The bill proposes the death sentence for gay people in Uganda—as well as imprisonment of anyone who does not report someone they suspect of being gay. After a week of meetings with White House and congressional officials in Washington, DC , On Sunday, June 13, Bishop Senyonjo preached at the Cathedral of St.

(The Boston Globe) A contributor to the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston said yesterday he regretted a portion of a column that has infuriated gay Catholics in the region. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston – Religion and Spirituality – Christianity – Catholic – Gay Lesbian and Bisexual

(Inside Bay Area) SAN FRANCISCO — The executive director of the California Fair Political Practices Commission says the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was tardy in revealing about $37,000 worth of contributions to pass the state’s ban on same-sex marriages.

(NY Daily News) One of the Jersey Jihadists was radicalized in his early teens and boasted about wanting to mutilate gays and blow up his school.

(SFGN) Ford took that Church, re-named it the Sunshine Cathedral, and made it a power- house in South Florida’s LGBT community. When Ford “retired” in 2008, the Sunshine Cathedral was the largest MCC in the world, serving Read more…

(Times of India) Terming homosexuality as against the tenets of Christianity, the Mizoram Presbyterian Church has threatened to excommunicate and suspend its homosexual members if they were found living together.