The Story of Richard and Rachel I have vivid recollections of cross-dressing since the age of five. Virtually every reference I heard or read was derogatory, so it seemed prudent not to tell anyone. Instead, I attempted, unsuccessfully, to submerge my feelings and drive them
In answer to the controversy swirling around the issue of Gay marriage, Robert Murch and Gary Halteman have launched Civil Marriage | Civil Right, a website dedicated to protecting and preserving the right of same-sex couples to civil marriage in the state of Massachusetts by
My very proper Southern grandmother once wisely admonished me never to talk about two subjects: politics and religion. And yet, in light of the recent election, the relationship of those very two subjects is desperate for discourse. Since November 2nd, I have been asked to
Editor: I’m a 19-year-old actor from Carnegie Mellon and I just read your piece People Suck. I’m a Unitarian Universalist and was raised by two women in a Gay and Lesbian Bed and Breakfast on the Potomac River. I loved your piece a lot! Thanks
I have just spent a weekend talking about SpongeBob Squarepants. Was that in my plans for the weekend? No. Would I really have chosen to do that except for the conversation being driven by other people’s near hysteria? No. I have to admit that I
I’m not a big fan of contemporary Christian music. I think it’s safe to say I’m a “Christian music-phobe” – because my fear of the music is probably irrational, but based in solid criteria. Usually the music is fairly pedestrian, lacking any real hook or
Lesbian and gay people, along with our bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters, are spiritual people. It’s true! For more than 35 years, I’ve worked and ministered with LGBT people, and I’ve learned this lesson: Many — I believe, most! — LGBT people have a
Last October I wrote a column for Sightings presenting evidence that African American political participation is directly influenced by the content of black religious beliefs (“Black Churches: Liberation or Prosperity?”). Specifically, my piece suggested that black liberation theology and the prosperity gospel offer radically different
As I sit here at my desk day after day reading the news stories that streak across the news pages of various web sites and newspapers that I read, I become more and more angry each day. Within the last week or so, I have
Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,”