LGBT in Religious Communities: A Faith and Human Rights Discussion … class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-8845” alt=”UU_UNO_Spring_Conf_13” src=” The panel discussion on LGBT in Religious Communities, organized as part of the UU-UNO 2013 Spring Seminar, “Sex, Love and Violence: Sexual Orientatio…

The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) has published as a graphic potential outcomes of the United States Supreme Court on Prop 8 and www.marriageequality.org/“>Marriage Equality. A decision is expected from the Court by the end of June….

… class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-8481” alt=”Welcoming_Faiths_logo” src=”Welcoming Faiths Welcomes You This community event addresses head-on the impact of religion and bullying by society on LGBTQ youth and families. 11 area congregations in the Lowell, Andover, and Haverhill Massachusetts…

The following is an invitation from Zach Wahls to participate in a survey conducted by the Boy Scouts of America on the question of equality in Scouting. You can participate whether or not you are a scout – read Zach’s appeal to find out how. – Ed. Scouting was an integral part of my development…

Last week, I got to see Professor and Human Rights Activist Michelle Alexander speak about the racist caste system being created by mass incarceration and the war on drugs. She was speaking specifically about her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness, which was…

Continuing the trend of legislative and electoral victories, Colorado has become the 10th state to approve legislation equalizing the rights of couples joined in same-sex civil union to married couples. The United States Supreme Court hears argument on California Proposition 8 on March 26 and is…

The Unitarian Universalist College for Social Justice, a collaboration between the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, offers service learning trips and programs for youth, young adults, and spiritual leaders to live out UU faith. – Ed. Youth…

Grants available for local action to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery At www.uua.org/ga/past/2012/index.shtml“>Justice GA 2012 in Phoenix, delegates voted to repudiate the doctrine that Europeans used as legal justification for conquest and colonization of the Americas. The GA resolution…

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) plans to review its policy banning LGBTQ membership or participation in May of this year stands in contrast to the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) policy of not discriminating against LGBTQ membership. GSA policy with regard to the sexual orientation of its members,…

The United States Supreme Court is set to hear a challenges to California State Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act – both of which restrict the definition of marriage as a union between one woman and one man – toward the end of March, 2013, with a decision likely near the end…