Posts Tagged ‘Bullying’
A Christian Response To LGBT Teens & Bullying
MLP News Please pray for the friends and family of 14-year-old Kenneth James Weishuhn of Primghar, Iowa. Kenneth took his life on Saturday after being bullied for coming out as a gay teen a few months ago. Kenneth’s friends and family describe him as a happy young man, handsome and full of life. After coming…
Read MoreDo Unto Others: A Blueprint For Religious Leaders On Global LGBTI Rights
On Friday, September 29th, the United States cast a vote against a UN Human Rights Council resolution to ban the death penalty against LGBTI people, effectively jeopardizing LGBTI people’s lives around the world to preserve the death penalty at all costs. Though the US joined Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates…
Read MoreWe Need More Than Outrage
This week has been a challenge. Whenever violence erupts and floods our streets, floods our airwaves, I know I may have to get creative about ways to meet my basic needs and function well enough to hold onto some kind of security in my life. It’s exponentially more complicated because I already occupy tenuous, vulnerable…
Read MoreUnafraid to Follow Stars
Tis the season! Those of us in ministry have spent this Advent rallying our minds, hearts, and spirits to find celebratory tones of hope. I fear that much like our march towards resurrection, without wanting to look at the harsh and ugly realities of state and religious violence that took Jesus to the cross, we…
Read MoreSr. Jeannine Gramick Decries Catholic Silence After Orlando Massacre
49 people were murdered one month ago at Pulse, a LGBT nightclub in Orlando, and 53 more were wounded. These victims, constituting the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, have stirred conversations about anti-LGBT prejudice and violence and prompted many Catholics to memorialize the victims. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, Co-Founder of New Ways Ministry, says…
Read More1,062 Christians Support Transgender Students In South Dakota
Contact: James Rowe Director, Believe Out Loud Email James Rowe 646-723-7826 1,062 Christians Support Transgender Students In South Dakota LGBTQ-Affirming Christians Demand Governor Daugaard Veto HB 1008 New York, NY—Today, 1,062 Christians sent letters demanding that South Dakota Governor Daugaard veto the anti-transgender bill passed by the legislature, HB 1008. This bill singles out trans…
Read MoreMy First Trip Home For The Holidays As Myself
Thanksgiving 2011 was the first time my mother met her eldest son. It was the first holiday I’d spent with my immediate family after coming out as transgender. Earlier that year, I’d written my mom a letter explaining my transition, and my new name and pronouns, telling her how much I loved her and how…
Read MoreHow Queer Evangelicals Brought This Skeptical Journalist Back To Christianity
It happened at the end of recess, after the bell had rung and all the other junior-high kids had gone inside. After beating him in a schoolyard basketball game of “H.O.R.S.E.,” my beefy, mop-topped classmate, whom I’ll call Neil, hurled basketballs at my chest while his friend held my arms back so that I couldn’t…
Read MoreGLAAD Leads Millions In United Stand Against Bullying For Spirit Day
GLAAD, the world’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today showcased the participants for Spirit Day 2015. Each year, GLAAD organizes hundreds of celebrities, media outlets, brands, landmarks, sports leagues, faith groups, school districts, colleges, and universities to go purple in a united stand against bullying and to show their support for LGBT…
Read MoreA Challenge From LGBTQ Fly Over Country
Today is the beginning of Bisexual Awareness Week. There are courageous people, like Faith Cheltenham, Robyn Ochs, and Eliel Cruz, who are called to serve God as activists for the wellbeing of bisexual people. I am also a bisexual person. I am the B in LGBTQ. There have been seasons when I speak up about this and seasons when I don’t. I speak up…
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