No, The Anglican Communion Did Not Suspend the Episcopal Church
By Frank Kirkpatrick Just when you thought the travails of the Episcopal Church in the United States (known as TEC)
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LGBT issues
Papa Francisco, Si; Catholic Social Teaching, Not So Much
By Andrew Walsh America loves a papal visit. For the tenth time since the Pope Paul VI made a
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Same Sex Marriage Comes to Alabama
On Friday, February 6 of this year, Callie Granade, a federal judge in the Southern District of Alabama, ruled the state ban unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. But the course of same-sex marriage in Alabama did not run smooth.
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Tough Times for Mormon Orthodoxy
Watching the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struggle to control its public image has been a study in the difficulty of maintaining orthodoxy in the age of instant communication. When podcaster John Dehlin was excommunicated earlier this week for apostasy – his offenses included “spreading” his dissenting views “widely via the Internet” despite orders to stop – he announced the decision on a radio show, and posted the letter explaining the reasoning behind his ouster on his Mormon Stories website.
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Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty
On June 26, after months of robust public debate, two full days of oral argument, and blanket media coverage, the Supreme Court issued opinions in two same-sex marriage cases
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