One of the largest churches in Edinburgh has voted to split from the Scottish Episcopal Church amid tensions over its decision to become the first Anglican body in the UK to endorse gay marriage.

While health insurance and physician access improved in gay men, the same was not true for lesbian women

Government guidance that would silence church schools on the issue of gay marriage is “legally flawed”, a top human rights …

  The U.S. Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, along with recognizing a Colorado baker’s religious rights, showed the battle over issues related to same-sex marriage are far from over. The decision was a setback for gay-rights activists seeking to trump the Constitution’s protections for religious rights. Now the Supreme Court is being asked to review the case of a judge […]

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Deputies in the country are devising changes meant to update the constitution from Soviet-era 1976.

This is serious.

The note warned residents in Hobart to "repent."

Gay-rights supporters who thronged the Supreme Court plaza after justices declared same-sex marriage a constitutional right expect to have little to celebrate if Brett Kavanaugh replaces Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of all the court’s major gay-rights rulings.

Access to marriage improved gay men’s health by increasing the probability they would have health insurance, a primary-care physician and regular checkups.

The Rev. Franklin Graham criticized pro-gay marriage comments made by the former President Jimmy Carter by saying that gay people will receive the same punishment as the Biblical towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. After a 2015 HuffPost Live interview Carter gave where he said Jesus would have approved of same-sex marriage resurfaced, Graham took to Facebook to express his dissent. “He is absolutely wrong when he said Jesus would approve of gay marriage,” the son …

Former President Jimmy Carter said he belives Jesus would approve of same-sex marriage — and at least some abortions. by Dave Bohon

New findings from Vanderbilt University offer a good reason to tie the knot and fight to protect marriage equality.

With the exception of abortion, Carter says he's never seen "any serious conflicts" between politics and his religious faith

"If we have any hope of protecting Roe v. Wade, gay marriage, voting rights, and civil rights, we need Democrats to be united against Trump's sure-to-be extremist pick."

Men and women in same-sex households are still significantly less likely to have health insurance.

Jimmy Carter has admitted that he believes gay marriage would be fine in the eyes of Jesus.

By hitching the future of the movement to the vehicle of marriage, the historian suggests, gay people paid a price that may be too high.

The former president has "no problem" with gay weddings, though he adds that churches shouldn't be forced to perform them.

Former President Jimmy Carter declared Sunday that Jesus Christ would approve of same-sex marriages and abortions in the case of rape, incest and danger to the mother.

The Archbishop blocked his participation due to the priest urging Catholics to support same-sex unions

In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Roberts, Alito and Gorsuch all endorsed Kennedy’s antidiscrimination view.

A Marquette University professor was improperly suspended after he publicly criticized a graduate student by name on his politically conservative blog, leading to threats against her, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday, the Journal-Sentinel reported. The court ordered the Jesuit university to immediately reinstate embattled political science professor John McAdams — who's been suspended without pay for the last seven semesters — and sent the case back to a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge to award damages, including "unimpaired rank, tenure, compensation, and benefits." McAdams argued he was targeted for exercising freedom of speech, which took the form of a blog post criticizing a student instructor he believed shut down debate against gay marriage, The Associated Press reported. But the private college argued it was all about him naming the instructor and linking to her website that contained personal identifying information, the outlet said. “That’s not academic freedom; that’s cyberbullying,” Ralph Weber, Marquette’s attorney, told the AP …

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Marquette University shouldn’t have fired a conservative professor over his blog post that criticized a student instructor he believed shut down discussion about opposition to gay marriage.

Professor John McAdams claimed he was fired over a blog post excoriating a graduate student for refusing to allow criticism of gay marriage in her class.

Dixon, California’s Vice Mayor Ted Hickman faces increasing outrage from residents after he wrote a hateful column titled “That’s Life,” in Dixon’s Independent Voice newspaper. Hickman wrote that the LGBTQ community has an “inferiority complex” and declared July to be “Straight Pride American Month.” He also referred to Gay Pride Month as “LGBTQF-WTF month.” “We are different from them. … We work, have families, (and babies we make) enjoy and love the company (and marriage) …

Reporters Liam Stack and Elizabeth Dias offered a Thursday New York Times story headlined “Why the Supreme Court Opening Could Affect Gay Marriage as Well as Abortion.” Besides taking sides on the issue of gay marriage, resumed the paper’s bad habit of superfluous ideological labeling, with ten “conservative” references in the 1,200-word report compared to a single “liberal” label, in the first sentence. After that, the paper referred to the left-wing support for gay marriage with the friendly term “L.G.B.T. groups.”

Could there one day be a President Avenatti in the White House? As the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her defamation case against President Trump and his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Avenatti is already Trump's foe, and he suggested on Wednesday that he wouldn't mind becoming his political rival, too. "IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him," he tweeted in response to a person asking if he'd run. "We can't relive 2016. I love this country, our values, and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed." He also revealed he's "solidly pro-choice," and would never "nominate a justice to the SCOTUS who did not believe in Roe or who would seek to outlaw same-sex marriage. Fully support equality for women & people of all races, & gay rights. We don't separate families at the border. And we don't kiss-up to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin." Earlier, Avenatti tweeted that "only a street fighter" has a chance at displacing Trump. "Otherwise, this country and its principles will be in pieces and non-recognizable." Catherine Garcia

The prospect of a more conservative justice has LGBT rights groups worried about legal challenges

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi said he’s worried that LGBT Americans could see their civil rights stripped away by President Donald Trump’s replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Velshi warned a newly conservative high court could undo the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling to legalize same-sex marriage, and he said LGBT people could find themselves at the mercy of state laws. “If you live in one of the states that either bans gay marriage or …