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Kansas City-area United Methodist congregations have denounced their church’s vote to prohibit LGBT clergy and same-sex marriages. Clergy and lay leaders…
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Delegates rejected change despite a Virginia pastor's warning: "You will be putting a virus into the American church that will make it very sick, and it will be sick quickly."
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Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, a gay couple living in Texas, strove to keep a low profile and their sexual orientation private. However, as the movement for…
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The American family unit these days is way more varied than in decades past. Whether you're in a same-sex relationship, part of a cohabitating couple, or…
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Why get married? Once, there was a time where that might have seemed like a silly question. But now, many people can tell you exactly why not. We examine…
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A federal judge ruled Friday that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment must recognize same-sex marriages, allowing gay and lesbian couples the…
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The top policy-making body of the United Methodist Church this week narrowly approved a full review of all church law on sexuality. Up to Date host Steve…
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United Methodist leaders are trying to avoid a church schism over gay rights.“We have gay and lesbian people who are married,” says Adam Hamilton, senior…
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The Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese has settled with a former church worker who sued it after she was fired when her marriage to another woman was…
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Legalization of same-sex marriage, streams of migrants flowing into Europe from war-torn Syria and the expansion of ISIS all top the list of important…
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For a while, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback was saying it was going to be pretty difficult to start offering benefits to same-sex couples who worked for the…
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The LGBT community has won a battle on marriage equality but workplace, education and other discrimination problems continue. We find out from a panel of…