The Vatican, addressing the United Nations’Â Human Rights Council today, stated its opposition to pedophilia and incest, listing them as “certain kinds of sexual behaviors [that] must...
A new poll released today finds a large majority of American Catholics — 71% — support civil marriage equality for same-sex couples. The report also finds...
November 15, 2010, from left: Dan Fotou, Army Staff Sergeant Miriam Ben-Shalom, Michael Bedwell, Army Specialist Rob Smith, Transgender Navy Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Roman Catholic...
Today President Barack Obama’s White House went purple to show support for Spirit Day, a day for honoring lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGBT) youth and to...
Rick Perry’s gaffe at last night’s GOP debate — where he forgot the name of the federal agency he’d like to eliminate — was an embarrassing...
Don Feder, a Jewish conservative extremist, two days before Christmas, posted to a Tea Party website  an asinine screed, the “Top 10 Ways Democrats Are Like Nazis,”...
Sarah Palin, appearing on Hannity Thursday night, accused Wisconsin union “bosses” of ratcheting up “rhetoric” that will lead to violence and “somebody getting hurt.” “Well, these...
Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral was held just after 2:00 PMÂ at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, California — without any protests by the Westboro Baptist Church, aka, “God...
Beginning at 10:30 AM ET today, the White House will host a live-streaming conference on bullying. In the wake so many anti-gay bullying suicides, this is...
UPDATE: 02.18.2011: Scott just updated this piece. Scroll down to the end for the update. Or, read t from the beginning again! Editor’s note: This guest...
Rick Santorum speaking at today’s Values Voters Summit, told the audience they should “look at who they [candidates] lay down with at night,” when determining whom...
Black Friday began with a spray, rather than a bang, which given the country’s temperature, appears to be standard fare, Gabby Giffords serves Thanksgiving Day dinner...
Fresh from a visit to Occupy Wall Street’s Zucotti Park, Swarthmore student, writer, activist, and guest author Sam Sussman discusses his findings.  Something remarkable is...
Geraldine Ferraro, America’s first female and first Italian-American Vice-Presidential candidate, died today at the age of 75 at 10:00 AM, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ferraro died...
Conservatives are evenly split in their support for DOMA, the 1996 law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to choose to do the...