Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
Gay couples sign up to wait for blessing by U.S. Episcopal Church
Posted on Monday, July 24, 2000
24 July 2000 (Newsroom) -- Following a rejection of same-sex union rites by the Episcopal Church's recent convention in Denver, Colorado, a gay advocacy group within the church is collecting an online list of gay and lesbian couples…
House approves divisive U.S.-China trade pact
Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2000
24 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- The United States House of Representatives approved a China trade bill on Wednesday that has divided human rights and religious freedom advocates. The House voted 237-197 to grant permanent normal trade relations to…
Methodist vote spurs gay activists to launch campaign
Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2000
11 May 2000 (Newsroom) -- Gay rights activists in the United Methodist Church have vowed to launch a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in protest of three votes Thursday at the church's general conference in Cleveland that maintained…
Vermont legislature gives final OK to civil unions
Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2000
25 April 2000 (Newsroom) – The Vermont legislature on Tuesday became the first in the United States to grant gay and lesbian couples all the benefits of marriage through civil unions. By a vote of 79-68 the state…
Vermont Senate rejects definition of marriage
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2000
18 April 2000 (Newsroom) – The Vermont Senate on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A bill permitting civil unions that would grant all of the…
Tufts Christian Fellowship loses funding, recognition over gay leadership
Posted on Saturday, February 5, 2000
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, 2 May 2000 (Newsroom) - An undergraduate student judiciary board at Tufts University has stripped the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) of its affiliation with the college over the group's refusal to consider an openly gay student…
