A Texas presbytery created an inclusionary policy letting transgender teens attend and feel comfortable at youth retreats.
Toward the end of the Rev. Shanea Leonard’s Gender & Inclusion presentation Tuesday, they presented a slide with puzzle pieces scattered apart on the left and fit together on the right.
Conservative and liberal religious leaders may not agree on much, but both are expressing displeasure with the Boy Scouts' proposal to accept gay members but reject gay leaders.
Lisa Larges moved a step closer to ordination on Monday (Sept. 29) when the Synod of the Pacific Permanent Judicial Commission (SP-PJC) affirmed by a vote of 5-4 San Francisco Presbytery’s November 2010 decision approving her for ordination with a departure, or “scruple.”