News Archive - Mainstream and Progressive Media

It’s a classic case of “like mother, like son.” Andy Schlafly, the offspring of rabidly anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, is the fruit(cake) that has not fallen far from the tree. Andy is engaged in what is being called the “Conservative Bible Project,” an attempt to reclaim the so-called good book from the (gasp! horror!) “bleeding heart” liberals who have been trying to make it gender inclusive and non-homophobic. If Andy has his way, God can again be a man, and a proud male chauvinist pig at that. “He” can be the preferred pronoun for every human being who’s not busy (as they should be) ...

In Britain, Catholic Care, a Catholic adoption agency operating in South Yorkshire has won an appeal of a Charity Commission's refusal to grant it an exemption from the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007. Yesterday's Yorkshire Post reports that a High Court judge sitting in London has ordered the Charity Commission to review its determination. Catholic Care offers specialized adoption services, and is the last of the Catholic adoption agencies in Britain to continue the fight against regulations that would require them to allow adoptions by same-sex couples. Catholic ...

It was a match made in speed-dating hell. A Long Island woman claims she was hoodwinked into marrying a Pakistani immigrant -- who tricked her into thinking he was a wealthy computer whiz who shared her devout Muslim faith, when he was actually using her to get a green card...

Mary Glasspool, senior assistant to the bishop of Maryland, will be ordained in May. The Episcopal Church gave final approval Wednesday to the ordination of an openly gay bishop in Los Angeles, putting a face behind a policy that has divided the church and caused some of its more conservative members to break away.

The Episcopal Church has confirmed the election of an Annapolis priest as the first openly lesbian bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.