Political Scientist Melissa Harris-Perry on why Progressive Religious Support for LGBT Equality is Important

Political Scientist Melissa Harris-Perry on why Progressive Religious Support for LGBT Equality is Important

An article in Religion Dispatches offers an interesting perspective on the need for a religious case for LGBT equality. Here’s a sample:

If the LGBT movement is identified solely as secular, it becomes easier for conservative Christians to define the movement as “the world” against which faith must stand. How much more powerful, she says, to say that the world is full of inequalities, the world says it’s fine to deny people the basic life-giving reality of housing based on their identity, while we are the radical minority working to protect all the children of God.

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