by Sean Reilly | Nov 9, 2007
Despite intense lobbying from the religious right in the USA, the Democratic-led House of Representatives has defied a White House veto threat by voting to outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. “We are protecting the rights of millions of...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 1, 2007
The US United Methodist Church’s legislative body has upheld a bishop’s decision that a pastor who changed gender from female to male remains eligible to serve the church, in a move welcomed by those supporting transgender persons. In combining two...