A group of 145 Roman Catholic, evangelical, and Orthodox Christian leaders will present a document today at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. today saying they are in solidarity against abortions and same-sex marriage.

In a stunning decision, Rutland Vermont Family Court Judge William Cohen ruled Friday that he is awarding sole custody of 7-year-old Isabella Miller to her non-biological lesbian mother, Janet Jenkins.

For six years, the case has been jumping between courts in Vermont, where Jenkins lives, and Virginia, where her former lesbian spouse, Lisa Miller, now lives. The couple split up in 2003 after entering a civil union in Vermont, have since then been battling in the courts over custody and visitation rights to their daughter Isabelle, who was born to Miller.

The 40-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star, who was born a girl to Sonny Bono and Cher, says he's eight months into the years-long transformation and says he feels great.

Crimes motivated by hate decreased slightly in Los Angeles County last year compared with the previous year, according to a report released Thursday.

"A planned November hearing by the US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the US military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated Friday.

Rick Warren is on multiple missions. The Christian pastor who spoke the prayer at President Barack Obama's inauguration, a choice that prompted protests from gay-rights activists, came to Washington, D.C., this month to talk about the future of evangelicalism at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

I just have one thing to say about this .

Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a declaration saying they will not comply with laws that could require them to recognize same-sex unions or ...

Sometimes there are statements made that are so unbelievable, you just laugh out loud.

Beginning in 2010, gay and lesbian families in the conservative country Austria will be able to enter into civil unions--although the new status they will enjoy falls short: there are 37 specific rights and protections that heterosexual married couples will enjoy that will be denied to same-sex couples, including artificial insemination services and adoption rights.

A Rutland Family Court judge ordered a first-of-its kind parent custody change Friday in a child-visitation dispute involving a Virginia woman and her former lesbian partner who lives in Fair Haven.

In a 21-page order, Judge William Cohen granted sole custody of 7-year-old Isabella Miller to her nonbiological but court-recognized parent, Janet Jenkins.

Brian Brown, the Executive Director of anti-gay activist group, National Organization for Marriage, recently sent out an email entitled Beating Down the Beatitudes in DC? in which he calls on recipients from around the nation to call and email District of Columbia officials and insist that gay people not be treated with equality and dignity in that city.

Few hate crimes are specifically preventable. It is not often that the intended violence is known in advance and reported to authorities. Which makes the case of Jayron Martin so frustrating and infuriating.

A lesbian soldier who deserted the U.S. army won a key court victory Friday when a judge ordered the refugee board to reconsider her failed asylum claim and take into account compelling evidence that she was persecuted and that her sexual orientation could mean stiffer punishment for going AWOL.

Capitol Hill sources have confirmed to LGR this morning that a planned November hearing by the US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the US military is to be postponed indefinitely.

“Yes, we don’t know when that is going to happen,” said an aide from Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin’s office.

In October Levin had said that his committee would begin holding hearing in November and that he hoped to “to find a way to repeal the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” policy.

But, Levin said in an interview on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program, scheduled to air Sunday, the hearings on any possible repeal of “DADT” will likely happen next year.

State Sen. Julia Boseman, the first openly gay person elected to the General Assembly, said yesterday that she won't run for a fourth term in the Senate next year, citing family responsibilities.

More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms.

A Philippine gay rights group is waging a legal battle to be allowed to run in next year's polls after the Elections Commission ruled it cannot register as a political party on grounds that it advocates immorality.

"Don't ask, don't tell" critics are condemning a new Military Times -sponsored poll that could provide ammunition to antigay forces - however flawed the resulting data may be.

The new survey asks respondents whether they’ve been subject to sexual advances by gay soldiers, followed by questions about DADT. The poll is not based on a random sample, but instead solicits responses from Military Times readers.

On December 12th, Houston Controller Annise Parker could become the first openly gay Mayor of a major U.S. city. But in a town with a history of anti-gay politics, the race has taken a nasty turn. Right-wing operative Dave Wilson has mailed out a hit-piece attacking Parker, asking if a lesbian Mayor is the “image Houston wants to portray.” Wilson has a history of waging such attacks, but the question is whether he’s getting tacit support from Parker’s opponent (and fellow Democrat) in the run-off – former City Attorney Gene Locke. Locke had disavowed earlier anti-gay smears against Parker, but ...