May 25 2012 5:23 PM ET
Protest Against Homophobic N.C. Pastor Will Go On
Catawba County officials have decided to permit a protest against the Reverend Charles Worley, who called for placing gay people in a concentration camp–like setting.
May 23 2012 4:28 PM ET
Out Rapper Y-Love: It Got Better
Rapper Y-Love came out earlier this month to Out. What did Orthodox Jews say around the Shabbat table?
May 23 2012 3:44 PM ET
Lesbian, Former Worley Church Goer Speaks Out
A lesbian who has attended multiple sermons at Rev. Charles Worley's church in North Carolina since the 1980s said that the antigay pastor's violent words are typical of his views. "I recall, as a younger person, listening to those kind of comments on an occasion or two," she told journalist David Pakman. She added, "I'm saddened but I'm not surprised." After coming out, the woman said stopped attending services, but still has family members who frequent the Providence Road Baptist Church.
May 22 2012 6:57 PM ET
Surprised? Antigay Pastor Was a Homophobe In 1978, Too
Decades before antigay pastor Charles Worley said lesbians and "queers and the homosexuals" should be rounded up, placed in camps surrounded by electric fences and left to die "so the won't reproduce," the pastor described other violently homophobic acts against gay people during a sermon.
May 21 2012 6:35 PM ET
N.C. Pastor Calls for Concentration Camps for 'Queers'
Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, N.C.'s Providence Road Baptist Church recently told his congregation that lesbians and "queers" should be rounded up, placed in camps with electrified fencing, and left to die.
May 19 2012 3:47 PM ET
Former Priest Convicted to Trying To Hire Hit Man To Kill Boy Who Accused Him of Sexual Assault
John Fiala, a former Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at gunpoint, has been convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill the boy, reports Dallas News.
May 16 2012 5:07 PM ET
Presbyterian Group Rejects Court Ruling, Supports Minister on Gay Weddings
A Northern California Presbyterian body has refused to rebuke a minister for performing same-sex weddings.
May 14 2012 2:20 PM ET
Sen. Rand Paul Condemned for Laughing at Obama's Religion
Sen. Rand Paul's joke last week that he didn't think President Obama's views "could get any gayer" didn't have Republicans laughing during the Sunday shows. Party chairman Reince Priebus told NBC's David Gregory on Meet the Press that he didn't want to see others following Paul's example. Then he went on to say the party as a whole supports amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
May 12 2012 7:01 PM ET
Antigay Leaders Want Senate to Vote No on Historic Ex-Gay Therapy Bill
Now that California's Senate Bill 1172 has passed the Judiciary Committee, it now goes to vote by the full Senate. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ted W. Lieu, would be the first the in nation to regulate so-called conversion therapy.
May 11 2012 3:56 PM ET
Lawrence O'Donnell Has History of Marriage Lesson for Right Wing
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell explains that contrary to what Tony Perkins and Mitt Romney say, the definition of marriage has changed quite a few times over the years. Social conservatives like Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, have grown accustomed to claiming that allowing same-sex couples to marry is "redefining" marriage and that redefining it alone is a radical step.
