Gay Christian Political Websites

Bridges Across The Divide - provides models and resources for building respectful relationships among those who disagree about moral issues surrounding homosexuality, bisexuality and gender variance.

CatholicArrogance.org - Millions of American Catholics are still reeling from the discovery that, over the years they have had a 4% chance of being assigned a priest who might use their church's sacristy or rectory to sexually molest their children, and pretty close to a 100 % chance that when their celibate, childless bishop found out about such crimes, that he would do everything in his power to hide the crimes of their priests in order to defend the reputation of the "One, Holy, Catholic Church", rather than the safeguard the dignity of innocent Catholic children.

But what makes the dignity and emotional health of a relatively small number of children so much more worthy of moral outrage than the very lives of 6 million Jews, and 4 million Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, liberals, handicaps, homosexuals, Polish Catholics, and other victims of the Nazi holocaust?  Is it simply that the molested children were contemporary Americans and the killed and tortured holocaust victims were only Europeans of a bygone era?

One lesson to be learned from the recent pedophilia scandals is that Catholics who instinctlvely jump to the defense of their church, whenever any charge is made against it, shouldn't be so hard on the many bishops who hid the sins of their priests all those many years, because they were only doing the same thing, i.e. protecting the illusions that they have had inculcated in them all their lives about "Holy Mother the Church", the "Bride of Christ", and/or "the Mystical Body of Christ".

Faith In America - is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Americans better understand the immense harm caused by religion-based bigotry against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.

Rev. Karen Dammann Fund - Bothell, WA, March 20, 2004 - A jury of 13 Methodist clergy members said Saturday that a fellow minister did not violate church law by being in a lesbian relationship, concluding a proceeding that put on trial the church's stance on homosexuality as much as it did the minister's relationship. For more information please go to the full article.

NOTE: Rev. Dammann is left with significant debt as a result of this trial. As a Reconciling Ministries leader said, "We cannot let Karen become the sacrificial lamb of the United Methodist gay rights movement. She has led our struggle with rare courage and personal risk. Now we must help her to survive." Please click on the link above or below for an explanation of debts incurred and how you can support.

Liberals Like Christ - If Jesus of Nazareth was anything, he was an extraordinary friend of the downtrodden, definitely a Liberal, whose advocacy on their behalf so infuriated the ultra-Conservative religious and political leaders of his day, that they had him killed to prevent the public from hearing the very liberal teaching that you will see quoted in Jesus' own words on this web site!

Those who actually know what the Bible says about the life and teaching of Jesus, should recognize that far from being like Jesus of Nazareth, today's "Religious Right" are much more like the kind of clerics who battled this revolutionary prophet from the day he opened his mouth until the day they had him nailed to a cross.

New Ways Ministry - provides a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.

Through research, publication and education about homosexuality, we foster dialogue among groups and individuals, identify and combat personal and structural homophobia, work for changes in attitudes and promote the acceptance of gay and lesbian people as full and equal members of church and society.

New Ways Ministry affirms the 1973 professional judgment of the American Psychiatric Association that homosexuality in and of itself is neither a mental or emotional illness. Consequently, we seek to eradicate myths and sterotypes about gay and lesbian persons, support civil and human rights and provide support for families and friends.

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance - Religious Tolerance means....
extending freedom to people of all religions, even though you disagree with their beliefs and/or practices.

Our mandate: "To promote religious tolerance and freedom. To describe religious faiths in all their diversity. To describe controversial topics from all points of view."

This website has over 3,000 essays and is an invaluable resource with many, many links on a whole range of topics including descriptions of individual religions, morals and ethics, "hot" topics like assisted suicide, death penalty, all aspects of sex, and much, much more. This is definitely a link worth bookmarking.

Quilts For Justice - There are many United Methodist Clergy who face the loss of appointments due to their sexual orientation. These individuals often grew up in our churches, have answered the call to ministry, and have proven they have the gifts and graces valued by their congregations, but because of an orientation ordained at birth, now face rejection by the very church that nurtured them as children.

We invite you to join us in our prayers for a fully inclusive church by using the open door quilt pattern in your community. We are making these patterns and symbols available, as a smaller, 2.5" square that can be worn, or as 6" or 8" quilt blocks for inclusion in quilts or banners that can be displayed in our congregations across the country. Or, if you have no quilting groups, consider using the graphic in other craft items you may display.

Maybe, the work of OUR needles will prick the conscience of the United Methodist Church.

Reconciling Ministries Network - started as a movement of individuals, congregations, campus ministries, and other groups working for the full participation of all people in the United Methodist Church. It is now part of a much larger ecumenical "welcoming church" movement which encompasses more than 1500 congregations, ministries, and judicatories in ten faith traditions. This ecumenical movement is growing at the rate of two new churches each week--probably the fastest-growing grass roots movement in mainline churches today.

Soulforce - learning nonviolence from Gandhi and King, seeking justice for God's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Children