CLGS

If we resided in a post-racial society then William Faulkner's words uttered in the 20th century would not ring true in this century-"The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”

With the election of Barack Obama as this nation’s first African-American president many of us had hope we could finally close the door on America's original sin--slavery.

But the vestiges of that institution lingers not only in the backwaters of America, but they also linger in the hallowed halls of Congress.

Remember those heady days back in June of 2003? Some started calling it “another summer of love,” evoking the cultural shifts of the 1960s. In 2003, Canada approved marriage for gay and lesbian couples, the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected Gene Robinson as their bishop, and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state sodomy statues. What about today?

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelmingly to overturn a three-year
moratorium on the election of lesbian and gay people to the episcopate.

While many LGBTQ ...

By now most people have heard how the blame game was played after the
passage of Prop 8 in California. Scapegoats included people of color,
campaign organizers, communities of faith, ...