NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Currey Cook of Lambda Legal, the gay rights group that wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the LGBTQ rights se which the Supreme Court sid wh relig eedom.
Contents:
- 'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
Jt Lee grew up a Southern Baptist fay. At age 18, he me out to his fay and church, who had trouble acceptg him as a gay man. Lee later started the Gay Christian Network to enurage a dialogue between gay Christians, their fai and their church. His new book is Torn. * gays vs christians *
He also ma historic appotments, cludg Pete Buttigieg as the first openly gay secretary the printial Cabet and Rachel Leve, the first openly transgenr feral official. Support for LGBTQ rights has creased dramatilly sce passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when same-sex marriage was unheard of and homosexualy was wily seen as immoral.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
"It's only been a ltle over a that our own movement has e to unrstand homosexualy and genr inty different ways, " says Rabbi Jab Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbil Assembly, an ternatnal associatn of rabbis the Conservative tradn. "We basilly looked at the tradn and began to unrstand that the Jewish value of Kevod HaBeriyot, the digny of every dividual, is equal to or even tak precence over some of our olr tradn around attus toward homosexualy, " Blumenthal says.
Retired Epispal Bishop Gene Robson, the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church, lik to quote a story om the biblil acunt of the Last Supper. " "And the qutn I always ask my brothers and sisters the nservative nomatns, " Robson says, "is, 'Could be that God is leadg to a eper tth about gay and lbian, bisexual, transgenr people?