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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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.
"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.