Faith In America News Release

Faith In America today challenged Miss California’s pastor to consider the disservice he does to her and others with his embrace and promotion of religion-based bigotry and prejudice toward gay Americans.
According to Carrie Prejean’s pastor, Rev. Miles McPherson, he contacted the Miss USA contestant just hours after she stated she did [...]

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Faith In America today released a videographed open-letter to Rev. Rick Warren during which a civil rights activist says Warren’s pastoral leadership does not honor the late Martin Luther King Jr.
Warren is scheduled to speak Monday at a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration service in Atlanta.
The open-letter, which has been posted on YouTube and the [...]

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Faith In America today released a series of videos and letters that it hopes will help Rev. Rick Warren and other non-accepting people of faith understand the harm caused to gay Americans by religion-based bigotry, prejudice and discrimination.
The project, entitled “Can You Understand the Harm?”, includes videographed open-letter segments from Faith In America Founder Mitchell [...]

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Bill O’Reilly, in this Factor Follow-Up clip, asks a simple question that we should ask of all our elected officials – note the response from California family law attorney Don Schweizer:

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A principal ordered to allow the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at his school quits his job. WIS reports.

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Faith In America released the following statement in response to a South Carolina high school principal who has announced his intention to resign because he says allowing a gay/straight club apparently conflicts with his religious beliefs.
 ”It is a shame that the principal at Irmo High School in South Carolina decided to place religion-based bigotry and discrimination over [...]

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“If you think gay teens like Lawrence King are safe in our schools,” says Grey’s Anatomy’s T. R. Knight, “you’re wrong.”
In partnership with GLSEN, LGBT-oriented television network Logo, in response to the recent murder of openly gay junior high student Lawrence King, is airing a public service announcement urging awareness and vigilance against homophobia, transphobia [...]

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Elke Kennedy is the mother of the late Sean Kennedy, who was fatally attacked in May, 2007. More information is available at Sean’s Last Wish.

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Julie Flowers lives in Conover, N.C. with her partner, Donna. They have been together for the previous 16 years.

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She and Donna are members of the Unifour Christian Fellowship Church in Newton, N.C. Visit Unifour Christian Fellowship Church at www.ucfc.net

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