by Amy Cerniglia | May 20, 2022 | Covenant Network News, News, Sexuality
Andrew Hartzler is one of many students seeking to end federal funding for religious schools that discriminate against sexual minorities. At one mandatory, videotaped chapel service, the university president of Oral Roberts University asked students to confess as to...
by Amy Cerniglia | May 17, 2022 | Covenant Network News, News
Affirming our call to witness and respond to human suffering, we can work together against hatred and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. In observation of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we cry...
by Amy Cerniglia | May 15, 2022 | Covenant Network News, News, Uncategorized
We are hearing of another tragic mass shooting this afternoon, at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California. The church hosted our Covenant Conversation event in 2019. The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh, Pastor/Head of Staff at Geneva Presbyterian Church,...
by Amy Cerniglia | May 1, 2022 | Covenant Network News, News, Sexuality
Recently, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) urged Presbyterians to speak out against legislation that discriminates against LGBTQIA+ people. The Rev. Stacey Midge, pastor at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in our affirming network of churches, has...
by Amy Cerniglia | Apr 26, 2022 | Covenant Network News, News, Personal Testimony, Sexuality, Uncategorized
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed the controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill. Nicknamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, this legislation seeks to ban public school teachers in Florida from referencing gender identity or sexual orientation....
by Amy Cerniglia | Apr 7, 2022 | News
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released information from a survey in January-June 2021 that highlighted the importance of our continued work toward a safer, more just world for LGBTQIA+ people. Funded by the federal CARES Act, the...
