Giving Birth Is Not a Laughing Matter: We must commit to alleviating the suffering of the world where no woman dies giving life and no child grows up motherless, writes Katey Zeh.

Faith and Sexuality: Sally Steenland sits down with Lyndsey Godwin to discuss faith and sexuality, and how they intersect and inform one another.

Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Reproductive Justice: Sally Steenland discusses the intersection of religion and women’s reproductive health with Darcy Baxter.

CAP Launches New Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute: A new CAP project brings together a diverse group of advocates to push back against religious rhetoric that threatens women’s reproductive health, writes Sally Steenland.

Contraception Is an Economic Issue: Sally Steenland and Jessica Arons explain why family planning is integral to women’s economic security.

The Morality of Contraception : Eleni Towns and Sally Steenland argue that the vast majority of people of faith support contraception.

Women's Health and Rights: Tara McGuinness explains why the Obama administration's compromise on the contraception mandate is not a "war on religion."

Women's Health: Some people can't get the basic facts right on birth control because they can't see beyond their own circumstances, writes Daniella Gibbs Leger in The Huffington Post.

Progressive Faith Groups Need to Speak Up Against Personhood Amendment in Mississippi: Far-right religious organizations are claiming the holy high ground in an effort to pass a measure that would make a fertilized egg a person, write Sally Steenland and Eleni Towns. Faith and secular groups must work together to defeat it.

Conservative Religious Organizations Wage Another Contraception Battle: Religious organizations are fighting to be exempt from a federal rule requiring contraception in employer health programs even if the vast majority of their employees use birth control, writes Sally Steenland.

National Coming Out Day in Church: Eleni Towns presents five ways that major Christian groups support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality in our nation.

Keeping the Faith : Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Marta Cook highlight the efforts of faith communities and LGBT advocates in Tennessee.

Working for Equality in the Great Lakes State: In order to achieve human rights and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan, both the faith and LGBT communities need to more fully understand each other and work together, write Sally Steenland and Susan Thistlethwaite.

What Do Latinos Think About Social Issues?: Sally Steenland interviews Bishop Minerva Carcaño and Silvia Henriquez on the diversity of opinion in the Latino community when it comes to reproductive rights and gay and lesbian equality.

Abortion Is Slowly Becoming Legal in Name Only: Many states are going after women’s reproductive health with antichoice legislation, writes Sally Steenland. It’s time to stand up to these attacks.

Faith and Family Equality: Sally Steenland, Nan Futrell, and Marta Cook examine the passage of an antigay adoption ballot initiative in Arkansas in 2008 and its implications for faith communities and advocates.

Working with Faith Communities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights: An update on the collaboration between LBGT Progress and the Faith and Progressive Policy Institute and their recent accomplishments.

A Nation of Support for Marriage Equality: For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support marriage equality, proving that the public is moving ahead of the religious institutions and politicians living in the past, writes Sally Steenland.

What Are Religious Texts Really Saying About Gay and Transgender Rights?: Bishop Gene Robinson counters right-wing interpretations of scripture commonly used against gay and transgender equality.

Religious Groups Show Growing Support for Same-Sex Marriage: Many religious groups approved of yesterday’s overturn of California’s same-sex marriage ban, writes Sally Steenland.

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Presbyterian Church’s General Assembly meeting last week showcased the church’s steady movement toward LGBT rights, says Marta Cook.

Get to Know Bishop Gene Robinson: Jeff Krehely and Sally Steenland interview CAP’s new Visiting Senior Fellow Bishop Gene Robinson—the first openly gay bishop to be ordained in a major Christian denomination.

The Spirituality of Gender Identity : More faith communities are accepting transgender individuals, writes Sy Mukherjee.

Evangelicals Step Up for Marriage Equality: Marta Cook documents the growing grassroots support for LGBT rights among evangelicals.

A Time to Be Born: Faith leaders should play a role in creating a dialogue about the use of assisted reproductive technologies, writes Dr. Kate Ott.

The Faithful Divide Over Wedding Vows: A report by Jonathan Duffy and Sally Steenland explores the strategies for Proposal 2 in Michigan, a state constitutional amendment that prohibited same-sex marriage.

A Profile of State Battles Over Marriage Equality: Last week CAP and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released two groundbreaking reports on marriage-equality ballot initiatives in California and Michigan.

Obama’s Notre Dame Dust-Up: President Obama will speak at Notre Dame’s commencement, despite protests, yet it’s the school, not the protesters, that’s in line with mainstream American Catholics, writes Susan Thistlethwaite.

Four Things You Didn’t Know About God and Same-Sex Marriage: Christians who oppose same-sex marriage say it goes against the biblical conception of marriage and sexuality, but they're wrong.

Expressing Faith Through Marriage Equality: Progressive religious leaders should be a strong voice in the fight for marriage equality, writes Sarah Dreier. Opportunities to do so abound this week.

Faith: McDonough and Buckley on the Pope's Message

Beyond Abstinence-Only: Religious leaders lay out guidelines for faith communities to promote adolescent sexual health in an open, honest, and safe manner.

A Religion-Based Progressive Agenda: In conversation, the bishop addressed the cultural anxieties that inhibit social justice and called for “solidarity and empathy with all of God’s people.”

A Time to Speak: Why Progressive Religious Leaders Must Find Their Voice on Sexual Justice

Sanctified Hatred: Why a Federal Marriage Amendment Is Wrong

Abortion as a Moral Decision: Religion and Roe v. Wae

State of the Union: Marriage