SAN FRANCISCO — At the oldest law school in the West, law is being made this semester, not just taught. In a case that carries great implications for how public universities and schools must accommodate religious groups, the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law is defending...

It apparently doesn’t always pay off to have a seat at the table. Case in point: The Obama administration’s proposal to reform the nation’s educational system includes no specific call for anti-bullying programs in schools, and no mention of protections for students from harassment...

Dear Adults and Parents, Today is National Day of Silence. On this day, our youth have pledged to be silent at school in an effort to protest bullying, harassment, and inequality in our schools. It is our responsibility to support our youth, and speak up on behalf of our community; and on this day,...

The following are some Q & A excerpts from an interview with Jennifer Knapp that was originally published on Christianity Today’s web-site. Have you been with the same partner for a long time? Knapp: About eight years, but I don’t want to get into that. For whatever reason the rumor...

Utah could become only the third Episcopal diocese with an openly gay bishop. The Rev. Michael L. Barlowe — who married his partner, the Rev. Paul Burrows, in San Francisco in 2008, just before the fractious Proposition 8 vote banning gay marriage — is one of four finalists to replace retiring...

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – Green Day, former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass and celebrity chef Cat Cora are among those helping to pay for a gay-friendly prom in Mississippi next month … all to help a high school senior teen bring a lesbian prom date to the big dance. Organizers say the event...

About 50 schools in the U.S., including a few Ivy League campuses and several in California, are allowing men and women to room together. Participation is still relatively low. They weren’t looking to make a political statement or to be pioneers of gender liberation. Each just wanted a familiar,...

Recently, the United States has seen the rise of the Tea Party, a socially conservative fringe group that occupies those dark spaces even the most fundamentalist Christian Republican won’t. Known for their fiery rhetoric against the pretty much anything the Obama Administration has proposed from...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A Republican Party spokesman said Monday evening that a staff member has been dismissed following a February outing to a risqué Hollywood nightclub, where a party donor submitted a $2,000 tab and asked for reimbursement from...

After years of relationships that never seemed to fit, Allison Cooper finally met her match. And he was nothing—nothing—like she’d imagined. This is a love story. Like every other. And like no other. This is a story about how one day I believed certain things about myself and the next day I...