We need your help. In early January, the previous administration removed the Department of Health and Human Services' LGBTQI nondiscrimination rules. This will allow agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to discriminate against LGBTQI people, couples, and families.

This dangerous move opens the door to all kinds of abuses and attacks on LGBTQI inclusion, but has especially serious implications for our country’s adoption and foster care system. Already, religiously-affiliated adoption and foster care agencies have refused to consider LGBTQI couples as foster or adoptive parents, claiming religious freedom as their justification. Many organizations will see this rule change as license to discriminate against LGBTQI people and will deny children in need access to loving, supportive homes.

We’re responding. We’ve asked the Biden administration to use his executive authority to reinstate these protections. Join us in sending a message to President Biden, asking him to undo this attack on LGBTQI people and restore the HHS’s safeguards against discrimination.

Already, hundreds have responded and added their voices calling for justice. Add yours and call on your friends and family to respond as well.

Yesterday, DignityUSA released a statement condemning a new policy recently unveiled by the Diocese of Lansing and Bishop Earl Boyea, that "ignores the science that recognizes transgender people" and "prescribes that transgender people be erased and treated exclusively as the gender they were assigned at birth." This policy will harm transgender Catholics in the diocese, transgender youth in diocesan schools, and their families.

"We ask all Catholics to condemn discrimination and this policy, and we ask that Bishop Boyea take the time to listen to and walk with the people of his diocese and to show the compassion, discernment and pastoral concern his office requires."

In recognition of Black History Month, DignityUSA has released a new statement, marking the month-long celebration and calling on the whole Dignity community to take the opportunity to study our own role in the history of racism in American and to recommit ourselves to the work of dismantling racial inequalities.

"May this Black History Month bring us farther along that long walk to freedom and justice for all."

Join Dignity/Washington as we take a Lenten Journey through an LGBTQI lens. Dignity members from around the country have contributed in creating daily reflections for the Lenten season. We hope that in this year of physical distancing and inability to come together, we can gain some connection and spiritual blessings from these truths told from our own personal stories as LGBTQI Catholics.

Sign up to receive the reflections by email each weekday through Lent.

Next Thursday, February 18th, our Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke will be participating in a Zoom Panel Discussion entitled "The Gift of Presence: The Time, Talents, and Treasures of LGBTQ+ Catholics" hosted by Saint Ignatius of Loyola Parish in Chestnut Hills, Massachusetts.

Marianne will be joined by Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, and Dr. John McDargh, retired professor of theology at Boston College.