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Daniel Murphy was 0-for-2 at the plate (with a walk) in the Mets' embarrassing loss to the Royals. "God, why hath thou forsaken Daniel Murphy?!"

No, a supreme being did not make Murphy a baseball player to spread the word.

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes apart the destructive use of religion in America by Kim Davis, Mike Huckabee and other peddlers of hate and intolerance.

The Texas Lutheran University men's tennis team coaching staff picked openly gay player Ryan Beene as a captain for next season.

Craig James - a failed NFL player, failed politician and failed sportscaster - decides to sue his former employer for standing up for equality and inclusion. He called the Patriots' support of same-sex marriage the work of Satan.

A young gay athlete being forced into religion-based conversion therapy has contacted Outsports for advice. We don't know what to tell him. Your thoughts are welcome.

Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney caused controversy this week when he was to be honored by a South Carolina lobbying group opposed to gay rights and same-sex marriage. A petition was started urging him to cancel and he did on his own days later, saying he didn't want to be a distraction and did […]

Dabo Swinney, the head football coach at Clemson, will help the anti-gay Palmetto Family Council raise money at a June 2 event in Columbia, S.C. GLAAD and others are calling for him to back out.

Warren Hall was removed from his post at Seton Hall after he posted a Facebook message supporting the anti-bullying message of the NOH8 campaign. Now he opens up for the first time since his removal, coming out publicly as gay.

This week the anti-gay practices of Seton Hall and LeTourneau University have come under fire. At what point will other members of the NCAA speak up against this discrimination?

LeTourneau Univ., an NCAA Division III school in Texas, has a new policy forbidding gay student-athletes from dating. Any support for same-sex marriage can result in an athlete's dismissal.

Rev. Warren Hall says he was released of his priest duties at Seton Hall Univ. for making inclusive statements about LGBT people.

Derek Schell talks with us about being an openly gay athlete at Hillsdale College, one of the most conservative schools in the United States.

Several members of the Hillsdale College football team took to Twitter to debate the merits of an email calling for prayer to destroy "evil" same-sex marriage.

Hillsdale College's chaplain is asking members of the school's community, including athletes, coaches, students, faculty and alumni, to pray against "evil" same-sex marriage rights being considered by the Supreme Court.

One athlete's story highlights the dangers some Christian schools pose as they threaten LGBT athletes and fire gay coaches. Yet these schools are allowed to remain in the NCAA and NAIA. That must change immediately.

That's what you get when an gay Oklahoma track and field athlete tells his story of acceptance.

Cole Fox, a devout Catholic and a wrestler for Don Bosco High School, has been awarded a Matthew Shepard Scholarship. He wants to bridge the gaps between the Catholic Church and wrestling world & the LGBT community.

"Gay people are asking for equal rights under the law, and we’ve got Christians saying 'God hates you.' " the reliever writes in a blog post.

Nora Cothren hid her sexual orientation from her family in Arkansas for years. When she finally told them about her impending marriage to her girlfriend, they embraced her. Now a proposed state law could bring back all of her fears about The Natural State.