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Tuesday September 22, 2009
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Islam:
In most Islamic countries, gay men and women are ostracized, persecuted and in some cases even murdered. Repressive regimes are often fanning the flames of hatred in a bid to outdo Islamists when it comes to spreading “moral panic.”
More than 30 Islamic countries have laws on the books that prohibit homosexuality and make it a criminal offense.
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Tuesday March 24, 2009
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
A gay couple is suing the Christian owners of a Cornish hotel for discrimination after being denied access to a double bed.The owners of the hotel state clearly on their website that double rooms are not available to unmarried couples, gay or straight.
The Christian Institute is funding the hotel owners’ defence costs.
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Thursday January 29, 2009
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.In response to that suit, an appeals court decided this week that the private religious school was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating.
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Monday December 22, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Amsterdam played host Sunday to a Christmas celebration for its gay community that featured a Nativity tableau with a man in drag playing the part of Mary.
Frank van Dalen, chairman of the advocacy group Pro Gay that organized the event, known as Pink Christmas, said that it sought to raise Amsterdam’s profile as a capital for gays.
In news forums, countless homosexuals condemned the display.
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Friday December 19, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Islam:
Aliyah Bacchus is a Muslim who left an arranged marriage in Queens, N.Y., before coming to understand her sexuality as a lesbian. Before heading off to a new life with her lover, she made a visit to family members in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., to give them the choice of accepting her as she is, or losing her forever.
Aliyah Bacchus returns home to offer a choice: Accept her sexuality — as she has — or lose her forever.
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Friday December 12, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
An outspoken and polarizing voice in conservative Christian politics resigned effective Thursday from the National Association of Evangelicals after a radio interview in which he voiced support for same-sex civil unions and said he is “shifting” on gay marriage.
The Rev. Richard Cizik’s comments — made on a Dec. 2 “Fresh Air” broadcast on National Public Radio — triggered an uproar that led to his stepping down as NAE vice president of governmental affairs.
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Monday November 10, 2008
Church and State • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Mormonism/Mormon Church:
A couple thousand people gathered outside the Capitol in Sacramento this afternoon to rally for the legalization of same-sex marriages just days after voters imposed a constitutional ban.
The gathering follows several similar events around the Bay Area and California. Earlier today, more than 400 people gathered outside the distinctive Mormon Temple in Oakland to protest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‘ support of Proposition 8.
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Friday October 31, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Scientology:
The Church of Scientology consistently claims to promote human rights, however those rights do not apply to all.The San Diego branch of Scientology has recently joined forces with other conservative fundamentalist groups to oppose same-sex marriage in California.
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Thursday October 16, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Two Sundays ago, the Rev. Geoffrey Farrow stood before his Roman Catholic parishioners in Fresno and delivered a sermon that placed him squarely at odds with his church over gay marriage.With California Proposition 8 on the state’s November ballot, and his own bishop urging priests to support its definition of traditional marriage, Farrow told congregants he felt obligated to break “a numbing silence” about church prejudice against homosexuals.
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Wednesday October 8, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Exodus is one of the ministries of the so-called “ex-gay” movement, a controversial fundamentalist Christian campaign that encourages gay people to renounce their sexuality. This, its annual conference, promises “an amazing week of breakthroughs, transformations and healings”.
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Friday October 3, 2008
Faith Healing • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
The City of Amsterdam and the COC — an advocacy group for LBGT men and women — are calling for an investigation by the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate into healing rituals offered by Pentecostal churches for homosexuals and HIV patients.The healing services can lead to HIV patients forsaking their medicines, and contribute to the stigmatization of homosexuals.
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Saturday September 27, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Jay Bakker:
The pierced and tattooed Bakker grew up in Charlotte at the heels of his parents’ Praise The Lord ministry and television network. The PTL empire imploded in scandal in the 1980s. Afterward, Tammy Faye, who divorced an imprisoned Jim Bakker and married Roe Messner, re-emerged as a television and cult personality — this time embracing gay men infected with the AIDS virus.
Her son is following in her footsteps — fighting to end religious and political discrimination against gays and lesbians, and presenting a nonjudgmental, inclusive face to his Christian faith.
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Wednesday August 6, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Islam • Religious Insanity:
The Norwegian Islamic Council is still waiting for a reply from the European Fatwa Council before it decides whether or not it is in favour of the death penalty for homosexuality.
“Unacceptable,” says lesbian Sara Asmeh Rasmussen.
Religious insanity, says Religion News Blog.
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Saturday July 12, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
A Christian registrar who refused to carry out gay weddings because they were “sinful” has won a landmark discrimination battle and hailed her triumph as a victory for religious liberty.
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Thursday July 10, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Christian publisher Zondervan is facing a $60 million federal lawsuit filed by a man who claims he and other homosexuals have suffered based on what the suit claims is a misinterpretation of the Bible.
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Monday June 30, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Mormonism/Mormon Church:
While the Mormon church still teaches that gay sex is a sin and actively opposes gay marriage—which it will do from pulpits across California this Sunday—a first-ever meeting between Mormon officials and members of an advocacy group for non-straight Mormons, might suggest that such acceptance is more than wishful thinking.
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Monday May 12, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
“Those of us who are in the forefront of the prophetic call for a return to Biblical truth cannot close our eyes to the increasingly blatant disregard for the teaching of the Bible on family life,” wrote the archbishop. “The observation will destroy our witness if not firmly addressed. We cannot claim to be a Bible-believing church yet be selective in our obedience.”
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The Derby city council has backed down after the Johns, both devout Christians, threatened to seek a judicial review.
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Tuesday April 1, 2008
Hate Groups • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Hundreds of homosexual, heterosexual and transgender people turn the tables on the Westboro ‘Baptist Church’ — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — by picketing is lair.
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Wednesday January 30, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Controversial pentecostalist pastor Åke Green has been barred from membership in Sweden’s largest sobriety movement as a result of his views on homosexuals.
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Tuesday January 22, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Schools and Religion:
In what could eventually become a statewide precedent in California, a Riverside County judge has found no legal basis for a lawsuit brought on behalf of two girls kicked out of a Christian school for an alleged lesbian relationship.
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Monday January 7, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
“God made you a man.” That’s what Charlene Hastings said she was told when she called to inquire about breast enlargement surgery at Seton Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Daly City. Now the San Franciscan is suing the hospital, claiming officials there discriminated against her because she had a sex-change operation.
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Tuesday January 1, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Islam:
European Muslims, so often portrayed one-dimensionally as rioters, honor killers or terrorists, live diverse lives, most of them trying to get by and to have a good time. That is more difficult if one is both Muslim and gay.
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Monday November 26, 2007
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Christian bookshops are refusing to stock copies of a new Bible study guide that challenges standard New Testament translations that describe gay sex as sinful.
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Sunday November 25, 2007
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, allows openly gay pastors but forbids them from being in same-sex relationships.
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