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Thursday October 25, 2007
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They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 30 vulnerable children. But Vincent and Pauline Matherick will this week have their latest foster son taken away because they have refused to sign new sexual equality regulations.
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Sunday October 14, 2007
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As Episcopalians and Anglicans wait to see if their fractious global fellowship will splinter or hold together in a long-running conflict over homosexuality and the Bible, other denominations are watching nervously.
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Monday September 17, 2007
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Speaking to journalists, Archbishop’ Alexy said that sexual minorities do not have to confess before the communion’, as their non-traditional sexual orientation is not a sin.
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Thursday September 13, 2007
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Islam:
It took gay Indian filmmaker Parvez Sharma six years to make “Jihad for Love,” a documentary film about gay men and women trying to live Muslim lives in Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and South Africa. Now he says his challenge will be to make sure the movie reaches Muslim communities, even in countries where being homosexual remains a crime that could be punishable by death.
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Friday September 7, 2007
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Christian lawyers and the Church of England warn that Christians could face legal action if they offended gays by expressing the traditional teaching that homosexual sex was immoral.
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Saturday August 11, 2007
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Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.
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Saturday July 28, 2007
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Mormonism/Mormon Church:
The LDS Church’s new pamphlet on homosexuality posted this week on the church’s Web site is an improvement on the last three, but doesn’t go far enough in embracing those with same-sex attractions, a longtime advocate for gay Mormons said Friday.
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Thursday July 19, 2007
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A gay Christian has won a discrimination claim against the Church of England after it was found to have blocked his appointment on the grounds of his sexuality.
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Tuesday July 17, 2007
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CALGARY -- Darren Lund was shocked when he first read a letter five years ago in an Alberta newspaper written by a local pastor who urged people to "take whatever steps are necessary to reverse the wickedness" of the "homosexual machine."
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Tuesday July 3, 2007
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Leaders of a growing local congregation that advertises itself as “The Cool Church” are telling their parishioners that being gay will take 30 years off a person’s life, prompting accusations that they are perpetuating “really uncool, deeply homophobic” lies.
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Friday June 29, 2007
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Three former leaders of an international ministry that counsels gays to change their sexual orientation apologized for their efforts, saying that though they acted sincerely, their message had caused isolation, shame and fear.
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Monday June 25, 2007
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Religious groups including Christians, Jews and Buddhists led the New York gay pride parade, lending gravity to the often outrageous event that celebrates the night patrons of a gay bar in Manhattan resisted a police raid.
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Wednesday June 6, 2007
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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has voted to adopt a new policy on homosexuals at its general assembly.
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Sunday May 27, 2007
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Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, who oversees 350,000 Catholics in nine counties and holds the high-ranking executive position of secretary to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is asking parishioners to help the diocese figure out how to better serve the gay and lesbian Catholic population.
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The Rev. Drew Phoenix told the church’s Baltimore-Washington conference that he had gone through “spiritual transformation” in the past year, since changing his name from Ann Gordon and receiving medical treatment to become a man.
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Saturday April 28, 2007
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The billboard claims “Jesus affirmed a gay couple.” A vandal’s own statement — the words “Lie, lie, lie” spray-painted in red — delivered an opposing view above them.
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Sunday April 15, 2007
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The 25 “equality riders” from a group called Soulforce have roughly followed certain routes of the Freedom Riders who battled Southern segregation in the 1960s. Instead of bus stations and restaurants, they stop at conservative evangelical colleges they say discriminate against homosexuals.
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Monday February 26, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Bishop Ted Gulick of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky yesterday apologized to gay and lesbian church members for the “pain and alienation” they feel following his vote last year not to consent to the further ordination of homosexual bishops.
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Monday February 12, 2007
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Corey Larsen spent years hiding the feelings that drew him to other men, at first refusing to acknowledge them and then praying daily for them to be taken away.
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Monday February 5, 2007
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A private, Christian university is firing a transgender professor who began appearing as a woman on campus in 2005.
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Wednesday January 31, 2007
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The Government’s refusal to allow faith-based adoption agencies to opt out of laws prohibiting discrimination against homosexual couples is the first step in banning the church from public life, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales warned today.
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Roman Catholic adoptions agencies yesterday lost their battle to opt out of new laws banning discrimination against homosexual couples when Tony Blair announced that there would be “no exemptions” for faith-based groups.
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Tony Blair bowed to his Cabinet and party last night by accepting that there would be no exemption from antidiscrimination laws for Roman Catholic adoption agencies.
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Friday January 26, 2007
Christianity • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
A bid by the Catholic and Anglican churches in Britain to exempt Catholic adoption agencies from being forced to place children with gay couples has received Muslim backing, but still looked set to fail.
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Monday December 18, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
At least seven Virginia Episcopal parishes, opposed to the consecration of a gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions, have voted overwhelmingly to break from the US church in a dramatic demonstration of widening rifts within the denomination.
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