How Catholics Can Welcome LGBT Believers

• Released Date: 31-Aug-2017

The Catholic Church has been criticized by many, including some of its own followers, for its pastoral response to the LGBT community.

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Religious Right Types Blame LGBT People for Harvey’s Destruction

• Released Date: 31-Aug-2017

It was probably inevitable — some Christian right extremists are blaming LGBT people for the destruction brought to Houston and its environs by Hurricane Harvey.Jesus sends the message home, unless Americans repent, unless Houston repents, unless New

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Supreme Court rejects petition to recognize same-sex marriage

• Released Date: 31-Aug-2017

The High Court of Justice rejected on Thursday a petition by the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association to recognize same-sex marriage.Justices Elyakim Rubinstein (former deputy to the president), Neal Hendel and Anat Baron reject

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Liberal Journalist: LGBT activist undermines arguments for transgenders in military

• Released Date: 30-Aug-2017

The article was prompted by the announcement that celebrity photographer, lesbian Annie Leibovitz, photographed Manning for a spread in the upcoming issue of Vogue magazine.Manning, who was recently released from prison after his sentence was commute

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Group counters Nashville Statement with pro-LGBT message, calls it The Accurate Nashville Statement

• Released Date: 30-Aug-2017

Some Nashville residents say the Nashville Statement, a controversial document on human sexuality signed by more than 150 conservative evangelical leaders, does not represent their inclusive views about LGBT people or their city. So they wr

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Parents of LGBT persons hail right to privacy judgement by India’s Supreme Court

• Released Date: 30-Aug-2017

MUMBAI, India — The recent Supreme Court judgment on right to privacy has brought a ray of hope not only for the LGBTQ community, but also their parents. It has raised their anticipation that this judgment may herald better days for the repeal of Sec

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Column: Anti-LGBT ’Nashville Statement’ meets a more loving ’Chicago Statement’

• Released Date: 30-Aug-2017

I have learned that God does not approve of me.A group of more than 150 evangelical leaders from across the country released a lengthy statement Tuesday declaring, among other things, this: WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immoral

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Radio host claims homosexuals are scaring away US fighter pilots

• Released Date: 29-Aug-2017

Radio host Bryan Fischer has claimed that gay people are scaring trained fighter pilots away from the US armed forces.Fischer, the host of the American Family Association’s Focal Point radio show, made the claim in response to reports of a serious pi

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India Organises Its First Transgender Beauty Pageant And We Couldn’t Be Happier

• Released Date: 29-Aug-2017

here are good things happening around us. There is justice being served everywhere we see and positive changes happening everywhere. One such astounding change we see is the visibility of more transgender folks amidst us, thanks to the government and

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Chile legalises gay marriage and allows LGBT couples to adopt as historic new bill signed

• Released Date: 29-Aug-2017

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has introduced a bill to legalise gay marriage, the latest in a series of recent reforms in a country long regarded as one of Latin America’s most socially conservative.Bachelet signed the proposal, which will

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Same-sex couples in Germany will be forced to act as ‘man and woman’ due to massive error

• Released Date: 29-Aug-2017

The German government has made a major error in processing same-sex marriage.Despite a swift and clear vote in favour of introducing the equality legislation earlier this year, the new law could take much longer to be fully introduced. A major tech

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’Essential rights’: Chile’s President Bachelet introduces gay marriage bill

• Released Date: 29-Aug-2017

The Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet, has introduced a bill to legalise gay marriage, a move that follows a string of liberal reforms in one of Latin America’s most conservative nations. In 2015, Chile’s congress approved same-sex civil unions af

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