All posts tagged "religion"
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Jill the Baptist
Jill McCrory welcomes questions. Tough questions, uncomfortable questions, questions with complex answers. The kind of questions that prompted her to leave the church for more...
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Wedding businesses should be required to serve gay couples
“A majority of Americans (61%) continue to believe that a business providing wedding services to the public should be required to serve same-sex couples, even if...
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Vatican considers being less judgemental towards gays
“When people living in such unions request a child’s baptism, almost all the responses emphasise that the child must be received with the same care,...
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Dan Haseltine, front-man of Christian band Jars of Clay, takes to Twitter to support gay marriage
Contemporary Christian music isn’t a format where one might think to look for vocal supporters of same-sex marriage, but as with anything else times are...
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Rationing Religious Freedom
The religious right is fighting to turn America's religious freedom from a shield into a sword against public policies and groups they dislike. Posing as...
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Crossed Out: Just 17 percent of U.S. congregations report out gay parishioners
Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors. So few gay people. Just 17 percent of religious congregations in the United States...
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The Decline and Fall of the Ex-Gay Movement
When Tracey St. Pierre was 16-years-old, she fell in love with a girl from her high school. They were head over heels for each other...
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Steeple Chasing
There are probably plenty of things you haven't seen until you've seen them done New Orleans style. Taking my husband to the Big Easy last...
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Americans Who Believe Homosexuality Is a Sin Reaches New Lows
In just over a year, the number of Americans who believe being gay is a sin has decreased dramatically, according to a poll conducted by...
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National LGBT Briefs: Rust Belt Horror, Suspect Sermon And Teen Shabbaton
Two Women Accused in Pennsylania Killing Of Ex-Girlfriend Testimony at a July 25 preliminary hearing is revealing horrific details in the May 17 murder of...
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Global LGBT Briefs: Ukraine Assault, Apology in Australia and Farewell to Beck
Leading Ukrainian Gay Activist Attacked Taras Karasiichuk, an LGBT rights activist and head of the Kiev Pride 2012 organizing committee, was attacked on his way...
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God Only Knows
It can be a challenge, being the nonbeliever in a relationship with someone who's devout. If I believed in such things, I would have to...
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National LGBT Briefs: Protest, Praise and 'Ex-Gay' in Oregon
North Carolina’s Rev. Worley Warmly Welcomed It was May 13 when Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, N.C.'s Providence Road Baptist Church told congregants how to...
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Sister Courage
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) used to be called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. That...
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God-free Reason Rally draws thousands of participants; Gay support strong among speakers
The United States first major secular and humanist event, the Reason Rally, attracted between 10 to 20,000 participants to the National Mall on Saturday, March...
