JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) — A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to decline services for homosexual ceremonies.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, in a ruling late on Thursday, said that the wide-ranging law adopted this spring unconstitutionally allowed “arbitrary discrimination” against the homosexuals, unmarried people and others who do not share such views. Continue reading
ROME-During the days following his historic resignation, many observers speculated that an alleged “gay lobby” within the Vatican had pressured Benedict XVI to step down. In a new interview-book, the emeritus pope admits to the existence of such a lobby, but says it had only “four or five members” and that he’d managed to dismantle it.
Benedict XVI, Final Conversations is the title of the book to be released worldwide on September 9.
VIDEO: The tragic events in Orlando have affected all Americans and have made many people turn to religion to seek answers.
Christians and churches were among the first to open their doors to love and support the victims and families of the Orlando tragedy.
As a result, new relationships formed between the LGBTQ and Christian communities. Stereotypes on both sides shattered as they came together in mourning. Continue reading…
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME The Catholic church and other Christian communities must apologize to gay people and to many groups they have let down or offended throughout history, Pope Francis has said.
In a press conference Sunday on the flight back to Rome after his weekend trip to Armenia, the pontiff said bluntly: “The church must say it’s sorry for not having comported itself well many times, many times.”
“I believe that the church not only must say it’s sorry … to this person that is gay that it has offended,” said the pope. “But it must say it’s sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work.” Continue reading…
This week, about 38,000 pupils across the United Kingdom will be required to take part in the first ever “School Diversity Week” to combat “homophobic bullying” in the classroom.
The initiative is organized by the charity Just Like Us, whose aims are to “empower and support young LGBTQ+ people to become active agents of change in making schools LGBTQ+ friendly places.”
A special reception was hosted by the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercrow, to mark the launch of the initiative on Tuesday, June 14. The event was attended by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, campaigner Peter Tatchell, MPs and selected school pupils and teachers. Continue reading…
A Baptist pastor refuses to recant his hateful comments about the Orlando tragedy, despite several prominent Christian leaders publicly standing against him.
YouTube removed Verity Baptist Church Pastor Robert Jimenez’s sermon where he claimed the Orlando massacre was “great news.”
He later told the Sacramento Bee, “The point of the sermon is that the Bible teaches us that homosexuality, God put a death penalty on it. …
“All I’m saying is that when people die who deserve to die, it’s not a tragedy.”
Meanwhile, prominent Christian leaders, including Dr. Michael Brown and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, publicly condemned any comments calling the Pulse shooting anything but horrific. Continue reading…
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has expressed “shock, outrage and sadness” over the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida on June 12 said to be the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
In the attack, 50 people are reported to have lost their lives and 53 more were wounded in an attack by a single gunman on a nightclub frequented by members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community. Continue reading…
A perverted CUNY professor is admitting to using Target and other store restrooms for sexual purposes for lesbians and others who are seeking his “services” to become impregnated, and now, as a result, is the father of 22 children.
In the graphic front page interview with the New York Post, Ari Nagel, who is a math professor at Kingsborough Community College that is part of City University of New York (CUNY), proudly admitted that he often has been using the restroom at the Target at Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as well as other public store restrooms, including Starbucks, to view pornography and provide seminal specimens to women. His buyers then use the ladies’ restroom for self-insemination. Continue reading…
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a man can be considered non-binary—neither male nor female.
Jamie Shupe was born male, served in the military and married a woman. But in 2013, as he found himself struggling with his gender identity, Shupe decided to seek treatments that would make him look and feel feminine.
“I figured I was a transgender woman. My thinking was, well, I’m not a male,” Shupe told reporters. “I was in a deep, dark depression because I had boxed myself into this male identity that I couldn’t stand anymore.” Continue reading…
Two leading bishops from the Church of England say it’s “time to change the church” and reconsider interpretations of the Bible which condemn homosexuality as a sin.Bayes says he has been “profoundly changed” by encounters with lesbian and gay Christians in recent years, including within his own family.
He says the “hard fact is that the Church has played, and still plays, no small part in bruising and breaking” LGBT Christians. Continue reading…
