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Police: 8 boys accuse Minnesota teacher and his husband of abuse
The couple was found dead Aug. 25 in an apparent murder-suicide shortly after the first teen reported the abuse to police.
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Across the nation, thousands of people protested Trump’s election last night
The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday as protesters flooded city streets.
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Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of couple investigated for teen sex assault
The couple were being investigated by authorities in Minnesota after an unnamed teen claimed he had an ongoing sexual relationship with them.
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5-year-old gender non-conforming student spurs debate at Minnesota charter school
The parents of a 5-year-old child who is gender nonconforming asked Nova Classical Academy to help make sure their student was not being bullied.
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Transgender rights group sues state over care limitation
KYLE POTTER and BRIAN BAKST [ap]
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St. Paul school district to begin working on ‘gender inclusion’ policy
Some of the main provisions call for students to be identified by their preferred names and gender pronouns, and participate in programs and activities that align with their gender identity.
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A Minnesota pastor’s pulpit: Not just your ordinary food truck
ST. PAUL, Minn. — There are a couple of clues that the mobile kitchen parked every Thursday at lunchtime on Payne Avenue on St. Paul’s East Side this summer isn’t just another food truck. First of all, the food — hot calzones — is free. And the person who drives the truck is a young woman in a clerical collar who likes to say, “Peace be with you.”
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Anti-gay Archbishop under investigation for sexual misconduct with other men
John Nienstedt, the Catholic archbishop who championed the failed effort to ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota, is facing a church investigation over allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with other men, including priests and seminary students. “I believe that the investigators have received about ten sworn statements alleging sexual impropriety …
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Anti-gay Catholic bishop steps aside under allegations of sexual abuse
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt, who in 2010 advised a parishioner to reject her gay son or suffer eternal damnation, has stepped down from public ministry due to allegations that he inappropriately touched a young boy on the buttocks during a photo session a year earlier.
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President of prominent Minn. Catholic high school comes out as gay, resigns
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The president of a prominent Minnesota Catholic high school has resigned after he informed other school officials that he is in a same-sex relationship.