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Commentary
The Boy Scouts of America and the irreverent churches
And so it begins — the abandonment of the Boy Scouts of America by churches of the Southern Baptist persuasion, for the lifting of the longtime national ban on admitting openly gay Scouts. At the end of the day, who really suffers here? The Southern Baptist Convention? The Assemblies of God? The Southeast Christian Church? No, of course not. These churches will continue to preach their version of the Bible and continue to discriminate and alienate. And they will do it all in the name of their so-called “loving” God.
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News (USA)
U.S. gay rights cases could trail Obama in upcoming trip to Africa
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa next month may result in a stark juxtaposition between the growing power of the gay rights movement in the U.S. and the criminalization of homosexuality throughout the African continent.
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Life
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber compares gay adoption to having pets
WASHINGTON — Liberty Counsel’s Mathew D. Staver and Matt Barber, in their daily radio and web broadcast Tuesday, compared adoption by gay parents to having having pets.
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News (USA)
Del. lawmakers introduce bill to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
DOVER, Del. — Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill outlawing discrimination in Delaware based on gender identity.
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News (USA)
N.J. state Senate delays vote on proposed ban on reparative therapy
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Senate has put off a vote on a bill that would prohibit licensed therapists from performing controversial gay-to-straight conversion therapy on minors.
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Life
‘Former lesbian’ Anne Paulk: Majority of lesbians were sexually abused
Last month, ex-gay poster boy John Paulk announced that he was renouncing the ex-gay movement and ending his twenty-year marriage to his ex-gay wife, Anne. While John has now finally acknowledged that ex-gay conversion therapy doesn’t work and is in fact extremely harmful, his now ex-wife Anne is still a supporter of the dangerous pseudo-science.
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News (USA)
‘Christian’ bakeries are OK with sinful celebrations… but not gay weddings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two Oregon bakeries who cited their moral principles and religious convictions as the basis for refusing to bake wedding cakes for gay couples, are seemingly selective in which Biblical “sins” they are willing to accommodate.
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News (USA)
Mich. governor sidesteps question on gay marriage, has no personal opinion
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is sidestepping the debate over whether gay marriage should be allowed in Michigan.
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News (USA)
Obama encourages Ill. lawmakers to approve marriage equality bill
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama, appearing at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Wednesday night, encouraged Illinois state lawmakers to approve a pending marriage equality, calling it “the right thing to do.”
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Life
Perry says Boy Scouts will answer to God; Gohmert warns of pedophilia
Rick Perry, who has equated the fight against gays in the Boy Scouts to the fight to abolish slavery, told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council on Friday’s edition of Washington Watch that the Boy Scouts of America’s delegates bowed to “political correctness” and “money” in ending the ban on gay members under the age of 18.
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News (USA)
Maine’s high court upholds subpoenas for NOM’s anti-gay marriage donors
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s highest court has rejected an appeal by the National Organization for Marriage to keep its donor list confidential.
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News (USA)
Frustration mounts as vote nears on Illinois same-sex marriage bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Black lawmakers undecided on gay marriage are feeling increasing pressure as a vote nears, but are keeping mum on their plans.
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News (World)
Nigeria bans gay marriage, gay rights groups; imposes 14 year prison terms
ABUJA, Nigeria — Lawmakers in Nigeria passed a bill Thursday banning same-sex marriage and outlawing anyone from forming organizations supporting gay rights, setting prison terms of up to 14 years for offenders.
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News (USA)
Mass. high school awards Prom Queen title to transgender student
MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. — Cody Tubman, a high school student in Middleborough, Mass., became her school’s first transgender prom queen after being selected by her classmates on Tuesday.
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News (USA)
Study links LGBT supportive policies to positive business-related outcomes
LOS ANGELES — LGBT-supportive workplace policies are linked to positive business-related outcomes, according to a new study by Williams Institute, a national think tank at UCLA’s School of Law.
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News (USA)
La. lawmakers consider bill to block surrogacy by gay parents
BATON ROUGE, La. — A bill making its way in the Louisiana state legislature that would establish provisions to block gay and unmarried couples from becoming parents using a surrogate, is headed to a joint House-Senate conference committee this week.
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News (USA)
Calif. Senate OKs change in tax policy targeting Boy Scouts’ ban on gay adults
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California state Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would use the state’s tax policy in an attempt to pressure the Boy Scouts of America into fully accepting gay members.
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News (USA)
Ala. pastors ban Boy Scouts from church over support of ‘sinful lifestyle’
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Some Alabama pastors say Boy Scout troops will no longer be allowed to meet in their churches after the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow openly gay scout members.
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News (USA)
Michigan Democrats introduce bills to advance recognition of gay unions
LANSING, Mich. — Minority Democrats in the Michigan state Senate on Wednesday proposed four pieces of legislation aimed at repealing the state’s ban on same-sex marriage and advancing recognition of legal unions between gay and lesbian couples.
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News (USA)
Suspect ‘Science’ – Examining Regnerus’ controversial study of LGBT parents
An appointed scholarly reviewer says a controversial study of LGBT families by sociology professor Mark Regnerus was deeply flawed and that Regnerus has been “disgraced” as a result.