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News (USA)
Oprah explores a mother’s love and struggle to accept her gay son
“I made peace with God with it,” Cookie Johnson tells Oprah Winfrey. “So I’m good.”
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News (USA)
Christian business woman suing for right to discriminate against LGBTQ clients
Lorie Smith is suing so her web design business can “celebrate and promote God’s design for marriage:” one woman, one man.
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News (USA)
Aww! Kentucky judge says he ‘can’t hug the way he used to’ because gay marriage
Family court Judge Tom Philpot says same-sex marriage is an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp” or a “magnificent Chihuahua.”
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News (USA)
Antigay extremist Bryan Fischer proclaims ‘diversity is not a blessing’
“This kind of multiculturalism is not a blessing, it is a curse.”
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News (USA)
Gay Christian star booted from rock festival, until another band brought him onstage
Nearly 3/4 of the homophobic stage crew threatened to walk off the job if Trey Pearson and his band Everyday Sunday took the stage.
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News (USA)
Federal employee willing to be fired rather than watch LGBTQ diversity video
“They wanted me to certify that I had completed the training,” says David Hall. “I’m not going to certify sin.”
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News (USA)
Wedding venue owner: refusing gays ‘does not make me a bigot or you righteous’
“I won’t be calling you terrible things or threatening you or your family as so many of your readers have done to me.”
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News (World)
Gay YouTuber creates ‘God Loves LGBT+’ cartoon to model acceptance
“We just wanted to let you know that if you do believe in Jesus, Jehovah, Vishnu, or anyone else, well that he, or she, loves gay people just as much as straight people.”
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Commentary
‘Bathroom bills’ punish trans people for defying cultural norms
In her pioneer book, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, Suzanne Pharr describes a series of elements she finds common to the multiple forms of oppression. Such elements include what she refers to as a “defined norm” and a “lack of prior claim,” among many others. Pharr explains a “defined norm” as “…a standard of rightness […]
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News (World)
Church of England faces biggest split since Henry VIII over same-sex marriage
A dozen parishes met this week to consider splitting from the church and forming a new conservative “shadow synod.”
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News (USA)
Pastor who said Pulse victims deserved to die busted for child abuse
Kenneth Adkins, 56, faces one count of aggravated child molestation and one count of child molestation.
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News (USA)
Right wing nut Christian thinks this fish will stop LGBTQ progressives
In a stirring (some would say scary) email, Matt Barber implored followers to “strike down this progressive movement in America.”
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News (USA)
Tony Perkins: I never said God causes disasters, but He can and does
The far right leader who last year said of natural disasters, “God is trying to send us a message,” now says he didn’t say that.
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News (USA)
God’s wrath? Flood destroys Tony Perkins’ home
The Right-wing Christian leader is questioning why his home was wrecked by what he called a “flood of biblical proportions.”
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News (USA)
Extremist to gays: Jesus will ‘slaughter every single one of you’
Theodore Shoebat says, “When Jesus comes back, Jesus is going to kill all these sodomites.”
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News (World)
Christians pose as gay pothead zombies to spread hate at Toronto Pride
The group marched in the Toronto Pride Parade under the banner “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association” and handed out anti-LGBT propaganda.
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News (USA)
NC Republican candidate: LGBT Orlando victims ‘deserving of hell’
“All men and women are #sinners and deserving of hell.” he wrote on social media. He has since apologized for “misleading anybody.”
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News (USA)
LGBTQ group bedevils Donald Trump as he answers Evangelicals’ prayers
The presumptive Republican nominee preached to the choir and won a standing ovation from hundreds of conservative Christians.
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News (USA)
Pastor defends antigay sign linking Orlando massacre to ‘God’s wrath’
“We are not trying to kill them,” says Pastor Jesse Price of Tennessee. He says “homosexuals need to be saved.”
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Commentary
How did Omar Mateen become radicalized? American culture taught him
“Sadly, we can’t change the hearts of people, like Mateen, as quickly as we would like to. However, we can change his behavior or, at least, make him accountable.”