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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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.”