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Church of England lifts ban on gay bishops, as long as they remain celibate
The Church of England announced Friday it has lifted a ban on gay male clergy who live with their partners from becoming bishops, on the condition that they remain sexually abstinent.
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Soccer’s Matt Jarvis: Time for a gay footballer to be comfortable enough to come out
U.K. soccer star Matt Jarvis appears on the February cover of Attitude, Britain’s leading gay magazine, and says it is time that a gay footballer felt comfortable enough to come out.
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Archbishop orders London church to cease masses for LGBT Catholics
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, who also leads the Catholic Church in England and Wales, announced this week that he has ordered the Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Central London to stop holding masses that were specifically designed for LGBT Catholics.
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Cameron’s support for marriage equality improves popularity among LGBT voters
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron’s strong support for legalizing same-sex marriage has greatly improved his popularity with the U.K.’s LGBT voters since the last general election, according to a recent survey by PinkNews.co.uk.
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British politician warns that same-sex marriage will turn UK into Nazi society
BIRMINGHAM, UK — The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, warned an audience at an anti-gay marriage rally in Birmingham on Monday that “Britain risks becoming a totalitarian state as a result of gay marriage, and could go the way of Nazi Germany.”
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Famed gay computer scientist Alan Turing honored with Monopoly edition
BLETCHLEY PARK, U.K. — Alan Turing, a mathematician and World War II codebreaker widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, and who committed suicide in 1954 after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay, has been honored with his own edition of the popular board game Monopoly.
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Iranian news agency accuses Israel, U.S., U.K. of ‘spreading homosexuality’ globally
QOM, Iran — The Mashregh News, a state-controlled Iranian media outlet, has published a report asserting that the “Zionist regime” of Israel, along with Jews in the U.S. and the United Kingdom were financing efforts to “spread homosexuality” across the globe.
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British school sends transgender girl home to change into boys uniform
BOSTON, Lincolnshire, U.K. — A 16-year-old British transgender girl was told that she couldn’t take her GCSE exam (equivalent to high school finals) and was sent home by teachers to change into the boys’ school uniform.
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Russian embassy warns children in UK program may be placed with ‘families of homosexuals’
LONDON — The Russian embassy in London has issued a warning to parents who send their children to summer schools in the United Kingdom, saying alleging that their children may be placed in “inappropriate housing conditions,” including with “families of homosexuals.”
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Roman Catholic Church of Scotland declares ‘war on gay marriage’
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and the most senior Catholic in the United Kingdom has declared “war on gay marriage” pledging to spend another £100,000 in its campaign against equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Scotland.