Saturday, June 1, 2013
Lutheran assembly elects first openly gay bishop
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America elected its first openly gay bishop to a six-year term on Friday at an annual assembly in Southern California, officials said. The election of Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin comes after the church's controversial rule change in 2009 that allowed...
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Boy Scouts proposal: let in gay youth, keep out gay adults
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian: NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America on Friday proposed lifting a ban on gay scouts but maintaining a prohibition on gay adults from leading troops, a compromise that attempts to end a bitter split in the century-old American institution. Reaction from scouting...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Magic Johnson Opens Up About Gay Son
By Luchina Fisher | ABC News Blogs: Days after Magic Johnson publicly announced his support for his openly gay son, the basketball legend is opening up about when he learned his son was gay, the backlash since the news broke and what he thinks about athletes coming out. "We've known for a long, long...
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Gay marriage and the natural law
BY BROTHER HAYDEN AUGUSTINE: GAY marriage has become a hot topic, a burning issue. Some time ago, on the front pages of our dailies, two women are captioned in matrimonial embrace. As we continue perusing the news, more captions, more divergent opinions and viewpoints, columns and letters are...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
The facts about homosexuality
BY CYNTHIA BURTON Jamaica Observer - Columns: I want to add my thoughts to the much-talked about topic of homosexuality, and clarify, once and for all the facts about this lifestyle. Let me first state that this issue is not only confined to the perspective of the church, but to the wider society as...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
President Obama, Mitt Romney Agree: Gay Boy Scouts OK
By Devin Dwyer | ABC OTUS News: President Obama and Mitt Romney have found some new common ground -surprisingly - on an issue of gay rights. Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation's largest and most...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Congressman Barney Frank weds in same-sex marriage
By Tim McLaughlin | Reuters: BOSTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, on Saturday, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiated the ceremony and added some levity by...
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Anderson Cooper: ‘The fact is, I’m gay’
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout: Anderson Cooper has confirmed what most people in the media world and New York already knew: He is gay. "The fact is, I'm gay," Cooper wrote in an email to Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan. "Always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future: Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined "the future of humanity itself." The pope made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Gay Couples Ready for Orlando's New Partner Registry
By Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel 6:13 p.m. EST, December 26, 2011: Gay advocates expect a rush of same-sex couples at City Hall when the city's new domestic-partnership registry opens next month. And not all of those couples will be from Orlando, nor will all of them be gay, supporters of the law...
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