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Pope Slaps Down Nuns Over Support for Gays, Health Care Law

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Pope Slaps Down Nuns Over Support for Gays, Health Care LawThe Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”

The Vatican’s assessment, issued on Wednesday, said that members of the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”

The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements that “disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.” During the debate over the health care overhaul in 2010, American bishops came out in opposition to the health plan, but dozens of sisters, many of whom belong to the Leadership Conference, signed a statement supporting it — support that provided crucial cover for the Obama administration in the battle over health care.

Full Story from The New York Times

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NC, USA: Newspaper Editorial Calls Gays An “Abomination”

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Amendment One and Gays as AbominationJust ran across this lovely editorial by Dwight M. Creech, “principal of Calvary Christian School, is also a professional photographer and is certified by the N.C. Department of Justice as a firearms instructor.”. It appeared in The Pilot, a newspaper in Southern Pines, NC.

Titled “Gay Marriage Is an Abomination Before God”, the author says:

Consider the following: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” (Lev 20:13). The same judgment is stated in Leviticus 18:22.

The apostle Paul dedicated half of Romans Chapter 1 to this same issue, and it had not changed in 1,500 years.

Gotta love the fact that an avowed “Christian firearms instructor” is citing a passage in the bible that calls for the death of homosexuals. But it gets better:

This is change, and a -radical change of our way of life. It is not what we are changing into that made America the envy of the world. It is what we have abandoned that once made us the most powerful, caring nation in the world.

Many do not see this, but where we are headed is the jungle, where homosexuality, lesbianism, transgender, bestiality, pedophilia and any other conceivable behavior is a self-proclaimed right.

So much for the old “it’s just about the word marriage” canard. Mister Creech wraps up his argument with this gem:

Is this the kind of change you want? What kind of world do you want for your children and grandchildren?

I can answer that one. I want a world free of discrimination, where gay and lesbian kids no longer kill themselves to escape people like you. Where families have the same rights, regardless of the gender of the parents. And where all this hatred seems like just a bad dream.

Write the publisher and tell him what you think of allowing this kind of hate speech in his paper.

Iran: Cleric Says Gays, Lesbians Inferior to Dogs and Pigs

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, according to Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, a conservative Iranian politician and Islamic scholar based in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

“Even animals … dogs and pigs don’t engage in this disgusting act, but yet they [western politicians] pass laws in favor of them in their parliaments. If a society commits a new sin, it will face a new punishment. Problems like AIDS did not exist before,” he said.

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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USA: GOPer Tom Ridge Says GOP Needs to Stop Discrimination Against Gay Community

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

GOP and GaysNow a businessman, consultant and philanthropist, former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge tells the WSJ that the Republican party needs to stop discriminating against gays:

“I think, as a party, we sometimes come across as very judgmental and very self-righteous, and that doesn’t play well to a lot of people,” he said. “Not just on political grounds, but in terms of the culture. We accept diversity in many different ways, and we need to be more clear about that and careful to express that.”

In particular, Ridge urged a more expansive approach to what he termed “the gay community,” noting that increased familiarity with gay people tends to lead to less judgmental politics.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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Gambia: 15 Arrested for “Suspected Homosexuality”

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

It amazes me that these African governments are fighting what they see as the western white man’s contagion of homosexuality by adopting another western white contagion, religious right extremism.

It is white religious right leaders who have brought this new anti-gay extremism to Africa. A lot of these countries have always been anti-gay, but it’s only been in recent years that the far-right of the far-right in America has been going to Africa, and around the world really, and spreading the most virulent forms of discrimination and hate, which are now coming home to roost in an unusual number of African countries simultaneously.

These governments are doing the work of white radicals in America. Congratulations!

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UK: Divorce Rate Lower for Gays Than Straights

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

United Kingdom's Divorce Rate Lower for Gays Than StraightsA new study coming out the UK has shown that same-sex couples are less likely to get divorced than straight couples. Though one must also factor in that gay couples in the UK are only able to have civil partnerships, which don’t carry the same legal weight as a full marriage. According to the study:

The most recent evidence from the UK Office of National Statistics finds that homosexual couples that joined in 2005 were significantly less likely to have filed for dissolution four years later than heterosexual couples were to have filed for divorce: 2.5% compared to 5.5%.

Full Story from Passport Magazine

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Liberia: Government Promises to Defend Gays

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

The Liberian government issued a statement last week promising to prosecute members of an anti-LGBT group who threatened activists with death.

In the statement, the government said it “supports the rights of any of its citizens to hold dear their traditional values, [but] it will neither countenance nor condone any form of intolerance whose objective is to stifle the exercise of individual freedoms and the advance of civil liberties.”

The statement also said that security agencies would investigate the threats and arrest anyone threatening gay rights advocates.

Full Story from Think Progress

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Moldova: Proposed Anti Discrimination Bill Under Fire From Orthodox Church

Monday, April 9th, 2012

The Alliance for European Integration (AIE) is attempting to pass an anti-discrimination bill in the Moldovan city of Balti, where the City Council made law an ordinance banning the “propagandising” of homosexuality.

But they are up against the objections of a most unexpected alliance – that between the conservative Orthodox Church and the opposition Communist Party.

Both parties are working hard to convince Moldovans that the bill – along with the government’s 2011 registration of the country’s tiny Muslim minority as a state-recognised religion – would mean an unbridled “Islamisation and homosexualization” of Moldova.

Full Story from Pink News

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USA: New Poll Says 59% of Latinos Say Gays Should Be Accepted By Society

Friday, April 6th, 2012

New York Gay Marriage PollLatinos are more likely than other Americans to say they’re liberal, according to a poll out Wednesday. Three out of 10 Latino adults say they consider themselves liberal compared to 21 percent of the general U.S. public, the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos poll found. And more native-born Hispanics than immigrant Hispanics say they are “very liberal” or “liberal,” 34 percent to 27 percent.

Three out of 10 Latino adults say they consider themselves liberal, compared with 21 percent of the general U.S. public, the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos poll found. And more U.S.-born Hispanics than Hispanic immigrants say they are “very liberal” or “liberal,” 34 percent to 27 percent.

Looking at the other end of the spectrum, 32 percent of Hispanics say their political views are “very conservative” or “conservative,” and 34 percent of all U.S. adults say the same. Meanwhile, Latinos born in another country are more likely than those born in the U.S. to describe themselves as conservative, with 35 percent to 28 percent.

Full Story from Politico

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NC, USA: Anti Gay Author Says Gays Will Benefit from Amendment One

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Charlotte Marriage Equality DebateAbout 500 people turned out Friday for a town hall meeting on North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Voters will decide on the amendment during the state’s upcoming May 8 primary. If approved, it would also ban other forms of legal recognition, including civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships.

Speaking in favor of the amendment was Turek, whose 143-page anti-gay marriage book Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone led him to lose speaking gigs at Bank of America and Cisco Systems. Scott Sigman, an openly gay Charlotte School of Law professor specializing in family law, argued against its passage. The debate, held at McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, was moderated by WFAE’s Julie Rose.

In his opening, Turek said gay folks would benefit from the amendment because it would improve the economy. “Natural marriage lowers social costs to government and thus taxpayers,” Turek said. “One major reason for our soaring deficit is the breakdown of the two-parent family. When the family breaks down, government expenditures swell to deal with increased crime and poverty. … Everyone in society, gay and straight, benefits immensely from government promotion of natural marriage.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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