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China: Poll Says Young Chinese Accept Gays

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Very few young Chinese have hang-ups about gay people, according to one of the nation’s most popular dating sites.

According to a poll on Jiayuan.com, 83% of Chinese born between 1980 and 1989 do not disapprove of homosexuality; roughly the same percentage was found among people born in the 1990s.

Full Story from The Advocate

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Lithuania: Only 4% Support Civil Unions for Gays

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

A poll by Lithuanian market research company RIAT claims only 4% of the country supports the introduction of civil partnerships for gay couples.

The Baltic News Agency-commissioned poll says 70% of the population is in favour of some form of legal recognition for relationships outside marriage, but not for gays.

Same-sex marriages are currently banned under the Constitution and the Civil Code, and while civil partnerships are permitted to be introduced by the legislature, the Code states they may only be between a man and a woman.

Full Story from Pink News

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Gays to Minnesota Adulteress: We’re Sorry

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to recently resigned Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an “inappropriate relationship.”

“On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community’s successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage,” reads the letter from John Medeiros.

“We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry.”

Full Story from City Pages

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UT: 73% Think Gays Deserve Protection, But 54% Think It’s a Choice

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

A majority of Utahns favor legal protection statewide for gay and transgender individuals when it comes to employment and housing. However, results from a recently released poll also showed that most Utahns do not support marriage or adoption rights for gay or transgender couples.

The poll, commissioned by Equality Utah — a Salt Lake-based civil rights organization focusing on equal rights and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Utahns and their families — was conducted by research firm Dan Jones and Associates. The survey polled 801 households across the state and contained a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.

Among the findings was that 73 percent of respondents somewhat or strongly favor a statewide nondiscrimination law that would make it illegal for someone to be fired from a job solely because they are gay or transgender. The same 73 percent also somewhat or strongly favor a statewide nondiscrimination law that would make it illegal for someone to be evicted from housing solely because they are gay or transgender.

Full Story from KSL

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NJ: Black Churches Welcome Gays, If They’re Quiet and Don’t Push for Marriage Equality

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Is it possible that gays could one day fill leadership posts in the black church? “You have gay people in leadership positions already, just not openly,” said the Rev. Reginald T. Jackson, pastor of St. Matthew AME Church in Orange and executive director of the 600-member Black Ministers’ Council of New Jersey. Not openly: That seems to be the way most church leaders like it, based on conversations with New Jersey pastors.

A random sampling of black ministers in the Newark area found many are aware of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered men and women in their congregations, singing in the choir or working in a church office. And they are willing to welcome them with open arms. The Rev. Ronald Slaughter of St. James AME in Newark estimates 60 to 70 percent of all churches have homosexuals in their congregations. “They (the congregations) may not know it, but they can’t be judge or jury at the door,” he said.

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But support gay marriage from the pulpit? Don’t even think of it. Some pastors object on the basis of scripture, others just don’t see it as the church’s mission to take a political stand on gay rights of any kind.

Full Story from NJ.com

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New Report: Support for Gays/Lesbians Increased in 27 Countries Since 1998

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

The vast majority of countries around the world have become more accepting of homosexuality, with the exception of Russia and other former socialist countries, a new study has found.

The report, compiled by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, examined general trends in over 30 countries regarding their attitudes towards homosexuality, and is based on five surveys conducted in different countries between 1988 and 2008.

Approval of homosexuality increased in 27 countries and decreased in only four: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Russia, the study noted. The growth in approval ratings was stronger than the decline.

Full Story From AFP

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Minnesota Family Council Cleans Up Website, Deletes Articles Linking Gays to Bestiality, Pedophilia

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

The main proponent of an effort to amend Minnesota’s constitution to ban gay marriage has deleted documents linking gays to pedophilia and bestiality, the Minnesota Independent reported.

The president of the Christian conservative group Minnesota Family Council on Wednesday defended the documents, which first came to light Tuesday on the website GoodAsYou.org. Tom Prichard told NPR that the documents get “into the nature of homosexuality and homosexual behavior.”

“The focus of this campaign is the nature and purpose of marriage – not a referendum of homosexuality per se, or its lifestyle activities and behaviors,” Prichard told the radio network. “I would see that as a separate issue.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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Watch: Pastor at New York Anti Gay Marriage Rally Says Gays “Worthy of Death”

Monday, May 16th, 2011

The Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky has posted video of a pastor at Sunday’s hate march in the Bronx, hosted by New York Senator Ruben Diaz and the National Organization for Marriage, calling for death to gay people.

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Committing sexual acts between man and man. And receiving the retribution of the things that they have done from straying away. And because they did not take God in count.

God gave them over to reprimand their mind to do things that are not right, being against all justice, fornication, perversity, aberrations, malignity…those who practice such things are worthy to death, not only do they do it, but those who also practice it. God bless this earth. That is the word of God.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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UK: Archbishop of Canterbury Vows to Fight Church Weddings for Gays, Lesbians

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

The Archbishop of Canterbury has vowed he will never allow Church of England buildings to be used for gay weddings. Dr Rowan Williams told MPs that he would not bow to pressure to enable his churches to be used for same-sex unions.

His intervention comes as the Coalition consults on plans to allow civil partnerships between gays and lesbians to take place in religious settings for the first time.

No church, mosque or synagogue will be forced to host the ceremonies – but some religious people are worried they could be open to discrimination suits if they do not open their doors to gay unions.

Full Story from the Mail Online

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Gay Ugandans Win Court Battle Over Newspaper That Published Their Names, Addresses

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

A group of Ugandans identified as homosexual in a newspaper article headlined “Hang Them” have won damages and a court injunction ordering the paper not to repeat the exercise, human rights groups said today.

A high court judge ruled that the story in the Rolling Stone newspaper, which printed addresses and photographs of some of the 100 people it named as “Uganda‘s top homos”, violated their constitutional rights to privacy and safety. The court awarded the three plaintiffs in whose names the case was launched just over £400 each in damages, the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Uganda said in a statement.

Rights groups warned that the article in October in the new, small-circulation weekly title put the lives of gay people in danger, saying that at least one woman named in the story had been forced to leave her home after neighbours pelted it with stones.

Full Story from The Guardian

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