Religion

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Methodist Church Voids Key Vote on Pro-LGBTQ Church Departures

The United Methodist Church announced that it has voided a vote that would have governed how congregations leave the faith over the issue of LGBTQ inclusion, citing “irregularities” in a measure that passed by just two votes in February. In a press release released Saturday, the United Methodist Church said that an investigation uncovered that four people posed as absent delegates to cast votes at the February conference. “Multiple pieces of evidence corroborated the conclusion that these four individuals improperly cast votes,” the press release said.  In February, Methodists met in St. Louis for a General Conference that was summoned in […]

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Gay Guidance Counselor Sues Indianapolis Archdiocese after being Fired

A gay guidance counselor is suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis for discrimination, alleging it fired her from a job at a high school because she’s in a same-sex marriage. Lynn Starkey, one of two gay guidance counselors who have accused the archdiocese of discrimination, names the church and Roncalli High School — the Catholic school where she worked for nearly 40 years until she was fired in May — in the lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Starkey alleges that the archdiocese and school discriminated against her on the basis of […]

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Baptist Church Refuses To Host Man’s Funeral Because It Would Be Attended By The Man’s Gay Son

Chattanooga’s ABC affiliate reports: A dying Tennessee man’s final wish will not be honored. A bereaved son in Sweetwater, Tennessee says his sexual orientation is standing in the way of his father’s funeral service. Jessie Goodman is engaged to Brandon Smitty. Goodman’s father is very ill and dying. His final wish is that his services be held at the church he first attended. But when the church leadership found out the gay couple would be involved, Goodman says things got complicated. “As long as I was going to take part in any way, he [Goodman’s father] could not have his service […]

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Vatican Rejects Trans People, says They ‘Annihilate the Concept of Nature’

The Vatican has issued a statement rejecting trans people, saying they ‘annihilate…the concept of nature’. In a new document issued during Pride Month, the Congregation for Catholic Education has issued a crushing statement on trans issues. The office responsible for overseeing education calls trans people experiencing ‘nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants’. ‘Male And Female He Created Them’, was released by the Vatican on 10 June without prior announcement. It is described as an ‘aid for Catholic schoolteachers and parents’. The document is also signed by Italians Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi and […]

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LGBT Americans Don’t Identify with Faith Groups, but Most still Believe in God

A new analysis has found that three-quarters of lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans believe in God, but many don’t identify as part of an organised religion. The finding comes from a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the 2014 Religious Landscape Study. According to the survey data, 77 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in America say that they believe in God, compared to 89 percent to straight adults. But despite three-quarters of gay adults believing in God, only 59 percent of LGB respondents identify as a Christian or another non-Christian faith, compared to 78 percent for heterosexuals. Although lesbian, gay […]

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Why Do 0% of American Muslims Identify as Gay or Lesbian?

A recent survey has found 0% of American Muslims identify as gay or lesbian. The ISPU research interviewed 804 American Muslims. They found not one identified as gay or lesbian. Around 4% identified as bisexual and 2% said they were ‘something else’. Another 2% refused to answer the question’.D There are, of course, LGBTI people who identify as Muslim in the United States. CNN interviewed members of progressive mosques, like Masjid al-Rabia. The mosque is intended to be women-centered, anti-racist, LGBTI affirming, and welcoming to many Islamic traditions. Muslims for Progressive Values have eight ‘inclusive communities’ in the United STates. Berkeley’s […]

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Anti-LGBT Hate Preacher James David Manning Faces Abuse Allegations

Anti-LGBT New York preacher James David Manning is facing allegations of abuse against school children. Manning, the pastor at ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem, has attracted attention online for his outlandish anti-LGBT conspiracy theories. The preacher famously alleged that Starbucks flavours lattes with the “semen of Sodomites,” while the church sign regularly proclaims anti-gay messages like “Jesus would stone homos.” Manning has also claimed that God will make fire shoot out of “gay men’s buttholes,”and suggested the US Supreme Court only voted in favour of same-sex marriage because justices were “blackmailed” by their secret gay lovers. Anti-gay preacher James David Manning faces abuse allegations The preacher is […]

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Church of England Pressed to End Ban on Same-sex Marriage

A new campaign has launched, calling on the Church of England to end its ban on same-sex weddings. The Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England launched on Friday (April 12), seeking an end to rules that ban same-sex weddings in Church parishes, and an end to rules that target gay vicars for getting married. The campaign, led by several members of the clergy, launches exactly five years after hospital chaplain Jeremy Pemberton defied the Church’s rules to marry his same-sex partner, which led to the removal of his permission to officiate. Church of England clergy: It is time to embrace same-sex […]

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The Mormon Church still Doesn’t Accept Same-sex Couples

Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have reversed a policy that prevented minor children of same-sex married couples from joining the church and participating in its sacred rituals since 2015. Many conservative churches oppose same-sex relationships and have done so with increased intensity since the second half of the 20th century. In the case of Latter-day Saints, the reasons for opposing same-sex marriage are based in their theology of a “real family,” as willed by God. However, as a scholar of gender and sexuality in Mormonism, I argue that the 2015 decision to bar children of same-sex parents from the church was tied […]

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Pope Francis Criticized for ‘Failure’ to Address Damage to LGBT Youth

Pope Francis has been criticised for his “failure” to address the damage done to LGBT+ youth by the Catholic Church. LGBT+ humanitarian campaign group Equal Future hit out at the pope after the Vatican released a new teaching document for young people, titled Christus vivit, on Tuesday (April 2). The pope released the nine-chapter publication in response to an event held by Catholic bishops, called the “Synod on Young People,” in October. But Equal Future criticised the pope for “airbrushing of the lives and aspirations of millions of young LGBT people from the document,” which it said “compounds the damage being done to […]

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