Religion
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14 March 2013Church of Scotland to have meeting over gay clergy row 12 The Church of Scotland is to meet to discuss a minister who left the Church, along with his congregation, over the ordination of a gay minister. -
14 March 2013US: Radio Host attacks the Girl Scouts for supporting the “homosexual lifestyle” 17 A US radio host has attacked the Girl Scouts of the USA, claiming that it "supports homosexual lifestyles", and "features homosexuals in some of their materials". -
14 March 2013Christians for Equal Marriage UK welcome arrival of Pope Francis 38 Christians for Equal Marriage UK has welcomed the election of Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. -
14 March 2013US pastor says gay sex is like ‘plugging an electrical cord into the wrong outlet’ 55 Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress has suggested gay sex is like plugging an electrical cord into the wrong outlet. -
13 March 2013New Pope Francis believes same-sex marriage and gay adoption are the Devil’s work 157 The new pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76-year-old Argentinean, who will be known as Pope Francis, has in the past described same-sex marriage and gay couples adopting as a "destructive attack on God's plan." -
13 March 2013US: Gay rabbi elected leader of his association for the first time in a national movement 2 For the first time an openly gay man has been chosen to lead a national rabbinical association in the US. -
13 March 2013US: Catholic Church threatens to end adoption services in Colorado if civil unions become law 27 As LGBT rights advocates celebrated in the US state of Colorado on Tuesday, when civil unions all but became law, a Catholic adoption charity suggested they might cease to operate if and when the civil unions bill is signed by the Governor. -
12 March 2013US: Boy Scouts of America to survey members and staff on whether to lift gay ban 9 The Boy Scouts of America is putting the question of whether it should lift its national anti-gay policy to those it will directly affect - the members, volunteers and staff. -
12 March 2013US gay religious group says the Catholic Church must stop harming LGBT people 11 As cardinals begin voting for a new Pope, an American LGBT religious organisation says the successor to Pope Benedict XVI must “end the immense harm the Catholic Church has caused” to LGBT people. -
12 March 2013Video: Bryan Fischer says equal marriage would be ‘an inequality under the law’ 16 The American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, has spoken on the organisation’s radio program Focal Point, to say that equal marriage would be a "special right" for gay people, and that it represents an "inequality" in the law. -
12 March 2013Archbishop of Canterbury says he supports strengthening gay relationships but not with marriage 38 The newly elected Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has said that he supports strengthening gay relationships and recognises that the love between people of the same-sex is as "no less" than heterosexual couples. -
12 March 2013Cardinals begin secret conclave vote to elect the next Pope 17 115 Cardinals of the Catholic Church have gathered in the Vatican to begin the process of electing the next Pope, which will take place in a secret conclave cut off from the world - even electronic signals are jammed to stop any Tweets about the vote. -
11 March 2013Vatican embarrassed as €23 million property investment includes Europe’s biggest gay sauna 55 Following several recent scandals, it has now emerged that the Catholic church has bought a €23 million (£21 million) share of an apartment block in Rome which houses the biggest gay sauna in Europe.
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11 March 2013US Radio Host: Churches should fight to ‘abolish’ homosexuality as they did slavery 47 Linda Harvey, a host of the Ohio based Christian group Mission America has again spoken out against equal rights for gay people, saying that churches should be more proactive in opposing it, in the same way they fought to abolish slavery. -
11 March 2013Former Westboro Baptist Church member poses for pro-same-sex marriage NOH8 campaign 8 A former member of the incendiary anti-gay group the Westboro Baptist Church has posed for the pro-same-sex marriage NOH8 photography campaign, saying she wanted to express that the church and her previous actions with them were wrong. -
11 March 2013MEP Michael Cashman: Compassion for Cardinal O’Brien should be saved for victims of Catholic anti-gay discrimation 20 Labour MEP Michael Cashman tweeted PinkNews today to state his disagreement with Baroness Kennedy's "huge compassion" for Cardinal O'Brien, saying her concern would be better suited to the LGBT people who suffer discrimination because of the Catholic Church. -
11 March 2013Scottish Catholic Church says it hasn’t supported people ‘who are struggling with same-sex attraction’ 68 The Catholic Church in Scotland has failed to provide "compassionate and pastoral" support on issues of sexuality, a chief spokesman has admitted in language that still promotes a negative idea of being gay. -
8 March 2013London: Anti-gay marriage public meeting at Tooting Mosque in response to Muslim MPs support for equal marriage 310 A public meeting against equal marriage is taking place this evening at Tooting Islamic Centre in south London - the organisers say it's in response to the majority of Muslim MPs decision to support the same-sex marriage bill. -
8 March 2013Comment: Benjamin Cohen’s Lent Talk wasn’t blasphemous, we should celebrate its broadcast by the BBC 11 Having listened to the broadcast in full, Hannah Buchanan shares her thoughts on PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen’s BBC Radio 4 Lent Talk. -
8 March 2013Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai accused of ‘hate speech’ by gay rights group 11 Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has been criticised for denouncing homosexuality and reportedly saying marriage “should be between a man and a woman.”
