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29 April 2013
UK: Ethnic minority church leaders call for same-sex marriage referendum 63 Leaders representing more than a million British ethnic minority churchgoers have called for a referendum on equal marriage.
12 April 2013
London: Christian teacher banned after branding gay people ‘disgusting’ in front of class 80 A classroom ban on a Christian school teacher who condemned the “homosexual lifestyle” in front of pupils has been upheld by the High Court.
1 April 2013
Poll: Catholics less likely to attend church following Cardinal O’Brien scandal 27 A fifth of Catholics say they are less likely to attend church following the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who quit following a string of sexual misconduct allegations.
1 April 2013
Vice chair of Christians in Parliament urges Lord Carey to focus on global poverty and not on attacking equal marriage 10 Lord Carey has been criticised for his outspoken attack on David Cameron’s commitment to gay equality by Lord Bates, of Christians in Parliament.
31 March 2013
Poll: Most believe Church of England is ‘out of touch’ with modern society 37 More than two-thirds (69%) of the population believe that the Church of England is out of touch with society and half (54%) believe that it does a bad job of providing moral leadership.
22 March 2013
Peter Tatchell: ‘Anti-gay London bus advert ban wrong’ 101 Responding to Friday’s High Court ruling, Peter Tatchell writes that Core Issues Trust should have been allowed to place anti-gay adverts on buses in the capital – in the name of free speech – despite their offensive message.
18 March 2013
Channel 4 News complaint made by gay ‘cure’ Christian therapist Lesley Pilkington rejected by Ofcom 6 Ofcom has rejected a complaint made by a Christian therapist who was revealed to be offering gay conversion therapy in a Channel 4 investigation.
12 March 2013
US 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.
8 March 2013
Comment: 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.
7 March 2013
Massachusetts: School faces backlash and accusations of ‘blasphemy’ for staging gay biblical play 16 The head of a school in the US state of Massachusetts says a student production of a play that retells the biblical story of Genesis with gay characters will go on as planned despite objections.
7 March 2013
Scotland: Christian teacher says being forced to teach about same-sex marriage contributed to a breakdown 33 A committee of MPs has heard that a Christian teacher in Scotland claims he was forced to teach about same-sex marriage against his wishes – and the stress contributed to a breakdown.
7 March 2013
UK: MPs hear of Christian teacher disciplined for refusing to read pro-gay Penguin book to class 52 A solicitor from the Christian Institute has told a committee of MPs that a primary school teacher was previously disciplined by a head teacher for refusing to read ‘And Tango Makes Three’ – a children’s book about two male penguins looking after a female chick.
1 March 2013
Scotland: Police chaplain claims to have been forced from job over his anti-gay marriage views 57 A Christian police chaplain in Scotland says he was forced out of his position after expressing his opposition to same-sex marriage in his personal blog.
28 February 2013
Legal challenge by Christian group against Boris Johnson’s decision to ban ‘ex-gay’ bus ads begins at High Court 38 London Mayor Boris Johnson's refusal to run anti-gay adverts on buses in the capital is being challenged at the High Court today.
22 February 2013
Ann Widdecombe: Christians against same-sex marriage in Britain should protest on the streets 97 Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has urged Christian opponents of equal marriage to stage street protests and has said: "I am very sad that it is a Conservative-led Government driving this legislation through".
15 February 2013
Comment: Will the media stop the pity for homophobes? 50 As part of marking Tuesday’s Darwin Day, Adrian Tippetts celebrates the extinction of bad ideas in a PinkNews comment piece.
25 January 2013
Comment: Religious opponents of equality should follow the Unitarian Church and agree to marry gay couples 18 The Chief Officer of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches hopes that other faith groups will follow his organisation's lead and agree to marry gay couples.
24 January 2013
Comment: A call for tolerance between London’s Muslim and LGBT communities 220 In light of recent events in east London, Wais Islam, a former Tower Hamlets Labour councillor, says it’s important to remember the area belongs to people of all ethnicities, sexual orientations and religions.
23 January 2013
Comment: The boundaries of tolerance 20 Don't be fooled by the victim narrative of religious lobby groups, writes Adrian Tippetts for PinkNews.
18 January 2013
Comment: ‘Offended by marriage equality’: the admission of a lost argument 102 A number of MPs recently have stated they will oppose marriage equality because they don't want to 'offend' religious people.

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