The Church of England’s doctrine on marriage will not be changed to accommodate same sex relationships, but church teaching should offer “fresh thought” in line with society’s changed attitudes to sexuality, a report from the House of Bishops has said.
The Supreme Court of Texas decided to hear a Texas case fighting taxpayer-funded employment benefits for gay spouses.
Two English bishops have hit out after the government’s top advisor on integration said it was “not OK” for Catholic schools to oppose gay marriage.
A South African cardinal responded to President Obama’s farewell address to the nation by reminding people that Obama was a global advocate of abortion on demand as well as an enemy of religious liberty.
Liberals are panicking about the fact that President-elect Donald Trump will be able to fill four vacancies on the historically left-leaning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals when he takes office later this month.
An amendment to Italy’s Civil Code would remove references to “fidelity” from the institution of marriage, following the model adopted for Italy’s gay civil unions.
Breitbart Senior editor MILO visited Memories Pizza today, where he condemned leftist gays and the media for targeting the pizza shop
MILO visited Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana earlier today where he delivered an “apology on behalf of the normal gays.”
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Tulane University’s student government is requesting that students and professors add their preferred gender pronoun at the end of emails and during conversations on campus.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas cardinal has been elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Bristol University Students’ Union is considering no-platforming a highly esteemed conservative philosopher because of statements he made on homosexuality in the 1980s.
Australia’s parliament late Monday rejected the government’s proposal for a national vote on whether to legalise same-sex marriage.
FRANKFURT (AFP) – Germany’s European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Sunday defended his use of the term “slitty eyes” for Chinese people which triggered outrage after they were revealed in a leaked recording of a speech to business leaders.
Militant ‘anti-fascists’ launched a brutal attack on an advocate of traditional marriage, in front of his wife and young children as they headed towards a march in support of families.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to demonstrate against gay marriage and to call for candidates in next year’s presidential election to support “traditional family values”.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – In a new column for The Washington Post, an opinion writer claims “Louisiana isn’t letting immigrants get married,” claiming the alleged move is part of the “country’s latest wave of nativism,” despite not having evidence to back up that broad-based accusation.
(Reuters) – Same-sex marriage will likely be delayed for at least three years in Australia after the opposition Labor party said on Tuesday it would not support a national vote, dealing another potential blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Australia’s
The news of the marriage of two former religious sisters has saddened Pope Francis, according to the Vatican Undersecretary of State, Archbishop Angelo Becciu.
Two taxpayers filed a motion for rehearing with the Texas Supreme Court on Monday to reconsider their order denying review of a case against the openly gay former Houston Mayor and the City of Houston. They urge that Mayor Annise Parker violated the Texas Constitution and state statutes when she gave spousal benefits to gay employees in 2013 and 2014. Parker issued these benefits to employees prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.
As a political battle rages in Mexico over a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, Pope Francis jumped into the fray Sunday by publicly siding with the Mexican bishops against the government.
The plaintiffs were three couples — one interracial and two homosexual — that challenged the law. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to bring the case, emphasizing that none of the six individuals could show evidence that they were personally affected by the law.
New figures released by the Office of Tax Analysis of the U.S. Treasury Department show San Francisco and Oakland as the top two marriage capitals in America for gay and lesbian couples.
Sex within a committed homosexual relationship is perfectly “proper”, the Archbishop of Wales has said, arguing that Christians who support same-sex marriage are not “abandoning the Bible.”
After the democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine expressed his prediction that the Catholic Church would alter its teaching on gay marriage, two leading U.S. bishops have issued a joint statement declaring that the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage as the union of one man and one woman “cannot change.”
Celebrated Christian evangelist Franklin Graham has blasted democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine for his recent comments suggesting that the Catholic Church should change its teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Over the weekend Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine told a roomful of LGBT activists that the Catholic Church’s traditional opposition to same-sex marriage would change because God approves of homosexuality.
A Texas Supreme Court Justice has issued a dissenting opinion stating that while the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples may marry, the U.S. Constitution does not necessarily require cities to offer benefits to same-sex spouses of employees. While marriage may be a fundamental right, spousal benefits are not. He says that the same constitutional strict scrutiny does not apply to employment benefits.
The Bishop of Grantham, Nicholas Chamberlain, has become the first Church of England Bishop to publicly announce that he is gay and in a relationship. Chamberlain made the decision to go public after a Sunday newspaper threatened to reveal his
England’s established church is edging nearer to a formal split over the issue of homosexuality as a group of parishes prepare to set up a “shadow synod” to uphold traditional Christian teaching. Around a dozen parishes in South East England
The founder of Italy’s largest Islamic association has called for legal recognition for polygamy, insisting that if gay marriage is a civil right, then polygamy is as well.
The State Bar of Texas has dismissed a grievance complaint against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his AG opinion interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. Democrat lawyer Steve Fischer led the effort and solicited others on Facebook to join him. A grievance filed by a gay former Democrat state legislator and current Democratic Party of Texas staffer has also not resulted in disciplinary action.
“Proud to marry Brian and Joe at my house,” Joe Biden wrote. “Couldn’t be happier, two longtime White House staffers, two great guys.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not “the person who leads the parade, that is not who she is.” Maher stated, after the fact
California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom suggested Wednesday that Donald Trump betrayed Ronald Reagan’s legacy.
A French National Front (FN) Assemblée Nationale member has made it clear that she believes Europe is at war with Islamists, warning that the time is coming for people to choose a side. Her comments come just days after 84
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has voted to allow its ministers to enter same-sex marriages and continue serving. The vote by the Presbyterian denomination, better known as the Kirk, comes on the first day of a meeting
In a Washington prayer breakfast Tuesday, a high-ranking Vatican cardinal denounced same-sex marriage, transgender bathroom laws, and attacks on the family as “demonic.”
(AFP) – Italy is set to legalise gay civil unions with a confidence vote in parliament Wednesday on a bill hailed as a historic turning point but criticised as a missed opportunity for greater change. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called
A Christian group has warned that people opposing gay marriage could be criminalised as the government moves to redefine “non-violent Extremism” in a forthcoming bill. The new counter extremism bill, to be presented in the Queens speech on May 18th, is said
Welcome to life in totalitarian America, where even going to the bathroom and identifying the sex of an adult have now become intensely political acts.
