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The celebrated evangelist Franklin Graham has said he won’t be buying any Girl Scout cookies this year, since the organization has lost its moral compass and is promoting licentious behavior. In a series of Tweets and a Facebook post, Rev.

A bakery owned by a Christian family in Longview, Texas is being deluged with threats and hate mail after the owners declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.

The founder and president of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) is urging blacks in America to back Ted Cruz for president.

On Tuesday, Manny Pacquiao, “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s according to the Boxing Writers Association of America and Ring Magazine, apologized for remarks in which he called homosexuality something that even animals don’t try.

The same judge who ordered Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has now rejected a motion filed by the ACLU that would have forced her to issue the licenses with her name and title on them.

Caravans of coach buses carrying families from all over Italy streamed into Rome Saturday, meeting in the enormous Circus Maximus. It was a gathering in support of the traditional family, in opposition to a new bill aimed at giving legal recognition to homosexual unions and adoption by same-sex couples.

“The law needed to be followed,” when Kim Davis faced the same-sex marriage license situation in Kentucky, Gov. Chris Christie said during the GOP Iowa debate Thursday evening.

A new poll out this week shows former Ohio Gov. John Kasich surging to second place in New Hampshire with 20 percent support among GOP voters, only 7 percent behind Donald Trump.

Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham says that the U.S. Episcopal Church deserved its suspension from the Anglican Communion because of its embrace of same-sex marriage and the election of gay priests.

The Left’s strategy for covering Barack Obama’s failures, and sticking us with his disastrous Secretary of State as his successor, requires his friends to somehow smear public opposition as irrational “anger.”

In his State of the Union address, President Obama called the legalization of same-sex marriage another civil rights victory that was won once America faced its unfounded “fears” of another “group or idea” that might threaten the nation. Obama added a

The plaintiff in the court case that led to the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage and the Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign same-sex marriage licenses will be guests at President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday.

The Anglican Communion stands on the brink of a worldwide schism over the question of homosexuality, with liberals decrying the “vilification” of gay Christians and conservatives threatening to walk out on an international Anglican summit unless “godly order” is restored.

Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday that prohibits probate courts from granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

President Obama’s statement on gun control Tuesday included an attempt to dismiss claims he ultimately wants to undermine the 2nd Amendment.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today top religious-liberty scholars and lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a state law requiring a person of faith to engage in actions that violate his religious conscience violates the First Amendment, in a case with profound implications for the hot-button issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.

The Rev. Mpho Tutu, daughter of Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Capetown, married her longtime lesbian lover Marceline van Furth in a small private ceremony last Wednesday. Tutu, who was previously married to Joseph Burris and

Socially conservative GOP presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, are responding to a recent report about fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) alleged “double-speak” on protecting traditional marriage.

Dr. Deborah De Sousa Owens – education leader at the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) – discusses her op-ed at Breitbart News that explains how the secular movement has been fostered by the political class and is undermining American values with Breitbart News executive chairman and host of Breitbart News Daily Stephen K. Bannon.

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years. About 63.4 percent of voters rejected the law in

The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign is asking the federal government to harass Christian schools that have asked for or been granted waivers that would allow them to live out their Christian faith.

A Massachusetts court has ruled that a Catholic high school violated a gay man’s rights when it revoked a job offer after he informed them he was in a same-sex marriage.

The Church of Scotland has moved one step closer to the ordination of ministers in gay marriages after a vote allowing congregations to appoint ministers already in gay marriages was passed. The vote will have to be ratified at next

The GOP could broaden its appeal among black and Hispanic voters if it embraced legislation to counter “climate change,” says a writer published by the Washington Post.

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is being sued by the band Survivor for using their song “Eye of the Tiger” at his rally supporting Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis.

A Saturday rally in Salt Lake City featured Mormons who don’t attend church hectoring the Mormon Church about its new policy, issued on November 5, that bans baptisms for children of gay parents until the kids turn 18 and repudiate same-sex relationships.

Judge Scott Johansen ordered Friday that the baby may stay with April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce – a married lesbian couple – in foster care. However, his decision still leaves the possibility that he could order the child will be removed at a custody hearing on December 4.

A Utah juvenile court judge ruled Tuesday that a 1-year-old girl, who has been in the care of lesbian foster parents, cannot be adopted by them and should be sent to “a more traditional home,” says the Utah Division of Child and Family Services.

Norway’s bishops have given the go-ahead to gay church weddings after a poll described by campaigners as an “historic breakthrough”. The vote will need to be ratified by the church synod next spring, but paves the way for the first gay weddings to

Same-sex marriage was signed into law in the Republic of Ireland, five months after a historic referendum saw the traditionally Catholic nation become the world’s first country to vote for gay unions. “The Presidential Commission today signed the ‘Marriage Bill

The highest administrative court in Italy has upheld the government position on gay marriage, ensuring the country is the last major western European nation to not recognise the redefinition. Although gay marriage and same sex civil unions are illegal in Italy,

Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who is supporting Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) bid for the Democratic nomination criticized Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s charges of sexism against Sanders as “not true, and taken completely out of context”

The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics is out with a response to the recently concluded Vatican synod on marriage and the family, noting its optimism that “a new era for inclusive pastoral care of LGBT people is going to start after the synod.”

The left-wing of Catholicism just concluded a two-year campaign to convince the universal Church to change its teachings on marriage, divorce, communion, and homosexuality.

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued her husband signed the Defense of Marriage Act as “a defensive action” to prevent a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage in an interview broadcast on Friday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on

Since laws against consanguinity relate to childbearing, independent Irish Senator and gay activist David Norris has proposed that first cousins of the same sex should be allowed to marry, now that Ireland recognizes gay marriage.