Kenya bans lesbian love story film ‘Rafiki’ set to open at Cannes
Source: Reuters By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities have banned a film that tells the love story of two women on the grounds that it promotes lesbianism but […]
Commonwealth summit: The countries where it is illegal to be gay
Source: BBC News By Reality Check team BBC News Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Gay rights activists from Commonwealth countries are demanding that laws banning homosexuality should be overturned. Campaigner Peter Tatchell has […]
Britain urges Nigeria, others to legalise same-sex marriage
Source: The Guardian By Azimazi Mimoh Jimoh (Abuja), Seye Olumide and Chris Irekamba (Lagos) British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriage in Nigeria and all other countries within the Commonwealth. At the first joint forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Westminster yesterday, the prime minister […]
Gay Chechens flee threats, beatings and exorcism
Source: BBC News Family pressure has fuelled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have fled and some have […]
Four detained in Indonesia’s Aceh for alleged gay sex, face 100 lashes
Source: Reuters BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Rights activists called on Tuesday for Indonesia’s Aceh province to release four people detained on suspicion of having homosexual sex, amid concerns over […]
Same-sex marriage supporter easily wins Costa Rica elections
Source: Associated Press By JAVIER CORDOBA SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Voters gave a resounding no to an evangelical pastor who rose to political prominence by campaigning against same-sex […]
Gay hospital chaplain loses discrimination appeal against C of E
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Court rules church had right to bar Jeremy Pemberton from NHS job because he had married Canon Jeremy Pemberton (right) claimed he was discriminated […]
‘Not the right kind of Catholic’: Private schoolteacher fired days after same-sex wedding
Source: Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Moriah Balingit Jocelyn Morffi and Natasha Hass had booked the Key Largo Lighthouse estate for three days starting Feb. 2, turning their wedding day into […]
Can LGBT rights and religious rights coexist? Kim Davis-like case tests the waters
Source: The Washington Post Since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, a slew of controversial cases have raised questions over whether LGBT rights can coexist with religious […]
Judge: Baker can refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes
Source: Associated Press BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A California bakery owner can continue to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples because it violates her Christian beliefs, a judge […]
Far-right AfD member converted to Islam in protest at acceptance of gay marriage in the church
Source: Telegraph By Justin Huggler, berlin 31 JANUARY 2018 • 3:54PM Apolitician from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) who shocked colleagues by converting to Islam says he did so because […]
I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States.
Source: The New York Times By SAM BRINTON In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida, I was subjected to a trauma that was meant to erase […]
Roy Moore, Jerusalem and LGBT rights: Why is religion so divisive?
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Washington (CNN)Religion didn’t come up when Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado, told a gay couple he wouldn’t make their wedding cake […]
A global snapshot of same-sex marriage
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND DREW DESILVER With the Australian Parliament’s recent passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage, 26 countries now permit gays and lesbians to wed. And if a recent high […]
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad’s plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve
Source: The Washington Post By Eli Rosenberg December 11 at 11:38 PM Nathan Mathis holds a picture of his daughter outside a Roy Moore rally in Midland City, Ala. (@VaughnHillyard/Twitter) Perhaps it […]
Supreme Court Seems Split In Case Of Baker Vs. Same-Sex Couple; Eyes Now On Kennedy
Source: NPR By NINA TOTENBERG All eyes were on Justice Anthony Kennedy Tuesday at a riveting Supreme Court argument where the issue was whether a baker may refuse to create a […]
Tajikistan authorities draw up list of gay and lesbian citizens
Source: The Guardian AFP in Dushanbe Suggestion that those on official register would be required to undergo testing to avoid ‘spread of sexually-transmitted diseases’ Move reported amid growing concerns over […]
Justin Welby unable to give ‘straight answer’ on whether gay sex is sinful
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Justin Welby has said he struggles with the question of whether gay sex is a sin and acknowledged that the gulf between conservative and […]
Scottish Anglican church faces sanctions over vote to allow same-sex marriage
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Leaders of global Anglican communion expected to impose ‘consequences’ on Scottish church for its embrace of LGBTI equality The archbishop of Canterbury, […]
‘Homosexual Conduct Should Be Illegal,’ and 5 Other Things GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Has Said
Source: Time BY Nash Jenkins Sep 22, 2017 Republicans in Alabama will go to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s candidate for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions […]