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School teaches ‘God hates homosexuals’, but takes tax dollars.

An elite Australian boys’ school is under fire for accepting $4 million in taxpayer funding while using sex education teaching material that suggests God hates gay people. Moreton Bay Boys’ College in Brisbane teaches children from a controversial sex education booklet…

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Infighting over the rumored ‘gay lobby’ inside the Vatican.

Pope Francis has been a completely different leader than his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. While Benedict was a far-right hardliner, Francis has cultivated a more gentle profile, particularly when it comes to LGBTQ people. While the Pope has wavered between…

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Bank boots Christian charity over LGBT conversion therapy.

Barclays has closed the bank account of a U.K. Christian charity the Core Issues Trust, who offer LGBT conversion therapy, says, Premier Christian News. It follows criticism from LGBT activists, who say the bank–the lead sponsor of Pride in London for…

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Christian university legally kicks out student for being gay.

A graduate student enrolled at a private Christian college had his admission revoked when the school learned he was gay! What’s more: the Jackson Sun is reporting that even though the evangelical Union University in Jackson, Tennessee,accepts public funding…

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WH officials helped funnel cash into 45’s evangelical base.

Recordings of conference phone calls held by White House officials – including several religious figures that work with or support Trump – reveal that Christian leaders were secretly walked through how to obtain emergency funding from the government. Participants in the calls…

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Catholic Church used an exemption to get billions in federal aid.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of…