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Month: April 2019
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Mormon Church makes a u-turn on a major anti-LGBT policy.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — known informally as the Mormon Church — has backtracked on some of its anti-LGBTQ policies, while remaining opposed to same-sex relationships. The church will no longer bar most children of LGBTQ parents from…
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Buttigieg on Trump’s Christianity: ‘hypocrisy needs to be called out’.
Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana Democrat waging a long-shot 2020 bid for the presidency, explained why he has called into question President Donald Trump’s Christianity. Buttigieg, a gay Episcopalian who has been outspoken about his progressive Christian values, has been critical…
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Study: LGBT people aren’t just for big cities anymore.
LGBT people are typically depicted as city and coastal dwellers. And those who live in rural America are often characterized as people yearning to escape rural life for more acceptance in urban areas. But a new study from the…
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Anti-LGBT adoption bills ‘snowballing’ in state legislatures.
Kristy Dumont and her wife, Dana, had been hoping to foster a child, so they approached Catholic Charities in Michigan in 2016. The two women, however, said they were “shut down” due to their sexual orientation. “We didn’t get any farther than…
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Does the gay glass ceiling really exist?
One of the most positive series of meetings I’ve had was with senior executives of a major Australian company. Their feedback was so emphatically positive that, in the final meeting, they went as far as to confirm dates, times…
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