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Apparently this beloved author is a racist and homophobe.

In 2006, Nicholas Sparks, the prolific romance writer best known for The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, helped co-found a prep school in New Bern, North Carolina, called the Epiphany School of Global Studies. The idea was to start a small, faith-based…

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Another country just joined the same-sex marriage club.

The highest court in Ecuador legalised same-sex marriage in the country on June 12, ruling in favour of allowing two gay couples to marry. The constitutional court in Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, approved same-sex marriagein the cases of two petitions…

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Conversion therapy provider must dissolve, pay millions.

One of the country’s most infamous providers of so-called conversion therapy — a contentious practice that tries to change a gay person’s sexual orientation — will be forced to pay up to $3.5 million after it was found to be in violation of a…

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Pete Buttigieg would beat Donald Trump in an election, poll finds.

The six leading Democratic presidential candidates would beat Donald Trump if they went head-to-head in a general election, including openly gay candidate Pete Buttigieg, a survey has found. The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, suggested Buttigieg would win 47% of the popular vote…

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Bible-pounding sermon called for execution of LGBT people.

‘Sick of Sodomy Getting Crammed Down Our Throats’A Tennessee Sheriff’s Detective is under fire after calling for the Bible-based state-sponsored arrest and execution of all LGBTQ people. Detective Grayson Fritts, who is also a pastor at the All Scripture Baptist…

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CA wants to close school accused of punishing gay kids.

The California government is on the verge of shutting down a small Christian school following a BuzzFeed News investigation detailing accusations that officials failed to report abuse and punished kids who expressed that they were gay or bisexual…

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A Nazi group tried to start riots at the Detroit Pride festival.

Police thwarted a plan by a neo-Nazi group to spark “Charlottesville 2.0” at a gay pride festival in downtown Detroit this weekend, police chief James Craig said Monday. Motor City Pride, an annual LGBT Pride street festival, was held Saturday and…