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School official wins award from hate group for being anti-LGBT.

Michael Del Grande, a Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) Ward 7 representative with a long history of anti-LGBT action, was awarded by the Campaign Life Coalition for “unwavering commitment to defending authentic Catholic teaching”, which includes voting against measurements that recognize…

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Evangelical Christian magazine wants to dump immoral Trump.

Evangelical Christians have largely remained in lock-step with Donald Trump, even with all the president’s racist diatribes, salacious affairs, and non-stop lying. But the dam may be starting to break — the influential publication Christianity Today published an editorial on Thursday calling for…

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Two victimized men told that ‘homophobia isn’t a crime.’

Irish bouncers told two men who’d experienced homophobic abuse for kissing in a club that they wouldn’t intervene as “homophobia isn’t a crime in Ireland”. Eoghan Ryder was supporting his friend’s show at the Button Factory in Dublin when, on the dancefloor…