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GOP turned against one of their own for officiating a gay wedding.

Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) is facing a primary competitor and the GOP is turning a blind eye. Conservatives are targeting Riggleman for officiating a same-sex wedding in 2019. After Riggleman officiated the wedding, three GOP county committees voted to censure him…

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Marriage equality is coming to Costa Rica by the end of this month.

Q Costa Rica reports that the Central American’s country’s civil registry will begin processing marriage applications from same-sex couples on May 26. An officiant there, Luis Guillermo Chinchilla assured the LGBTQ+ news magazine that “significant efforts” have been made to update the…

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Franklin Graham now says most New Yorkers share his anti-LGBT views.

As Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse organization dismantled its field hospital for COVID-19 patients in New York City, Graham defended his anti-LGBTQ views by contending — wrongly — that most New Yorkers share them. Those views have led to much criticism of…

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SCOTUS leans toward religious carve-outs in LGBT-related case.

The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to grant religious schools an expanded ministerial exemption in employment decisions based on oral arguments Monday in litigation that could have significant bearing on LGBTQ teachers at these institutions…