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Young Catholics flee their church to protest same-sex unions ban

Around 700 young people have formally left the Catholic Church in Belgium since the Vatican banned blessings for same-sex couples. Johan Bonny, bishop of Antwerp, told The Tablet that many of their members pulled away from the Catholic Church after the…

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LGBT advocates rate Biden’s efforts to undo 4 years of ‘damage’

Finn Cooper, who lives in Cincinnati, volunteered for the Michigan Democratic Party to call voters in the swing state on behalf of the Biden-Harris presidential campaign in the months leading up to the election. Cooper, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, said…

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GOP governor struggles to defend signing anti-trans bill

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle got in the face of West Virginia’s Republican governor on Friday morning, haranguing him for signing an anti-trans bill, telling him it was entirely unnecessary and then challenging him to defend his actions…

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Biden promised the most diverse admin ever. How he’s doing?

President Joe Biden promised to have a Cabinet that reflected the diversity of the country.  Alongside Kamala Harris, the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to be vice president, Biden said last December before announcing some…

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North Carolina GOP lawmakers drop anti-Trans youth sports ban

The North Carolina General Assembly has tabled the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” HB 358 an anti-Trans female sports bill for the rest of this legislative session House Speaker Tim Moore told The Associated Press in an interview. “The House will not…