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COURT: Catholic school OK to fire staffer in same-sex marriage

A federal appeals court has upheld a Catholic school’s firing of a guidance counselor because she’s in a same-sex marriage. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday that Roncalli High School in…

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The new rise of the anti-LGBT religious right

Throughout Mike Pompeo’s tenure as Secretary of State in the Trump administration, PGN reported on his gutting of State as well as his efforts to turn U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — the State Department’s foreign aid arm — into an…

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United Methodists lose one-fifth of churches over LGBT bans

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations – a fifth of the U.S. total – have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination…