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Rabbi: Coronavirus is God’s punishment for Pride parades.

An ultra-Orthodox rabbi from Israel has claimed that that the current outbreak of coronavirus, or Covid19, is happening because of Pride parades. In a bizarre rant on Saturday at the Kiseh Rahamim yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Meir Mazuz hit…

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50+ US Catholic priests accused of abuse found work abroad.

The Rev. Jose Antonio Pinal, a young priest from Mexico, arrived at his first parish in rural Northern California in 1980, fresh out of seminary. The priest befriended the Torres family, helping the parents, also immigrants from Mexico, to fill out…

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Coronavirus is punishment for ‘LGBT sin,’ says pastor.

LGBTQ people have been blamed for hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and other disasters — and now they’re being blamed for the coronavirus outbreak. Steven Andrew, pastor of the USA Christian Church — which appears to be a virtual, internet-based church…

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Students say they were tricked into coming out by anti-gay school.

Students at the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University in Utah say that the school tricked them into coming out by erasing “homosexual behavior” from its honor code and then bringing back the policy several weeks later. Now they’re afraid of the…

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Hearings spotlight use of religious liberty against LGBT people.

The use of religious liberty — a right afforded fundamental protection in the United States — to assault LGBTQ rights was the focus of a congressional hearing Thursday drawing attention to faith-based adoption agencies denying child placement into LGBTQ homes. Chairing the three-hour…